At about one hour 17 minutes in Episode 97 of Caribbean Rhythms BAP says (I paraphrase because I don’t want to transcribe.) the new hot thing on the right is to abandon the fight and move to the countryside. They believe that having a big family is a political act, not knowing the establishment will abandon democracy if need be. (That’s already happened – The Author) You go and live like Amish, grow carrot, and become serfs.
Yes. That sounds great. The main place were BAP, who I admire, is wrong in this little aside of his is that he ignores that we are already peons. I want serfdom. I want harmony.
With the help of my good friend Thad, I have come to believe that the message of Plato’s Republic is that justice is HARMONY. We now conflate retribution and attempts to restore harmony as justice. No. Once the court has to be used, once the force comes down, once the noose has to be tied, justice has been lost.
Justice is harmony. I seek harmony.
I’m under no misconception that meming or really anything others are doing is effective political action. Your opponents don’t actually care about your cartoons. Running for office doesn’t work. The only thing that might work short of becoming a warlord, which is not harmonious, is to build. To go deeply into family, faith, and work. From this a new culture will rise and bring about a new people and a new nation.
IF you were to become a warlord and gain control of some sort of territory, how would you govern it without it being occupied by your people, your nation? The answer is you can’t long term. Ask the Khans. You must build. That starts at home
I won’t live to see it. Neither will you. That’s OK because we don’t seek consolation from all this people stuff, all this secular stuff. It’s ok to not see this political process as something you want to participate in.
Just be a serf. Grow carrots.
