Strange Days, Indeed – Eric Peters

by Eric Peters

Everyone is wondering what is going to happen and the thing is, none of us knows. That makes everyone understandably nervous. It’s hard to live normally when “normal” is no more. And – worse – no longer expected.

What to do?

Some of us try to go about our business normally – because what else is one supposed to do? It might all end tomorrow – or next week. But today it’s time to get up, get dressed and go to work. To write those checks and pay those bills. To cut the grass, if it looks like it needs to be cut.

 

It must have felt this way to people back in the fall of 1962, when it felt like it soon might all be over. Except it probably felt different, too, on account of the somewhat comforting thought that the people who were making the decisions that would determine whether the missiles flew seemed at least to not be outright maniacs. Or idiots.

JFK could complete a sentence, indicating he could complete a thought. This meant he had them. No small thing.

Kruschev, on the other side, had worked side-by-side one of the worst (maybe the worst) human monster to ever walk the Earth. Though himself complicit in much of what his master did, he was not the same species of thing as his master. Evidence in support of his humanity being he didn’t continue things as his master left them – and did much to end what his master had done. Kruschev was a hard man, certainly. But not an evil man.

Not a nihilistic man, either.

Neither wanted to see the world incinerated and both were willing to work together to prevent it, even at the cost of some of the “prestige” that usually matters more to psychopaths than anything else.

Are people like that in control of missiles today? Are people like that in control of largely anything today?

The dread answer we all don’t want to really look directly in the face is – no, they aren’t. At least, they aren’t here.

In Russia, there is sanity. Putin, like Kruschev, is a hard man. But he is not an insane man or a foolish man. He has been trying to prevent the missiles from flying, to a degree that does him at least as much credit as a human being as Kruschev deserved to be accorded. Kruschev’s master would never have abided what Putin has; probably because Stalin liked war and didn’t mind people dying in abundance so long as he lived.

In America, we have a pathological narcissist geriatric propped up by 25-year-old nihilists who write the speeches he can’t read without also reading “end quote” or “pause here” parts.

The alternative to him is another geriatric pathological narcissist who can, at least, complete a sentence (sort of) but who has as far as anyone can tell never reflected upon what he has said or done – and thought perhaps he ought to have done things differently. Much less given open utterance to such thoughts. That would be “weak,” is probably what this man thinks – and so he doesn’t think much about it.

This leaves us with a great deal to think about.

What will we do when whatever happens next inevitably happens?

And it will happen no matter what happens. We are at that point now – and there is no getting around it anymore. There will be a war – perhaps the big one, this time. Or a big collapse – even bigger than the so-far-biggest-one before that happened just a couple of years shy of 100 years ago. The former may happen sooner, if the forces propping up geriatric number one see it as the only way to prop up their power. The latter may happen later – if geriatric number two is the one they have selected to pin-the-economic-collapse tail on the spray-tanned donkey.

It tends to make one nervous. And that, of course, is what both sides of the same side want.

So let’s not be.

Sure, it’s difficult not to be. But difficult doesn’t mean impossible. It was also difficult to be kicked out of (or denied entry to) supermarkets during the late psychotic break if one did not go along with the madness. But it was still possible to eat and retain one’s sanity (as well as self-respect). It was the same with the drugs they pushed. It wasn’t easy to Just Say No. But it was possible.

And those who did are much less anxious now.

The thing the forces of chaos want most of all is for most of us to not realize just how much control we have over our lives – if only we’d seize it and assert it. They want us passive and anxious and looking for – here it comes – “leadership.”

One of theirs, that is.

The missiles may fly this time. And the collapse is likely coming, regardless. These things are out of our control. But we can control how we will deal with such things if and when they happen. It will be difficult, certainly.

But it is never impossible.

All we have to do is do it.

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