All the Eternity that Fits

What’s the lesson? If nothing else, an excuse to playgiarize with some Aphorisms, for example,

Defeats are never definitive when they are accepted with good humor.

Was Bob too taken in by the hysteria? Yes and no. Mainly I was looking forward to the humiliation of Brandon, but if the last three years have proved nothing else, it is that a Biden is incapable of humiliation or shame, let alone self-awareness, so that was a vain hope anyway. Nevertheless, 

He who wishes to avoid grotesque collapses should look for nothing in space or in time that will fulfill him.

Understood. 

Back to our humorous defeat. What’s funnier than a person who not only endorses Joe Biden, but who thinks he’s in charge of anything? Correct: Senator Fetterman. 

Here’s an evergrin: 

When things appear to us to be just what they seem, they soon seem to be even less.

The news is all appearances, if that (since it is just as often disappearance of the newsworthy and mis-appearance of the rest). 

The News is like invisible ink, vanishing to nothing moments after its dissemination. Which is why no one reads yesterday’s news, which truly isn’t even old, just nothing. Imagine devoting one's life to nothing? Nevertheless, journalists will always be with us. 

What is the opposite of “news," besides truth? No, not fake news, since that is the news. 

If I’m not mistaken, one of the original purposes of this blog was to consider day-to-day events in light of the Eternally True as opposed to the endlessly expedient; to the extent that it touched on politics, it would be for the purposes of illuminating permanent and universal principles.

Now, those things that make the transition from potential to actuality -- that undergo the formality of existence -- don’t come from nowhere, but rather, out of a nonlocal ocean -- or swamp, depending -- of human nature.

Therefore, every day is simultaneously new and a replay of an eternally recurrent archetypal reality. It’s not either/or: this now truly is new, and yet, older than time itself. At least if you pay attention.

Political blunders are repeated, because they are the expressions of human nature. Successes are not repeated, because they are the gift of history.

This was the whole point of Ulysses, which takes place over a 24 hour day while at the same time resonating with the archetypal adventures that occur in Homer’s Odyssey. Every human life is simultaneously a small budget film and a large scale epic.  

That’s a rabbit hole I’d rather not explore right now. Instead, consider this:

The bourgeoisie is made up of individuals who are dissatisfied with what they have and dissatisfied with who they are.

Turns out it is now also composed of people who are satisfied with what they have and even more satisfied with who they are, a phenomenon ably described by Ace of Spades (https://ace.mu.nu/archives/401793.php): 

the Democrat Party, being now the party of smug, comfortable affluent white professionals and civil servants... is now less of a political party than a Lifestyle Brand. By which I mean: they are affluent enough to not care as much about minor little things like gas costing six dollars a gallon…. Or even that their 401Ks have lost one third to 40% of their value.

…. the Democrat Party has little to pitch its smug, affluent white Karen core of extraordinarily mediocre careerists who think they’re genius world-beaters except constant validation and slurs against the proles -- narcissistic mediocrities of the sort that make up the Democrat Party need to be constantly assured that there are huge swathes of people who are inferior to them.

The Democrat Party exists nearly exclusively to invent Nazi-like dehumanization campaigns against half the country so that the intellectually insecure sub-mediocrities of the civil-service and mid-management mid-wits can feel they're Superior to someone.

These folks may not be much, but at least they are better than us!

Used to be that Socialism is the philosophy of the guilt of others. Now it’s the philosophy of the superiority of Karens and inferiority of anyone vaguely normal.

For example, in addition to the universal lure of child sacrifice, the other main psychological attraction of transgender delusiology is the opportunity to feel morally superior to those of us who recognize it for what it is. Leftism has devolved to an exclusive club that exists only to signal inclusion in the club. 

However, 

In every age, happily, there are an indefinite number of fools capable of the obvious.

Is this our lot? To be happy but vanquished fools? 

Big Yes to that, for

The truth is the happiness of the intelligence.

Moreover, 

It is the truth of an idea in which we must rejoice, not in its victory. Because no victory lasts.

Nor does the truth share the defeat of its defenders.

The only privilege equal to truth itself is the privilege of knowing, living, and serving it. Of course, the left never stops trying to marginalize, censor, and eliminate it, which is disgusting. But even then, 

God is the transcendental condition of our disgust.

Are you feeling a bit gypped, whipped, and clipped this morning? Well,

God sometimes prunes our branches like an impatient gardener.

Are our political masters absurdity incarnate? Yes, and

The opposite of the absurd is not the reasonable but the happy.

So, are we hopeless? Nah, it’s just that 

In history it is sensible to hope for miracles and absurd to trust in plans.

So, our hope is that the left will continue to trust its plan. For, one way or the other, what cannot go on will not go on, and 

Only spectacular collapses loosen up the brain of the progressive.