The Existential Threat of the Existential Threat.

children watching a nuclear explosion

Image by Gerd Altmann

The Existential Threat of the Existential Threat.

By Thomas Buckley

Climate change is an existential threat.

Misinformation is an existential threat.

Inequality is an existential threat.

The next pandemic is an existential threat.

Our democracy is facing an existential threat.

And everyone must be prepared for each of them and prepared to do anything to stop them.

That’s the current line, at least – the line that is driving global society at all levels just up to the edge of sanity and cohesion.

And that’s on purpose, because it’s much easier to push someone over the edge when they are already standing next to it.

Each of these false threats are being intentionally inflicted, becoming comorbidities on an already weakened body politic, making it even more vulnerable to its destruction and its eventual death.

Being told you are going to die is devastating. Being told you and your family are going to die is monumentally awful. Being told everyone is going to die is…numbing. It creates a state of utter helplessness, a state in which you are far more pliant.

Your situational awareness dims, your flight or fight sense slows, and you just stand and stare until someone puts their arm around your shoulders and leads you away.

And those invoking that dread are waiting nearby to do just that – take society by the shoulder, offer it comfort on the form of entertainment, medication, and basic sustenance, and lead it away.

Each of the threats is aimed directly at the first principle of Western society – the primacy of the individual. All the threats, all of the communitarianism being foisted upon the culture – including the claim that it is what group a person is a part of, not the person themselves, that is the most important defining human characteristic – have the same underlying message: the elimination of the idea that society is made up of discrete individuals with personal agency.

And from not acknowledging individual agency to not permitting it at all is a very short step.

That is the actual existential threat of the false existential threats now bouncing around the globe, clattering into people and families and societies and cultures and intentionally causing so much chaos and disruption that just standing in one place is not necessarily an irrational decision.

Of course, none of the current coming catastrophes are existential threats – they aren’t really threats at all but the vanguard of the global socialite socialists statists has made sure the public thinks they are, under penalty of ostracization, job loss, and censorship.

Besides not being actual threats, they cannot even remotely be described as an existential threat. An existential threat is – in part – defined as a threat to the very existence of a thing or a system. It is terminal, global, and transgenerational. It is not transitory, it is not political, it is not determined by the people making the claim: to be an existential threat something must be real and unprecedented and permanent.

But the term – which seems to be important-sounding because it actually is – can be misused by people and groups to heighten the impact of their statement, no matter what it may be, because the actual definition is either not widely known or purposefully ignored by the people using it and the media that reports what they are claiming.

This opens the door to anything being described as such a threat. 

There is also the issue of the origin of the term – existential philosophers focused on subjective ideas of thought and emotion and action as they relate to existence while the more concrete “threats” described when the term is used are putatively real and specific. That is an additional misleading element of the use of the term.

In other words, the term is used to apply a thin veneer of intellectual certainty to the threat that it is claiming actually exists.

Despite the protestations of the greenocracy, the real global existential threat is not fossil fuel or proper food or basic human mobility or all of the other aspects of the material economy. 

The real threat is from the ethereal economy of government agencies, civil society actors, non-governmental organizations, foundations, and academia, all aided by the information cabal. Together they do, in fact, currently have the power to foist something upon civilization that truly is transgenerational, global, and terminal.

And the never-ending pretense of emergency is a powerful tool in accomplishing that goal:

What happens when that dreaded decision whether to jump right or left in the face of an oncoming car is not a once or twice in a lifetime decision, but a daily question? That constant state of trepidation grinds on people, placing humans into a state of making most if not all decisions from a place of panic instead of reason.

And it is during that constant state of nervous exhaustion – a state manufactured out of whole cloth by its potential beneficiaries – when those who wish to wield power in society strike.

What is being offered is a society in which no one can fail. But a society in which no one can fail is also a society in which no one can succeed, especially to the point where they can threaten the existing power structure.

And it is that threat – which is an existential threat to that spider web of profitable tyranny – that is being targeted by the global fear noise.

The democracy being threatened is “their” democracy, not “our” democracy.

The climate being threatened is their silver sheened scrubbed personal environment – the actual environmental destruction that is occurring is out of sight, the denigrating of the sub-Deltas who inhabit other places, is immaterial.

The information being threatened are the lies being told to prop up the societal transformation.  

The equality being threatened is their right to be more equal than others forever.

And the pandemic being threatened is the right to declare a pandemic on a whim, terrifying the public into ceding basic rights in the name of safety.

