The One Is Indivisible
The Truth Is The Whole
Advocate against personal and national sovereign freedom and
The dialectics of reality throw you into dramatic irony you find
Unbearably bitter and some find deliciously despicable.
In that double bind, you have no exit save detachment of ambitions.
Thus stand China today . . . and her sycophants.
Had this pandemic not originated by Chinese, its effect can be achieved — and may be doing — by Arab and African invaders of health-conscious — aka Christian and Hindu — nations. Indeed, it is likely recent African and Iranian (although Iranians are only partly Arab) travelers to health-conscious nations, due to infection acquired from Chinese travelers in their home countries, helped bring this Chinese pandemic hither.
Communications encompass everything communicable.
Neither Arab/Pan-African nor Chinese Imperialists esteem this world for its divine source and being. At best they take the world for what they can extract from it. But commonly, Arabs, Pan-Africans and Chinese take this world as merely an impediment to their ambitions, which are hegemonic and non-humane. Thus, hygienically these are pestilence packs prone to promoting pandemics. History confirms.
Overall, Black Americans are exceptions to this Afro-Arab disease vector phenomenon. Black Americans tend to value personal hygiene. Christianity has improved their bearing and strength much as it has those qualities in other races. The reason for this is the high view of man embedded in Christian Logos Theology, which roots the seminal Christian Creeds and which Black Americans inherit from their forebears, Black and European.
Their presentation as pestilence-promoting packs of dis-ease shows Arab/Pan-African and Chinese Imperialists too stupid to achieve global hegemony, their desired end-state. Politics is downstream from culture. Arab/Pan-African and Chinese politics are terrible because Afro-Arabs and Chinese cultures are terrible. No political remedies exist for distressed cultural conditions, but religious ones do: Christian faith or Hindu faith. Religion is upstream from culture.
No doubt, within twenty four hours of its appearance outside a bio-chem weapons factory in central China, every intelligence agency in the world knew the five Ws+H (What, Where, When, Why, Who, How) regarding this pandemic. No doubt, also, some of those agencies, or some minions therein, welcomed the pandemic’s culling and distracting effects on their own countrymen. That said, both travails and treasures attending the pandemic are to be expected. Some of the latter are already arrived:
Ecclesial Practice
Some Roman Catholic prelates have ordered cessation of the mass, at least on weekdays. Some have ordered cessation of the Common Cup and standing containers of Holy Water. Thus we return at last to pre-Vatican II practice!
During plague years in Europe, some church builders placed an altar into a sanctuary’s external wall so priests and congregants could avoid the pestilence-concentrating effect of the sanctuary’s interior. Absent Lister’s knowledge of microbiology, Christians yet had knowledge of air quality. In that regard, the navies and merchant mariners of Europe were especially helpful: they had to keep their crews healthy in close quarters and were compelled therefore to observe, discover, and practice hygiene.
Be it noted that Soviet Army AARs concerning their years in Afghanistan — a remarkably frank document set — blamed their forces’ exit from that country on poor camp hygiene, not enemy action. Far more boys came home dead or crippled from sickness than did from battle wounds. Soviet mothers, the AARs state, put an end to the slaughter, not Soviet political leadership, much less Afghan mothers and their sons.
How soon before the insanity of so-called liberation theology succumbs to the maturity of pre-Vatican II Logos Theology?
Yay!
System of Education
The pandemic has motivated schools and school districts — plus businesses, GOs and NGOs — effectively to command their minions to work online from home. Our family foresaw this and ramped up practice for it starting in the late 1980s and continuing. We also effectively lobbied our state’s Superintendent of Public Education to clear districts to set up online ed starting in the early 90s.
Our state, at this writing, is our nation’s state most compromised by this pandemic, and thus, it schools and districts are in lead calling for students to continue their studies online. Online has been an option for districts since the mid-1990s. State approval of the opportunity was initiated by homeschoolers. Now online education presents as a necessity. Our family’s Homeschooling Homepage — the WWW’s first such, dating to 1994 — includes a large listing of resources for inquiry by young and mature students.
This thing has potential to force massive activity, education and otherwise, online over the long term. A Who’s Who of tech companies on the west coast — all three states already massively colonized and owned by Chinese — already moves thusly.
Again, communications encompass everything communicable.
Glenn Reynolds Prediction: Universities, etc. will close, but about two weeks later than would do the most good. After a couple of months, we’ll reach a point at which there will be a pivot, and we’ll just go on like it was a flu outbreak. This won’t so much be because there’s no problem, as because we can’t keep things closed any longer. With luck, what closings, etc. we’ve had will push the main outbreak into the warm months, when it will — probably — not be as bad. Long-term, there will be a boost for online education and telecommuting, not so much out of fear of future outbreaks as because people will get used to it and see the benefits.
