Welcome to the Hypotenuse
When the psychotic, Oligarchic elite leave you with little choice but to...start writing a Substack article that only your mom will read
Where to begin?
One could first explain the purpose of his/her writing. Why, for example, am I going to contribute to being yet another faceless voice in the bloviated Substack universe, adding to the cacophonous blather of the collectivist diarrhea? I could also begin, I suppose, by reminding charitable readers (hi mom!) what the heck a mathematical hypotenuse is, what it accomplishes exactly, and how it could possibly be germane to their already hectic lives. Or I could simply explain the shape above.
But I'm not going to do that (yet).
I’d like to start in February of 2021, about a day after arriving at our friend Joni’s place an hour south of Austin, TX, in a little lake-side community of mostly law abiding citizens. I say mostly, because her live-in boyfriend Ricky, a fully tattooed and perpetually-high former gang member from south central Los Angeles, who had perhaps a hundred animals (including over 35 snakes) residing at the house with them (gross; but not criminal), and who also seemed fond of leaving loaded pistols scattered throughout the interior for our 10 year old son to possibly find. And so after just one night of suffering through a Noah’s Ark-like environ, stuffed full of animals (and guns), and an additional middle-of-the-night tirade by a drunken Joni, who picked our first evening there to lambast Ricky over his apparent lack of ‘vocational motivation’, we understandably moved on.
But where to next? Since June of 2020, we had been without a home, having left the draconian COVID lockdowns of Portland, OR behind us in a search of what some would call “freedom” and others (those on the political Left) would call “virtual homicidal selfishness”. But, I am going to save the backstory for a retroactive first post, of sorts, where I may better explain what my wife and I were thinking at the time (and why the hypotenuse is relevant).
To solve this particular snafu in the family plans (The Ricky Problem), I was able to phone a friend in Austin and make to his house in time for the kickoff of the Super Bowl. Whew. Tragedy averted on all counts. We ended up staying with them for almost 4 weeks in their $3,800-a-month, 3 bedroom, rented furnished bungalow. While they too fled Portland for greener, if not significantly pricier pastures, they didn’t quite yet “understand the optics.” When I suggested over a plate of BBQ’d meat one night during our shared family dinner (the ones where I often fed them home-cooked meals to try and assuage my guilt over freeloading from them) I dropped the following comment:
“Well, you know these COVID lockdowns are total bullshit, and they’re only going to lead to a bio-security police state…”
To which his extremely well-mannered and lovely wife set her fork down, turned to me, and said, “I don’t think that’s going to happen,” with one of those omniscient (if not ever-so-slightly trepidatious) smirks I’ve gotten so used to over the past two years. My friend then dipped his head in silent acquiescence to his wife.
Well, to his credit, this very same friend very recently wrote a Substack article, where he outlined where he saw the aforementioned “psychotic Oligarchic elite” trying to collectively drag us. To date he is one of the few people I know audacious enough A) to admit that he initially missed the intention of this whole COVID fiasco, and B) that he was going to try and do something about it. And while this article warmed my heart, to know we had another convert to Team Freedom, it also inspired me to counter-point what I believe is the crux of his thesis. This friend, whom we shall furtively refer to as “Chuck Chuckerton,” out of respect to his privacy, but also because I am choosing to critique his analysis in an open forum, wrote the following missive (as part of a larger post):
For the past two decades America has been bombarded by fear, paranoia and vitriol. The Power Elite – tech, media, pharma, healthcare, energy, finance, industrial agriculture and government - account for the majority of wealth and power and have systematically manipulated and divided Americans in order to control and consolidate said power and wealth.
In 2021 this assemblage of power players continues to pull the levers of control with increasing frequency and one of two things is going to happen:
1. The people are going to whip up into such a frenzy that there will be civil unrest / a full scale civil war. We have already seen the beginnings of this in some cities across America.
2. A majority of people will realize that they are being manipulated and controlled, the levers will break, and the people will reclaim their democracy and autonomy.
Again, while I am happy to be better aligned with my dear friend Chuck, I feel like he is still not quite grasping the optics, or he is just significantly more hopeful and positive than myself. Of course I agree with his stated cause of the predicament we are currently suffering through (the elite purposely trying to divide us), it’s the effect I take exception with. For I fear there is a legitimate and probable 3rd option, which is significantly more pessimistic than Chuck’s vision of our future, where the incessant fear and revulsion of this problem-reaction-solution dialectic will result in the vast majority of the disaffected running headlong into the arms of their UN-backed, One-World government, and into the panopticon of a dopamine squirting Metaverse. I think our technocratic overlords want to erode faith in our nation-state democracies so they can offer us a solution to their manufactured problems. This is the Hegelian Dialect in action, and the point of my very own Substack. These crazy assholes definitely want to pull us in a certain direction away from what we understand as the norm. It’s just how far we allow them to pull us that is the question. Will people fight back (as Chuck suggests they might), or will the UN/DARPA/WEF apparatus lull them into fully sedated acquiescence?
