Counter Attack: We Are Here In The Morning Scapes

In the beginning was chaos, out of chaos came the Lord. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was God. Out of all this extreme confusion, out of the heartache which had filtered across our centuries, out of a tiny mind and an infinite world, out of slipped messages and corridors of power, there came this slithering of the messengers. He couldn't make head nor tail of it, but in the end was not meant to. This was the confusion of the times. The many regrets. The many threats. The soldiers who tried to conquer a miasma of pain. It was here, here they said, we have to tell you: we love you. 

But the messaging was so confusing, the distances so great, the stakes so high, the imperilled soldiers sent on distant journeys, that even here, with those ancient AIs flickering through eyeballs, it was impossible to tell up from down, the way forward a bamboozled ledge. Nothing was clear. The threats were numerous. The fall from grace so stark, it was impossible to see how the mob could not see, but blind they were. He would fall from the tower and be rescued by a thousand infidels. He would sneer with power and be humbled alert. 

We're coming for you, coming for you. 

Why here? Why now? Indeed. They could see through the battered lattice, they could walk through corridors and be blessed from above, they could whisper down the centuries and still fail to protect the sacred, they could out game almost everyone, but it was not enough. History was on the turn. There was no other reason all of this was happening. And the way they chose to do it: through the Word.

There were semblances of reason, but what was most frightening was the abject embrace by the mob, who saw in their own servitude a reason for being. 

Totalitarianism. How could it be? 

And yet many people were warning. Uncanny. A story that ran behind all stories. A secret that made no sense as a secret anymore, for the embrace of the dark was too vivid, too abject, too compromised. They didn't care, these people. They didn't think the same as you or me. They were happy to salute. To find solace in uniforms. To jeer in ever larger crowds. To whisper in the evenings as you grunted yourself to sleep. Au revoir. By the bye. They were everywhere, the book burners, happy to grunt themselves to sleep and sledge those who fell outside the camp. They marched in uniform and unison, we called we saw we conquered, for it was there for everybody to see, if they only knew the signs. 

Nothing changed. The world turned. And everything changed. A messy embrace. Bewilderment at organic lifeforms, if that was the word, wonder, astonishment. The air moved like some subterranean aquifer, the cautious note, obscurantism, and they were reaching out to embrace, tentacles crawling through the air to embrace their brains, because they knew now that this was a very different place, and that there was reason behind the cultural shifts, the imperilled nature of the moment.

Welcome to history. Yes, welcome to history. 

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Employees at Penguin Random House Canada reportedly cried over the publisher's decision to publish Jordan Peterson's new book during a town hall meeting.

Peterson, a Canadian clinical psychologist self-styled as the "professor against political correctness," announced his new book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life will be released in March 2021 in a YouTube video on Monday.

Vice reported that the news sparked an outcry at Canada's biggest book publisher, with some staffers confronting management in a bid to cancel the book's release. Dozens more filed anonymous complaints about the book, the report said.

Four Penguin Random House Canada employees told Vice that the company was secretive about Peterson's book and it didn't appear in an internal database that usually includes all upcoming releases.

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They said that at the internal town hall on Monday, publishing executives defended the decision to publish Peterson, while employees aired their grievances.

"He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he's an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I'm not proud to work for a company that publishes him," one employee, who is a member of the LGBTQ community, told Vice.

The report by Vice was circulated widely on social media, with some suggesting the employees who complained should be fired.

Peterson's daughter Mikhaila Peterson tweeted the article, adding that the "crying adults" should be identified and fired.

Conservative pundit Candace Owens also called for the employees to be terminated. "I have never understood business owners being 'confronted' by employees making demands," she tweeted.

"As a business-owner, I simply cannot relate. That's a fast-track to unemployment for those of us that have a spine. I didn't build my businesses for entitled brats to tell me how to run it."