Sean M. Brooks: Will the Coronavirus Revolutionize Education?
Glenn Reynolds: Richard Fernandez Is A Global Treasure
Bryan Preston: Coronapocalypse Now: Tools for the Teleworker
J. D. Tuccille: School Canceled Because of Coronavirus? A Homeschooler Offers Some Tips
David R. Graham: De-Industrialize Education And Piety
Daniel Payne: Will shift to distance learning during campus closures reshape American education?
Yay!
Incessant Movement
If the body is forever in motion, how can the mind be conquered and the Lord visualized? Travel used to be a dress-up affair, first boat, then train, then plane. It was a special and unusual occurrence that became a common, tiresome, and compulsive one, and one soon enough spoiled by microbial and much larger but equally sedulous pests. This is progress? Who in their right mind dreamed of holding up in a bobbing disease sink and calling that rest and relaxation?
Losses in GDP from arrested travel are well-offset by gains in inner wealth as the silliness and now danger of incessant movement — aka travel — heaves into view, as now it has done. Inner wealth, aka successful spiritual practice, precipitates long-term assiduity with regard to investment in economic and more subtle, long-term wealth-creation.
Years ago, residents of Central Puget Sound — King County specifically — remarked sourly on Microsoft’s appetite for forcing their minions into daily travel to/from offices housing projects that promote work online, including software development. Or worse, forcing enticing their minions (not senior executives) to live on a Microsoft campus, a totalitarian objective reminiscent of the Berlin Wall, which was meant to keep people in, not keep people out. Today, Microsoft is canceling meetings and asking their minions to work online. Amazon and other tech cos are in the same mood.
Now, boys, only now?
Perhaps residents will demand state and county minions suspend and cancel freeway projects perpetually disrupting comms in the narrow lands of Central Puget Sound, confined as they are by waters and mountains. With 5G on the horizon, and even now, who needs to move millions of people twice each day at the same time of day? Or mew them up in pretty soft prisons rather than honoring their freedom to design and operate homes of their own?
IBM stops all domestic travel for internal meetings due to coronavirus
What you need to work from home during the coronavirus outbreak
Glenn Reynolds, in 2005, on telecommuting
As Coronavirus Hits Seattle, Drivers Find Silver Lining In Reduced Traffic
Honor my freedom, you, don’t
Patronize me with your empowerment.
Don’t piss down my back
And tell me it’s raining.
No Episcopalian lady, ever, felt
Need for a women’s liberation movement.
Peter Zeihan: The Geopolitics of American Fear
Yay!
Shipwrecked Globalism
We are affiliated by three types of Globalist: ChiComs, Euro-American Statists (Socialists, Progressives), Salafi-Shiite Jihadis. This pandemic shipwrecks all three altogether.
ChiComs, accustomed to having their way with anyone, are forced to admitted and — what is harsher on their self-confidence — endure revelation to all and sundry that they are not 12-foot men, that their culture is a dis-ease sink, that their government does stupid things consequences of which they are powerless to control or even mitigate, and that, because of their culture, they are incompetent at creating much less maintaining the very global hegemony their ambitions visualize.
Statists (Socialists, Progressives), accustomed to engineering and wielding weaponized empathy (and here) against all and sundry, including each other, are forced to come to their senses, reject their Socialist ideology, admit they are bad people who do bad things threatening to themselves and everyone else, and admit that not all that appears in human form is a human creature, that many human-appearing creatures behave as animals do, not as humans do.
Rights and values appertain to humans,
Not to human-appearing creatures
Whose behavior is animalistic.
Jihadis, accustomed to terrifying victims into submission by staring at them, are forced into public humiliation by their own impotence faced by the Pestilence Angel, Whose zeal it is their ambition to embody . . . but, against others. Ninth Century Arabian culture, even as the de-historicized narrative their forebears concocted for Moslems, is mismatched and therefore unappealing in Twentieth Century conditions. Fanatics may live in a universe comprising hollow eggs, but God does not. Jihadis make themselves look ridiculous because their culture is absurd. The Pestilence Angel has ripped away at least one curtain masking the cultural impotence of Jihadi ambition. There are others.
Massive and irresistible decoupling from Globalists, in all three of their extant presentments, is underway. The bright effulgence of truth — revealed, ironically, by a global pandemic caused by Globalists themselves — reveals that Globalists are terrible not because their politics are bad, rather, their politics are bad because Globalists are terrible — because their ideologies are contra-human. Culture is upstream from politics, and all three extant presentments of Globalist culture stink. Globalist politics, defrocked by a pandemic, cannot not stink. Shipwreck is best for it and for its three enabling cultures.
