Unequal Pigs

And the long-suffering citizens, from South America to Europe, rising up against them...

(Politicians pose at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos…)

“Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.”
(The more things change, the more they stay the same.)

~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)

Joel Bowman, with today’s Note From the End of the World...

It’s a rainy ol’ day in Argentina’s capital city. The parks and plazas are empty. The sky overhead broods in somber, slate gray. In corner cafés, the local porteños huddle over their cortados and paperbacks, blissfully unaware that “nobody reads books anymore.”

Meanwhile, peering out from our damp outpost down here at the fin del mundo, we notice great change afoot. In Americas North and South, across the European continent, in Australia, New Zealand and all over the western world, there appears to be quite an awakening underway.

Fed up with self-serving politicos, the rotten ilk to which Argentina’s president refers to as the ‘political caste,’ honest, hard working people are finally pushing back against their would-be overlords.  

As one dear reader put it recently: “Our snout-to-farmer ratio is simply too high!”

Of course, porcine actors are loath to surrender their wealth and power. And why would they? To their way of thinking, such as it is, they stole it fair and square! 

Never mind all that “We the people” nonsense. In the vacuous noggins of the world improver class, power is the only currency that counts. That they should employ violence to achieve their stated aims should come as no surprise to peaceful, private citizens. As their hero, Chairman Mao, famously observed:

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

So do the globalists... World Economic Forum parasitoids... do-gooders and petty meddlers... war profiteers and their lackeys in the media... Big Tech censors and Big Pharma paymasters... justify their horrendous actions.

At the core of their philosophy, each and every one of them believes, as did the pigs in Orwell’s classic, Animal Farm: 

“All animals are created equal... but some animals are more equal than others.”

Ordinarily, most decent people are content to steer clear of the rancid swamp that is politics. They prefer dry socks to muddy puddles... cooperation to coercion... peace and prosperity to warmongering and bloodshed. 

But pushed to the brink, honest folks will defend kith and kin. They’ll stand by their property. They’ll fight. 

Global Revolution

In Europe, it took the so-called ‘Green Lobby,’ a secular cult of environmental catastrophizers hell bent of ‘saving the planet’ by de-industrializing the continent and sending its good citizens back to the Dark Ages, before farmers from Germany to France, Holland to Belgium, Greece to Czech Republic, Italy to Poland and more, finally said (in their various mother tongues) “enough is enough!”

And yet, to get the story from the crumbling pillars of the disgraced Fourth Estate, salt of the earth farmers are not downtrodden citizens raging against the political machine...but Russia’s useful idiots and good for nothing sh!t-sprayers:

Brussels: Farmers protest leaves streets in chaos – cried the BBC

Europe’s farmer protests have been fertile ground for Russian propaganda - moaned Politico

And our personal favorite, from the bedwetter brigade over at the Associated Press...

“Protesting farmers spray Brussels police with liquid manure near EU’s base in a new display of power”

Over in El Salvador, meanwhile, it took the country reaching the highest murder rate in the world before the people declared “¡Basta ya, no mas!” 

Now the good folk of that beleaguered Central American country have exercised their democratic right and elected (with ~85% of the vote!) their own leader. Of course, the mainstream presstitues were at the ready with all the lazy slurs and hoary epithets their chia seed brains could muster:

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's would-be dictator, re-elected president - from WSWS

Authoritarian drift in El Salvador - fretted El Pais

Nayib Bukele has all the right enemies, including Ilhan Omar - declared the #brave Washington Examiner

Here in Argentina, it took 75-years of creeping Marxism, oozing out of the nation’s polluted academies and into her political institutions, for the long-suffering people to elect a leader who promised to take a chainsaw to the putrefying administrative state. “¡Afuera!” 

A Timeless Battle

We’ve been following what we’re calling, with modest understatement, “The Greatest Political Experiment of Our Time.” And we’re delighted to see the message spreading...to witness a rising challenge to “The Message”... to hear and to read, on the streets and online, a growing chorus of upright individuals revolting against their self-described “elites”...

Slowly but surely, and despite the best efforts of the aforementioned Propaganda Ministry, the wheel is turning...

But as always, there’s more to the story here... much more. What we’re witnessing around the world, from Tierra del Fuego to Toronto, San Salvador to Stockholm, Athens to Antwerp, is symptomatic of a far more profound phenomenon...

At its heart lies the age-old tension between liberty and tyranny, violence and voluntarism, collectivist claims and individual rights. 

The balance between these competing concepts is, of course, as old as mankind itself. Down through the ages, from the ancient pre-Socratics to the medieval scholastics to the bulging craniums of the Age of Enlightenment, leading thinkers of the day sought to weigh each side, to examine the merits of force versus the benefit of self-determination, to measure “essential liberty” against “the purchase of temporary safety,” as Benjamin Franklin once had it. 

The battleground of Man vs. State is thus not a new one...though the political sands are beginning to shift once again in the western world. 

Until recently, the huddled masses have looked to revolution for their emancipation, an action which, by definition, only begins the cycle anew. But might those who wish to see liberty in their lifetimes discover a new arrow in their quiver, one that could shift the paradigm entirely?

Stay tuned for more Notes From the End of the World...

Cheers,

Joel Bowman

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