A Zen-like Calm

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I’ve been reading Auron MacIntyre’s The Total State. MacIntyre relies heavily on some ideas of Curtis Yarvin. While I’m not a huge fan of Yarvin, he’s right about detachment from the political:

Detachment is not dissidence. Detachment never resists. It does nothing against any person or institution, legal or illegal, violent or nonviolent. It does not even try to influence public policy or public opinion. It is never angry; it never cares; and it always obeys—both the formal laws, and the informal rules.

Yarvin cribbed this idea (with acknowledgment) from Vaclav Havel’s greengrocer in The Power of the Powerless.

As Yarvin points out, a mere ten years after Havel wrote that essay, he was president of Czechoslovakia.* Likewise, Ceaușescu wasn’t deposed by conventional political protest or violence. Yarvin gives a clue as to why:

Systematic mendacity and poor governance are common comorbidities. The closer a regime feels itself to death, the worse its behavior must become. The worse its behavior gets, the closer it comes to death—and the harder it must work to look good. And every regime, to almost everyone, looks absolutely immortal till the day it dies.

My gradual loss of interest in the immediately political, as opposed to the metapolitcal, has culminated in a calm unconcern about day-to-day political drama. While it is amusing to follow the drama, one can have a negligible effect on its course. Any attempts to do so, e.g., the Electoral Justice Protest of 6JAN2021, accomplished little other than to immiserate the participants.

The Regime is fragile and will fall on its own, perhaps requiring a catalyst to get the party started. Charles Haywood has further thoughts on Regime fragility. The Regime’s response to the upcoming elections in November may provide an indication of just how fragile it is.

*Admittedly, the signatories of Charter 77 were punished by the Czech government. Walesa also suffered consequences for his activism. So, maybe a few public dissidents are required but not a mass movement.

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Dissidence requires discretion and stealth.
Best way to blindside the Regime and its band of thugs and DEI gangs.

The lesson of 2021 Jan 6 is don’t fight the regime publicly. Winston Smith had secret meetings not public rallies.

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Yes, the DC Swamp will collapse – just like every other regime in history. And there is not much we could do to alter events. We could choose simply to sit back and watch. On the other hand, as many of us were told as children: Silence is a form of consent.

We also have to accept that the collapse of the Regime will be very, very damaging to all of us who are sitting around watching. While a mushroom cloud over DC would be a well-deserved end to the Regime, the more likely – actually, inevitable – end will be the coming economic collapse due to de-industrialization, over-indebtedness, and import dependence. When foreigners decline to trade any more of their real goods for our freshly-printed IOUs, we will all face empty shelves at the stores, failing supplies of electricity and gasoline, and the inevitable social chaos.

Eat, drink, and be merry! For tomorrow we die.

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I bought a bunch of N-95 masks spring of 2019 in part because of a conversation Randy Burns and I had about the increasing likelihood of the regime unleashing a pandemic to neutralize Trump’s supporters reacting violently to the 2020 election. However I didn’t expect it to precede the outbreak of violence. In retrospect, I can see why they did it – and not just to provide cover for voter fraud – which I figured they were going to do anyway.

They perceived, as I did, that Trump’s rallies were militia rallies, but they knew (as I did not at the time) just how far beyond their over-the-top “private sector” network effect monopoly censorship they would have to go to “win”. So they “wisely” released the virus from their CCP lab earlier than I expected.

I was the only person in my town that I knew of who had stocked up on N-95 masks. I gave them away to neighbors, friends and family.

At my wife’s death I moved to a less expensive town of a few hundred souls. When North Carolina began having trouble getting FEMA help, I asked if anyone in that town’s FB “neighorhood watch” group wanted to talk about local preparedness. This was immediately met with derision by people not living in the town. The towns people were silent except for one anonymous person who told me that I’d only lived there a short time so I should keep my opinions to myself. This despite being in the same county where I’ve lived for 15 year.

I’ve tried contacting every emergency preparedness official of the counties I’ve lived in. They never respond.

So I just posted this to the FB group along with my resume:

https://countycurrency.org/
https://countycurrency.org/docs/JABoweryResume.html

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Some things never change - others change a lot:

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