Our Summer of Cultural Suicide

Fresh baked Victor Davis Hanson . . .

Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit.

Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism to explain why once-successful states, institutions and cultures simply died off.

Their common explanation was that the arrogance of success ensures lethal consequences. Once elites become pampered and arrogant, they feel exempt from their ancestors’ respect for moral and spiritual laws like thrift, moderation and transcendence.

Take professional sports. Over the last century, professional football, basketball and baseball were racially integrated and adopted a uniform code of patriotic observance. The three leagues offered fans a pleasant respite from daily barroom politics. As a result, by the 21st century, the NFL, NBA and MLB had become global multibillion-dollar enterprises.

Then hubris ensued.

The owners, coaches and players weren’t always racially diverse. But that inconvenient truth did not stop the leagues from hectoring their fans about social activism — even as they no longer honored common patriotic rituals.

All three leagues have suffered terribly during the viral lockdown, as American life mysteriously went on without them. And they have almost ensured that they won’t fully recover when the quarantine ends. Many of their often-pampered multimillionaire players refuse to honor the national anthem. In the NFL they now will broadcast their politics on their helmets. They will virtue-signal their moral superiority to increasingly turned-off fans — as if to ensure that their sources of support flee.

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NO FACE MASK REQUIRED FOR WA STATE, YET GOVERNOR PLAYS THE GAME OF MANDATE

Remember this:

'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness . . .'

It says right on their own moronic covid-19 website in the FAQs on the Face Masks page. LOOK IT UP SHEEP. Stop being a fucking slave and live the life God gave you.

'I have a reason I cannot wear a face covering. Am I required to document or prove that?

No, the order does not require you to document or prove a reason for not wearing a face covering.'

https://coronavirus.wa.gov/information-for/you-and-your-family/face-masks-or-cloth-face-covering

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TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242 DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW

The whole scam could be undone with this civil rights law violation executed by smart attorneys crashing hard into the narrative of 'pandemic', 'mandates' and 'orders' that are 'acts done beyond the bounds of that official's lawful authority, . . . '

SCAMDEMIC PLANDEMIC DEMPANIC