how do we preserve our children’s souls?

okay, so we’ve pretty much lost ours. our country has been spiralling downward into a cesspool of evil our entire lives, but it seems unlikely that it has ever been worse than now, and does not seem that it will get any better any time soon.

so what do we do?

the people behind us made the mistake of going to the barricades……and then when victory hung bloody in their jaws, they retreated. they retreated. thus, the enemy arose far stronger, and perhaps even more evil, than before.

on a smouldering mound of the corpses of our brothers and sisters, our enemies’ victims, we may yet cling to some sort of narrow victory by our very fingernails, perhaps missing a limb or an eye. there is still, still much fighting to be done. and not simply the rhetorical armchair fighting by sycophantic sandwich-eating internet hogs such as yours truly, but actual fighting by actual fighters who believe as we do that the purpose of human beings on this earth is not to rape it and each other, but to coexist. simply to coexist.

but we must not make the mistake of retreating into our very own “me decade” like they did. we must behead the demon, fill its fanged mouth with garlic, drive a wooden stake through its heart, and bury it in a sarcophagus of solid marble. and then drop it down the shaft of an abandoned copper mine and seal it off with a bunker buster.

we must make the very idea, the very whiff of the idea of our enemies’ ideology to be so repellent that future generations will flay themselves to avoid being tarred with the epithet “neoconservative”.

how is that done? go back to the archives and observe how they did the very same thing to the word “liberal”.

an eye for a fucking eye, i say.

a large percentage of our species may not make it through the next hundred years due to the ravages of the mindless, pitiless greed of our enemies. our children and their children may inherit a world in which safe drinking water is not only as precious as gold – which it is now, if only we would see it as such – but also just as scarce. and that’s just water. then there’s food. not to mention the awakening of superviruses and the threat of global pandemics. to say nothing of the inevitable breakdown of a society utterly dependent upon a technological resource that is due to run out.

we may be able to put the brakes on, but we can’t stop the crash. all we can do for them is arm them with knowledge. we must tell them the truth about what has happened. we must proclaim with true humility every mistake and misstep and misjudgment; we must catalog every single lie. and then we must tell them, “please learn to be wise from our foolishness.” we can’t stop the crash, but we might – just – be able to give them the tools to walk away from the flaming wreckage of this empire, bloodied but unbowed. oh, let us pray it be so.