Living In The American Cuckoo's Nest
Dangerous and Mentally Challenged Inmates Are Running The American Asylum
“Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
There is now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, no hope for anything resembling sanity or normality in America going forward.
Once you face that reality, it’s at once both terrifying, and a great relief. Because in that relief, you can at least attempt to construct a plan to navigate the chaos.
I never thought I would begin this journey in writing by documenting the rapidly accelerating, unnerving collapse of the American Empire, and the imminent possibility of global extinction, which was just a few short months ago. Things at that time seemed uncertain but salvageable.
I think we’ve passed the point of no return now.
When I was recently scrolling Twitter, which seems to be the only way to get a true anecdotal perspective on how things are going for the average person, I came across an interesting Tweet with a phrase that has stuck in my head for many days.
“Multiple Overlapping Crises”
I think of that phrase as a visual, where a set of powerful ocean waves comes crashing onto the shore, with each successive wave engulfing the wash of the other, leaving the hiss of foam and eroding beach behind in its wake.
It seems that multiple “waves” of crises are pounding the “shore” of our day-to-day life and simply leaving us reeling. We can no sooner address one problem, than another one arises, engulfing our attention and ability to react to the previous one. We may have not seen this level of societal crisis in decades. It could be historically unprecedented in modern times.
If we had leadership in this country that had the intellectual capacity and vigor of youth to try to propose long-term, intelligent solutions, combined with moral intent, there might be hope.
What we have, instead, is a two-party oligarchy pretending to be at odds with each other while serving their true masters: The Military-Industrial Complex, and banking and corporate interests. While they thrive, we continue to suffer in our desperation. Their warped psychology is that long-term mass death is not only inevitable but of no consequence. I think of grim-faced military commanders or governmental representatives from the CDC in press conferences, talking casually about a war that could last for years. Telling us calmly that we just must learn to live with the threat of COVID, the consequences of Long COVID, and further mutations. Doing nothing but telling us we need to manage our stress more effectively. They accept mass death and sweep it under the rug because we have the “tools” to deal with it. It’s arrogant and psychologically deviant behavior.
Biden as a “leader”, for example, offers us War, continued inaction on COVID spread, complete inaction on Climate Change, impossibly high and increasing housing costs, high fuel costs, and promised shortages of food and fuel as certainties. There wasn’t and isn’t, a shred of empathy, compassion, or psychological stability in his delivery. All due of course to the necessity of economic sanctions. Does Biden really believe that Americans and western society are all in for the consequences of global hegemony like they were passively watching and cheering a Sports event?
What sane person would acquiesce to a “moral imperative” that might possibly include the entire continent of Europe, Canada, and the US, freezing, suffering, and starving for the “goal” of maintaining sanctions against Russia by Biden and NATO? Yet, Biden seemed to think this is a perfectly reasonable statement to make. It’s the consequence of the great economic reset. The “switch” that Biden and Congress effortlessly “clicked” to allow Ukraine access to money and weapons seemed a lot easier to click than one that might stop the coming domestic and global economic calamity.
To be fair, American “leadership” is floundering around on all sides, but particularly, the party in power. They offer platitudes and promises but have zero inertia for action. Their moral compass is skewed, and the unspoken contract of looking out for the public good is irrevocably broken, and will likely never be salvaged. Trust is non-existent. They want to pretend it’s a “perception problem” with the electorate, that we aren’t getting all the “correct” information, so they continue to gaslight and bomb people with campaign donation requests. As if the next round of voting will solve all these complex issues, when clearly, things are rapidly slipping out of control.
The entire Ukrainian war narrative as espoused by the US and NATO is a cover-up for criminal grifting at an international level. It’s all about the movement of money to the MIC and NATO. It’s what arguably provoked the invasion in the first place: NATO expansionism. That doesn’t justify Putin’s actions but it does help explain them, despite the Western narrative that the invasion was based on unhinged, pure evil.
Without blinking, with no debate, during a time of arguably the greatest social need in the last 40 years, Biden and the US Congress have purposely transferred over 40 billion dollars of national treasure to the MIC donor class. As it turns out, despite all the posturing that transferring weapons was as much a moral imperative as a practical one, the “new” weapons were never meant to go to Ukraine. Older “mothballed” weapons, literally in storage since the 1980s, some completely nonfunctional, were sent, with new weapons replacing those stockpiles. It’s completely cynical, like a Ponzi scheme started by a criminal grifter, but it doesn’t matter. It’s the Ukrainians who will be doing the fighting and dying, not Americans. This is clearly a proxy war bringing Russia to its knees as an intended goal. Without sacrificing American lives the MIC and defense contractors get a “win-win” scenario.
