The Long Revolution Ahead

In reference to this statement by West on Nov. 17.  Both Scott Adams and Mike Cernovich have been among the most clued-in people about the election over the last year. Both of them knew Trump would win (belying the media notion that "no one knew".) You may like them or not, but ignore them at your peril.

We are in the opening act of a long drama. Everything has changed. Well, perhaps not everything, but as close to that as possible.

So much has changed, and most people have no idea how much. As of now, most people are reacting to the election through the lens of the present and the past. We are focusing on the usual things, such as the effects of Donald Trump's specific policies, and his cabinet picks, and the pendulum swing from liberal to conservative.

All of these are important to be sure, but this is old-type micro-thinking. The underpinning of most of the discussion is the assumption that things will go on as they did before somehow. Politics will return will to the way things have been done for so many decades. We assume this, because we know no other way that things could be done.

So we talk about how the Democrats will cope, and whom they might run as a nominee in 2020. So much jiberish. We will look back and realize how hopeless we were at this moment, to anticipate the magnitude of the changes. As I write this, the moribund media, mortally wounded by this election, is trying a desperate and hopeless rear guard action to delegitimize the new alternative media, which as brought real truth-telling journalism back to America.

One of my favorite recent television shows is Downton Abbey. I watched part of the first season, but I really only got into it during the last season. When I began watching it as it aired, I immediately realized the deep appeal. It is a well-produced show, and impeccably researched as a historical drama (very inspiring), but what really attracted me to it is the story of people living through a very confusing time of change in history, in which so man of the rules of life are shifted underneath them (in this case, because of the rapid modernization of World War I and its aftermath). The characters struggle to adapt to all the new rules. Some do so better than others.

We are all like the people on that show. The ground has shifted underneath our feet. We barely realize how much. We should feel VERY LUCKY that this has happened so far in a peaceful manner, instead of through a massive war and the creation of tens of millions of dead across the continent of Europe and the world, as it did a century ago. If that isn't progress, then I don't know what is.