The threats the west is facing for its survival

This is an abridging of Will Jones' post at Daily Sceptic as a possible opening piece for a manifesto.

Is it any wonder reports of mental illness have sky-rocketed in recent years when we are all constantly berated over what an awful state the world is in and how disaster is imminent unless our whole way of life is radically changed for the worse?

People living in 2021 are now burdened with at least three major issues, all of which have arisen or reached a new intensity in the last 18 months. 

First there is obviously Covid, with lockdown restrictions – unheard of before February 2020 – fast becoming normalised as a form of disease management. 

Second is climate change, the recent IPCC doomsday report and the approach of COP26 triggering the release of all kinds of new schemes and threats of punitive taxes and bans. 

Third, there is Critical Race Theory and the wider Woke agenda of demonising and delegitimising ‘whiteness’, men, heterosexuality, women, and anything else deemed to be oppressive to minorities and insufficiently inclusive, egalitarian and diverse.

The three are ... united in that all of them demand a high degree of social control. 

Normal life and liberty spreads disease, emits carbon dioxide and oppresses minorities. It is therefore unacceptable and must be curbed and brought under a heavy degree of governmental and social regulation. People must be compelled not to gather, to stay at home, to wear face coverings, to take tests and medicines, not to burn gas, oil, coal or petrol, not to eat meat, not to offend favoured minorities, to promote diversity. Those in charge are always attracted to an agenda that justifies them throwing around the power they have, and this unholy trinity of righteous causes has that in buckets.

The three are [supposedly] based on ‘science’, or at least academia. They involve supposedly impartial, objective experts pronouncing on what the world’s biggest problems are and formulating the solutions that will save us. This is a very appealing formula for elites, who gain perceived legitimacy by allying themselves with expertise.

Another thing the three have in common, though the scientists, academics and politicians themselves will never admit it, is that they are all based on an underlying mistake, and the pursuit of their supposedly necessary solutions will frequently cause more harm than good.

To cap it off, they are also all totally impossible to achieve, giving rise to the ultimate soul-destroying ideology: urgent, impossible, and ultimately pointless.

The full DS article was here.

You'll notice in the conclusion that "ultimately pointless" was not put in bold.  That's because it very much has a point, the foregoing - confusion, confounding and demoralising, the aim of stage four of Marxism before the dystopian "nirvana" is imposed on all and what constitutes "humanity" is finally snuffed out.  Yes, there is a point to The Great Work of Ages.

Yet perhaps Will does get the last word in this single sense in which it's ultimately pointless ... the Christian sense, in eschatology, that point when the destruction of humankind has reached such a stage that the reappearance of the Messiah is imminent.  Perhaps we're not quite there yet, though the preconditions are certainly approaching that point.

Or as Jim Morrison of the Doors sang - "all the children are insane".  Transhuman pronouns - that's sane, is it?  Asking for a friend.

Consider though what happens once the last people of "the old ways" shuffle off or are shuffled off, when those gospel values are now gone and only the brave new world of corporate karenspeak, of bureaucratic inanity, remains to guide the insane children left on earth.  It's not unlike the end of the 1962 film Lord of the Flies.

Seems to me, your humble blogger here, that we're still a short distance off at this point, time enough to get our houses in order and make provision.  Opposed to that jaundiced view is the eternal optimist of course, and who's to say he's not right, that society has a few more rounds of idiocy left before the end?  A few more rounds of convivial bonhomie.