How They Will End Us

 In the dues ex machina which has expanded billionaire wealth from the CoVid pandemic , the managerial class are  writing their  'happy ending': the killing of the rest of us.

KC SHOEN

"It is impossible to separate the breakdown of civic culture, the collapse of language, and a rise in insurrectionist violence in the United States from the plague of gangster capitalism. Under a regime of privatized utopias, hyper-individualism, and ego-centered values, human beings are reduced to self-sufficient atoms of self-interest, removed from relations of mutual dependency. A neoliberal market-driven society has given rise to a culture of fear, uncertainty, and danger that numbs many people just as it wipes out the creative faculties of imagination, memory, and critical thought. Rather than live in a historical period that awakens the critical faculties, Americans now occupy a social order that freezes and numbs the capacity for informed judgment. " Henry Giroux

As the vestiges of democracy throughout the world continue to evaporate into the full illusion of fantastical fiction,  and should compliance from the masses cease and turn into full-scale social  rebellion worldwide,  the oligarchs and the WEF are preparing to kill us off completely via the  reduction of  access to food and water, the institution of trackable and controllable central digital currency which can be siphoned  from private bank accounts with  just a keystroke 

This is not conjecterous rancor nor paranoid conspiratorial hyperbole. It  has started in earnest. 

Countries like the United States, Australia & New Zealand where active resistance against repressive censorship from establishment narratives of corporate media are inert and  nearly non-extant, the once-quiet creep of the slow muzzling of public dissent against such capitalist narratives have become profoundly outbound; noisily possessing the compunction to interrupt, misdirect, propagandize in unfettered saturation,  mute, and imprison its populace without so much as a collective  shrill holler in defiance.

Coupled with the cultural  unwillingness to unify in protest in the U.S.in particular, there are three partitions that will allow this continued repression of rights by the corporate oligarch to persist to our global death: The Corporate /Donor Class partition, The Law Enforcement/ Para-military partition and The Elected Political Sycophant partition. I will focus  on the Corporate partition, as they are the ring-leaders to the other two who  get their marching orders from. This is a kinship of wanton control and/or elimination of laws, governmental processes of oversight, progressive  social policies that intervene their control, subvert their advantage, and counters ideological constructs they are positioned in , or create as narrative.

The Lords of Kingdoms: The Corporate/Donor Class partition 

"All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter." -Aldous Huxley-'Enemies Of Freedom Essays'-1958

For historical  context, American companies such as Ford, Coca-Cola, and Kodak all supported Hitler's  fascism, as it was financially and ideologically beneficial to to so. Being the nation that was the genesis of Eugenics,  racial segregation , and suppression which influenced Hitler's Ayrian  dream, these American-bred companies had became natural allies  of the Third Reich rendering direct  confluence and aid to  Germany to  becoming  a powerhouse of industrialization during the mid- 1930's to early 40's.  Having the support of  the SA:  a conglomeration of military veterans, para-military organizations and members of  law enforcement,  allowed Hitler and the NSDAP protection against groups who vehemently opposed them before and during his reign. Cronies positioned in critical points of the Nazi governmental and military posts lent Hitler continuity, even expansion of his ideological vision and command through propaganda, violence, and corporate backing. This same coalition of  collusional corruption allowed  for the stealth cover of the  protracted use of gas chambers and prison death camps to continue operations right up to the very last day of World War II.

The Powell Memo in 1971 was the device which began the corporate takeover of US policy via lobbying and the administrative revolving-door  to posts within the Federal Government for  former industry  CEOs , hedge funders and other 'captains of industry'.  The ramping  up of financial deregulation and union-busting during the  Reagan era  (that continues under Biden),  in tandem with Clinton-era's further protection roll-backs against corporate malfeasance and economic manipulation , fostering  further erosion and curtailment of  the public welfare safety net, the destruction of Social Security and further making toxic the Public Trust , alongside increased  military defense  spending rising  substantially since 1980,  (which currently allocates over 45% of discretionary tax revenue ) .  

Multi-national corporations world-wide haven't the slightest issue with dealing in misdirection by deliberate misinformation, even if  their activity, or associations with such violent regimes causes mass death. It is not their concern, just the margin of profits  and their coalesced retention of power via the purchase of elected bodies of governments so as  to enhance the  sphere of control they covet. This forwards the providing of policies for protection of wealth and capital being most paramount,  updrafting  lost income as revenue from any economic destabilization of the worker, including foreclosures and evictions  furthering the deliberate destruction of the public space and social contracts that articulate the provisions of social welfare for the working class itself. 

