{"id":763,"date":"2024-05-20T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/will-a-perfect-storm-soon-be-upon-us\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:43:43","slug":"will-a-perfect-storm-soon-be-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/will-a-perfect-storm-soon-be-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a Perfect Storm Soon be upon us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Flood thinks so.  Here is how his piece<\/a> begins:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The dictionary<\/a> defines a perfect storm as an \u201cunusual combination of events or things that produce an unusually bad or powerful result.\u201d The latter, as I see it, is life as we\u2019ve become accustomed to enjoying it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four years ago<\/a>, I stated my grounds . . . . <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And now Flood adds to the list:<\/span><\/p>\n

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My list didn\u2019t give sufficient attention to the open southern border of the United States, which is being invaded daily in great numbers, or the explosion of urban crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was not thinking of the resurrection of Nazi-level, genocidalist  antisemitism within the walls of the institutions tasked with handing on civilization\u2019s treasures.<\/span><\/p>\n

I inexcusably paid no attention at all to the moral depravity that acquiesces in (if not celebrates) infanticide and the gender confusion that spits on the revelation of God (Genesis 1:27, 5:2; Matthew 19:4-6) Whom the \u201cperfect stormtroopers\u201d hate because they love death (Proverbs 8:36). Structural instabilities have followed the culture of death as the night the day. (I\u2019ll let others decide if the charge of post hoc, ergo propter hoc<\/em> is relevant.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The world-historical figure who may win the general election in 168 days (to which victory I will contribute) may slow the rate of decline and postpone some of its consequences, but he can\u2019t reverse it.<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 6, 2024, no perfect stormtrooper will say, \u201cWell, you beat us fair and square! Better luck next time!\u201d<\/em> No, they\u2019re prepared to \u201caccept\u201d such an electoral result the way the PLO famously \u201caccepted\u201d<\/a> the state of Israel, that is, an enemy to be destroyed and whose people are to be exterminated. Their plans to destroy Western Civ in general and its American outpost in particular will be pursued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Napoleon, Trump may <\/em>reshape the trajectory of a post-revolutionary era and bevel a few of its sharp edges. In the offing, however, I see no counterrevolution worthy of the name. As I wrote in the cited post<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Call me a secular pessimist (although I\u2019m an eschatological optimist), but I see no liberation in this dispensation, libertarian or otherwise, from those scourges. God will stop the wicked in their tracks:<\/span><\/p>\n

So shall they [God\u2019s enemies] fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him (Isaiah 59:19).<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019ll<\/em> lift it. God\u2019s promised government is a future intervention that God, not man, will inaugurate; its blessings will be manifest to all, and delivered directly. \u201cThy Kingdom come\u201d (Matthew 6:10).<\/span><\/p>\n

Think you can cheer me up in the short run? Have at it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anthony Flood thinks so.  Here is how his piece begins: The dictionary defines a perfect storm as an \u201cunusual combination of events or things that produce an unusually bad or powerful result.\u201d The latter, as I see it, is life as we\u2019ve become accustomed to enjoying it. Four years ago, I stated my grounds . . . … Continue reading “Will a Perfect Storm Soon be upon us?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,180,29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civilization-and-its-discontents","category-decline-of-the-west","category-political-ponerology","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}