Welcome to the Great Circus of the West!
A Parody of Western Civilization's Final Act
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages! Come witness the greatest spectacle on Earth: the fine circus of the Western Civilization! Behold the daring feats of strength, agility, and courage, performed by the once-mighty artists of the West, now contorting themselves into pretzels of moral ambiguity and intellectual confusion. Watch as they leap through flaming hoops of political correctness, dangle on the precipice of absurdity, and entertain you with their death-defying descent into chaos!
This is the Great Circus of ‘The West,’ but don’t wait too long to see it—the show is only running for the next three years before the tent comes crashing down!
Our Movies and Daily Shows
Prepare to be dazzled by the most monotonous comedians ever to grace the stage! In this circus, we’ve mastered the art of stripping humour of joy and wit. Our comedians specialize in delivering politically correct jokes that land with the grace of a lead balloon. Watch as they navigate the tightrope of virtue signalling, taking extra care never to offend—except when they do, in which case, we cancel them with lightning speed! It's a spectacle of self-censorship and public humiliation unlike anything else on Earth!
And for movie lovers, we offer a cinema experience like no other. Feast your eyes on history retold! Forget what you learned in school—our movies boldly rewrite the past! We replace white with black and black with white, heroes with villains, and morality with immorality.
The good guys are now the bad guys, and the truth has become the lie. Watch as historical figures are erased, swapped, and manipulated to fit a shiny new narrative from our own parallel universe. It’s revisionism like you've never seen!
The ‘Freak Show’
Ladies and gentlemen, step into our one-of-a-kind ‘Freak Show’, where the unusual is the norm and the once-normal has become the bizarre! Behold, our beloved citizens of the West—those who identify as cats, men who are "Its," women who are truly men, and those who choose any letter to identify with! And don’t miss the latest trendsetters—people who have fallen in love with furniture! Marvel at the woman who married a chandelier, and the man hopelessly devoted to a doll.
But don’t be fooled! The true freaks aren’t them. No, the real oddities are the dinosaurs who still believe in outdated concepts like hard work, meritocracy, and family.
You’ll gasp in shock at the sight of people who love babies—yes, those “bunch of cells” they call babies!—and who dare to believe in an "imaginary" God. These relics of the past, the bedrock of the Western civilization, with their values and moral foundations, will be paraded before you for your amusement and ridicule. Watch as they struggle to fit into this shiny new world, where principles are passé and convictions are criminal!
The Puppet Show
And now, for the main event: The Puppet Show! Who doesn’t love a good puppet show? In this circus, we’ve got the finest leader puppets money can buy! Each one is perfectly crafted to serve their unseen masters with impeccable precision. Watch as they dangle on strings, delivering speeches full of hope and promises they’ll never keep. They’ll tell you exactly what you need to hear, while doing the complete opposite behind the curtain.
These puppets are experts in the art of deception. They’ll assure you that everything’s under control while steering the ship directly toward the iceberg. But don’t worry! By the time the next show rolls around, you’ll have forgotten the previous disaster. With their smooth words and staged sincerity, they’ll make you believe in their lies all over again. Who needs honesty when we have spectacle?
As one of our most successful investors once said:
Why would we want a population with moral foundations, when we can have people endlessly distracted by nonsense? That way, we hold all the power!
Our Training Fields
Step into the future with our brand-new Training Fields! Here, we prepare the next generation for a world where thinking is optional and obedience is rewarded. We start with the children, of course. Who needs critical thinking when we can offer them endless entertainment? We will fill their heads with all the information they need—specifically, the information we choose. Freedom of speech? Absolutely! They’re free to say anything, as long as it’s exactly what we tell them.
We’re training the kids to never experience difficulty, effort, or competition. Why should they suffer through challenges when we can make life pain-free and without discomfort? No one will be harmed, no feelings will be hurt, and they’ll all receive the same shiny participation trophy, whether they earned it or not.
We are raising a generation of adults who will never question authority, who will be spoon-fed all their desires, and who will thank us for the privilege of being taken care of from cradle to grave.
They won’t know what they’re missing because we’ve eliminated all that unnecessary stress of thinking for themselves! Who needs robots when we’ve got fully programmed humans?
Our Final Call
So come one, come all, and witness the spectacular final act of Western Civilization! Step right up, and enjoy the greatest circus in history while it lasts! Because soon, there may not be anything left but the fading echoes of a society that once was.
Doc, It sounds like you purchased a ring-side seat and the magic show totally pulled you in. Don't you know you can't win Three Card Monty?
So why play a crooked game with immoral dealers? Find another game, or stop playing.
By not playing I mean take decisions seriously. Democracy ain't perfect and it never will be. It can only be as good as we, the participants allow. You simply won't always win and some simply won't play fair, honest, honorable or for the greater good.
What is the greater good? Seems now it's a delusional circus, in the early 1940s it was isolationism then war. In the early 1900s you could buy a vote for a glass of beer. It's all still us. we do this and choose this for ourselves just as you seem to focus on the performances. Turn around the show isn't in the ring, that's where the magic illusions happen. Look at the audience and the area around the tent, at the world we have made. That's where reality is happening.
It seems you're distracted by the theater, believe one lie and the slippery slope gets steeper with each step.
I find most people loving and basically honest, one on one but many are scared and scared people can't tell who to trust. The enemy is us, not some "them". We believe what we want to believe. Belief does not require proof or facts. Fear is often sufficient.
Is the circus at least entertaining? You could feel good about that.
Historically today is not much different than the elections of 1903 or Andrew Jackson's campaign in the 1800s. Did the Dutch have the Spice Islander's wellbeing in mind when they enslaved them for Nutmeg? The Africans for cotton? The Aztecs for gold?
Nah, it is just us doing our thing without understanding consequences that don't affect us personally. As long as that's defined as winning apparently people will back the winners distracted by the dancing bear in the ring.
Opening the conversation is not sidelining. I consider it direct engagement and I applaud you for it.
But worse “because” of technology?
My position would be technology is morally/ethically neutral. The application of technology, people’s application of it, it’s our application that has ethical consequences. Decisions are still about us not how fast or throughly they are implemented by technology.
Human existence has always been brutal, boorish, tribal and still has made remarkable discoveries and insights. Ethics and morality being highlights. Some will deny with or without evidence any insight or explanation that contradicts existing beliefs as progress.
Phlogiston was a great theory, that reasonably explained the process of fire. It satisfied the interests/curiosity of many but was fundamentally wrong. Despite being quantitatively disproven, the theory persisted for decades likely due to the fact that it was “logical” to most people’s experience and frame of reference.
Technology is the device that ignites the fire. Rubbing sticks, phosphorus matches, butane lighters all start fire, the succession is technology.
Phlogiston was the circus ring holding people’s attention. An easy, obvious, misunderstood explanation for something that does not exist. But it sure can be entertaining when playing with matches. And therefore useful.
I find the “Modern World” focus of your articles totally absorbing not because of specific topics but because you are describing “us” in real time.
Technology has overtaken civilizations for eons. Fighting with sticks instead of teeth and claws, then rocks, spears, arrows, each technology empowered one group over another. With the advent of nuclear weapons humanity, for the last 70 years, finally realized the insane, inevitable outcome. Learning however is not permanent, perhaps humanities fatal flaw.
We’ll see.