The means and the ends are interchangeable, creating a Mobius Strip of dehumanization on which every degrading tactic can be hidden – unless you know exactly where they lay, they are visible only out of the side of the eye, an oblique uncertainty, and can be easily dismissed as figments, as conspiracy theories.

It cannot be known exactly what will be touted as the next existential threat.

What is already known is whom it will benefit.

Note – it may seem a bit odd, but then again really not, but it could behoove all of us to take the advice of Hannibal Lecter when considering what the societal serial killers are seeking:

Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License courtesy of The Brownstone Institute.

The Left Isn't Interested In Your Point Of View.

the left refuses to discuss issues with their opponents

"The left refuses to have discussions with anyone who disagrees with them. They'll shout at you, they'll ban you, they'll burn your property, but they won't have a conversation." - Timo Malum

[Timo Malum has been kicked off of, and banned from, Twitter/X, Facebook, Mastodon, and BlueSky, for nothing more than posting factual data that contradicts radical left talking points. These platforms will delete your account without warning, refuse to consider appeals for reinstatement, and ignore all emails seeking an explanation. To the left, free speech is only for those who push and repeat Marxist and woke ideologies. No one else has the right to speak. And yet they complain about authoritarianism and label anyone who challenges them as "fascist".]

Notes From Clown World: March 24, 2025.

liberal meme about healthcare

Here's an interesting post from social media site 'Mastodon', home of the worst snowflake leftists in the world. It shows a man holding a sign that reads, "Tax all the churches to pay for universal healthcare. It's what God would have wanted." 

Wow, so much could be said here. But for starters, why does the left support universal healthcare, which reinforces the deadly medical industrial complex including Big Pharma, but rarely mentions healthy living or natural solutions? The left used to be the realm of counterculture hippies living off the land, but they've flipped and now embrace chemicals, unproven science, lab-grown meat, and forced medical procedures. I know liberals who won't eat a vegetable but they line up for every vaccine they can get, thinking it makes them healthy. Maybe if more of them learned how to grow their own food and tried homeopathy instead of submitting to endless medical tests and buying sacks of prescription drugs they wouldn't need universal healthcare. The way of life they endorse only enrichens the very capitalist society they claim to hate.

I can't move on without mentioning the line, "It's what God would have wanted." It's ironic that anyone on the left would claim to speak for God, considering how many of them are atheists. The statement is sacrilegious whether used by an atheist or a person of faith. God can speak for himself, and I doubt he'll do it through memes.

Evacide post about authoritarianism

Another post from Mastodon comes from "Evacide" who warns about "rising authoritarianism". This one caught my eye because we just lived through one of the most authoritarian presidential administrations in American history, and people like Evacide stayed totally quiet about it. For four years I watched the left ignore Joe Biden's corruption, lies, and endless efforts to silence free speech. Even when Biden threatened to send the National Guard door to door to pressure people into getting the COVID vaccine, the left said nothing. But their hypocrisy is deafening, and it's why I tune them out when they whine about everything a Republican or other conservative does. The left has no integrity, and thus they have no credibility.

FeloniousPunk post about social chaos

Mastodon can be a lot of fun. You get to see some really crazy stuff that the left actually believes. But the post above from "FeloniousPunk" is a bit worrisome. He/She/They? says "I expect we're about 60 days out from total chaos. Things are going to get truly ugly folks, prepare accordingly." 

What is meant by this? Is He/She/They afraid of what Donald Trump might do next? Or is this a warning that the radical left and their ANTIFA thugs are about to hit the streets with violent protests? Are we going to have another "summer of love" like we did in 2020, when gangs of losers took over city streets and burned businesses? Will highways be shut down by mobs of protesters, many of them hired by Marxist organizations to create chaos? If so, how bad will it get, and how will the police respond this time?

I have no problem with peaceful protests, but if the left tries the same disruptive criminal activity they did in 2020, they need to be quickly stopped, arrested, and prosecuted. Violence is a tactic of Marxism, and it can't be allowed in a civil society.

News Nation poll results

I saw the poll above on a News Nation website. It asks, "How concerned are you about being in public spaces right now?" The results are interesting. 43% of respondents are "somewhat concerned", and 21% are "very concerned", meaning the majority of us are concerned to some degree about being in public spaces, despite statistics showing that violent crime is declining and is, in most places, much lower than it was thirty years ago. Yet the public lives in fear. I suspect their fear comes from the mind-control news media, which profits by scaring people so that we come back every day to see what new things we need to be scared of. We also see the worst news repeated and amplified on social media sites, and few of us take the time to consider if we're actually safer today than we were before.

