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IMO, what we're witnessing, is not necessarily brave- but it is a New Normal. Haven't we heard that before?
Herd Mentality doesn't require being brave- logic tells you that just because everyone else (or a great many) are jumping off a cliff, doesn't mean it ain't gonna hurt when you hit- no matter how many bodies cushion your fall.
Brave is doing what you know to be right regardless of the consequences.
Brave New Normal
So the War on Populism is finally over. Go ahead, take a wild guess who won.
Iâll give you a hint. It wasnât the Russians, or the white supremacists, or the gilets jaunes, or Jeremy Corbynâs Nazi Death Cult, or the misogynist Bernie Bros, or the MAGA-hat terrorists, or any of the other real or fictional âpopulistâ forces that global capitalism has been waging war on for the last four years.
What? You werenât aware that global capitalism was fighting a War on Populism? Thatâs OK, most other folks werenât. It wasnât officially announced or anything. It was launched in the summer of 2016, just as the War on Terror was ending, as a sequel to the War on Terror, or a variation on the War on Terror, or continuation of the War on Terror, or ⌠whatever, it doesnât really matter anymore, because now weâre fighting the War on Death, or the War on Minor Cold-like Symptoms, depending on your age and general state of health.
Thatâs right, folks, once again, global capitalism (a/k/a âthe worldâ) is under attack by an evil enemy. GloboCap just canât catch a break. From the moment it defeated communism and became a global ideological hegemon, it has been one evil enemy after another.
No sooner had it celebrated winning the Cold War and started ruthlessly restructuring and privatizing everything than it was savagely attacked by âIslamic terrorists,â and so was forced to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and kill and torture a lot of people, and destabilize the entire Middle East, and illegally surveil everybody, and ⌠well, you remember the War on Terror.
Then, just as the War on Terror seemed to be finally winding down, and the only terrorists left were the âself-radicalizedâ terrorists (many of whom werenât even actual terrorists), and it looked like GloboCap was finally going to be able to finish privatizing and debt-enslaving everything and everyone in peace, wouldnât you know it, we were attacked again, this time by the global conspiracy of Russian-backed, neo-fascist âpopulistsâ that caused the Brexit and elected Trump, and tried to elect Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, and loosed the gilets jaunes on France, and whoâve been threatening the âfabric of Western democracyâ with dissension-sowing Facebook memes.
Unfortunately, unlike the War on Terror, the War on Populism didnât go that well. After four years of fighting, GloboCap (a/k/a the neoliberal Resistance) had ⌠OK, they had snuffed both Corbyn and Sanders, but they had totally blown the Russiagate psyop, and so were looking at four more years of Trump, and Lord knows how many of Johnson in the U.K. (which had actually left the European Union), and the gilets jaunes werenât going away, and, basically, âpopulismâ was still on the rise (if not in reality, in hearts and minds).
Herd Mentality doesn't require being brave- logic tells you that just because everyone else (or a great many) are jumping off a cliff, doesn't mean it ain't gonna hurt when you hit- no matter how many bodies cushion your fall.
Brave is doing what you know to be right regardless of the consequences.
Brave New Normal
So the War on Populism is finally over. Go ahead, take a wild guess who won.
Iâll give you a hint. It wasnât the Russians, or the white supremacists, or the gilets jaunes, or Jeremy Corbynâs Nazi Death Cult, or the misogynist Bernie Bros, or the MAGA-hat terrorists, or any of the other real or fictional âpopulistâ forces that global capitalism has been waging war on for the last four years.
What? You werenât aware that global capitalism was fighting a War on Populism? Thatâs OK, most other folks werenât. It wasnât officially announced or anything. It was launched in the summer of 2016, just as the War on Terror was ending, as a sequel to the War on Terror, or a variation on the War on Terror, or continuation of the War on Terror, or ⌠whatever, it doesnât really matter anymore, because now weâre fighting the War on Death, or the War on Minor Cold-like Symptoms, depending on your age and general state of health.
Thatâs right, folks, once again, global capitalism (a/k/a âthe worldâ) is under attack by an evil enemy. GloboCap just canât catch a break. From the moment it defeated communism and became a global ideological hegemon, it has been one evil enemy after another.
No sooner had it celebrated winning the Cold War and started ruthlessly restructuring and privatizing everything than it was savagely attacked by âIslamic terrorists,â and so was forced to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and kill and torture a lot of people, and destabilize the entire Middle East, and illegally surveil everybody, and ⌠well, you remember the War on Terror.
Then, just as the War on Terror seemed to be finally winding down, and the only terrorists left were the âself-radicalizedâ terrorists (many of whom werenât even actual terrorists), and it looked like GloboCap was finally going to be able to finish privatizing and debt-enslaving everything and everyone in peace, wouldnât you know it, we were attacked again, this time by the global conspiracy of Russian-backed, neo-fascist âpopulistsâ that caused the Brexit and elected Trump, and tried to elect Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, and loosed the gilets jaunes on France, and whoâve been threatening the âfabric of Western democracyâ with dissension-sowing Facebook memes.
Unfortunately, unlike the War on Terror, the War on Populism didnât go that well. After four years of fighting, GloboCap (a/k/a the neoliberal Resistance) had ⌠OK, they had snuffed both Corbyn and Sanders, but they had totally blown the Russiagate psyop, and so were looking at four more years of Trump, and Lord knows how many of Johnson in the U.K. (which had actually left the European Union), and the gilets jaunes werenât going away, and, basically, âpopulismâ was still on the rise (if not in reality, in hearts and minds).
