I am often filled with disgust towards this age I live in. These are dishonorable times.
In the past, there have been many conflicts and points of inflection that determined the course of humanity for better or for worse. But never in the race for humanity’s survival were there times as ignoble as ours.
The rich and powerful have always forged our destinies. But then, as opposed to now, they always had skin in the game. Not just a dog in the fight so to speak, but a lot of skin. When the actors of history, the principals, were not risking their life and limb themselves, it was their own children, adult or not, who were thrown into the fray.
Many of them paid the ultimate price for their follies. But when God approved of their designs, after sacrificing their peace and quiet, and losing kin and shedding their own blood in the process, theirs was the crown or duchy or treasure to take.
My point is that throughout history, our leaders, appointed or not by us or God, led from the front.
This is not the case today. And this is bad.
It’s quite ominous when your politicians do not engage in combat themselves with their political enemies, foreign or domestic. This bodes ill for the rest of us.
But why is that? Easy.
Because their not having skin in the game is the reason why they are so cavalier and liberal with ours.
In short, this is why in over three years of a very hot war in the Ukraine, not even one principal was in danger of being targeted, let alone injured or killed. God forbid something happened to the likes of Biden, Zelensky, Ursula, Putin, and the plethora of sycophants carrying the principals’ piss pots around.
This is also why over 2 million people died and some 15 million fled the war, enduring the ignominy of not being wanted anywhere, forever wandering the Earth.
Because nowadays wars are fought by morons alone.
The Big Kahunas sit the fight out and dive up the spoils when all is said and done.
This is also because somehow in the last 250 years we bought hook, line, and sinker, the lie that republican representative democracies are the way of the future.
Would you tell me, what in the name of God, did the French Revolution bring us instead of more war, more division, more economic instability, more speculation, more thievery and political fuckery at every level, municipal, provincial, national? What else?
I mean Republicanism was supposed, was heralded even as the bringer of fresh blood at the helm and was dubbed the great equalizer. They said the bourgeoisie could do a much better job at running the countries all over the globe. 250 years later, the jury is still out looking for signs of real political progress.
Are we more free now than before? Many will say yes. But is it objectively true?
I mean Big Brother is everywhere. The Government not only knows the contents of your guts. They are the ones to decide what you ingest down to the feed that goes into the livestock you will end up consuming. Nothing is left to chance. The water is controlled by the state. Of course, for your own good and health. But is it truly done to enhance your life? Are we getting healthier? Or are we getting a steady dose of vaccines, drugs both medical and recreational, chemicals, enzymes, vitamins, and all that jazz? And all of this is supposed to make us live longer, healthier, better lives than our ancestors.
I guess the joke is on all of us who sleep much worse, because work is also tightly controlled, as in the whole workforce being micromanaged all the time, to the point where when you finally return home after a pointless 8-hr shift, you crash. You do that because you are depleted and need to restore for another 4 shifts. And why 8 hours per day? When with the advances in work productivity across the board, everywhere in the world, we could get back home for lunch and call it a day? Why?
Easy. Because even though the government knows bloody well that people are productive for 3 to 4 hours per day tops, they need the workforce to be subdued and exhausted after 8 hours in the office, 2 hours commuting, 1 hr shopping for essentials. After spending close to half a day engaged in gainful employment, there is simply no time left to think about the human condition, about who benefits from all this, when all you have to do is go go go.
So, in essence, the Revolution came to free us from the King’s absolute power that was rarely felt down to the last corner of the farthermost hamlet in the land, to replace it with the Rule of Law, that makes itself felt not only outside in society, but also inside the schools, the workplaces, your home, effectively replacing your privacy (what privacy?).
But this Rule of Law never hinders the functioning of the Government. Did you notice that?
Prosecutors have discretionary powers. Meaning if they want to, they don’t have to lay charges. Or they can, even when the Law says otherwise. That’s right out of the textbook used by absolute Monarchies, eh.
So, what the flying fuck did we really replace our Kings with?
I guess Mel fucking Gibson was fucking right, wasn’t he:
With the advent of the modern era, we got rid of our Kings and replaced them with the local cave-dwellers and yeomen, and rustics, who quickly learned to use the power vested in them by the people against them.
This is why today, jokesters like Macron, or Zelensky, or Nicusor Dan (aka Mucusor Mr. Booger), are lording it over their peoples like there was no tomorrow. So, I guess the joke is on us, not them.
This is, in a nutshell, why I believe the French Revolution destroyed the link between the Nation and its Leadership. Because elected leaders are morons. Yes, some kings and potentates can be mentally handicapped pieces of bovis stercus. But democratically elected politicians are guaranteed to be pieces of merde thieves, because they started so low they do not have anywhere to fail but up.
But their failure destroys the lives of all of us. Whereas when Kings failed, other nobles, the people even, would rise and make things right. Because power abhors a vacuum, and weak royals have a substantially short lifespan. Whereas democratic leaders will always find a way to retain power long after their mandates came to an end.
Just ask Charles I of England how real the risk is at the top and then look at the local crop of politicians, who run zero risks clinging to power long past their expiration date. Because why? The answer is obviously and painstakingly simple. Because of us, folks. Representative democracy validates these pieces de hijos de puta madre as if the people were God Almighty.
And before you cry sacrilege, think about it. Just think about it. For some time in the last 250 years we decided to replace God as the supreme principle that chose our Kings and Queens, with universal suffrage.
And in the process, we created little monster shits who assume more power than the greatest emperor ever amassed or dreamed to wield.
Instead of opening the floor to anyone, we created an electoral system based on the most deceitful, conniving, dubious, corrupt practices and lack of character. In short, we got rid of evil monarchs to be instead ruled by one, ten, a thousand or ten thousand maniacs and sociopaths who now have or seem to operate under the premise that they have the will of the people on their side.
But tell me one thing, people, just one thing.
Do you like war? Like the war in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and many other places you may or may not have heard about. Because if you do, you should volunteer to fight in any of them wars. But I don’t think you care for war. And yet, wars are waged, people die, and politicians milk us dry, killing lots of people in the process, and all of this happens with our consent.
Or at least all this happens despite our muted disapproval. Tell you what: there is a lot of sense in that old saying,
Silence is golden but a brave only dies once while a coward dies a thousand times.
It is our cowardice that validates our politicians’ destroying our children’s future.
To my mind, the only good thing that came out of the French Revolution was this, and none other.
Conclusion
This was not a tirade pro-Monarchy. This was an indictment of the state of affairs that condemns us to suffer the ubiquitous iniquities of living in representative democracies that have nothing in common with the meaning of the word demo-cracy (power of the people). Instead, they have everything in common less the figurehead of the Absolute King or Queen, with the nefarious regimes they pretend to have replaced for the better, yet they emulate so well.
We spend our lives in our individual rat races minding our business, thinking, nay, hoping to escape life unfucked, yet knowing that the more we obey the dictates of the powerful, the more our children are likely to have to take up arms and feed the tree of liberty with their blood, in order to get the freedom every human being deserves from the cradle to the grave.
Götterdämmerung 