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Darkness Falls
The collapse of the rule of law across the country, intensified by Antifa radicals, is terrifying.
The collapse of the rule of law across the country, intensified by Antifa radicals, is terrifying.
Darkness Falls
Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state. Welcome to a real civilization-destroying pandemic, one that makes the recent saccharine...
www.city-journal.org
Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state. Welcome to a real civilization-destroying pandemic, one that makes the recent saccharine exhortations to “stay safe” and the deployment of police officers to enforce outdoor mask-wearing seem like decadent bagatelles.
This particular form of viral chaos was inevitable, given the failure of Minneapolis’s leaders to quell the city’s growing mayhem. The violence began on Tuesday, May 26, the day after the horrifying arrest and subsequent death of George Floyd. On the night of Thursday, May 28, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey ordered the city’s Third Police Precinct evacuated as the forces of hatred, distinct from legitimate forms of protest, descended upon it for a third day in a row. The building was promptly torched, sending a powerful sign that society would not defend its most fundamental institutions of law and order.
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The media, visibly exhilarated by this latest explosion of black rage, had its own explanation for the chaos: people were outraged that the officer who had kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for a sickening eight-plus minutes had not yet been arrested and charged. But when that arrest came, along with murder and manslaughter charges after a lightning-fast investigation by the district attorney, the anarchy continued—not just in Minneapolis but across the country, intensfied by Antifa radicals.
Political leaders elsewhere have been just as reluctant to use the necessary force to quell the violence. New York mayor Bill de Blasio called on police to use a “light touch” in response. New York governor Andrew Cuomo coolly predicted on Sunday, May 31, during his now absurdly irrelevant daily coronavirus press conference, that the violence would continue. “The explosion we saw last night we’ll probably see again tonight,” he said—obviously confident in his own physical safety, if not the safety of the rest of the state’s residents.
The attacks on local law enforcement were already happening out of sight of TV cameras before the most photogenic scenes of arson and the stomping of squad cars started showing up on network and cable news.
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The great philosophers and poets of the West—from Aeschylus and Euripides, to Shakespeare, Hobbes, and the American Founders—understood the chaos and lust for power that lurk beneath civilization. Thanks to the magnificent infrastructure of the rule of law, we now take stability and social trust for granted. We assume that violence, once unleashed in the name of justice, can easily be put back in the bottle.
It cannot.
It was a signal accomplishment of both politics and science to banish humanity’s millennia-long fear of darkness. That city dwellers are now reexperiencing that fear with each fall of night is a measure of how rapidly we are losing our hard-won progress.
Comment:
What happens when half a country strongly supports a press or an educational system whose interest isn’t the truth? What happens is that the country becomes too severely fragmented to function as a country and no longer exists as a country since the inner structure, the commonality, cohesion and trust, the life force of a society, has died. The outer structure that people see then is just the shell of a country that once existed. Like a once beautiful tree that has died leaving only the outer shell standing till a storm knocks it down and scatters the remains.
When can we expect such a terrible storm? Probably November when an attempt is made to have a presidential election for a country that no longer exists as a country. Many are already quite aware of this. The closer we get the more widespread this awareness will be. This does not bode well for our future.
What is far more disturbing is the traitorous betrayal by Democrat governors and mayors who are willingly giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionist enemies of the United States by allowing them to pillage, burn, riot, rob, beat, murder, and attack the lives and property of U.S. citizens. It almost seems as though Democrat governors and mayors are using these riots to punish the citizenry for not embracing Leftist ideology.
Such governors and mayors belong in jails awaiting capital charges for their crimes.
Unfortunately, the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Leftists use of rent-a-riot phenomenon is only going to get progressively worse unless Americans put a stop to it.