The result is that large numbers of us hide in our homes with the blinds closed and the door triple-locked, peering out at the street on phones connected to video doorbells. We're becoming prisoners in our own homes, living in fear of the monsters we imagine might want to hurt us.

Donald Trump portrait in Colorado

Finally for the biggest clown in Clown World, we have Donald Trump complaining about his portrait on display in the Colorado Capitol building. Trump called it “truly the worst” and that it "was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before”. He then insulted the artist.

We already know Trump is a narcissist, but his whining about the portrait takes it to a whole new level. What a little baby. I think the portrait makes him look better. He should be flattered.

The True Goal Of Socialism.

image: the true goal of socialism

[image by Revellati Online]

O Verdadeiro Objetivo Do Socialismo: The True Goal Of Socialism.

The party elites enjoy luxuries while everyone else begs for food and shelter.

"Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve." -- Rachel Campos-Duffy

"The harsh reality is that socialism not only destroys economic freedom, it severely limits the capability of everyone to reach maximum potential. It's a system that doesn't provide more, but instead vastly less." -- Katie Pavlich

"Socialism requires that government becomes your god." -- Rafael Cruz

"Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women." -- Malcolm Fraser

"Wherever socialism spread, misery followed - and still follows." -- Greg Gutfeld

"Socialism is antithetical to freedom, because when it breeds and thrives, people die." --  Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

"In socialism, everything is supposed to be equal. And yet, it's always fascinating how the elite government bureaucrats (in socialist places like Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina) are the ones that wind up with all the money." -- Trish Regan

Bluesky Proves The Land Of The Left Is The Land Of The Lost.

bluesky land of the left is the land of the lost

It didn't take long. Another social media site run by the radical left has kicked me out. Not long after having my Mastodon accounts deleted without cause, Bluesky has now done the same. To be honest, I'm surprised I lasted as long as I did, but not because I broke any rules. To the contrary, I was polite and civil and did my best to link to sources whenever I posted anything related to health and science issues. But I did post news articles and podcasts that I hoped would open some minds and maybe create a dialog. For my efforts I was called a Nazi and a MAGA cultist, and my sources were all dismissed as being not good enough for the pseudo-intellectuals who read my posts. But I wasn't very active on Bluesky at all, preferring to keep a low profile and gently nudging rather than shoving in an attempt to not be cancelled. How did it work out? Here's the email I received from the "Bluesky Moderation Team":

cancellation email from Bluesky

Bluesky's moderators claim I posted content that promoted "hateful content" or was "disruptive to others". This claim is a lie. I was careful to be respectful of others. I'm not a bully and never have been, but I will stand up for myself if attacked and I will correct misinformation when I see it. But apparently in the land of the left, replying with factual data is perceived as being disruptive. The left has become so obsessed with conformity and obedience that instead of resembling the free-love hippies of the 1960's they're now more like the hive-mind Borg creatures of Star Trek. Independent thought isn't allowed. Be assimilated or be destroyed.

Borg army

They don't believe in shared truth. They use words as weapons. They rely on you implicitly assuming that they have good intentions and are aiming at shared truth. It's a deception. For Marxists, dialogue is not a way of attaining truth. It is a forum for manipulation.

Although I had low expectations, I did go through the motions of filing an appeal to my account's deletion. Two days later and no one at Bluesky has bothered to reply. And honestly, the only reply I expect to get is "appeal rejected", which is the reply I got from Mastodon and also a year earlier from Elon Musk's Twitter/X.

This is the world we now live in: a world where mentally weak anonymous authoritarians function as social media moderators and censor anything that upsets their frail emotions or is seen as a threat to their demonic Marxist agenda. It isn't possible to have a real conversation with these people. Dissenting opinions are dismissed without thought. Their minds are closed. Their science is settled. Nothing changes until new propaganda is sent to them like a software upgrade.

I gave it my best shot. I tried on three separate social media sites. And now I question if it's possible to co-exist with people who are so mentally shut down, intolerant, and (strangely) arrogant.

Bluesky has proven to me that the land of the left is the land of the lost. But I won't stop talking. I have a voice. It's too bad the people who need to hear it the most will hear nothing but echoes of propaganda and hate coming from the soulless entities that control them. image: I have a voice

The De-Evolution Of Society In One Sentence.

quote about the de-evolution of society

When compliance and conformity is rewarded and any shred of critical thinking is punished, when the purpose of education has become to teach how to obey orders...you get a society helplessly dependent on authority, desperately magnetized by tyranny, and hopelessly afraid of freedom.

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