Moral Authority Driven Inflation; Newsletter Week of 1-27-2022
Moral Authority
Today moral authority is going bankrupt. Moral authority is like money in a central bank economy. Once it is all spend, you can print more, but the more you rely on it, the less it is worth and slowly it comes worth less and less until you get hit by inflation, when it becomes completely worthless. However this isn’t always so obvious when it happens, only afterwards.
After the First World War it became obvious that pre-War society’s moral authority had gone into the negative, with the end or the beginning of the end of so many things. Things like Western imperialism, nationalism, the church, monogamy, the czar, the Hapsburgs, the Kaiser, London as a world financial capital, not to mention the rise of the USSR, the USA, and the seeds of the second world war.
Our eras belief in the technocratic state, NGO’s, international agreements, men and women in white coats who say the come in the name of science, will be badly shaken. It might not happen so quickly, but it will happen and when it does, it will be difficult to behold Even for all those who claim that they, in the words of the X-Files, “still believe,” at some point it will sink in.
What will replace our current moral authorities in our moral schemes? It is hard to say, predications are a great business because the demand is high and the supply only lasts till tomorrow when it turns out to have been wrong. Perhaps it will be faith. Perhaps something else. I fear it will lead to a dangerous lack of rationalism, but perhaps that won’t happen.
Ukraine
The news from Ukraine is dismal. However, this is not a new situation and it should never have reached this point. In Prisoners of Geography, journalist Tim Tim Marshall pointed out Russia’s desire to keep Ukraine as a buffer to the West. One way or the other
Regarding the situation right now, the only question is whether it stems from Biden’s people clear incompetence or are they somehow exasperating the situation to draw attention away from their dismal domestic performance.
This type of “wag the dog” technique to change the conversation worked well for Biden-nites when they clearly rolled out the employer Covid mandate to move the conversation away from the auto-de-fa that was the Biden Administration’s “withdrawal” from Afghanistan
Neil Young
It is oh so easy for those like Neil Young to embrace lack of freedom of speech. However, he is just fooling himself. The battle is not between those who believe in the Science™ and those who don’t. The battle and it has been waging for years, coming from what used to be “Higher Education” and now swilling in almost every other area of life, is between those who seek power via shutting others up and those they are trying to shut up. It is so much easier to go along with the lazy and popular claims of fighting disinformation , “we know now this person is
BAD,” “she is racist,” “ he is a hater”. However it isn’t true and things that are not true are not real.
The Two Sides in the West Today
Some say the conflict is between those who think human nature perfectible and those who say it isn’t. I say the fight between those who know the world isn’t binary and those who pretend it is.
Whether in killing people who don't believe in your religion or those that won't join the Party or calling those who won't accept your worldview evil, or dividing the world in two types "us" who go to the top of heaven and "them" who are somewhere at the bottom. This need to divide the world into the good and the bad is a dangerous desire.
People who split the world in a binary way, tend to use either authority "the Bible says," “the Science,” says for their side and emotional arguments against the other side " you are selfish" “you are bad” “you are evil.”
They support their side by claiming access to a higher truth that proves them right. This makes them emotional against anyone who disagrees with the higher truth. “Sinner thou art. “They they say whoever disagrees is guilty of the crime of disagreement which means they are bad peoplle
and then they say that this means that the other side is guilty of emotional crimes or crimes of judgement, like being selfish, evil, stupid
You know the classic tail of the emperor with no clothes? In the new version he still has no clothes... Except for a lab coat