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   When That Ol’ Mojo Stops Workin’   
      
   Clusterfuck Nation   
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   What you’re actually seeing in the rhetorical hoo-ha over the January Sixth   
   capitol riot is the main cattle-prod driving mob madness — fear of Covid-19   
   — losing its power to terrorize the public. The Party-of-Chaos put on a   
   grand opera of    
   lamentation Thursday to celebrate its unity in victim-hood — we wuz so   
   traumatized by the riot! — but in the background, they can see their dearer   
   dream of total vaccination — and total control of the population — fade in   
   the winter mists.   
      
   This is the crisis of a managerial class that has lost its ability to manage   
   anything, including all of us. Thus, the hysteria in the blue precincts of   
   America, where they are concentrated. And, as I’ve averred before, the   
   madness probably has its    
   roots in the slow-motion train wreck of our techno-industrial economy. The   
   managerial class can surely sense it and see it coming, but they don’t have   
   a clue what to do about it. So, in desperate need of some signifying ritual,   
   they’re left    
   performing a grand-scale Chinese fire drill like drunken sophomores of yore   
   — a flurry of pointless, attention-seeking activity.   
      
   You see, this total vaccination fantasy is meant to compensate for that   
   inability to govern in a time of epic turbulence. It provides an illusion of   
   control. But the obvious insanity of it stands out in the demonstrable facts   
   that the vaccinations don’   
   t work, and that they are racking up an impressive record of harming people.   
   These two facts must be ignored by the vax-happy Blue Team, even as the   
   immunizing and pretty harmless Omicron variant spreads speedily across the   
   land conferring superior    
   natural immunity on those who survive it — which is, functionally, everyone.   
      
   The virus looks like it’s on that ol’ exit ramp, but the disintegrating   
   economy will still be with us, and no amount of political degeneracy disguised   
   as virtue will stop it. We still have to manage our lives individually and   
   collectively going    
   through it. It’s going to be a tough slog. The federal government in its   
   current iteration is looking like more of an impediment than a help to any of   
   us. Its current hysterical flounderings send a clear message: You can’t   
   depend on us to do anything    
   right. Instead, select a favorable place to plant your flag, and figure out   
   what you can do locally to rebuild some means of productive activity, fortify   
   basic institutions of law, public safety, and money, and restore credible   
   authority.   
      
   You will have to be nimble and resourceful. The Covid lockdowns of the past   
   two years have destroyed many small businesses, but think of that as the tide   
   going out before the blowback of a tsunami that will sweep away the large   
   businesses next. The    
   WalMarts, the automobile industry, the airlines, trucking, Amazon.com, major   
   league sports, the fast-food empires, the oil industry, the mega-banks — all   
   these systems have gone into speed-wobble and most of them will crash hard.   
      
   It’s an issue of scale. The broken giants will have to be replaced by   
   lower-scaled systems for producing stuff, moving it, and selling it. That   
   includes food, especially, by the way. How are you going to be part of that   
   where you live? What role can    
   you imagine yourself in? What are you good at? What do you dream of being good   
   at? Can you assemble a social network for yourself? Do you have any ability to   
   look after the public interest? Can you speak coherently? Do you mean what you   
   say? Are you    
   grounded morally in right-and-wrong? Can others depend on you to keep your   
   word? These are the questions that will matter going forward, not whether you   
   were vaccinated, or voted for Mr. Trump, or know the lyrics to God Bless   
   America.   
      
   It looks like the disorders of economy and community are heading to center   
   stage as the Covid-19 melodrama closes down. Since human nature is perverse,   
   the current mass formation psychosis may transfer its energy onto new   
   hobgoblins. But the mass of    
   Americans — putting aside blue and red insignia for a moment — might   
   simply be tired of lunacy. They may even begin to show some impatience with   
   those who generate it, for instance the cable TV news channels. Some of the   
   most practiced conveyors of    
   lunacy are heading out the door in the months ahead. Joy Reid of MSNBC is   
   reportedly on her way off-camera (not by choice), and a while back the   
   redoubtably dishonest Rachel Maddow announced her exit for April of this year,   
   probably in anticipation of    
   all her beloved narratives falling apart.   
      
   Lunacy is exhausting. Soon enough, even the crazed governments of Euroland and   
   Australia will suddenly drop their lockdowns and vaccination tyrannies as   
   reality presses on the bubbles they occupy. In the face of the Omicron   
   fade-out, they’ll turn 180-   
   degrees and try to pretend that the episode of madness never happened. I doubt   
   they will get away with it. Many politicians in these lands will be bum-rushed   
   from office at the first opportunity.   
      
   Even our earnestly malicious Dr. Fauci is back-pedaling furiously, perhaps   
   hearing the bloodhounds of justice yapping out in the gloaming. This week, he   
   finally admitted that half the hospital cases of Covid were actually some   
   other illnesses with the    
   label “Covid” slapped on — in effect, to bribe corrupt hospital managers   
   with big wads of federal subsidy money for using the killer drug remdesivir   
   and intubating hapless Covid victims. Sounds like a racket, a little bit, but   
   then the word racket    
   defines the totality of Dr. Fauci’s career. The decisions he made about   
   banning early treatment of Covid and suppressing information about cheap and   
   effective drugs — in the service of preserving the emergency use   
   authorization and the concomitant    
   liability shield for his deadly “vaccines” — arguably led to the deaths   
   of several hundred thousand people. If he doesn’t live to see prosecution,   
   bear in mind that he had plenty of deputies and associates throughout the   
   public health agencies    
   carrying out that policy who deserve to spend some time in courtrooms.   
      
   Meanwhile, the prudent will save their energy to get through the rigors ahead   
   and make plans for a changed economic landscape that will require all the   
   classical virtues they can muster for creating a life worth living.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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