This includes 95% of the population of the western world that comes under the purview of the  oligarchical 1%.,  essentially, all of 'us' being those who are not recognized members of this strata class. They are the late-Capitalist Lords to our Kingdoms of  global serfdom, and we are now more than ever in human history,  under thier complete rule.

As example, view the totality of  the Covid pandemic:  from  its origin, creation, how it escaped from a lab in China after  human experimentation, the application of scientifically unproven  methodologies to mitigate and manage that were applied freely by governments upon their citizens,  to the unsubstantiated and incomplete research  that was the resulting vaccines  by its primary purveyor, the ensuing evidence of  adverse reactions to it, the Covid death rates between  the vaccinated being nearly the same as the unvaccinated,  additionally further victims who were  confirmed as killed by the vaccine exclusively while the high frequency of vaccinated persons  who where confirmed as diagnosed with myocarditis from the mRNA , the further censorship of factual information about these harms by conglomerate legacy and social media platforms, all of whom are sponsored by advertising revenue via the aforementioned  purveyor, the corruption, past and present discovered upon the purveyor, and the purveyor's callous antipathy towards negligible outcomes within global populations. 

Add to this the fact that as of 2021  the largest donor to the World Health Organization is the United States and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (including GAVI,)  total nearly $1.87 billion dollars.  This does not include the World Bank , an American-based  institution which donated $132 million , and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) also based in New York City, US,  which donated $103 million dollars of its own.  So, it is not a completely speculatory, or even qualifying as paranoid delusion, to state the WEF's members obvious and  intense interest in the outcome of the recent amended changes to the  the WHO's  global IHR of 1969, (the amendments  categorized as the 'pandemic treaty'),  which has assigned (unelected) delegates from  each member country to 'sign off' and authorize approval of these amendments without public notification nor referendum. By placing the powers of surveillance, control of movement of peoples, a requirement for every human being to enroll and scanned into  a global digital health record tracking system  , to be accessed and  used within the sole discretion of  the executive branch of every member state government. 

On just the strength of this  alone you can view the continuing pattern of regulatory entities within government, as well as the private sector colluding to ensure that, above all,  profits and power are retained at the expense of the populous and the control thereof, by all means necessary.

Combined further with the IMF's cheerleading on centralized digital currency's worldwide implementation, which would eventually  criminalize personal possession of crypto,  placing limits on personal cash possession, could further  constrict, confine and isolate an entire populous with several keystrokes on  a laptop  by  one of any presiding Presidents or Prime Ministers under cloak of pandemic emergency, particularly those segments within a nation-state population who vigorously protest against such hegemonistic apoplexy being thrusted upon them against their will . Free speech and redress of grievance could be bankrupted into silence such as was done to the  the Canadian truckers who protested  against mandates back  in early '22, but on a much greater technological  scale then was previously imagined.

 In recent years the movement toward institutional implementation of  direct censorship masquerading as 'hate speech laws' has gained sizable traction. The Corporate/Donor Class partition has regularly instituted language coda deemed undesirable in corporate or social discourse for several decades. As a participating sycophant of the WEF,  former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was quite the enthusiastic voice for this polity wishing to criminalize such unpleasant non-threatening  protected free speech under this canon. The same one BlackRock has utilized in its ESG sloganeering, portending, and pretending to honor racial tolerance and  civility within the workplace,   ethical environmental practices and corporate  governance. 

This comparison might appear conflated, until you understand how both methodologies undermine free speech in totality. They  accomplish two objectives: 1) render a soft bifurcated censorship  disguised as polity for mass approval being 'disguised' as  creating a 'safe harbour' against  'bad or hateful' language in public spaces and media, and  2) establishing dictates to impart artificial morals against what is designated as 'improper'  or 'mis/ disinformation'.  Ardern's lament about outlawing 'extremist' speech was prompted by the alleged  misinformation carried out during the pandemic by 'anti-vaxxer radicals' in tandem with her enacting vaccine mandates , in which her handling of  was heavily criticized via protests.  For BlackRock, their implementation of ESG was the forerunner of 'cancel culture', and  in latter years, encouraged the censorship of dissent via de-platforming, FBI infiltration , collusion   and  censorship   within social media companies, supported by members of the US Democratic Party, while the  other half of the duopoly, the US Republicans and their donors fair no better in this , allowing the censorship by job  termination  of a mainstream news personality to occur without protest when they began reporting facts about the US proxy war in Ukraine, and the suspicious activity of federal agents and confidential human sources ('CHS') present amongst the protesters during the  riots at the U.S. capital on January 6th 2021.

