I started to write this post yesterday, then realized I didn't have quite enough brain. (Yes, I am better today. Should be perfectly fine by tomorrow. I'm taking quantities of C and D that probably will make me glow in the dark, but it's working.)
And then this morning I realized the problem was that I didn't actually have all the factors in play. So, indulge me while I lay the background, shall I?
I've been reading They Walked Like Men by Clifford Simak. It is in many ways a gimmick book, and as a fellow professional now I can see where he rushed the ending and to an extent stuck the landing, though I'm not sure how I'd do it differently, except take a few more pages and resolve on logic issue.
My guess is either editor breathing down his neck, or he was out of allotted words and didn't feel like going back to the beginning to start cutting at it.
BUT note its good enough that I'm not going to give you spoilers. You should read it. To this day, Dan and I get antsy if we're driving a mountain road, and there's a car with a single light behind us. Also, the book has one of my favorite openings ever in science fiction, closely followed (note FOLLOWED) by Puppet Masters and preceded by Citizen of the Galaxy and Have Spacesuit.
Anyway, the entire gimmick of the book is that the Earth is under alien invasion using the forms we have for normal commerce/interaction. And that there's nothing we can do about it, since the majority of people not only don't know the aliens exist, but don't believe you if you tell them. And so the invasion proceeds apace, because other than the people who were brought forcibly in contact with it, NO ONE BELIEVES it. It's that outrageous that people can't process it.
I've read this book every few years since I was 12 or so, but this year it hit like a brick, for obvious reasons.
Oh, not the aliens. Despite Tucker Carlson, I don't believe there are aliens and having the government scream there are every time they want to distract us is not enhancing credibility.
I mean the "corrupting our institutions to acquire power and wealth, in such a way that no one believes it. Particularly none of those who should and could do something about it.
And you know, in the book the whole thing is solved when the character proves aliens exist.
In a way that solution is right, because secrecy allows a lot of things to flourish that would be stopped right quick if they were out in the open.
Take election fraud. If it were properly reported, we'd already have one day, paper only, purple fingers, not to mention none of the crazy like "same day registration". But most people don't know how crazy and easy to fraud it is. They would not themselves commit fraud, so why would anyone else. And our news.... er.... democrat operatives with bylines aren't reporting stuff like "no other country does this, because every time stuff like vote by mail is tried anywhere, the fraud is always next level". Or "they will register you to vote, if you're a foreign national signing up for a driver's license with your passport."
But the myriad and crazy ways to cheat are so many and so unreported, that their obvious outrageousness makes them hard to believe. People think fraud is a little thing on the margins. 2020 was step one at breaking that "it can't be real" but many in the establishment and out really want to deny it and go back to sleep. The entire "it's time to talk of something else" is indicative of this. No, sorry. If our method of elections is broken, NOTHING ELSE is important. Because you can't win elections rigged against you. It's the only thing to talk about. Forever. Until it's fixed. The public seems to sense this, btw, even those who would like everything to "go back to normal". I think it accounts for Trump's lead almost by itself.
The thing is Trump's election in 2016 started ripping off a lot of those masks. Partly -- and only partly -- because Trump will say things everyone is afraid to say, out loud. (Which, to an extent is why he was elected in the first place.)
But partly because the left went so insane at the unexpected election result that it ripped off its own mask in favor of going completely and thoroughly nuts in public.
What I was missing yesterday is that there have been several of these "steps" and they still keep coming. Because having lost their minds, the left isn't find it. And the very things they do are only holding because they're so stupid they're unbelievable. BUT every time they do the next one, the previous becomes more believable. Also, they're increasingly, like the cheating, in front of G-d and everyone, really blatant.
And it feels like each of these incidents puts people in the frame of mind to see things clearer. And sometimes makes it so you just can't ignore it. Each hit reveals "the aliens" doing the unthinkable.
And ooh, boy, the hits have been coming fast and furious the last three years. The covidiocy, and then every revelatory hit coming out about it. The red speech. The lawsuits against Trump. Oh, yeah, the entire conspiracy nonsense during his presidency, from the "Russia, Russia, Russia" to the insane stuff they brought up against his supreme court nominees, all of it made the masks fall off, and people go "Oh."
Now, the masks go back on, and people try to go back to the safe place, because, well, no one, not even me, likes the hideousness revealed. OTOH those of us, like me, who have seen it for a long time, feel a certain amount of relief when it's out in the open.
But the people trying to get back "to normal" keep having the "normal" ripped off their eyes again and again. There is no road back to normal. None.
At this point, the left is so much in evil villain mode (partly because they always were, partly because their hiding methods are working less and less every year, thanks to the net. Hence why they are now attacking the first amendment) that they can't help themselves. So, you know, when Hamas does horrible stuff in Israel, they think it makes perfect sense to tear down hostage posts and attack Jews. Because.... why not? They thought this would be absolutely a good strategy. Because stuff like this has always worked before, and they missed how utterly horrendous the attacks were, and how in public they were.
So, the masks were ripped off yet again. And then watching University presidents, all women, and all obviously and clearly incompetents trying to defend it was just sh*t icing on the sh*t cake.
I feel like the results of that haven't yet fully played out, but like it moved everyone to yet another stage of "Oh, you're just really evil and there is no truth in you."
My guess is Trump or no Trump the hits are going to keep coming. At this point, they can't help themselves. They don't know what else to do but keep trying to herd us by doing stuff that's absolutely horrifying.
They're doing what they always did, only up to eleventy now, and out in the open. And they don't know why we're all going "whoa, now!"
And it's going to keep happening. Trump started it, but at this point it's a perpetual motion machine. The masks just keep falling.
Thing is we need them to fall harder and faster, because it's our only chance to avoid more unpleasant options.
Without spoilering too much, there is a moment in Simak's book (And he'd be horrified at my seeing it this way, btw, for his time he was very much progressive as you'll find reading the book) when the president offers to nuke the aliens, and the main character says "Why? Everyone knows they exist now. They can no longer operate. It was the secrecy that allowed it."
It's the same thing. We need all the ugliness to come out as fast as possible, so the masks can't go back on.
Because as evil and dirty as our "elites" are the only thing that allows them to operate is the nice-nice mask, and people wanting to pretend they see no evil.
Remove that and they're done. They become a shame, a reproach, and a laugh stock.
Which for them is worse than death.
So in the coming year, I wish you the masks falling harder and faster. And no worries, they will be.
Just refuse to forget the masks that fell. Keep notes if you have to. And bring them up when people try to look away.
The sewer is horrible. But it might save us from worse choices.
Don't look away.
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