Andrew A Michta: The China Challenge: We Need Hard Decoupling
The key, however, is to re-examine the dogmas of the past three decades and bring a fresh set of assumptions to the task of understanding where the world is heading: not toward a “global” utopia, but to a destination chosen by self-constituting polities and in alignment with their national interests.
Paul Joseph Watson: Think Tank Complains ‘Coronavirus Is Killing Globalization as We Know It’
Pat Buchanan: Will the Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?
Ironic because, among other reasons, ChiComs advocate for globalism. But if they released the virus as a bio-weapon, they first would have calculated that they no longer needed globalist ideology to achieve their ambition for pan-global population subjugation and/or replacement.
Richard Fernandez: Globalization May Be the Greatest Victim of the Coronavirus
What Covid-19 ended was the illusion of control. Before the virus, world leaders had big plans for the future. Now they will be happy to survive the present.
VDH: China Boomeranging
China will rue what it begat.
That is, it will come to appreciate fully that the supposed efficiency, ruthlessness, and autocracy of the Communist Party — what had so impressed foolish American journalists who once marveled at Beijing’s ability to enact by fiat liberal pet projects such as high-speed rail and solar industries — were China’s worst enemies, ensuring that the virus would spread and that China’s international reputation would be ruined.
The backbone of the Globalist argument, that the world is just markets and China is just a friendly competitor, is broken.
Michael Walsh: When Wuhan Virus Departs, World Will Be Changed
Peter Zeihan: The Geopolitics of American Fear
Revelation is always sweet.
Yay!
If you can understand the strength and the power of good company and use it in the best manner possible, there is every chance of you doing great things. Good people can be recognised by their gentle thought, word and deed. Here is a small example: if a piece of black charcoal is kept in the proximity of a bright red fire, the area along which this black charcoal is in contact with the bright fire, will also begin to glow. The black charcoal is your ignorance. The bright red fire is the good company. By the two coming together, only the portion of your ignorance that is exposed to the effects of good company will be dispelled. But, if you employ sadhana as a fan to increase the area of contact, then the entire region of ignorance will become bright. It is, thus, not enough if you are merely in good company. You should also develop the sadhana of love, and become dear to good people.
Sathya Sai Baba – Divine Discourse – May 24, 1973 / Daily Email, Sai Inspires: Subscription
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Update 1: Glenn Reynolds links his 2005 article on telecommuting
I commented, followed by others:
David R. Graham
My family, with others, was exploring online education from the late 80s in WA State. We were online at home via command line, pre-Netscape. By the mid 90s, we succeeded in convincing the WA Superintendent of Public Instruction to clear districts who wished to use online learning, then usually called distance learning, for grades k-12. We avoided debate euthanasia by media/legislature and had the WEA leadership onboard, although many members thereof groused.
The keys were: (1) expanding the concept (already in law) of Running Start, instituted by Boeing and others big WA Cos during the 80s, to train skilled labor, (2) expanding the concepts already in place (law) for Alternate Education, aka irregular curriculum delivery for problem children grades 9-12, and (3) allowing seat-time credits for districts serving students online for the full K-12 cycle.
Basically, homeschooling, already favorably legal in WA, went online and expanded powerfully with education establishment blessing.
Here is a record of the process.
Unsurprisingly, Western WA districts and private schools, now in the West Coast epicenter of pandemic infection, are suspending big-box operations while urging parents and students to shift to online education, which is inherently self-driven, as proper education always is.
Yay!
We were ahead of the time back in the 90s. But is it not the case that solutions to current problems are already present in past achievements, like Benjamins placed in a shelved book against a rainy day? Think BBs and CVs quickly constructed after December 1941 because already they were designed.
InklingBooks to David R. Graham
I’d add one more factor, one you hint at when you mention ‘seat-time credit.’ I used to live in Washington state and knew parents who homeschooled. They knew precisely why school officials were so cooperative. If they sourced certain needs (i.e. high school chemistry labs) through a school, that school got funding as if their child was a student there.
To understand public schools, it helps to “follow the money.”
David R. Graham to InklingBooks
Correct, part of the Running Start protocol embedded in state RCWs. We used it to great effect. We termed it shared schooling because it provided learning resources parents of teens could not provide, which was the Boeing/Fluke/etc. intention in re Running Start. Our kids entered the institutions at which they earned post-secondary degrees bearing, each of them, an AA degree. We just looked around for the resources the kids themselves wanted and busted our chops to get the same before them.
DoctorOfLove to David R. Graham
The destruction of the education edifice.
David R. Graham to DoctorOfLove
I think not. Restructure, yes, even fundamentally, but destruction, no. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. Nor are institutions. They are made to serve a purpose and molt when a new purpose arrives.