Propaganda is another form of censorship exercised actively by this participation through their media conglomerates.  This was made simpler to conduct when monopoly rules were severed for media companies in the United States  in 1996. Since its enactment by President Clinton, all  major U.S. news media outlets  came under the  control of six companies. This has allowed the complete centralization of media dissemination and its ability to create propaganda narratives resembling factual journalism in support of their corporate masters worldview, alongside the controlling political party establishment(s).  Mainstream media was never completely neutral, but has been far more open in its willingness to manipulate facts and events to suit a narrative that allows this partition to complete its objectives .  9/11,  The Bush Administration's  WMD fiasco to invade Iraq, The Syrian Conflict, Russiagate, and the Ukraine Conflict are more of the obvious examples. Propaganda, and the divisions it creates, allows corporate oligarchs and their purchased political custodians   to continue their wholesale  criminal enterprise of razing the earth of resources and wealth extraction via the continuous construction of military bases  globally Coups, proxy wars, military triangulation, assassinations, installation of authoritarian regimes, and outward acts of  forward aggression to incite larger conflicts are merely the cost of expanding global capital. What was once thought tabu and incontrovertibly amoral and inhumane, is now normalized. Nuclear war is now a viable option where as twenty five years ago, was considered the end of all biological life on earth, a summation of a fools errand in  the most evil and malevolent  order. 

The efficacy of the impact of propaganda, including the deliberate perversion of intended context, has been long-lasting, allowing large swaths of populations globally to disenfranchise themselves through partisan echo-chambers online and further caste into self-implemented  silos within society,  divided amongst themselves and be devoid of critical thought and deductive reasoning. This partition has been successful, well-organized, focused and unified: never wavering from its putrid  narratives, false flags and persistent   suppression of dissonance  and distillation of meaningful oversite into its own  moribund, greedy, sallow, and violent psychopathy.

How The Global Mass Killing Starts

By keeping populations in perpetual divisions along cultural and political enmity,  it thwarts any ability at reconciliation to a unified revolt against the corrupt and self-enriching establishment. The partition is terrified always, of our sheer numbers and need to retain us in these silos, so  we do not recognize class inequality is our enemy, not one another. Its simplifies the ability to murder us all in greater numbers across dense populations with no threat of mass revolution.

Once the food & water sources are controlled and commodified globally, all communications monitored , all  legacy and social media  'cleansed' of all dissidence, the role of militarized law enforcement  will be to incarcerate the dissenters, and kill the rest as warranted. Simultaneously, once conglomerated control has been established across multiple countries using multiple entities and 'store front' NGOs, the killing of all 'non compliant' beings will be  made simpler and efficient.   American police departments , for example ,  currently operate under 'qualified immunity' from prosecutorial actions taken against them for criminal malfeasance and murder, and one only need to look closely at the western history of policing as a modern construct having evolved from being created as a  security force that was not allied with the state, to a state-sanctioned  law enforcement apparat,  whose only real function  is to guard the centers of commerce from theft and malfeasance, and  to protect land owners and public property  against  trespass and  vandalization by the enemies of the state: the public. 

As law enforcement agencies globally are  an extension of the courts in every country in which  they exist, the courts themselves are allied with what used to be known as the affluent merchant class.  In the 21st century, there is the continued  relationship of  Corporate corruption  between the courts  and  the 1% via purchased politicians. The claims of  service to the public safety as their primary duty by many in this partition is absolute fiction. Britain, France , Germany, and nearly all of Europe have police forces that are  structured akin  to military organizations and function similarly as law enforcement militias in authoritarian regimes such as Iran and China.  (The only western countries that have yet to militarize their law enforcement is Australia , who normally move in lockstep with the U.S. on many similar policies , and New Zealand, whom, in 2020 had opportunity to militarize their police forces but inevitably declined.)  

As such, the Corporate/ Donor class partition can direct The Law Enforcement/ Para-military partition to adjust its scope of operations by increase of incarceration, and expand the allowance of  lethal force (murder)  to maintain control of the masses and to silence dissent permanently. Many in this partition worldwide are actively engaged in unwarranted violations of human rights and sanctioned murder as it stands it would not take great effort for these partitions to coordinate into intercontinental  death squads quietly executing such a covert oppression doctorate on an unsuspecting proletariat.

