The internet is filled with virtue signaling these days.  What does it look like?  It looks like electric car pictures on Facebook.  It looks like large solar panel arrays and an off-grid farm, posted on Facebook.  It looks like pictures of people attending the March for Women, or the March for Science, posted on Instagram.  At least, that is the liberal left echo chamber’s version of it.  There are also pictures of purity rings on children’s fingers, and baptisms, and mission trips, and the giving of all of your money to the church.  It looks like “I Voted.”

Slavery is an old institution.  The Native Americans owned slaves, as did the Greeks and Romans, the ancient Egyptians, Sumeria, India, China, pretty much everywhere in the ancient world where the population concentration was big enough.  While there is coal and oil available to do the labor of millions of people for them, it is popular these days to proclaim that everybody is equal.  They’re not.  People can never be equal, but the proclamation that people “should” be equal under the law, that no man should own a woman or child, is one of the most blatant forms of virtue signaling out there today.

Equal rights for men and women, the destruction of the monarchy, the destruction of the wealth of the Vatican (namely, gold), the civic religion of progress, these are all interwoven strands of a tapestry that leads into darkness.  The ancient Knights Templar would have shuddered in horror to see what their actions have wrought.  Yet, I think they knew.  They knew that the sin of the Demiurge is still with us.  They knew, in a very gnostic sense, that they could not change anything, even if they did see it for what it was clearly enough.

The inability to change anything on a spiritual level is a thing I ponder while I’m out running or bicycling or swimming.  I can’t die.  Neither can the Demiurge.  If I can not change the way the souls surrounding me act, can not control them all through the force of law, then the civic religion of progress becomes merely an illusion.  If you can’t change anything, you can’t save anybody from sin, then obviously, you can not ever progress anywhere.  You can’t learn anything despite the millions, billions, or trillions of reincarnations you may have gone through.  You can neither acquire nor discharge Karma.

This means that virtue signaling is a lie.  You will never be a good man.  You’ll never be a bad one either.  You’ll just be part of the ecosystem.  Some parts of the ecosystem eat the other parts and convert them into food for the next generation.  There will always be killers, cheaters, liars, neglectful, people who spur the entire nation to go to war.  There will always be people who destroy the grain crop, steal the sheep, and poison the wells.  There will always be gangs and warlords, slaves and harlots, and the powerful old lady at the edge of the village who might heal your wounds, but then again, might curse you stone dead.

There are a bunch of people out there, who when faced with peak oil, climate change, the business cycle, economic collapse and destruction, and the like, have decided to grow their own food.  Grow your own food because the fake food is killing you!  Sounds somewhat reasonable, especially these days with Chinese melamine laced food, glyphosate laced grains, mad cow disease, and so on and so forth.  Homemade food tastes better, it is true.  Blueberries fresh from the bush are so much better than the ones “fresh” in the store.  Yet, not everybody should grow their own food.  Especially not now.

Right now, there are a whole bunch of governments out there with monetary problems.  Federal, State, County, City, some of them overspent.  Some of them decided to steal from the pension fund, or not to fund it adequately, and the bills are coming due.  So, these entities will be looking for more income.  They will be looking to tax all the things, and that will not be limited to healthcare.  One of the things they also tax is property.  If the 90% income tax bracket for incomes over a million didn’t work, then perhaps they will try something else this time.

How can you possibly hang on to your farm if the property taxes are higher, and the drought/flood/weather destroyed your crops this year?  Somebody has to do work that is not farm work, to get money out of the banks/government, in order to pay the taxes.  If it is just two people, they get injured, they get old, and how can they keep the planting and weeding and watering done year over year?  Then they die, and their estate value is over the estate tax exemption, and their children lose the farm.

What is to come?  These days are not those days.  A lot of people are going to die.  Slavery will return, regardless of what it is called.  The enclosures will come down, the dams will come down, some of the .1% snakes on the gorgon’s head will be cut off.  Others will take their places, because nature abhors a vacuum.  Nature hates bare soil.  Even if you killed every member of the Hapsburgs or the Rothschilds, others would take their place, and might even do their jobs of culling the weak and shackling the strong to do their bidding more efficiently.

Just because more will spring up like flowers on a soldier’s grave, picked by children every one (oh when will they ever learn), doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done.  One of the gnostic responses to the knowledge that I am powerless to change anything on an eternal scale, is to say, well, since God sucks at running things around here, I might as well run things.  I know for certain that I can’t mess up more than he did.