Wow, good morning. Epstein, Cuba, Iran . . . this administration is a perpetual exercise in patriotic reevaluation. I suppose if we can endlessly justify Palestinian Infanticide and Child Mutilation of all flavors, one more humanitarian crisis couldn’t hurt.
“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.”
-Ayn Rand, The Roots of War
*Always so simultaneously precisely-correct and hypocritically off-base Rand was (The Roots of War is a pro-capitalist, anti-leftist essay).
I was born on July 4th, which always intertwined a celebration of patriotism with every birthday. My Boy Scout leaders were more often than not Veterans who nurtured an expectation that we’d all inevitably join the military. In fact, as we approached becoming Eagle Scouts, special attention was given to regularly reminding us that we’d collect some additional ranks upon enlistment. I remember watching Born on the Fourth of July (The Tom Cruise Film) around Fifteen and grew so instantly disinterested with Military participation that I took a year off of scouts. I would eventually become an Eagle Scout and am proud of that achievement, but, by seventeen, my politics had evolved so solidly around the development of our Middle Eastern post-9/11 retaliatory conflicts that redefining “Patriotism” for myself became necessary. I only ever half-entertained becoming a soldier of some kind anyway, though many of my closest friends did, and I, like we all do, appreciate them doing what we would not more than they’ll ever know, and some of them are no longer around . . . and that influences one’s patriotic perspective as well. I’ve a very close friend deployed now and I’m terrified for him. I love the United States for what it can be, not what it is at this moment.
The United States currently exists to Protect Pedophiles, Recommence Imperialism, and Commit Genocide . . . and I guess usher in Jesus’ return so he can, what(?), explain how Pedophilic and Genocidal Imperialism isn’t quite what he had in mind.
“Our President will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”
-Donald Trump, talking about President Obama
I woke up at 7 am Eastern Time to the news I went to bed dreading—a war between Abrahamic Literalists (on the eve of Purim, the beginning of Lent, and middle of Ramadan). As of this morning, Donald Trump’s administration has begun a combined bombing campaign against Iran, likely at the behest of his participating handlers—Israel—after yesterday’s negotiations proved . . . ineffective. Thus, The United States and Israel commenced a military offensive against Iran.
Now, if you’re wondering, considering the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, will Israel target children . . . well . . . within a few hours of this joint offensive against Iran, a school had already been attacked, killing many Iranian school children. The tally of children targeted by Israel is ceaselessly expansive. And WE are complicit. All this to distract from globally-organized pedophilia and to obediently bow to the desires of a country holding evidentiary blackmail against our President.
Patriotism’s ideological Platonic idealism may be a coping mechanism to appreciate the wonderful potential one’s home has, but it often feels insufficient, doesn’t it? In the face of some contemporarily manifested contortion of Enlightenment-based potential, we find ourselves slipping into a version of ourselves many of us never thought possible, and without even having fully rectified our past as well. And, of course, our potential is currently dictated by a compromised administration of infanticidal, sex-trafficking warmongers.
It’s always the children.
-Matt
“The bodies burned so bright
That god closed his eyes
Torn apart in red horizonsGod closed his eyesCurse the heart of red horizonGod closed his eyes[…]From the river to the sea”
-Fit for an Autopsy, Red Horizon
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