Climate change and its continued politicization and censorship by NGOs will do much to aid in crushing human dissent alongside life. Despite the best efforts of scientific community to neutrally  and accurately report on climate impacts on human existence, it is organizations who have  a vested interest in maintaining their stature within the Corporate/ Donor partition and governments who will continue  to weaponize distortions of science to its personal benefit. The exact nature of  human industrial activity places the primary offenders -  70%  of  the earths carbon footprinting, coming from the the partition itself. Another partition member, the fossil fuel industry, enjoys record-breaking subsidies on oil and coal extraction globally, all the while,  a fellow partition member, corporate agriculture and food processing, is successfully pushing back against all attempts at meaningful regulation of their excessive methane output. It is obvious why this area is of  grave concern for them, as they are the group responsible for a larger part of human pollution and environmental damage, and since 1970 , the partition has engaged in a full-throated campaign of misdirection by enlisting  and manipulating the publics participation in environmental stewardship by making the public the primary scapegoat of this damage. What started with  an Italian actor from Brooklyn dressed in surreptitious stereotypical Native American  regalia in a public service ad, has now became a full-throated mammoth theatrical production the partition sponsors and produces every year in different cities. A narrative- controlling road show, replete with lofty unattainable and  unrealistic goals, illusory themes  of environmental  advancements and new , imaginative adjectives to describe its ongoing progress and programs. 

Circus and bread for the pseudo-progressive class, and the largest act of placation on the world stage, and for proletariat consumption.

At the killing stage, the  billionaire members of the partition do not want to have to share quarters on any level with a impoverished  population now dying of  from the effects  of accelerated climate change brought on primarily of and by their own activity. The global south, after decades of military adventurism be visited upon them primarily by the US Military Industrial Complex, will most likely to be extinguished  first under the  WEF members Malthusian  construct of lowering the population to contravene any ethical return of wealth and resources the Corporate/ Donor class partition has stolen. This will require further assassinations and coups ( similar to  what  French Prime Minister Macron is embarking on in Niger at the time of this writing), and greater authoritarian  control of materials and natural resources ( such as lithium, titanium and cobalt) coveted by this partition.

While censorship, restriction of free movement through quasi-surveillance techniques and technologies, and complete control of the earths homo sapiens  are preferred by this partition, they can and will choose the  committing of mass genocide of millions if deemed necessary to preserve their Kingdoms of Capital and Resources. As of right now,  they tirelessly work towards the goal of an  ultra- global hegemony. The existence of nations will be reduced to nothing more than meaningless nomenclature on a map, having as much substantive weight as political 'parties'. The partition isn't interested in preservation of national sovereignty (which was originally invented by the expansion of capitalist trade, post-original monarchial rule), or rule of law. The partition has no interest in humanity, and barely recognizes it as a  viable living organism worthy of saving , although they are biological human themselves.  we the proletariat are  a nuisance to be dealt with, fodder for their wars, and expendable like used shoes.

And we are helping them to end us, for the completion of their 'happy ending':  the retention of all the wealth and power, and the dispatching of all of us who are simply taking up their valuable space.

We are in the stupor of awe, captivated by our captors,  worshipping their wealth and unbridled omnipotence ,  little are we aware that we idolize the very partition who will have us all murdered , in those silos of our own making, and we will be the ones whom assist with the pulling of the trigger while they steady the gun to our head. 

We comply to the divisions they manufacture and we consume. We know something is very  wrong  but do nothing to organize as a species against it. We continue to excel in the  mental masturbation of distraction, whilst in the global south millions of human beings are being destroyed and displaced for the North's continued extraction, not understanding that, now, the western consumer themselves is next in line for the guillotine....

In cold silence of our demise, there will seemingly be nary a whisper that will carry in the droll vacuums of capitalism's death machine: in the fields of blood , ash, and rubble we will be nothing more than  a currency, spent.

Te Whakatupato: The Great American Petulance of Inequality Is Coming to New Zealand.

KC SHOEN

                

            People Not-Gathered- After Vacant Souls, from the album The Darkest August (2006), available here

The United States is in free-fall, and its fleeing donor class are looking for a new place in which they can pull the ripcord and land softly with their assets and stocks in tact, ready to commit more colossal  rape of sovereignty via resources extraction and  revenue stealing from another location not yet despoiled by such republic-ending ravages, and have chosen Aotearoa.

