Delusion And Destruction
If you were an alien who just showed up on this planet and took note of the activity among all regions of the globe, you would make some very strange observations.
You would notice that a very large part of the population live in rather mean circumstances, that is to say, with barely adequate housing, marginal sanitary systems and simple, perhaps difficult regimes of food acquisition. For many in the non-affluent parts of the planet, not having a dirt floor means you have achieved a middle class existence.
A smaller part of the world’s people live in relative affluence with access to shelter, education and mobility considered rightful entitlements. As far as food acquisition, it’s more likely to be a Costco run than setting traps in the tall grass. For the sake of discussion, we can characterize the divide as between East and West, but this labelling refers to political rather than to geographic situation. There are of course many people living on the margins in the affluent West and there is ample wealth in the non-West.
Perhaps it’s more accurate to characterize the divide as that between the affluent and the poor, for certainly, the majority of the planet can be considered ‘poor’ by the simple yardsticks mentioned earlier. We use East and West only because most of the looney ideas that drive world events these days emanate from the ‘West’. Woke-ism, Gluten-free-ism, LGBT-ism, CRT-ism, Global Warm-ism, Covid-ism, all creations of the enlightened West.
If you were to peruse the narratives from people living in the privileged part of the planet, you would think that the lives of everyone on earth are threatened with dire existential issues from virtually every quarter. This is not hyperbole at all. Just watch TV news for one day and you will conclude that the people for whom the struggles of daily existence are non-issues appear to be constantly on the edge of extinction…at least in their minds. There is a disaster ready to befall mankind every hour, on the hour. Of course, some of these imminent threats can take decades to happen, if and when they do. We’re waiting for the asteroid crashing into Earth scare to rear its head.
The astute alien would notice that the high priests of doom are always from the affluent segment of the planet and, despite their doom and gloom messages, live rather well and in direct contrast to the messages they spew. People buying beachfront properties while warning of sea level rises may be a dead give-away. Someone pays for this and you guessed it, it’s the people who don’t have as much as the high priests and who in fact contribute to their wealth. The most conspicuous of these hypocritical charlatans are such as Al Gore and John Kerry who have been flying around on jets for years telling the poor people to pay more taxes to save the planet while their own circumstances improve exponentially. No one seems to notice that the solution to almost all problems is through paying more taxes and fees.
If there’s one person that personifies the mentality of the West, it would be Taylor Swift. This singer has made her fame and fortune bleating about how bad her experiences with boys have been but meanwhile continuing to produce songs about ‘toxic’ relationships and crying all the way to the bank. It’s all about them. Many of those who live in affluent nations are hopelessly naïve or just plain narcissistic. Their sheltered lives have no resonance at all to the vast majority of people on the planet. No one would even care if not for the fact that their delusions influence social policies which makes life miserable for everyone else. As if using paper straws and bicycles will be of any benefit to the people living in Mogadishu.
Nothing succeeds like success and thus imitators have popped up in other facets of people’s lives as well. The pharma industry have been carving out their niche now, selling the fear of illness and death to the masses. We’ve been witness to the terrible destruction this industry can wreak over the past 2 years. Even while the majority of people on the planet are struggling to even marginally improve their lives, those fortunate ones above them on the ladder of life will find ways to prevent their climb. Restrictions and prohibitions and drugs for all….you know, to save mankind.
In the entitled nations, there is preposterous discourse about which bathrooms to use, whereas in much of the world, having an outhouse that’s shared by less than 10 people is a luxury. In the wealthy, educated parts of the world, they have to wrestle with a plethora of new genders that are suddenly available. Yep, mysteriously, in the rich nations, affluence has produced a bounty of new gender categories while the rest of the world lives with a measly 2. Wouldn’t you know, the rich nations get more choice again! Funny that through the millennia, with mankind managing to get along with only 2 genders, the appearance of new ones just ballooned in the last 5 years! What are the odds?
Back to our mythical alien, he (not them, their) would notice that the population in the poorer parts of the planet are striving to improve their life conditions for themselves and their families. Yet the affluent parts of the globe seemingly pursue every avenue possible to destroy the societies and institutions that they’ve successfully built, pushing their societies headlong into self-destruction. The poor are building and the rich are destroying. As the famous alien Mr. Spock would say, ‘fascinating…’