Snow Falls on Mountains

Snow Falls on the Mountains

Nov. 16, 2016

The snow falls quietly on mountains that remember the blood of Christ. It was really the blood of the Natives, but Christ claimed that blood as his own. Under this spell of quietude, we slowly discover that violence is not the only way to struggle for an ideal.

The quietly falling snow reminds us that we have come to the end of an era. The results of the past election demonstrate that, all over the world, it is the Crude Oil Bros. who are firmly in control. Unfortunately for them, their insistence on punishing the people who refuse to bow down to their great Golden Calf has set the stage for what is going to become a major revolution, some 30 or 40 years hence.

The grinning face of Vladimir Putin on the BBC webpage reminds us how subtly the fiction of corporate personhood may be employed to subvert the so-called democratic process. We don’t really know yet what kind of chief executive Donald Trump will be, but the indications from what he has said in his campaign and what he has done in the past are not reassuring.

Wary though we may be of his wiles, we must admit that Mr. Putin is simply defending his nation. Somehow, Vespucci evangelicalism seems to have conceived the vain imagination that it is destined to accomplish the destruction, not only of Communism, but of the whole Russian nation. This crusading fervor has blasted Afghanistan back into the Middle Ages, and destabilized the whole Middle East. Despite the repeated assurances of Western leaders, it is likely that Prince Vladimir sees the Vespucci effort to bring down the Syrian regime as a proxy war against his own nation.

From a corporate perspective, Russia represents a huge market. According to the Party Line, Russia has repented of her Communist ways, and converted to the Capitalist faith. But the antics of Bingbum de Singsum have given the Russian intellectuals looking out their windows from Moscow or St. Petersberg cause to believe that the wealthy and privileged class represented by the IMF will stop at nothing short of an absolute dominion that would reduce Russians to thralldom.

Political Discontinuities

Russia may have a long way to go before she achieves her dream of being a philosophically guided democracy, but her citizens tend to be more patriotic than our own high-rolling gentry. While he may grant that glassnost and the ensuing reforms brought about social improvement, the Russian citizen also resents the humiliation his nation suffered when the old Soviet Union collapsed. Returning the favor, by exposing the racism and misogyny of “White America” for the whole world to see shall be such a crowning achievement, that in spite of his personal fortune, Prince Vladimir shall be remembered as a socialist hero forever.

Right now, the Stars and Stripes are drooping in exhaustion, even though the Stars and Bars are leaping in exuberant expectation. The Man from Brecht has chosen a rather notorious racist with known anti-semetic qualities to be his chief of staff. Everywhere, people who expect dignified conduct from their leaders are asking just what their nation could have done wrong.

Having devoured the turkey that Renata’s oven sacrificed to the National Cult, Su Dae, Renata, Thieu and I are seated on the couch in our parlor and commiserating with each other. It is obvious that the liberation struggle that Progressive America is beginning to wage has aroused a rather punishing opposition. The campaign to raise Atlan up from the unconscious depths has begun, but the immediate evidence is showing us, the jihad shall be long and painful.

“Wasn’t it Ghandi,” offers Thieu, “who said, ‘First they ignore you, then they punish you, then you win’?”

“We’ve been getting punished,” shrugs Renata with a cynical laugh. “They are sounding the call for battle, but the problem is, it has taken most of their capacity all along to keep us down. They can unleash barbarity, as they are doing at Standing Rock, but that will only fragment their forces. Most of their supporters have no idea yet, that what they are fighting for is really a criminal power & control cartel.”

“We are just like the second century Christians,” observes Thieu. “There are some differences because the movie has been played before. We are wiser on account of the sorrows of our past recurrences, and on account of this, the Republic still has a chance to recover from the date rapes inflicted by men whose primary loyalty is to gold and to their own power. Nevertheless, the lions are loose, and are out there devouring the people. In order to restrain these lions, we must find a way to pull the economic carpet out from under the feet of the Crude Oil Bros.”