Singlestack
08-14-2020, 07:09
I have been entertained over the years by tales of dystopian fiction by authors like Brad Thor and David Baldacci. They have imagined every type of catastrophe imaginable - terrorism, political intrigue, assassinations, war, nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. But as far as I can tell, they have not come close to what we are experiencing today, which seems to have as its primary characteristics:
- a pandemic originating in a foreign adversary's lab (written before)
- the foreign adversary knowingly allows it to be spread worldwide while providing misinformation (written before)
- a global health organization who works in concert with the foreign adversary to spread misinformation (I think new)
- state and federal governments unprepared for the pandemic and needed supplies (written before)
- health leaders in the US who change their recommendations several times (I think new)
- a shutdown of the US economy based on health leader recommendations and fear (I think new - they have written about the pandemic itself like Ebola closing down economy)
- political weaponization of the pandemic by the opposition party and their controlled institutions - media, academia, unions, hollywood (I think new)
- the opposition party organizing and fomenting civil unrest, violence, arson, and looting in advance of a major upcoming election (written before, but not combined with pandemic occurring)
- the opposition party pushing for more lockdowns, closed churches, limited freedoms, etc (written before, but not combined with pandemic)
- Opposition party and media in total lockstep in immediate widespread messaging - same words, phrases, etc within hours of an event (I think new)
- The opposition party demanding socialist and in many cases marxist policy and actions like defund police, eliminate the nuclear family (BLM), gun confiscation (I think new)
- All of the above happening in basically 6 months time (I think new)
I guess the point is that reality is stranger then fiction. I think the big thing the authors have not written about is a pandemic happening and a political opposition party "not letting an emergency go to waste" by implementing city-wide or state-wide draconian measures, starting violent riots in most major cities, and providing widespread misinformation about the pandemic and riots - with a goal to unseating the current administration when previous efforts (impeachment etc) have failed. The BIG thing I think the various authors have missed is how coordinated and widespread the opposition is, how fast they are able to act, the extent of the deep state, and how far left the opposition party has moved toward marxism. BTW, I'm not really trying to criticize the authors, but rather reflect on how nobody I'm aware of predicted anything like the events of the past 6 months. And it isn't over - more craziness to come, perhaps tons more.
- a pandemic originating in a foreign adversary's lab (written before)
- the foreign adversary knowingly allows it to be spread worldwide while providing misinformation (written before)
- a global health organization who works in concert with the foreign adversary to spread misinformation (I think new)
- state and federal governments unprepared for the pandemic and needed supplies (written before)
- health leaders in the US who change their recommendations several times (I think new)
- a shutdown of the US economy based on health leader recommendations and fear (I think new - they have written about the pandemic itself like Ebola closing down economy)
- political weaponization of the pandemic by the opposition party and their controlled institutions - media, academia, unions, hollywood (I think new)
- the opposition party organizing and fomenting civil unrest, violence, arson, and looting in advance of a major upcoming election (written before, but not combined with pandemic occurring)
- the opposition party pushing for more lockdowns, closed churches, limited freedoms, etc (written before, but not combined with pandemic)
- Opposition party and media in total lockstep in immediate widespread messaging - same words, phrases, etc within hours of an event (I think new)
- The opposition party demanding socialist and in many cases marxist policy and actions like defund police, eliminate the nuclear family (BLM), gun confiscation (I think new)
- All of the above happening in basically 6 months time (I think new)
I guess the point is that reality is stranger then fiction. I think the big thing the authors have not written about is a pandemic happening and a political opposition party "not letting an emergency go to waste" by implementing city-wide or state-wide draconian measures, starting violent riots in most major cities, and providing widespread misinformation about the pandemic and riots - with a goal to unseating the current administration when previous efforts (impeachment etc) have failed. The BIG thing I think the various authors have missed is how coordinated and widespread the opposition is, how fast they are able to act, the extent of the deep state, and how far left the opposition party has moved toward marxism. BTW, I'm not really trying to criticize the authors, but rather reflect on how nobody I'm aware of predicted anything like the events of the past 6 months. And it isn't over - more craziness to come, perhaps tons more.