Everybody Knows
On government by howling monster
Watching the Israelis carry out their liquidation of the Gaza ghetto was for anyone with a human soul still somewhere inside them a total psychospiritual catastrophe. We saw what was happening because it was literally being livestreamed to us, carnage flickering through the chinks in our feeds. And we didn’t know what to do with that except maybe to try to show it to other people. Because we thought, this information cannot be suppressed and hidden, I have seen the limbs of a small child???? splattered across the courtyard of a hospital???? and the world must know. But we misunderstood. The world knew. The people in power knew. Everybody knew.
The boomers in suits rolled their eyes through the whole annihilation of Palestine. Could anyone really be so naive as to think we care that the entire civilian infrastructure of Gaza is being systematically destroyed, they asked incredulously. Why on earth would we care about such a thing? Is it bad for our stock portfolios???? What do these fucking communists think, that the world runs on feeling sad about dead children? Do they think this stuff about ‘international law’ is real????
The latest pack of hideous ghouls to haunt the White House has claimed even more ground in the relentless war against basic decency. These ones don’t even roll their eyes. It’s never crossed their minds that anyone would think that law is real. It’s never crossed their minds that they might be constricted by any kind of ethical structure whatsoever. They are demons who have grown tired of wearing stolen flesh and croaking out words in our languages and generally keeping up the pretense of being human, and have simply reverted to their true shambling lipless rotted forms. What’s the point? The meat will do what it’s told.
So now they just announce on Truth Social that they will be committing war crimes. And we stagger and try to adjust to the new reality. The emperor is a predatory cadaver which has proclaimed that it will be eating our babies: should we let people know about this? But they already know. They are discussing which babies to give the monstrosity. They are reading articles about how true freedom is found in eating babies. They are scoffing at the notion that anyone would have a problem with eating babies. Eldritch horrors with fangs growing out of their eye sockets stalking our babies is the law of nature. Are you delusional? You think you know better than nature?
Everyone look! The shrieking shadow-fiend from the netherworld has lied! I have proof! Everyone see here! The jerking ravenous bone monster covered in other people’s blood has threatened to do something wrong! Okay. Okay! Okay?
How do we transition fully into this new reality? We might have to stop registering it as meaningful when they lie; they don’t even understand the concept of truth in a human way, something having to do with honour and respect for others. Honour and respect for others are completely meaningless, there is only power. Lying is exactly the same as not lying. The only truth that matters to them is the accuracy of proprietary data used in the furtherance of power. We might have to stop being shocked when they tell us directly that they will commit insane acts of violence and vandalism; we’re past the point where it’s shocking, anyway, at some point you have to believe what people tell you about themselves. And we might have to stop thinking that just showing people what’s going on will change anything. Everybody who isn’t balls deep in some kind of delusional late-capitalist post-reality sub-‘culture’ already knows. And a lot of them think it’s great.
So what’s next? Speaking truth to power is a joke when power is a keening void of abject malevolence. Asking nicely, ditto. What are they going to do, stop? Praying, and related activities such as playing make-believe, calling the manager, and having a demonstration, will also not have the desired effect. Eyes on the prize I suppose: a world where these freaks are in prison, and work backwards from there? We stand at a turning point, socialism or barbarism, biosphere or wasteland, future or holocide, democracy or government by howling monster. I don’t fucking know. I hope we get there before one of these death-worshipping cannibals gives Claude the fucking nuclear launch codes.