Sunday Thoughts January 29, 2023

On Friday night the people in charge of Memphis Tennessee released the video of the beating death of someone named after an automotive part. They released it Friday in hopes that it would result in the maximum amount of mayhem. Not only would the professional rioters have the weekend to do their worst, the media could set aside other topics to promote the riots. When I was thinking about topics for this show I assumed the riots would be a big part.

On the other hand, I could not fight the urge to simply ignore it. I watched the video and I was not outraged by the footage. Is what happened wrong? No doubt. The cops beat a man to death for no other reason than the impulse to do it. Frankly, if you stripped off the uniforms and set this scene in an airport terminal, it looks like many other videos of the genre. We used to have a term for this. When nonwhites went berserk like this, it was called wilding.

The fact is, I simply do not care about this stuff anymore. Judging from the tepid response, the general public has also tired of this stuff. The professional rioters showed up, but their volunteer auxiliaries took the weekend off. Here in Lagos about ten people showed up with signs, but the local news did not think it warranted coverage, so they used stock footage from the Freddy Gray riots. If the news cameras are not there to see the riot, did it actually happen?

It is probably not the lack of public interest that is draining the enthusiasm of our elites for this sort of thing, but a general cultural fatigue in the elites themselves. They have spent the better part of the last decade agitating themselves into a frenzy. Many were simply too tired to rummage around in the signaling drawer for the BLM iconography to use on the social profile.  Do they remove the Covid stuff or the Ukraine stuff to bring back the BLM stuff? 

Speaking only for myself, I am tired of the theater of democracy. I see that a long list of Republicans are plotting to launch presidential campaigns this year. I am struggling to care. No matter who wins, the people running things will forge ahead with their policies. The borders will remain open, the Kagan cult will be waring with Russia and the pirate class will keep looting the economy. Outside the theater of democracy the world is on fire, but I am supposed to watch the show. 

Topics

* Memphis (Link)

* Hamilton 68 (Link)

* Tank You, May I have Another? (Link)

* Leukophobia Update (Link) (Link)

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