“He threatened / disrespected / slighted our president / our country.”
The entire world is subsumed in hysteria over manufactured threats and affronts. People know that something is wrong but have no idea how to verbalize their anxiety. The nation-state is dying, and they are hoping to resuscitate it with these tantrums. Wail it back into existence. They purse their lips in patriotic resolve long after there’s last been an entity in need of patriotic attachment.
“He threatened to invade, he should have worn a suit, he didn’t say thank you, he said thank you 33 times, he did, no, he did, no, he did.”
The playground-level poutiness of this bickering shows that the nation-state is dead. We are arguing over how to decorate its corpse to make it look less putrid.
Back during COVID, we had raging debates on campus over who was at risk, what measures worked, and so on. While we raged and ranted, faceless, mediocre bureaucrats moved into our buildings, committees and responsibilities. They said, “stay home, save lives” but came to work in person every day and stayed late, putting together a structure that made us irrelevant. Now they have move in to take our Epstein arrests jobs away.
These bureaucrats go to actual seminars where they are trained how not to be emotionally incontinent. The only boundaries that exist any longer are the ones you erect and police yourself. They encourage us to rage and emote while they turn themselves into tightly guarded fortresses and they beat us every time, in every contest. They appeal to our emotions masterfully but never engage their own.
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