Freedom From Morality Is Death

Television and other media have brought us to the state we are in where we have not only a criminally insane but a criminally senile chief executive who is not only laying waste to our institutions, our elections, our minds but the very soul of the United States and TV and other media are doing nothing to stop him,  FOX and Trump using the Lincoln Memorial as the backdrop for one of the most degenerate scenes in the history of the decay of American Democracy is of vile insignificance compared to the totality.

This is the definitive disconfirmation of modernism in so far as modernism is the abandonment of morality which inevitably ends up in privileging of lies as "free speech," the privileging of ignorance as savvy, the privileging of pleasure as opposed to hard truth.  It is a disconfirmation of pretty much the all of the freedom from the moral content of monotheistic religion, which, unsurprisingly, produces never ending atrocities, hypocrisies, lies, delusion and a total dissolution of all that is humane and all that is good and even all that is real instead of make believe.   Television has in hardest fact, created Trump just as it and the movies created Reagan before him.  The New York City media, including the august New York Times, in its feuillerton pages helped make him into the all too real monster that ate American democracy. There is absolutely no mystery in that.   The Republican Party which has been the political entity that the wealthy who own and staff the media have promoted is the other leg that the trashy Trump tyranny stands on.  I would say the billionaires and millionaires but the Republican Party is a department of that clique so it would be a tautology.  

It is the total degeneration of culture that would follow on the degeneration of morals under modernism that Nietzsche foretold and gloried in, though that idiot believed that art could survive it.  

The election in November followed by action bolder than a Democratic Congress and President would be able to or dare to take is the last, dim hope for American democracy.  And if we achieved that it would almost certainly lead to widespread armed insurrection against any attempt to even reestablish the status quo of what got us into this.  Any attempt would certainly have to pack the court with enough anti-fascist justices to render the McConnell-Trump packing of the courts moot, a radical enough action in itself that I am certain Biden wouldn't attempt it and, other than Elizabeth Warren, I haven't heard anyone say they would do that.  And, though it would certainly violate nothing in the Constitution, as something unaccustomed, though essential to save democracy,  it would be met with a chorus of disapproval of the media, including the New York Times, I am sure of it.  

And there is the pandemic that will, I would not be surprised, give us a Vietnam casualty rate a month.  

We are in dire straits because the Warren Court told the media they could lie with impunity on behalf of the secular left in a period when the secular left miscalculated wildly and believed it was in a permanent state of ascendance.   I have come to believe that, Board v. Brown and a few other decisions apart, the Warren Court was no where near as wise or good as we were all required to believe.  That is something I am absolutely certain of in the "free speech" "free press" rulings that freed the mass media to lie us into this catastrophe and which I doubt more than a tiny fraction of Americans see. the slogans used to sell that regime of lies and pornography being so salable.   That's the problem with enabling lies, lies are easy to package to be readily bought, the truth is almost always a far harder sell - little wonder that our media loves lies so much, they're so profitable.  And show-biz helps with that.   

We aren't in a crisis of knowledge - most of those spouting lies for the suckers to by have educations from top-notch schools - so much as we are in a crisis brought on by the abandonment of morality, of freedom from moral inhibitions, of consequences for immorality, of a belief that there are things that are not to be done no matter how much you want to do them, no matter what it gets you, no matter how willing the courts and regulatory bodies, the Congress are willing to allow you to get away with it with impunity. And that whatever you can get away with, you should be free to do. 

We are in this crisis as we have been in virtually every human caused crisis we have been in because of the abandonment of morality, by which I don't mean that people are having sex they shouldn't be, though that is certainly relevant and a related matter, it would turn into a distraction.   We are here because lies and theft are now the freely permitted laws of the land, lies magnified by mass media which lie on behalf of the thieves and plunderers and, with this pandemic, those who get people killed for their profit.  And, since it began in the meat industry, as so many pandemics have - it is a product of human choices made with the permission of a government, through that most beloved thing of all for American conservatives, deregulated market action.  All of this will turn out to be entirely OK with the Republicans on the Court as it is with the ones in the Congress, in governorships and legislatures and those who control and staff the media.