This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I know it can get awfully depressing sometimes. The situation is truly darker than at any other time in our lives. But as Steinbeck said, “It don’t take no courage to do something, if you ain’t got no choice.” Like Pearl Harbor, we have no choice and should be prepared for the worst. Fascism always does well but only at first. The efficiency of lawlessness allows the loudest grievances to be dealt with immediately. Crank up them jet planes and fly all them bastards out of here!

Threaten a powerless neighbor, threaten a powerful neighbor. It’s all the same on TV. But as signor Mussolini once advised, “Fascism is the merger of corporate and government.” Holey Slave State Batman! Unfortunately, crime facilitates business and business facilitates crime. The two eventually join to become one criminal enterprise.

The reason the Nazi’s had all of those wonder weapons was because they were so corrupt, they would buy literally anything if accompanied by a bribe or good word from upstairs. It was all working out at first. Then they were overwhelmed by endless series of fruitless projects. Some were good ideas, some, (a gun that shoots around corners) weren’t.

Heinkel had a jet fighter plane ready a year before Messerschmitt. But Willy Messerschmitt was hunting buddies with Hermon Goering, so the Luftwaffe waited a year and bought the Messerschmitt. Now multiply that kind of thinking times 1,000. Who do you have to know around here to get rich?

Already from the peanut gallery there is a quiet WTF awakening. A slow realization of what has happened. With great moral satisfaction I can say, “I told you so.” Who was it you were worried would  take all your rights away again? But I’m a Citizen! “Yeah, that’s what they all say! You be sure and tell em that when you get to Guatemala.” This is simple Trump Fascism 101. What is it the King likes to say all the time? About those Central American countries emptying their jails and asylums and dumping them in the US.

The King, famous for his projection plans to do what exactly? El Salvador? Who said, a secret prison in El Salvador? Not Me! Thanks to the Bush Administration you can be detained without trial forever as a suspected terrorist. The King has started naming street gangs as terrorist organizations. Bye! A lawyer? What’s that? What do you need a lawyer for? You’re not going to trial; you’re just going away.

But an initial success always leads to perpetual excess. If a little is good a lot must be better. But just like the German Fascists they took their bluster too far. As soon as it was realized what their game actually was, they were greeted with a war the Fuehrer had promised wouldn’t happen. Excess brings recklessness.

The King has discovered Ukraine has “Rare Earth” minerals. The King immediately takes all restrictions off the use of US weaponry used by Ukraine, what a coincidence! Why if Ukraine wanted to now, they could fire an American made cruise missile right through Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin office window. I’m all for giving Ukraine a free hand but some restrictions are necessary to avoid tap dancing blindfolded into WW-3. But, but, but rare earth minerals!

But always remember the Lego principle. Just when things appear their darkest, they will step on a Lego. And their plans will fall apart in a burst of commotion and dramatic nocturnal cussing. That’s how Fascism generally ends in crime and cannibalism. The principal players usually end up trying to devour or sell each other out.

The most frightening aspect of the nightmare I have seen so far is the near complete craven collapse and capitulation of the media. No one asks, is that legal? Resistance to the King is shown as halfhearted somewhat pathetic fringe groups with a few hand painted signs. Accept it that your news media is controlled and contrived no differently than North Korea. In an obvious case of public misdirection, the media focuses on Airliner deaths rather than the criminal behavior of your government. Wreckage is pulled from the river! So what?

Look, look, look! Shiny thing! Shiny thing! Ain’t that sad? Ain’t that just tragic? That’s a damn shame that’s what that is.

For a government to be legitimate it must lawful. If a government isn’t lawful, it isn’t legitimate. You owe no allegiance to a criminal government. If the government ignores the Constitution, it is a criminal government and you owe them exactly bupkis. You’re free! Liberated from the bonds of communal living. Potential Revolutionaries all!

When your government is criminal only the honest are criminals and all the criminals are honest. But you can relax because they won’t come for your guns until they’ve taken away most of your other rights first. Then they’ll come for your guns, but only in the name of fighting terrorism! “And I didn’t complain because I wasn’t a trade unionist.”

I don’t want to say it. I don’t like writing this. I want to close it and put it away forever and never let it see the light of day, but I can’t. It wouldn’t be honest. We face a long and protracted struggle with no promise or guarantee of success. But to knuckle under and do nothing is unconscionable. Better to die choking on our own blood than to bow and curtsy to a corrupt King shitting on our lives.

“What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin, Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.”

–William Shakespeare