 It appears, however, that New Zealand doesn't want 'em.

Dylan Lawrence, the General manager of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) put it quite plainly:"...we say the investment's got to be good for New Zealand not just good for the investor, and by that I mean how real is it, does it create jobs for New Zealanders, does it bring capability networks, technology, or does it provide access to new markets?" (Emphasis added).

Mr. Lawrence doesn't seem so smitten with just firing open the storm doors of permanent residency to allow access to the pathological  stock buy-back  prostitutes of the American financial, capital and investment sector.  And why should he? It would allow these psychopathic vermin  access to  a new environment with which they can  destroy the ecology, wring the economy bone dry until it is a parched fissure of immense inequality, then prop up its mortal remains to directly updraft monies via diminishing purchasing power and depreciated wages of the working class: exactly as they have done before.

It is neither aberration nor accident the expanding wealth gap that was occurring here prior to CoVID 19. Although not nearly the Great Crevasse of The Disparate United States  the suspicions of potential impropriety should remain raised. It is under cover of CoVID the US will slide into fascism, and it is that same cover that could see New Zealand inadvertently become the next playground of toxic capitalism to wreck the diverse but delicate economic landscape, while it is still has not yet started its full recovery. 

And whilst many should be concerned about 20% of New Zealand's  wealth being in the possession of 1% of the population, and the fall of the median income within the last year , it should be understood that inequality is already a  blatant feature of capitalism, existing in every freemarket society and is not incidental. CoVID 19 has exacerbated this element of the globalized  supply-side/ suppressed wages construct through small business closures and high unemployment via redundancies. Since the global market melt-down of 2008, the worlds financially affluent have benefited  from stock buy-backs and the 'zombification' of many financial institutions across the entirety of all western nations, those  having still  not generated any true revenue in over a decade, and are perpetually being issued governmental bail outs to continue functioning as frontal facades 

The unemployment rate has held steady at 4% percent, and the wage subsidy scheme issued by Jacinda Ardern's government have proved effective enough to stop the train from riding off the cliff, with Auckland itself  hemorrhaging 250 jobs per day on average during that same spread of time (June-August 2020) before settling down to recent  relative normal. The country still stands poised to rebound locally and can well take on the international markets again when they resume into the 'new normal'. The 'team of 5 million' (or which I and my family were proudly part of) coordinated the most dramatic crushing of CoVID the world has witnessed, even through the island's 2nd wave of the virus.

All taken however, the concern should be placed on  governments fealty to corporate confluence directed firstly, at the likes of Winston Peters , whom is not bashful about receiving favors in exchange for policy consideration from himself and his current party. Anytime members of government who get testy when confronted  by the local media about  questionable receipts of gifts and money from special interests, or feigns indigence at being rendered reasonable questions that do not coddle them need to be evaluated with great scrutiny ( props to the local media for putting the  'wood' to him, and not backing down)  

Concern, also, needs to rest upon candidates, like Judith Collins, whom possess right-wing, nationalist tendencies, favors combative rhetoric over substantive , measured debates on policy and stewardship, and are seeming lacking in self-awareness when its comes to their own willful ignorance. As I have often pontificated with great redundancy, all forms of conservative Nationalism should be absolutely dismissed as nothing more than xenophobic and corporate servile rhetoric used to partition those of the normative 'aggrieved' class against those whom are 'outsiders' , blamed for all societal ills and shortcomings.

Speaking of service to the 'managerial/ elite' class , Jacinda Ardern  also needs closer scrutiny on this matter. Although rather a seemingly harmless gesture of economic good will to allow  James Cameron's crew to fly  directly into Wellington during New Zealand's Level 4 lockdown to complete filming for the Avatar series in March, it also expresses a potential favourtism the Prime Minister  possesses toward vested Corporate confluence, even during a pandemic. 

And however impressive her emergency management of CoVID in Aotearoa, and her previous pronouncements of being a 'social democrat' , having gone as far as to acknowledge the outright failure of Capitalism , Ms. Ardern has yet to demonstrate the will to put a halt to the over-protectionism of the New Zealand real estate market, which has ballooned unrealistically over the last two months  (August through September 2020), and has not addressed the inevitable outcome of such protracted parlance upon inequality. Ardern was also a silent partner when it has come to the Deputy Prime Minister Peters' various conflicts of interests over the last year.

