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2020-03-31 c
(working title: Protocols of the Elders of Wall Street versus The Protocols of Dorot, A Civilizational and Generational Struggle)

PART I - If nothing else, the one-percent of Wall Street and the City of London are opportunistic, yet absurdly shortsighted. They see only as far as the end of the quarter as they stand upon the shoulders of dwarves. They are also parasites, though they have not (yet) learned that a successful parasite does not kill its host, for that would be suicide.
Albrecht Dürer, 1498, The Four
Horsemen

They and their mouthpieces in academia, government, and the media were telling us, even into February of 2020, that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Strong compared to what? Stronger than a string, perhaps?

Whatever strength there allegedly was, it disappeared overnight, and we are instructed to heap our two minutes hate upon an externality. An externality so small, we need scanning electron microscopes to see its rounded contours and opportunistic appendages. However, this Emmanuel Goldstein of a pathogen (or externality, to continue with the jargon of economists) is not, by far, the most lethal or widespread agent sickening and killing humans. Common influenza, along with the catch-all influenza like illnesses, are more than an order of magnitude more dangerous. And, influenza is as prevalent most winter seasons, yet we have not been subjected to medical martial law or economic devastation to fight those significantly more lethal annual and periodic outbreaks.

Consider these sobering common influenza statistics:

Finally, let’s look at figures for ordinary flu, for the whole planet. A study published in the journal, Pharmacy and Therapeutics [5], states, “Influenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Approximately 9% of the world’s population is affected annually, with up to 1 billion infections, 3 to 5 million severe cases, and 300,000 to 500,000 deaths each year.”

I have spoken and texted extensively with two physicians this month. One is a graduate of the Stanford Medical School and the other graduated from the Harvard Medical School. My conclusions are informed by those communications, as well as by reading between the lines of the missives from the one who also has a Master’s in Public Health. One does not need a conspiratorial mindset to see that exaggerations and psychological manipulations on an industrial scale are being perpetrated. When lies are thicker than mosquitoes during the long days of a tundra summer, one invariably asks, “Who is doing this, and why is it being done?”

I wrote a few years ago for an audience of bright teenagers, “The truth usually comes from one source. It comes quietly, with no heralds. Untruths come from multiple sources, in unison, and incessantly.” Please ignore, for now, the first two sentences (lest you think them self-serving) to concentrate on the third, “Untruths come from multiple sources, in unison, and incessantly.” That is my unfailing guide to separate fact from fiction, news from fake news. It is my ultimate smell test. People, this situation smells worse than a slaughterhouse landfill bubbling waist-deep with festering offal.

If indeed the biblical “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” have ridden into this dusty planet, their names must be Socialism, Central Banking, Moral Relativism, and Collectivism. Together, their galloping hooves raise the whirlwinds of: Personal Irresponsibility, Rampant Depravity, Insolent Ignorance, Social Fragmentation, Delayed Adulthood, Pharmaceutical Escapism, Chronic Depression, Sexual Ambiguity, Failed Families, Feral Fatherless Children, Disposable Senior Citizens, A Permanent War of All Against All Others, A Denial of the Sacred, A Democratization and Cheapening of Art, A Meaningless Existence, and A Defacement & Denial of Beauty. This list is longer, much longer, but you get my drift.

My mind from early on, to fully understand anything, first seeks origins and originators then traces the evolution and development of the thing. By knowing the roots, whether a single taproot or an interweaving ramification, I know more than its basis and foundations, I begin to know its relationships to other things, thus how it fits in with everything else – for everything around us is part of a whole. That is how I find satisfying answers as opposed to superficial answers.

The first horseman, Socialism, gushed forth from the mayhem of the French Revolution like blood pouring out of a guillotined corpse. Socialism has never strayed far from its sanguinary origin. It is both a death by a thousand cuts and a fusillade perforating the chest of a man standing against a wall. It has always been a murderous ideology and will always be so, until Perfection vanquishes it.
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(Mostly written, as I sat, like Newton, near an apple tree. Though Newton, we must remember, stood upon the shoulders of giants.)

TO BE CONTINUED

PART II - Dor, spelled, dalet - vav - resh, denotes generation and connotes increase and growth. In common with many Hebrew words, its palindrome (or almost palindrome) is its antonym or its negation. Reversing the spelling, we get resh - dalet, meaning, decline, to decline. Because dor is a feminine noun, its plural is dorot, meaning generations and implying cultural continuity, parental responsibility, and a reverence for traditions. Remember Fiddler on the Roof?

Classical Hebrew is a most compact language with fewer than 8,000 words in its lexicon. It is a language well suited for the cant and call of a boisterous open-air market, as well as intense philosophical and theological discussions. Above all, it delights those who love puzzles, both creating puzzles and solving puzzles. I like it.

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