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| Sarah Hoyt: And Yet Thankful |
| 2022-12-01 |
Originally written for Thanksgiving. [AccordingToHoyt] Well, we got our butts in a bear trap and no mistake. Which is a funny thing to post about when I want to do a post on thankfullness.But we’ve got our butts in a bear trap. And I don’t see any point lying about it. It certainly won’t make things easier, and it will make you distrust me, at which point my talking is useless. So — we got our butts in a bear trap. And we must escape, even if it means chewing our tails off. Right now, still looking for solutions that free our tails. And having no clue how to do it. Still hopeful of a miracle, but the miracle needed is bigger than the miracle we needed this month, which didn’t happen. So not hopeful. And yet thankful. Why thankful, you daft woman, when you have your butt in a bear trap, and are likely to have to leave your tail behind? Well, we can always gnaw our butts off, but it will be ugly and not tasty. Ah. Well, first of all, it’s not just our bear trap. To an extent the rest of the world is in this bear trap. It was set by early twenty first century utopians, and reinforced by propaganda before, after, during and post the two world wars. It’s a beaut of a bear trap, too, you know? It came from the increasing ease of mass production and concentration of power in certain nodes in the early twentieth century. Mass production was faster and more efficient, so mass everything has to be the same. And thus we came to hyper-centralized governments and orders issued from above for increasingly minutia and details to be carried out in the hinterlands. Which of course got into the problem of knowledge. Because humans aren’t machines. And how things are done and what works are different district to district/county to county, let alone across the country. Only the people giving directions and telling us how things are going to be done don’t know that. It’s an unknown-unknown. And since the media went the same way, to the same level of centralization, and embraced the same bigger-more centralized-more-topdown philosophy, the media covered up the failures of the model — the more I read the more I think it started failing almost immediately — and made it seem viable and honky dory. And it entrenched more. But there’s a limit on what you can run on what we’ll call the “Marxlite” model, though in practice it’s more corporatists-fascist, but the excuses are the same until you reach a critical level of failure, all over the world. It’s reaching that now. And of course the Marxlitians are blaming “capitalism” and “nationalism” when the opposite is pretty much true. Because that’s what they’ll do, of course. So — what is there to be thankful for? We’re still us. No, please, shut up. The Doom Brigade on the right is bad as the left for not realizing how unique the US is. Yes, yes, the founding fathers would already be shooting. Yes, but then again no. They put up with just as great or greater abuses for going on two decades, until it became obvious it couldn’t go on. And then they had to fight: from a position of weakness, with their butts in bear traps. Americans don’t like war. Partly because we’re so good at it. So we’re slow to engage, because heaven help our foes when we do. Partly because we’re people who make and create things: art, yes, but new ways to make a widget, new ways to farm, a better gadget to do x when it’s needed. We like our little lives. “Petit bourgeois” the French would call it with a sneer, but petit bourgeois is where the soul of America lives. We want to do work we by and large enjoy and are good at, while having families and raising fat babies who grow taller and bigger and more capable than us, and raiser fat babies, in turn, while doing the daily, unglamorous work of making the world a better place. Look, it’s nothing much. It’s just who we are. We know that once things go kinectic that option is gone. It might not come back in our life times. Worse, it might not come back during our children’s lifetimes, and that’s much worse. So we hold off. Are we holding off too long? It’s always a danger, isn’t it? But so is going hot too fast. And you know it. And we all know it. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Could be worse. Moment enraged male MP punches female lawmaker for being 'discourteous' before she hurls a chair at him sparking chaotic brawl inside Senegal's parliament |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-01 15:30 |
| #4 Republicans are not always indecisive. The GOPe can whip out "That's not who we are" in a flash when the discussion revolves around punishment for the deserving. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-01 10:08 |
| #3 She doesn’t work for everybody. That’s ok. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-01 09:34 |
| #2 I tuned this broad out years ago when she boiled seemingly half of her posts on Instapundit with the unfunniest of catch phrases 'This is my shocked face'. It got old real quick, reading that shit. |
| Posted by: Raj 2022-12-01 09:20 |
| #1 Sounds like a typical indecisive Republican. 'We must do something! But then again we must hold off until it is absolutely time to really do it! Should we not? Oo err...' |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-12-01 06:11 |