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The New Dark Ages: Amerika 2020

I was inspired this week by a phrase from the great Jim Kunstler in his most recent CFN column, The Snapback: “Thus the nation enters its new dark age.”

It seems to me Jim’s comment here telescopes a much broader phenomenon just noticeable on the darkening horizon in this, the twilight of Western Civilization. A new monastic order is already emerging to fill the gap in this, our new ‘Dark Ages’ – as scholars (perhaps prematurely) designated those years between the Fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of the Renaissance. This new ruling elite will pretend to be the keepers of the flame of human knowledge and righteousness, safeguarding key elements of the erstwhile Curriculum of the West, while we all dutifully await the establishment of the kingdom of god on earth.

The lunatic fringe of politicos, headed by retro-Nazi zombies like Texan-Canadian US Senator, Teddie the Cruzader, a self-styled dominionist prophet, would-be king over a new heaven and a soon-to-be denuded earth – whose father is Rafael Cruz, a rabid right-wing Christian preacher and director of the Purifying Fire International Ministry – together with his fanatical gun-totting-lobby of old-rebel believers, will strictly and mortally enforce the morality of global expansionism (dominion), economic serfdom, and self-immolation upon the pitchforks of capital. This will be the plight of the tired and unwashed masses, as the newly self-anointed masters of the universe cruzade against the unregenerate and disenfranchised among us, seeking to rid the earth once and for all of the disease-spreading vermin of overpopulation. Don’t misunderstand me, I am not an advocate of gun control (and that is merely a sideshow in any event), but it is a very frightening idea to have a bunch of fanatic Christian zombies (just as it is to have possessed Moslem jihadists) walking the streets with firearms, locked and loaded, dressed in christened camouflage, and ready to kill the infidels.

Look in the mirror, folks. You are either saved or among the walking dead; ‘you are either with us or against us’ in the immortal words of his highness, George W (the burning) Bush.

As the Gospel of John, the Book of Revelations, clearly prophesized, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will emerge, – Monsanto, Nestle, Apple, Lockheed-Martin and, of course, their general… General Electric – destroying the old and bringing to life a new world order, with its own priestly class, and their minions propped up by this Holy Corporate Oligarchy. This new priestly class will keep the flame of the Western Curriculum burning brightly in its sanctuaries of power; in the midst of darkness, the curriculum of the West will be sanctified and protected behind their gated compounds, buried within their treasure troves of extravagance and prestige. They alone will be a light unto the world, and they will bring death and destruction to the vast majority of the world’s population… as they must if they are to survive and keep the fires burning brightly with the last remnants of fossil fuel.

We, who are not among the elect, yet fortunate (or is it ‘unlucky’) enough to escape the extermination camps, will lead nomadic underground lives, shuttling by cover of now permanent darkness, from cave to cave, tree hollow to tree hollow, surviving off the rotting corpses of our fallen comrades and the discarded scraps of the priestly class, as they continue litering the wasteland with their leftovers and post-civilized excrement.