These rather seemingly inane examples of governmental inaction and self-interst is exactly how the American Corporate Vampires can seize the blood of New Zealand for sheer profiteering at the expense of the working class. In the U.S., it started with a simple letter of an appointed Supreme Court Judge that set off the American Corporate elite to push back against the counter-culture of the 1960's. Today, every American politician  (irrespective of 'Party', which has no further ideological meaning beyond window dressing currently) is 'purchased' by way of a lurid and filthy corporate pandering called 'lobbyism'. Policy is then 'purchased' as collusion , as both maladroit and cowardly entities then set about raping the system through reduction of public safety nets and social programs (including retirement pensions), and consuming all the rest in reckless abandon for thier enrichment. with 1% of the population holding 97% of the wealth and access thereto.

So, to my Kiwi and Māori whānau,  this American pākehā  is sending a harsh warning:The shit can happen here. CoVID is still among us, and  if you need any further 'motivation' as to the legitimacy of this fact-based article, I direct your attention to the  220,000 dead corpses buried under various American geographic locations that 'lie' as proof  that the corruption allowed in the U.S. help kill them all (and continue to kill more). The American donor class does not care about you, your country, your family or your lives. The New Zealand government, alongside Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein and the rest of these self-aggrandizing  American psychopathic 'Captains Of Industry' should be put in serious check, unless a future world of inequity,  involving living hand-to-mouth in perpetuity coupled with spates of homelessness sounds like a good option....

Prepare the Casket and the Eulogy: America's Pending Death by Exceptionalism

 

KC SHOEN

    

History has arrived at the station of being where long-hallowed veneers now evaporate for the U.S. The generations of denial, greed, corporate corruption, inequality, civic apathy, racial violence and consumerism have reached an 'event horizon': the long endgame. It is now the space where the polemic of pandemic, poverty, fascist brutality and protest now intersect. and need to deliver change, not just critical for improved civic engagement and civil cohabitation, but to the survival of the United States itself, now exposed as being absolutely nothing more than the failed republic that it is. 

It cannot be excoriated  enough, and with any excessive abundance;  the needful elimination of the illusory construct  the U.S. ever being egalitarian, humane , tolerant, equal or free; all in  itself a  worshipful lie of its Christian founding.  To simply succumb to such pompous piety,  would be declaring eugenics not the heart of confluence to a jailed war veteran who attempted to force the capitulation  of Austria via authoritarian overthrow as response to his country's failure post -WWI...

Reverence in the phantom leviathan of  racially-based Anglo exceptionalism fueled three-and-half centuries of colonialism worth of willful ignorance and  denial among the bourgeois elites ,  enabling  the cultural and religious justification of slavery which did not cease until 1865 (alongside the slaughter and displacement of indigenous peoples throughout this period). From that seizure of practice,  continued forward 150 years of 'Jim Crow' legislation, segregation, racial riots,  lynching, perpetual foreign wars, obstruction of human rights both in foreign lands, and domestic territories against the impoverished and people of color.

American culture in the past as in the present tense, remains defined by tyrannical religious zealotry,  technological advancements  in warfare  and gun violence, materialism , witless pop culture iconoclasm and celebrity worship. The difference now is that the US in the throes of self annihilation. CoVID 19 has fleshed out and drawn bare the American Dumb, in all its arrogant gravitas, anti-intellectual splendor. The realm of the American affluent liberal acolytes  of academia does not escape this blistering critique , as their bashing of the working class and subtle idolatry in acquiescence  to the corrupt corporate masters they 'worship' to for their own interests, while making pseudo-progressive overtures in action and deed, is equally as 'stupid' as their uneducated counterparts they assume prowess over.

If you are among of the unfortunate 350 million gasping for air in the United Cesspool of America who are not card-carrying members of the gilded and criminal elite 1%,  you are being bitch-slapped on the daily with rampant disease,  unemployment, riots, threats of local and federally sponsored police kidnappings and  terrorism, militia violence, inaccessibility to emergency medical services, eviction, homelessness, and the dangerous exposure to idiot motherfuckers who refuse to wear masks, who  think the pandemic is a hoax, alongside  the other maskless vermin,  the QAnon worshiping trailer-park all-star inbreeds who are certain that pizzerias, pederasts, registered 'Democrats' and Hollywood 'liberals' are conspiring together to bring America to an end by child sex trafficking on a demonic spectrum , then selling its national entrails to China.  

