This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

This is the type of event which passes for clever in the early 21^st Century. Intentionally, patently offensive, that’s the point. Do you somehow believe someone in the White House thought it was cute or funny? An image of the King dressed as the Pope. Are there no grown ups at home? Of course, there are. But they want to distract you.

They want to explain that those gunshots were actually a car backfiring. The principle is quite simple. To deflect your anger towards things which mean nothing. Is it a coincidence this happens at the same instant Trump and the Republicans introduce their Pol Pot budget? A budget/crime against humanity which if passed, will assassinate tens of thousands of Americans. Destroying forever the Republican illusion of “pro-life.” Grandma is in the way of our tax cuts.

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.” ― Václav Havel

Now we’re getting to the meat of the matter, and it’s time to sharpen their knives upon the innocent. But first, a designated distraction. Ha, ha, ha, isn’t this funny? The King is portrayed as the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion people worldwide. Ha, ha, ha, the King reposts the photo everywhere because that’s the point entirely. To  distract the baby with something colorful and then while they play with the rattle, to take away their favorite blanket.

Surely, you aren’t going to try and tell me this was just a slight miscue. No one gave five minutes of thought to what might happen next? It’s beyond the pale. Unless the White House press office is being run by Middle-School boys, it was calculated to distract. Big Brother says, “Hey look over there!” Check your news feed, what do you see? There is only so much room on the front page, and the human mind can’t focus on everything all at once.

We’s mass communicating! Filling your minds with pointless outrage while they steal your wallet. Winston Smith is a department head now! With a thousand monkeys chained to a thousand typewriters working on the great American fantasy. “Next on Fox! Dirty stinking criminal migrants quickly deported into the vapor, somewhere far, far away. That’s why the Nazis built most of their death camps outside of Germany. Less chance of their true purpose being discovered.

But as the old expression goes, “Shit rolls downhill.” What do you suppose will happen to the Real Estate market, once all those Section Eight vouchers go away? Never mind what it will do to the poor! Think about what this will do to the formerly rich! Say there Mr. Investor; your rental properties just became worthless overnight. Look at this funny picture. Ha, ha, ha funny stuff, right? Comedy gold? Cut eighty billion dollars from Medicaid? Are there no camps with facilities to convert these useless eaters to soap or lampshades?

You’re going to think I’m lying or making this stuff up. Here in Arizona, the King’s tariffs have largely destroyed the alfalfa market. A local farmer explains his business is off by 75% and he might not survive until next spring. But…he still supports the King’s program! He might lose everything, but still supports the King. Either there is some new kind of Agricultural Alzheimer’s disease or Joseph Goebbels never died. How propagandized do you have to be to voluntarily walk your family into a buzz saw?

But the King admits there may be fewer toys under the tree for the kiddies this Christmas. But the real question is will you still have homes to put your tree in this December? Can the King destroy foreign alliances and world trade and remove billions from the consumer economy, and all will be well? Imagine shaking up an ant farm violently. Will it be alright?

But it could be already the King has gone too far. Sure, you can kill millions with intentional heartless callous cruelty. But if you cut Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio that might be just superficial enough to rouse the hoosters from their slumber. Take that candy from the baby and listen to the baby scream. The rules are simple, if the King can’t control it, he wants to kill it. Funding will be restored to PBS and NPR once the lesson has been rightly learned. Do you want to keep this sweet job? Then what do you have to say about the King? Mind your manners or the King will cut your microphone off.

This is how Fascism works. The Pentagon announces a new Gazillion dollar fighter plane controlled by AI. AI is the 21^st Century equivalent of the wooden nickel. Meanwhile on the battlefields of reality, the Ukrainians use off the shelf drones to devastate Russian vehicles by dropping anti-tank mines costing around a hundred bucks. They stopped building Battleships when they became too expensive to lose in combat. Seventy-million-dollar aircraft or a $1,500 drone?

The Russians launch glide bombs because to approach the front lines in an aircraft is far too dangerous. The Houthis shoot down our thirty-million-dollar drones but don’t worry, we have plenty more. We have two, count em two, aircraft carriers dropping billions of dollars in high-tech weaponry on people living in mud huts. They’ll give up eventually, or my name isn’t Lyndon Johnson!

Try not to laugh, but if you or I posted such an offensive picture of a religious leader. We would be banned from Social Media, but not the King. Doesn’t the King care about offending Catholics? No, he doesn’t, not in the slightest. Did Hitler care what the Catholic bishops thought? As Joe Stalin once noted, “How many soldiers do they have?” They are just pawns to be pushed forward towards their destruction.

If you watch any television advertising at all, you already know what the intelligencia think about you. You are stupid in their eyes. Mindless, moronic, muddled sheep to be distracted with bread and circuses. Unaware the water is growing hotter and hotter. I’ll show you. If a doctor were standing there right behind you with a large device in his hands. And he tells you to drop your pants and bend over. Then he says, this won’t hurt but you might feel a slight pressure. So, when the King says, there might be fewer toys under the tree this year for the kiddies. Do you understand?  This won’t hurt, ha, ha, ha!

But like Disney’s Snow White. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the dumbest of them all? Not you! The people who have wealth who think by supporting the King they will gain even more. Now that is really, really dumb. By destroying a society, they hope to create a better society upon the ashes of this one? I remember my mother telling me about the Stock Market crash in 1929 and the affluent taking swan dives out of open windows on tall buildings. They called it Black Thursday on Wall Street, but it was just Thursday at her house. You and I might be stupid, but never that stupid.

“Give us ten years and you won’t recognize your cities!” – A. Hitler