DINOSAURS, DEMOCRACIES, AND THE DEEP STATE

Sofia, Bulgaria.  Today (7/10) is the 27^th straight day of anti-government protests here in Bulgaria’s capital. 

If you look at the picture in the Euronews story about yesterday’s protest, you’ll notice that the folks marching down Vitosha Street aren’t a bunch of Occupy moocher-hippies.  These are regular middle-class folks of all ages, Bulgarian Tea Partyers, totally fed up with endemic government corruption that seems impossible to get rid of.

One of Bulgaria’s neighbors is Turkey, where similar anti-government protests have been going on since early June as well.  On Monday (7/08), police fired teargas and water cannons at protestors in Istanbul.

Massive anti-government protests for over a month in up to 100 cities in Brazil; nearby Chile, boasting Latin America’s most successful economy, Commie student protestors are in a state of rage.

We all know what’s going in Egypt, where tens of millions demanded the removal of an Islamist sharia tyranny, and got it.  But now what?

And now what for the US?  Zero’s Police State America expands exponentially by the day, we have the most corrupt and oppressive government in our nation’s history by far – and where are the folks in the streets like here in Bulgaria, or Turkey or Brazil?  I hear crickets instead.  Yet there’s no doubt the seething and frustration is reaching a boiling point.

Is there something in common, some universal irritation, that causing all of this? Perhaps.  First, however, we need to get rid of a metaphor.

A popular metaphor for something huge, lumbering, and obsolete as it’s unable to adapt to change is to call it a "dinosaur."  Increasingly, it’s being applied to governments, especially those labeled "democracies."  This is inapposite.

After all, dinosaurs were an extremely successful life form for a very, very long time.  The "clade" (related group of species) of Dinosauria dominated life on earth for some 150 million years – roughly 215mya (million years ago) to 65mya.  Mammals, of which we are one, have been around for less than half that time, and only because an exceedingly rare astronomical catastrophe ended dinosaurial domination.

Further, most species of dinosaur were not huge and lumbering – they were small and quick.  What’s more, those of a type called Theropods never became extinct at all – they evolved into the 10,000 species of the vertebrate class Aves that we have today.  We call them "birds."

So we need a different metaphor to describe what’s happening to democracies across the globe now.  Skye proposes that it be a sandpile, or a ricepile.  Rice is less messy than sand, so let’s use that.  Get a bag of rice out of the pantry and pour grains into a pile on your kitchen table.  Do this slowly, building the pile bigger and taller, and as it gets so, slow down to where you’re adding just one grain of rice at a time.   

At some point, the addition of one single grain will trigger an avalanche.  It could be big or small, but some or even all of the ricepile will collapse, because it was in a "critical state," such that a tiny little addition will be ruinous to the structure.  This applies to catastrophes of nature, such as avalanches, forest fires, or mass extinctions – and to human ones as well, such as stock market crashes, wars, or revolutions.

Skye encourages us to read a book describing how this works, Ubiquity by Mark Buchanan.  He tells me that "The self organized criticality of sand or rice piles around the world is now linked in an unprecedented manner, both by the web and by world trade.  The avalanches are just beginning."

You might think so, but all such studies of things in a critical state show is that the likelihood of a collapse can be predicted, but not when it will happen or how big it will be.  Further, they show that the likelihood of a big collapse is much less than a smaller one – the bigger the collapse, the rarer.

So just what are these government rice piles that’s so worrying?  What do they have in common that is upsetting people everywhere?  It’s something called "The Deep State."

The Deep State is composed of the elites you can never get rid of, no matter who you vote for.  Elites may fight among themselves for money and power, but collectively they run the show.  They are dug in so deep they are immovable.  They compose what Princeton Professor Angelo Codevilla calls the "Court Party" – e.g, the Republicrat/Democan joint establishment – as opposed to us Country Party hicks.

So people become cynical, convinced that participating in democracy activities like supporting candidates and voting is useless, as it will do nothing to change the Deep State.  So they end up on the angry street, or they give up and spend their time watching the latest lame-brain sitcom or Twittering friends what they had for breakfast.

So, the ricepiles of welfare state democracies – of which America is one – may be reaching criticality… but any avalanche is unlikely to collapse their deep states.  That would take the equivalent of a Chicxulub asteroid making them extinct, the odds for which are vanishingly small.

The bottom line is ours, not any place else’s.  Of all the revolutions, coups, and violent overthrows of governments in history, there has been only one real revolution, one that succeeded, and that’s ours.  The American Revolution is our legacy.  All we have to do is live up to it.   

The criticality of all welfare state democracies has the same cause:  The denial of TANSTAAFL.  TANSTAAFL – There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch – is a basic fact of reality like gravity or the sun rises in the east.  To argue otherwise is to advocate slavery – that some people (e.g., doctors) should be enslaved to provide their labor (e.g., medical services) for others.

We need to make clear at every opportunity that Obama, Democrats, liberals, progressives, socialists, anyone on the left, advocates slavery – and anyone on the right such as Court Party Republicans who goes along with and votes for the Dem agenda believes in the morality of slavery as well.

There is only one way to get rid of the Deep State, especially in America:  Eliminate the demand to get something for nothing, to live at someone else’s expense.  This applies not just to food-stampers and disability scammers, but far more so to crony-phony capitalist parasites.

There is only one way to get a truly functioning democracy again in America:  Initiate a separation of Economy and State – for exactly the same reasons as there is, or is supposed to be, a separation of Church and State. 

That is, no state-sponsored/owned/supported/subsidized businesses.

Do these two things, demand and work toward them, and we can reduce the size of America’s critical sandpile.  Perhaps there will still be an avalanche, perhaps even big enough to break America apart.  In that case, we can go live in a part that doesn’t believe in slavery, that understands TANSTAAFL and the US Constitution, and from there, put this country back together again.

Avalanches are coming, no doubt.  The US sand or ricepile is going critical.  Yet America is no dinosaur, neither metaphorically nor extinct. America is still enough of a democracy to have Ted Cruz as a senator – and possibly Sarah Palin as one in 2014.  We can get rid of the parasitic deep state, and see all the damage of Zero obscured by the dust of history in our rear view mirror.

We can start with this mantra:  America believes in freedom – Obama believes in slavery.  You can rattle a lot of libtard cages with that one.