The Swarm
“You can’t truly call yourself ‘peaceful’ unless you are capable of great violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless.”
A harmless man is not a good man.
A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.
Jordon Peterson.
A weak man made strong. All his life he had resisted them, afraid, unable to understand. Unable to talk about it. Unable to translate. Burying himself in self abnegation, aka drunkenness. But dissolution paid its own price. And those blocking exercises, in the end they never worked, or destroyed him.
So when, in that particular time, when called to arms, he chose the lower route and cried out: I just want to be an ordinary person. But when he crash landed on the River Avon, and was ordinary, it came with such a bleak thudding horror that he soon realised he had made a terrible mistake. And tried to climb back up again.
Now there was no choice.
In that phony pre-election cycle in March of 2025, with all the power and attention focused elsewhere, Australia was a remote colony on the far edges of the known world. Systematically being destroyed by the same far left lunatics who had so determinedly tried to destroy the United States. Mass migration. Gender Fluidity. To overcome the rigidities of nature. To destroy the bedrock of family formation. Islamification. To destroy the natural faith communities. To put theory into practice. And realise that none of it worked.
And that sooner or later the nation's hapless leaders, those pimples forming the front end face of a vast bureaucracy, had to face the very people they had so profoundly betrayed, the very societies they had, consciously or unconsciously, set out to destroy.
We are here because you are here, they said, and he was terrified when he should have been profoundly moved, with awe, with a deep spiritual uplift, with something that said you are loved, when he knew it wasn't true, something that said you mattered, when he knew it wasn't true.
And everything moved in circles. And the nation wheeled into an election yet to be called.
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