War and Culture

The short answer regarding the State of the Union of nominally sovereign states within the American Federal Republic [RIP] is that it is very grave. Structurally, it has become an oligarchy, a debased form of aristocracy (“rule of the best”) which was not quite its aim either. Those who follow judicial events and the intervention of courts, drug cartels and government in every sphere of life – family, medicine, education, business — know that America’s Constitution and culture has been vitiated. The value of self-limitation has vanished, and the powerful can work their will. The government has become god. A society originally modeled on Israel (where all people are subject to G-d’s law and having more power means more stringent rules of conduct) is structured and run increasingly on the pyramid model. Most of the people doing the applauding or sulking on the evening of January 23 are deeply engaged in this ruin; some of them have the wit to know it and more cynicism to hide it. But they’re safely inside: we are in the crosshairs. When the State is god, dissent is heresy.