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How fucking prescient

and so bloody imminent

was that insightful scrawl

on a yellow brick wall…

Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear

in retrospect, it would appear

that the scrawl artist was spot on

but let’s not forget that the contagion

not Covid, but the really dangerous one

that we should collectively shun

is the prevailing, engineered system

of endless, structural mayhem

designed with cruel deliberation

to run on fear and deprivation

allowing limitless accumulation

by the few, sans any real opposition.

So, the only New Year’s wish from me

Is that the many wake up and smell the coffee

join the resistance, become the resistance

to systemic oppression, stop sitting on the fence.

Fight for every dissident, political prisoner and whistleblower

Truth is a most potent weapon against oppressors in power

And a fundamental truth we can’t pretend not to see

is that all of us are in prison till Assange is free.

Hari Chathrattil, 31 December 2020

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There is no doubt that under the present unjust circumstances, defending the status quo is siding with globalist totalitarianism. However, are there not other circumstances when defending the status quo (conservatism) is good? Suppose we have a society in which wage earners are paid 100% of the value they create, where "surplus value" is not captured by an elite? Suppose in that society wealth achieved through such labor is protected, but wealth is not allowed to influence politics and corrupt the government? Would not conservatism be good?

Even today, some conservative values are good. There's a lot of evil in America's past, which needs to be acknowledged and rooted out, but there's also a lot of good in American's past and values that should be conserved or restored (usually thought of as reactionary, but what if those lost values were just and good). Change is not ALWAYS good, though I dare say there are more things in the US and Western culture that need to change than there are that should be preserved or restored.

I fear that assuming change is always good and preservation always bad is a bit divisive. What would be wrong in restoring US industrial capabilities, restoring jobs recently lost?

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