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Do not foresee a moment, a battling; foresee two years and more, a
warring.  Pitchfork

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FOUR CURSES

Slowly, the nation has recovered its poise. There is a widespread sense of unstated embarrassment that a political majority, if only for a moment, fell for the promise of an untested redeemer—a belief alien to the temperament of this so practical and sober a nation. 

“The Obsolescence of Barack Obama:  The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it”

Fouad A. Ajami, quote excerpted from The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2010

The redeemer thing

The Pitchfork has written about the redeemer thing assigned to BHO*, opining that BHO’s blaspheme was not of a Messiah crisis but of a God crisis.  That is, BHO was not in it to save America, but to lead America omnisciently, omnipotently. 

* BHO is short for Barack Hussein Obama II; the shortening may be pronounced ‘boo’ or ‘bo’ depending on which seems more respectful to you.

Lead America where?  ‘Fork thinks that the destiny is Amarabia, an Islamized American version of Eurabia.  ‘Fork thinks that BHO’s trek so far tracks true.

What did not occur to ‘fork until the Ajami quote was that while BHO wasn’t bent on redeeming anyone, the majority putting him in the Oval Office expected redemption one-by-one. 

Well, then, redemption from what?  Societal coming apart rather than coming together, disunity, themselves and their unsatisfied want of a superior power with whom to passionately relate.    Ignorance - educational, informational, spiritual - tolls long and loud.  Amoral and immoral meanings and purposes to life fray societal weaves and ways.  See the rise of societal division, diversity, divisiveness, demonizing, disparity, denigration, disintegration and divorce from better times imagined, storied, and experienced.  We live to increase.  Going on takes a nation's hand in The Hand.  

The curses

This is a darkling twofer in this saving gracelessly:

1. America drenched in ethereal hope for the better and existential change for the worse

He who lives upon hope and change will get

whomever, whatever, whenever, however, whyever. 

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2. Americans done-over by their own pathology – not saved, but sacrificed (FOBHO excepted for a time).

The former is of three curses:

• Professional, political elite by election and appointment, naturally corrupt, replete with crowds of newest best friends

• Institutionalized, generic devaluations via unworthy credits – currency, capital, citizenship, commonwealth, conscience, consummate achievement quickly come to mind

• Misplaced individual and community liberty and freedoms by educating for self-esteem, by fawning for political correctness, by misnomers the likes of diverse for divisive and community for collective, by guilt guiled, by dependence, by undue deference to incompetence and illegitimacy

The latter is of a fourth curse and is the curse upon which the other three depend:

• Studied imperception of good and evil, morality, of falsity, the godless, the secular, the denial of life

Freedom falls

Less liberty,

Morals, values,

Sovereignty.

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These curses are evil and of evil.  Nothing good can come of them.

And there’s nothing new about them . . .

You son of the Devil, full of every sort of trickery and villainy,

enemy of all that is good,

will you never stop perverting the true ways of the Lord?

Acts of the Apostles 13:10 [Paul to Elymas the sorcerer]

For real?

Overwrought?  You think?

‘Fork hears you Seneca –

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (aka Seneca, Seneca the Younger)

And you William give ‘fork pause –

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

Within sight of ‘fork’s mind’s eye, there are myriad marks, dots if you will, of evil deeds done to ‘fork’s country and countrymen in scant months of miseries, and not one can ‘fork reckon to the good.   The dots pool.

Sure.  Sure.  Words sing siren songs of sincerity, civility, at one with everyone, benevolence near beatific; not the deeds. 

Moments

These are not common moments in America’s time.  Unprecedented consensus of America’s de facto bankruptcy.  Unprecedented individual dependence on government for subsistence.  Unprecedented legislation against the commonweal.  Unprecedented executive power to confine and confiscate.  Unprecedented judicial relativism and reckless rationale.  Tyrants’ threats all.  

Now, it’s not all on BHO.  It’s only lately on BHO.  BHO’s now the loco-motive in two centuries-plus of pulling along The American Way – its mainline, sidings, and branches.  Still, you gotta give it up for BHO bigtime; helluva job, guy.  Jobbed America fast and hard, you did – helluva a job.

Next?

The future is an opaque mirror.

Anyone who tries to look into it sees

nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
James Alonzo "Jim" Bishop

Phooey. 

‘Fork’s dedicated to dig for gold in hills aside the holler.  Pyrite or pure? 

Good is I graunt of all to hope the best,

But not to liue still dreadles of the worst.

Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville 1565

• Be of good cheer, pilgrims, if Dmitry Orlov is right, America, albeit its inhabitants are very most generally unprepared for this and worse, is at the front end of the first piece, a financial cave in, of his five-piece sequence of societal settling.  That is, there’d be time to learn and live. (For Orlov, in sequence thereafter would come the subsidence of commerce, politics, society, and culture.)

• If there’s a middle ground of halcyon, heroic harkening, as ‘fork figures, it’s a full glass for all on good ol’ Gustave –

I go from exasperation to a state of [settling],
then I recover and go from prostration to Fury,
 so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

Gustave Flaubert

• If the seer Nostradamus saw just over our horizon, we’re toast . . .

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared.
The great mover of the universe will renew
 time, rain, blood, thirst, famine,
steel weapons and disease.
 In the heavens, a fire seen.
Michel de Nostradame
aka Nostradamus

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