Couple this with the reality that your incumbent President is cementing his permanent station within the Oval Office as your Supreme Leader via suspending the 2020 election ( and enacting Martial law in the ensuing mass public unrest), so  that aside the pre-ascribed  manifested petulance (which itself makes your continuing survival questionable), you may have to go into hiding if you are not in 'alignment' with Big Brother Trump and Company.  The scepter of permanent incarceration around other CoVID convicts nation-wide will be a death sentence in itself if you are not careful and compliant...

Empires always reach such active levels of hubris upon their inevitable extinction, but America's moribund death-knell is quite something to behold, indeed. Accelerated by a vicious virus that was met by the very aforementioned stupidity,  exposed it to be the den of inequity it has always been throughout its densely slave-infested, derisive, violent, barbarian history.  And while I appreciate Wade Davis' romantic sentiments in  regards to America's  unraveling , it is still done through the annoying lens that most Americans themselves allow their vision to be clouded by: exceptionalism.

The cultural beatification of American exceptionalism is the very reason why the U.S. is now on its way to the failed-state graveyard. The conditioning and propagandizing of the past two and a half centuries of its existence ensured its demise would be assigned rapidly into the vacuum bag of history. In its beginning, the founding fathers and their euro-white colonist brethren  sanctified the evils of the imprisonment of  Africans kidnapped and sold into chattel slavery, the murder of indigenous peoples and criminal acquisition  of their lands,  the further destruction  of local culture through puritanical religious doctrines establishing missions and colonies to forcibly convert and kill indigenous people as warranted. This fanaticism of exceptionalism became as sacrosanct when Monroe dropped his doctrine in 1823, directing American foreign policy as right to invade the sovereignty of other nations as warranted to preserve its sphere of influence without European usurpation. Andrew Jackson would cement the exceptionalism of the European descendants and their power to 'redraw' the map domestically whenever suited for Anglo expansion during his vicious,  pre-civil war tenure .

Throughout the latter 19th and prevailing 20th century a society was borne from this through generations that would collectively believe itself to be indispensable to the world at large: the most free, the largest of all capacity for opportunity unmatched in the planet, the most democratic of all governments, the most productive. The myth of exceptionalism seemed solidified in full view of the world after America's victorious involvement in WW II. At 6% of the world population, the US ran the table with providing nearly 90% of the worlds goods. 

Americas outreach, confluence, economy and culture became at once stratospheric, monolithic and legendary. Nearly twenty years of world dominance in these arenas were astounding indeed. It was  also the period of ultra-conformity  imposed upon the boomer generation who would come of age during this time (1945-1962), as their parents wanted the absolute best for this generation after they had suffered the Great Depression and fought fiecely during the proceeding war.  They wanted their kinder not to stand out or be different, honor all authority as absolute, stay away from 'free-thinkers' and 'creatives',  get an approved, socially acceptable career, get married, swim with the rest of programmed minnows and be a brick in the Great Wall of American  Exceptionalism.

This same generation would be the ones to lead the US straight off a cliff, for their own enrichment. Consider this:

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Voting Rights Act of  1965, and all the well-intended social safety nets that were created during the 60's and  70's  did not change the realities for Blacks in America. Lack of upward social mobility, affordable medical access, fair housing, financial equality, coupled with voter suppression, excessive incarceration, police brutality aka "death by cop" are all as active in  the present tense as in time 30, 40 50, 100 even 150 years previous. 

Regardless of this obvious anomaly,  white boomers like to gloss themselves as the music and protest generation, yet, at the first instance they could glom any patronage of status, position and money within the upper classes through their white entitlement they ran for it, and did not give a shit who they left behind, or stepped on in the process to get there. Once Tricky Dick resigned from the Oval office, and Vietnam was over, their obligation to  'social consciousness' was swiftly concluded. The younger boomers later became known as the 'Me Generation' of the 70's and early 80's :  the self-enamored,  self-entitled, and mean-spirited sect that sparked the rise of serial killings, child abductions, rapes and homicides,  later on being the fore-bearers of  modern American Gun  Entitlement:  mass public shootings.

With  exception of Reagan and Obama, it has been primary boomer administrations like the Clintons , G.W. Bush and Donald John Trump that continued to sell this sense of American exceptionalism always for personal gain.  Boomer corporate trouser stains such as Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs), Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan Chase), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Kudlow (current Director of National Economic Council) Larry Summers  (Former Director of the EC as well as the U.S. Treasury under Clinton), and David Robert Malpass (President of The World Bank) have all successfully, and in part, over  the course of 50 years en total,  collectively  created, and personally benefited from, the continued creation of American inequality.

