Random Notes On American Smallness

It is very true that videos can lie. It is equally true that government officials can lie. But when several videos shot independently by several different people from several different angles present one consistent picture, while several government officials mouth one script written or approved by one government official, then we are being asked whether we are more inclined to believe several different people whose stories, told from different angles, are remarkably consistent with no possibility of premeditated coordination, or one ruling voice (endowed with many megaphones) which has the most compelling vested interest in denying the evidence of those multiple independent witnesses while presenting no evidence to support any other story. An alleged murderer’s apologist insists he was acting in self-defense. Every witness at the scene, viewing the events from a range of different perspectives, insists that it was cold-blooded murder. What is more, we are all able to see the events through the eyes, as it were, of those witnesses with their different perspectives, whereas the alleged murderer’s defender can show, and has shown, no new perspective inconsistent with any of those eye-witness accounts that millions of us have shared, but merely insists, over and over, that the multiple witnesses, and the millions who have been invited to share those witnesses’ various perspectives, did not see what they all consistently believe they have seen, but rather that they must reject all the evidence of their own and everyone else’s eyes, and accept the conflicting explanation offered by the one unified voice which has provided no alternative evidence and has the most compelling vested interest in denying the validity of all visual evidence as such.

It may be true that the semi-free world cannot survive without the United States of America at its side. If so, then that’s that: The semi-free world will not survive, because it no longer has the United States of America at, or on, its side. There is nothing to be done about this any longer.

If the federal government of the United States — by which I mean strictly the entire class of elected representatives from the executive and legislative branches, i.e., the people chosen by “The People” to represent them — is any indication, then an alliance with, or (inter)dependence upon, America today would be of no value whatsoever, since that country, according to its chosen representatives, is now easily identifiable as a duplicitous, cowardly, money-grubbing entity with only instant gratification in its head, the most deluded vanity in its heart, and an overriding fear of personal discomfort or risk filling the void left by the final evacuation of all principle or pride. I know this description does not fairly account for every American citizen, and I therefore both pity and apologize to that dignified but electorally irrelevant minority; a democratic republic, however, from the point of view of geopolitical reality, is largely reducible to its voting majority, and that majority, now vast in its smallness and pulsing with death, is largely reducible to, as they say, “the leaders they deserve.”