It's Inevitable
If you, like me, think the federal government's relentless drive to suck this country dry for the enrichment of itself and allies on Wall Street is inevitable so there's no reason to fight it, then you, like me, are part of the problem. It's because people like us do nothing that the country deteriorates. We aren't fulfilling our obligations to our country.
Okay, I don't really believe that. I, like Nock, believe I have only one obligation to my country: to present it with one improved unit. If I'm the best person Eric Scheske can be, I've done my duty and owe my society (and country) nothing more. I don't owe it my life (or my sons' lives) on the battlefield, and I don't owe it my vote, and I don't owe it my hand wringing when things go wrong (like they have been, at an accelerating pace, for the past 80 years). Conveniently, my obligation to my country is almost identical to my obligation to God: to try my hardest to become a saint. Nothing more, nothing less.
This realization has helped me a lot to deal, psychologically, with the destruction of the country that is upon us these days. Unlike many people who are despairing because Romney didn't win, I don't think Obama is the anti-Christ. I think he's the leader of the anti-Christ, just as Romney would have been if he had won, and just as the next Republican president (if there ever is one) will be. Granted, I think Obama is a more effective leader, which makes him worse than Romney would've been, but regardless, the vote that comes every four years is irrelevant: the country is screwed because the federal government isn't. The country is laid open to the ravages of an enemy that will rape it until it's lifeless, and it doesn't matter whose leading the rapist: the country is defenseless.
But regardless, people like me are part of the problem. The oppressors count on people like me to say, "It's inevitable. We might as well tend to our gardens and let the country go to hell." I actually think that's one reason Obama is being so bold these days: He knows the thumping he dished out three months ago demoralized the opposition, and now he wants to drive a dagger through the opposition's heart . . . or at least convince the remnant old Republicans (those of the libertarian stripe) that a new age is here and it's fruitless to resist.
This is, precisely, the strategy of the culture flank of the big government faction. If you haven't read this article in New York Magazine and you care at all about the destruction of all norms of morality, it's a must-read: Gay-Marriage Strategists Plot PsyOps: The inevitability campaign. Excerpt:
[T]he [gay rights organization] Human Rights Campaign shifted its messaging earlier this year in an ad narrated by Morgan Freeman. “With historic victories for marriage, we've delivered a mandate for full equality. The wind is at our back, but our journey has just begun,” the actor intoned in the spot, which aired in New York, Washington, and L.A. and aspired to ratify the “general Zeitgeist,” as HRC communications director Michael Cole-Schwartz puts it. “It's making people comfortable with the inevitability,” he says. The new rhetoric is not a plea to fairness as much as a psychological tactic to demoralize opponents. “It just deflates them,” says Greenberg, who handles HRC's opinion research. “People who may disagree with [gay marriage] but believe it may happen anyway are hard people to mobilize.”
