Putting the Common Man in His Place: Part 1
Tyrants around the world, including within our own governments, are preparing to end the reign of the common man
World War 3 is about dethroning the common man
The conflict is between those who believe human beings are both objectively and equally valuable and those who do not
COVID exposed the degree to which Western nations have abandoned Western Civilization
War is inevitable because our current societal tensions will soon reach a breaking point
This is the first installment in a series discussing the fundamental issue bringing us to the point of world war.
There’s a lot of talk about the imminent outbreak of World War 3. That’s not surprising given that world wars do tend to get people’s attention, but it’s worth asking why such a war is imminent in the first place.
Let’s start by addressing the obvious: it has nothing to do with Ukraine. A regional conflict between dueling Vladimirs is no reason for the world’s major powers to become embroiled in deadly conflict1 (not that there isn’t precedent).
Nor is it about Taiwan, although the loss of life and freedom the Taiwanese would experience under communist rule does come much closer to the mark.
The force propelling us to war is the desire to end the reign of the common man, which is the political ethos of Western Civilization. The battle lines in this conflict are drawn by two questions:
Are human beings objectively valuable?
Are human beings equally valuable?
On one side are those who answer “yes” to both questions, and on the other those who answer “no” to either.
It’s obvious that communist nations like China and North Korea are firmly in the “no” camp, and that it’s their intention to make the entire world into one giant “no” camp; but the line separating “yes” and “no” does not always follow national borders. In Western nations especially, it penetrates every institution, winding its way through governments, businesses, communities, neighborhoods, friendships, and families. This division has been a staple of humanity for nearly all of recorded history, but the fact that it had so deeply permeated Western nations became undeniable with the advent of the COVID era.
With the onset of COVID hysteria, denials of human value became both routine and fashionable. Pharma marketed a disease as a cure, and celebrities shilled for it; the World Economic Forum (effectively a club for treasonous politicians) openly admitted its plan for global serfdom; doctors and hospital staff, sworn to do no harm, regularly inflicted physical and psychological harm on both patients and their families; politicians seized power to which they had no legal right; police assaulted non-violent citizens over unreasonable COVID measures; employers fired workers for not taking an experimental and untested injection; social media companies illegally censored citizens at the request of government; and they all did it with impunity.
Arguably the worst of it, though, was the unmistakable echo of Nazi Germany. Unvaccinated people suddenly found themselves the untouchables in a pseudo-scientific caste system; at first treated as if they were diseased, and finally as if they were disease itself. Many of their fellow citizens took to talk shows and social media to express the desire to see them denied medical care, herded into concentration camps2, and/or executed3.
It has since become abundantly clear that while a small segment of the world still believes in the objective, equal value of human life, the other, larger segment does not. These competing views cannot be reconciled because they have nothing in common; there is no shared point on which they both agree and to which we can therefore appeal for a peaceful resolution.
This division cannot go on indefinitely. No society can long endure the tension between claims of inherent value and inherent worthlessness. The strain will inevitably reach a breaking point, as it did leading up to the (first) American Civil War; and it will do so again very soon for essentially the same reasons.
In Part 2, I’ll discuss the belief that everyone is inherently and equally valuable, as well as what that means for both individuals and society.
As an aside, I suspect the fighting in Ukraine is being deliberately escalated to provide those desiring a world war with the excuse to start one.
At the height of pandemic hysteria, social media (particularly Twitter) was replete with calls for unvaccinated people to be executed. Many of these tweets and videos have since been deleted, but there are still plenty to find if you go looking.