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IMO, what we're witnessing, is not necessarily brave- but it is a New Normal. Haven't we heard that before?
Herd Mentality doesn't require being brave- logic tells you that just because everyone else (or a great many) are jumping off a cliff, doesn't mean it ain't gonna hurt when you hit- no matter how many bodies cushion your fall.
Brave is doing what you know to be right regardless of the consequences.
Brave New Normal
So the War on Populism is finally over. Go ahead, take a wild guess who won.
Iāll give you a hint. It wasnāt the Russians, or the white supremacists, or the gilets jaunes, or Jeremy Corbynās Nazi Death Cult, or the misogynist Bernie Bros, or the MAGA-hat terrorists, or any of the other real or fictional āpopulistā forces that global capitalism has been waging war on for the last four years.
What? You werenāt aware that global capitalism was fighting a War on Populism? Thatās OK, most other folks werenāt. It wasnāt officially announced or anything. It was launched in the summer of 2016, just as the War on Terror was ending, as a sequel to the War on Terror, or a variation on the War on Terror, or continuation of the War on Terror, or ā¦ whatever, it doesnāt really matter anymore, because now weāre fighting the War on Death, or the War on Minor Cold-like Symptoms, depending on your age and general state of health.
Thatās right, folks, once again, global capitalism (a/k/a āthe worldā) is under attack by an evil enemy. GloboCap just canāt catch a break. From the moment it defeated communism and became a global ideological hegemon, it has been one evil enemy after another.
No sooner had it celebrated winning the Cold War and started ruthlessly restructuring and privatizing everything than it was savagely attacked by āIslamic terrorists,ā and so was forced to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and kill and torture a lot of people, and destabilize the entire Middle East, and illegally surveil everybody, and ā¦ well, you remember the War on Terror.
Then, just as the War on Terror seemed to be finally winding down, and the only terrorists left were the āself-radicalizedā terrorists (many of whom werenāt even actual terrorists), and it looked like GloboCap was finally going to be able to finish privatizing and debt-enslaving everything and everyone in peace, wouldnāt you know it, we were attacked again, this time by the global conspiracy of Russian-backed, neo-fascist āpopulistsā that caused the Brexit and elected Trump, and tried to elect Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, and loosed the gilets jaunes on France, and whoāve been threatening the āfabric of Western democracyā with dissension-sowing Facebook memes.
Unfortunately, unlike the War on Terror, the War on Populism didnāt go that well. After four years of fighting, GloboCap (a/k/a the neoliberal Resistance) had ā¦ OK, they had snuffed both Corbyn and Sanders, but they had totally blown the Russiagate psyop, and so were looking at four more years of Trump, and Lord knows how many of Johnson in the U.K. (which had actually left the European Union), and the gilets jaunes werenāt going away, and, basically, āpopulismā was still on the rise (if not in reality, in hearts and minds).
Herd Mentality doesn't require being brave- logic tells you that just because everyone else (or a great many) are jumping off a cliff, doesn't mean it ain't gonna hurt when you hit- no matter how many bodies cushion your fall.
Brave is doing what you know to be right regardless of the consequences.
Brave New Normal
So the War on Populism is finally over. Go ahead, take a wild guess who won.
Iāll give you a hint. It wasnāt the Russians, or the white supremacists, or the gilets jaunes, or Jeremy Corbynās Nazi Death Cult, or the misogynist Bernie Bros, or the MAGA-hat terrorists, or any of the other real or fictional āpopulistā forces that global capitalism has been waging war on for the last four years.
What? You werenāt aware that global capitalism was fighting a War on Populism? Thatās OK, most other folks werenāt. It wasnāt officially announced or anything. It was launched in the summer of 2016, just as the War on Terror was ending, as a sequel to the War on Terror, or a variation on the War on Terror, or continuation of the War on Terror, or ā¦ whatever, it doesnāt really matter anymore, because now weāre fighting the War on Death, or the War on Minor Cold-like Symptoms, depending on your age and general state of health.
Thatās right, folks, once again, global capitalism (a/k/a āthe worldā) is under attack by an evil enemy. GloboCap just canāt catch a break. From the moment it defeated communism and became a global ideological hegemon, it has been one evil enemy after another.
No sooner had it celebrated winning the Cold War and started ruthlessly restructuring and privatizing everything than it was savagely attacked by āIslamic terrorists,ā and so was forced to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and kill and torture a lot of people, and destabilize the entire Middle East, and illegally surveil everybody, and ā¦ well, you remember the War on Terror.
Then, just as the War on Terror seemed to be finally winding down, and the only terrorists left were the āself-radicalizedā terrorists (many of whom werenāt even actual terrorists), and it looked like GloboCap was finally going to be able to finish privatizing and debt-enslaving everything and everyone in peace, wouldnāt you know it, we were attacked again, this time by the global conspiracy of Russian-backed, neo-fascist āpopulistsā that caused the Brexit and elected Trump, and tried to elect Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, and loosed the gilets jaunes on France, and whoāve been threatening the āfabric of Western democracyā with dissension-sowing Facebook memes.
Unfortunately, unlike the War on Terror, the War on Populism didnāt go that well. After four years of fighting, GloboCap (a/k/a the neoliberal Resistance) had ā¦ OK, they had snuffed both Corbyn and Sanders, but they had totally blown the Russiagate psyop, and so were looking at four more years of Trump, and Lord knows how many of Johnson in the U.K. (which had actually left the European Union), and the gilets jaunes werenāt going away, and, basically, āpopulismā was still on the rise (if not in reality, in hearts and minds).