The narratives change by the hour. One minute, we hear that Biden will hold firm against giving Zelensky long-range missiles, that this could be a dangerous mistake, should a desperate, pinned-in Ukrainian military unit decide to fire across the Russian border. That would certainly trigger a major dangerous escalation of the conflict.
The next day we hear long-range missiles will be provided. No rhyme or reason. It’s never clear who is advising Biden, or why caution is suddenly thrown to the wind. The Pentagon assures the public that the missiles, at a cost of an additional 700 million dollars, won’t broach Russian territory. Biden’s PR team then just robotically pivots to emphasizing “good news” based on false premises like deficit reduction and having the “tools” to deal with COVID and possible Monkeypox, until the next major shooting, variant surge, or drop in the economy. It would be laughable if it wasn’t completely tragic.
The corporate media, besides being compliant stenographers for Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin also won’t reveal another aspect of mounting danger: American Neo Nazis recruited to fight in Ukraine with the knowledge of the Biden administration and the DHS, returning to American soil. This excellent article from Alexander Rubenstein of the Grayzone documents this little-known atrocity. To quote Rubenstein:
“The FBI has indicted several American white nationalists associated with the Rise Above Movement after they trained with the neo-Nazi Azov Battaliion and its civilian wing, the National Corps, in Kiev. But that was almost four years ago. Today, federal law enforcement has no idea how many US neo-Nazis are participating in the war in Ukraine, or what they are doing there.
But one thing is for certain: the Biden administration is allowing the Ukrainian government to recruit Americans – including violent extremists – at its embassy in Washington DC and at consulates across the country. As this report will show, at least one notorious extremist fighting in Ukraine has received extensive promotion from mainstream media, while another who is currently wanted for violent crimes committed in the US was mysteriously able to evade FBI investigators looking into war crimes he previously committed in Eastern Ukraine.”
Donald Trump may have been a ludicrous political figure, stumbling aimlessly and incompetently around official Washington, and arguably out of his depth as a leader. There was certainly no moral compass steering his ship. In hindsight, considering the past decades of the lowest standards Presidents could set, (and I’m thinking of both Bush’s wars, and Obama’s drone bombings and broken social contracts) Trump was not the aberration people think he was. It was more of a logical devolutionary spiral of leadership quality and moral character. American voters, given two poor choices every four years, really had, and continue to have, no good alternative.
Joe Biden was plucked from the lowest ranks of the Democratic primary, and Obama cleared the path for his victory by eliminating his competitors.
Biden, like other octagenarian politicians who continue to serve and run for office way past their prime, is confused, unfocused, and contradictory, pushed around from one staged event to the next, squinting and whispering and wheezing out the messages his handlers give him to say. Even a younger, mentally sharper politician in his position would be challenged by the waves of overlapping crises.
When Biden recently attended the memorial services for the teachers and children who were killed in Uvalde, Texas, mere DAYS after another tragic mass shooting in Buffalo, he walked stiffly and slowly past a crowd of citizens clearly desperate, shouting, for him to “do something”. The irony of seeing him walk in the Texas heat to the memorial site, fully protected by an armored vehicle behind bullet-proof glass, and surrounded by armed guards from the US Secret Service couldn’t have been more potent. The Biden communication team wasted no time in tweeting that Biden would, presumably in his own words, turn their “pain” into “action”.
Just as he broke with the promise, or stated intent, to not put long-range rockets in the hands of Ukrainian fighting battalions, a contradictory statement was issued by Biden on acting on gun control. The previous promise of turning pain into “action” was null and void.
America is mired in gun violence, but the only people that can do something about it are owned by the NRA and waffling around. The pain and suffering of the citizenry don’t matter, whether fighting Long Covid, economic malaise or being abandoned in basic safety while pursuing the activities of their day-to-day lives.
It’s sad to think of Americans as simply being inmates in an asylum who don’t really have any control over the psychological abuse inflicted on them, disguised as “treatment”, but I can’t think of a more charitable description.
We don’t have sane people with a healthy psychological dynamic based on good intent leading us any longer.
Update (06/03/22) Just hours after I posted that: “The entire Ukrainian war narrative as espoused by the US and NATO is a cover-up for criminal grifting at an international level.”, this article, written by Kim Willsher from The Guardian was posted. No less an authority than the head of Interpol warns: “Weapons sent to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February will end up in the global hidden economy and in the hands of criminals, the head of Interpol has said.
Jürgen Stock says once the conflict ends, a wave of guns and heavy arms will flood the international market and he urged Interpol’s member states, especially those supplying weapons, to cooperate on arms tracing.
“Once the guns fall silent [in Ukraine], the illegal weapons will come. We know this from many other theatres of conflict. The criminals are even now, as we speak, focusing on them,” Stock said.”