This dialectic is what our social architects have carefully constructed out of their malevolent lies. "They" (capital T) get what They want: stripping the average citizen of their autonomy, privacy, and rights, while further consolidating power in the hands of tech, media, Pharma, healthcare, energy, finance, etc.; all without the pesky interceding of constitutional watchdogs. However, since it's arguable that "government" was ostensibly created to shield and empower the archetypal power structures that begat Chuck’s list above (tech, media, etc.) I don't consider your average legislator to be an advocate of the working class anyway, but merely an illusory guardian meant to strip people of the power to make any real and lasting change on their own behalf. In short, I don’t think (unfortunately) that people will rise up and “reclaim their democracy and autonomy” as Chuck optimistically predicts, because the whole system is a con. There is simply nothing to reclaim.
The solution to the very problems which government themselves create, like COVID hysteria, can never be more government (government being synonymous with "democracy" in this case). And make no mistake, more government is exactly what we are going to get, in this one-world, UN-themed, shit-sewer they want to syphon us all down into. But your average flag-waving voter, who doesn't understand that the government can (at times) conscript his/her child into mandatory military service, and probable death, can’t quite grasp the ruse in its totality; that the entire democratic system is a fabrication meant to deceive and enslave him. These are the very same people that will leap face-first into a global digital dollar paradigm and into the Metaverse, once these social architects purposely destroy their faith in nation-state idolatry, and quite frankly, leave them with nothing else to erroneously believe in.
Do we need some government for administrative purposes? Sure. Maybe? But do we need a ruthless and fulminating federal government to lord over us, while claiming to be pious, just and fair? I don't think so. What I see as two outcomes (one probable; one fantastically hopeful) are as follows:
1) The deluded dum-dums in this country completely buy into the proposed "stakeholder capitalism" paradigm, and gleefully abandon not only their individual sovereignty (at least how they construe it) but their very American-ness; selling out future generations of their progeny into a Borg-like, Godless hell (in perpetuity).
Spoiler: I think this is likely.
Or…2) Large swaths of people finally comprehend that the federal government is an artifice meant to keep them obediently lining up in the rain every four years to 'affect change', when they are really just vacillating between ambidextrous tentacles of some monstrous vampire squid which is intent on drowning them (after it jabs its fangs into their necks). These people then magically coalesce through some sort of alchemy, and begin to focus their collective attention on individual states, bringing back something like the Articles of Confederation, where citizens won't have some smothering institution (hint: the federal government) blanketing the entire country, and only giving them a phony dialectic of “choice.” Hopefully this spirit of decentralization, away from Big Government, will then trickle down to the county level and then to individual townships, and possibly even then to little but resilient agorist communities. Basically, we need people to stubbornly choose to go ‘back in time’, to when communities were real and could support themselves economically, logistically, and emotionally, with zero need for the auspices of a Nanny State.
I think the juxtaposition of both Chuck and my visions for the future can illustrate what the Hegelian Dialectic is all about, and it’s why I chose to write this more esoteric piece first, using a more personal, real life example. We both agree that a predatory class of technocratic cyborgs is trying to pull us away from our traditional democratic values (however one construes them). We both have an optimistic path forward and a pessimistic path which breaks down like so:
Chuck
Pessimistic - Civil War
Optimistic - People reclaim the democratic process
MJ
Pessimistic - People gleefully jump headlong into a cybernetic hell
Optimistic - There is a ‘positive disintegration’ of the federal government
Or, if you’re a visual person (or simply scrolling to the end of this article to see if it will ever end) it breaks down like this:
Where we’ll end up in both Chuck and my scenarios (think: multiverse) is a sliding scale, represented by the long diagonal (the hypotenuse). These rat fucks in the global technocratic takeover movement want to pull us as far left as possible, but they will settle for somewhere in the middle, because any move to the Left (I’ve made the direction intentionally political) is a distinct victory for them, and it’s actually how the Western world works in this problem-reaction-solution paradigm they force us to live in, groveling for jettisoned scraps.
The beauty of this triangular representation is that it can illustrate a whole host of seemingly endemic problems that have suddenly metastasized in our culture in the past two years; from violent crime and terrorism, to transgenderism, CRT, vaccine mandates and more.
But much more on this later (soon) from The Hypotenuse.
*This isn’t quite how the dialectic works, since both axes above represent potentialities, but for the purposes of this first post it is instructive (you’ll see what I mean ; )