Key Points

By now you've all probably heard about the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and formed your own opinions about the root cause.  

It's too early to tell whether malice or incompetence was to blame. Regardless of which it is, the lesson I'm choosing to take from this is the same:

This is a harbinger.

We all know that empires collapse slowly, then all at once.  We all know that whether it happens in our lifetime or later, the current unsustainable paradigm will come crashing down. DIE has been allowed to metastasize into applied sciences and the trades; the rot has spread too far for us to get out of this without casualties.  

Indeed, there have already been casualties.  There have been fatalities; remember the Florida International pedestrian bridge in Miami?  Or, more specifically, its collapse in March 2018?  

Probably not.  A lot has happened since then, after all.  

I had to look up the date.  I didn't remember that; what I remember about that bridge collapse wasn't the video, or the date, or the names of the dead.  What I remember about that disaster was watching the DIE pandering of every single entity involved disappear in real time.  If I remember correctly, it was a predominantly, if not entirely, female engineering team that led that project.  An Inclusive and Diverse team of females, if memory serves.

Every single entity involved, from the contractor to the university itself, was immensely proud of that... until they failed.  

Regardless of whether the Francis Scott Key Bridge was destroyed through the same flavor of incompetence as the FIU bridge, there will be more bridges that fail.  Bridges, dams, railways, airplanes, you name it.  There will be more failures, more injuries, more deaths.  It is inevitable.  

Leaving aside arguments about bread and circuses, masses and their opiates, religion and its place in schools and/ or society... setting aside all argument about the root causes, we are now at a point in which Western society consists of a victim hierarchy lorded over by the rich and powerful (a disproportionate number of whom seem to have the same taste in hats, one might notice).  In a society grown so decadent that competence is viewed with suspicion at best and those at the top are willing to burn it all down just to steal anything and everything they can get their hands on, to not acknowledge the incipient failure of the complex systems that enable and sustain the current comfortable First World existence is the height of willful ignorance.

And yet, the suburbs are full of these people.  There are hundreds of them in towns, millions of them in cities and states.  The normie earned its name by being just that: normal. Mundane. The reason we were transitioned from a republic to a democracy is because most people are easily manipulated apes, and they refuse to realize or admit it.  

This makes them all the more dangerous.

They have been bred and trained to be vacuous, perpetually comfortable, convinced of their own intelligence by dint of their ability to parrot back propaganda long enough to regurgitate it onto a test, and taught to constantly reject the concept of duty.  

The normie is the deciding factor in when all this comes to a head.  The normie is the tipping point.  Until a critical mass of normies decides they've had enough, until so many of them become so uncomfortable they can't bear it, realize that their position is completely untenable, and are able to admit that the world they thought they lived in was only ever an illusion- until then, the rest of us are just in a holding pattern.  

I've said it before and I'll say it again: we're all just waiting on the normies to wake up.

Whether they wake up, realize what's been stolen from them, and decide to take it all back; or whether they wake up, become terrified, retreat into the lies of our rulers, and resign themselves to the perpetual slavery of themselves and their progeny, remains to be seen.  But in order to take advantage of the opportunity that will present itself in that moment, friends, we have work to do.

We are the ones who build.

Even if you would not risk opposing the regime outright, every single step you take toward independence, health, and wholesome tradition is a blow to them.  Making memes, posting stickers, writing anonymous articles and/ or pamplets, and questioning narratives aloud is all well and good; but other action is needed as well, and it doesn't yet carry the same risk as does outright dissent.  

Accepting and embracing duty to your family and your community.  Refusing to cede your home to those who come to claim it.  Learning to garden, to cook, to compost, to can food.  Learning to work with your environment, rather than attempting at great effort and expense to terraform your surroundings into insipid postwar suburbia.  Learning to repair, to insulate, to repurpose, to reduce consumption.  Constantly refining skills you have and learning new ones.  Networking with people who have skills and talents you don't, and forming mutually beneficial relationships. Prioritizing genuine kindness and true compassion over vapid niceness.  Learning how and when to keep your mouth shut, whether in real life or on the Internet.  Learning how to stop an emotional reaction in its tracks and recognize when you're being manipulated.

All of these are actions that will directly benefit you and enhance your quality of life.  They are also, therefore, all acts of rebellion against the regime- because your rulers want you to lead an empty life of despair and to exploit you until you are dead.  

Reject that.  Start building.  Start preparing.  Things are going to get worse before they get better, and we may not live to see the day when the opportunity to reclaim our birthright comes.  

That doesn't matter.

What matters is that there is foundation to be laid, children to be taught, dissident libraries to be cultivated, heirloom seeds to be planted, traditions to be preserved, and homes to be built.  Families to be built. Communities to be built.  There is so much to build, brethren, so much to do.  

The world seems to be falling down around our ears.  We'll just rebuild it.  Are we not blessed, to have the opportunity to prove ourselves worthy of our heritage?- regardless of who your ancestors were, among them were warriors, settlers, and farmers.  We have advantages of which they never could have conceived.  

It's time to capitalize on that.  It's time to prove ourselves.  It's time for the hard times to make strong men.  It's time to build.

Let's get started.