 

 

 Source:Economic Policy Institute, current as of 24 August 2020

The Boomers became the very epitome of what they sought to set themselves apart from: greedy, selfish conformists, and permanent members of the establishment who have enabled and  perpetuated unjustified  foreign wars in support of breaking the sovereignty of independent nations for economic and political gain. Maintaining segregation and inequality between whites and non-whites, the affluent class and the impoverished working class through instruments of law and individualism..

Less the heroic pastime warriors for justices old a la  Malcolm X,  Huey P. Newton, or Abbie Hoffman,  but more the obsession for power, prestige, control and corporate glory akin to Richard Milhous Nixon and the Powell Memo

The true 'face' of American Exceptionalism.

To relegate the entire onus of Americas death-by-tropes entirely on this whinging mob of megalomaniac milquetoast malcontents, (however may be it personally satisfying), would not be accurate, and doesn't answer for the deficiencies of the descendant groups from Gen X to Z.

Americans became complacent, lazy and willfully ignorant within the last 40 years in particular, and did not proffer uprising nor meaningful resistance when Reagan delayed release of the American hostages in Iran to coincide with his inauguration, stripped the negotiating power of Unions, deregulated Wall Street, or  when Clinton dropped his 'three strikes' aberration decimating black communities, anti- Rooseveltian New Deal policies  sharply curtailing  the public safety net, lesser regulations regarding black-box derivatives stocks that would crater the economy in two major crashes in 2000 and 2007-8 fomenting further inequality between social classes, etc.

Americans constantly vote against  their own interests, inheriting more degenerative, selfish , criminal, even violent leaders in both local and national levels in every election cycle since 1968. This is the aspect of exceptionalism that creates the space of apathy, of  'everything will be fine , we are America'  has constantly interceded into reasonable and honest discourse, disrupting critical thinking  necessary to adjudicate that things are fucked up and why.

 The hallucinogenic and hyperbolic fervor over conspiracy theories, anti-intellectualism, anti-science and non-factual hubris has been a feature of American ideology and culture  for the entirety of its existence, for certain. Exceptionalism allows the inexplicable to be reasoned away, the illogical to abscond and dissolve genuine fact for belief as truth, dominates discourse with rancor, repetition and threat, rather than verifiable bonafides. It is the vaunted superstition of old, reconstituted as 'fact'  to subordinate a  peculiar belief or construct, giving and inciting drama over phantoms and shadows, so as obstruct the obligation to face the adversity of  our existence directly. 

It has maturated from existential threat to full bore 'alive' in the present: CoVID 19 will be the pandemic that catapulted the US into fascism under Trump, as there will be no election with which to remove him. No matter the frequency of our history screaming into our present, the lights our going out in America. From anti-vaxxers, anti-mask Trump supporters to dunderhead, inept Neo-liberal politicians to the biased-fed masses who place their allegiance to MSNBC, Fox News, CNN and Washington Post-like echo chambers, many Americans will meet their death by exceptionalism in the end , both as a society and as a nation.

There is  no loud  rumble of sustained multi-million person resistance on the horizon to undo the damage of corporate malfeasance which has fed racial and economic inequality, as would be necessary to exact necessary revolution. Americans as a collective continue to leave this to "others" when there are no "others " to take up the fight. Americans are too comfortably divided  to unify over such an obvious encroachment and destroyer of human existence such as inequality: that would require the acknowledgement that America is , and has been for about 5 decades, a shithole country, that America has fostered and has been primed for fascistic take-over.  

Required acknowledgement, too, is  the fact that the incompetent handling of the pandemic was simply  that: incompetent. America has the highest percentage of dead and infected that any. other. nation. period.  It has held this distinction since April 2020.

 It would require acknowledgement of the dark, disgusting history which built and sustained  it, with Trump being understood as its end-product, not its source. It requires that the centuries-worth of evolving  latitudes of propaganda , euphemistic doublespeak, entrenched conditioning, religious zealotry and lying sobriquets of American Exceptionalism be dropped entirely from the synapses and lexicon of a nation,  to unify as a society, and allow capacity to survive and regroup to foment and awaken.  

It will not happen. There seems to be not enough death, violence, state sponsored terror or socioeconomic ruin to bring this dilapidated bastard Republic together to enlighten itself.

Best prepare your casket and eulogy, then. Your exceptionalism is terminal.