InklingBooks commented:
Yes, whether this virus proves a major disaster or not, it has one good aspect. It’s driving home to schools, businesses, and individuals the importance of having options to commuting to school and work. Conventions are another issue, particularly international ones. Since they draw in people from all over the world who afterward go back to their home countries, they’re a bad idea.
In politics, being prepared or not prepared is the difference between incompetence (Obama) and competence (Trump). Obama with his ‘no drama, Obama’ posture merely looked prepared. He wasn’t. He simply froze and recited platitudes when trouble came. His entire administration was filled with examples of failures to anticipate problems. We saw that with his refusal to do much about Ebola possibly spreading through the U.S. It wasn’t that the spread was likely. It was that treating it as such provided a good rationale for practicing a response to a highly infectious disease that would spread. You don’t want your response to a genuine disaster to be your first response.
Contrast that to Trump, who got some flack from the press for suggesting that Alabama prepare for a hurricane that was unlikely to hit the state. Reporters, typically hysterics who never prepare for anything but obituaries of celebrities, thought that made no sense. No, it makes good sense. Smart people take every opportunity to prepare for disasters and there’s no better time to prepare than a scenario that almost happens. (In Trump’s case that would be a danger to his substantial real estate holdings.) You get all the advantages of a dangerous situation (keyed up people) without the downside (genuine trouble).
There is another upside to this particular virus. So far it’s not shown any tendency to harm children. If they get infected, their cases are exceptionally mild. As of a few days ago when I last checked, while there have been thousands of deaths of adults, there have been no deaths of children under ten. The next virus may not be that obliging. This virus is a warning that K-12 schools need the ability to go online for classes. A different virus might spread through schools like a wildfire.
The downside is that this virus is particularly hard on those over seventy, which means nursing homes will become dangerous places. (That is already happening near Seattle.) Finding a solution for that is much more difficult than putting classes online. Older people in ill-health need hands-on care not just a teacher on a screen. At best, isolating those in nursing homes from one another and practicing strict hygiene by staff will be necessary. But all that requires preparation and training.
Update 2: Glenn Beaton: What if they had a pandemic and nobody came?
Update 3: Matt Margolis: We Can Thank Trump for the United States Having Such a Low Per-Capita Infection Rate of Coronavirus
Update 4: Ancient trade routes remain in effect as vectors, also, of disease. China, Iran, and Italy are Silk Road countries showing high concentrations of current infection by the so-called corona virus. China/US-West Coast across the Pacific is a modern Silk Road, often via Japan, and US infections appeared first on the US West Coast, Seattle in particular. SCAP Japan made a point of encouraging Northwest/Northwest Orient Airlines to connect Seattle with Tokyo, Manila, and Seoul.
Update 5: Michael Fumento: Coronavirus going to hit its peak and start falling sooner than you think
Update 6: Capitalist Eric:
Coronavirus- Blunt Truth (Part 1)
Coronavirus- Blunt Truth (Part 2, Hitting the Wall)
Update 7: GreatGameIndia: Coronavirus – China’s Secret Plan To Weaponize Viruses
Update 8: GreatGameIndia: Visualizing The Secret History Of Coronavirus Bioweapon
Update 9: Mark Johnson: How did Milwaukee fight off Spanish flu? It closed churches and schools. But not saloons.
Update 10: Glenn Reynolds: Positive Take From A Friend On Facebook
Update 11: Perhaps in this context it bears remembrance that The Bible refers more or less constantly to the nations (plural) and those identifiable as a mix of family, territory, and transcendent authority, aka law.
Globalist assertion that the world is merely markets containing consumers is extra-Biblical.
Italy and Iran are terminus and transshipment points of very ancient West-East comms. Columbus sought westward passage to China, to avoid frozen northern passage, lengthy, sickly southern passage, and hyper-hostile eastern passage. Essentially, he found it, did he but know it. To us Americans, China is west, not east, and China is a trading nation, like any other, not a cynosure.
Update 12: Steven Hayward on Michael Auslin: Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization
My comment at Hayward:
… to try and salvage the bases of the post-World War II global economic architecture.
Not happening, not going to happen. A complete new inter-nation structure is indicated. India, Russia, USA, seconded by Japan and Egypt, are and are making the new structure.
Why these intellectuals cling to the fantasy of reviving obsolete inter-nation regulatory structures is a known unknown. Their very job is to face facts. Yet they exhibit timidity, small-mindedness, worry, and wilt. In affairs of state, they are non-performing husbands.
Update 13: Tim Kirby: Pandemic Opportunities Arise for Trump but Will He Take Them?
Comment: Ignore the Orange Man Bad background noise, the writer makes useful points.