It Is Good To Build: Part 3

Watching shenanigans in DC all I can think is “these are messed up people”. They don’t look right. They don’t act right. They don’t talk right. They don’t seem healthy and well adjusted. They don’t seem nice. I can’t imagine them being pleasant company. Nancy Pelosi is a harridan, Mitch McConnel is an embarrassment. Biden is a shell. As much as I liked Trump’s accomplishments, he’s not a guy with whom I’d enjoy a long road trip.

They’re all assholes.

More to the point, they’re evil.

I don’t say that just because I’m pissed off. I say that because of this:

Evil cannot build, it can only destroy.

Nothing we’re seeing out of DC is building. They’re tearing themselves, our society, and a 250-year-old republic to bits. To what end? What is the great accomplishment they’re going to produce out of all this destruction? They’re running around like rats on crack but all they create is activity, not improvement.

They’re not building because evil cannot build.

We were once a global economic powerhouse. Now the house of cards is so weak that politicians and technocrats are messing with market rules. They’re trying (and failing) to protect a hedge fund trying to drive a stock price down. Imagine that, people in power absolutely shitting in terror at a stock’s rise.

In November 2019 we finally became energy independent. In January 2021 we’re rolling that back. Everyone go home. Leave your work undone. Park your heavy equipment and find a job at a solar panel plant. Imagine that, people in power totally pissed off that our oil doesn’t come delivered by ocean tankers from OPEC nations. In the 1970’s OPEC handed us our ass. The middle east is pretty much always at war and most of that id financed by oil. You know what’s best? Best is not having to deal with that bullshit. Youngsters will have to trust me on this, the OPEC embargo sucked. Eventually you might not have to trust me at all. We can experience it all over again. Is it hard to imagine Biden borrowing Carter’s sweater and telling us proles to turn down the furnace? Maybe we’ll all tie yellow ribbons on trees over Iranian hostages too.

Between 1969 and 1972 the US landed six times on the moon. The government cannot do that now. Nobody on Earth can do that right now. Let’s repeat that. Nobody on the entire fucking planet can do what a bunch of nerds in the time before Pac Man did! What happened to building?

Between 1981 and 2011 there were about 130 space shuttle flights. The government cannot do that anymore. Over the last several years private enterprise has made great strides with better and cheaper craft. So, they’re setting out to fuck that up too. Two weeks into Biden-land and SpaceX is under investigation over HR practices. Personally, I don’t give a flying fuck how SpaceX operates so long as they build cool shit. I like cool shit. I like flight and exploration. The twits in power fret that the most important thing about SpaceX is HR practices. It’s because they cannot build.

The government built Hoover dam between 1931 and 1936. It was a big challenge. Serious engineering done by serious people. Hard work done by hard workers. When they were done, a thing that hadn’t existed had been created. Compare that to the years of 2016 and 2020 when the government twisted itself in knots trying to build and not-build a border wall. Trump accomplished upgrading 452 miles of border fence. Then, it stopped when a new band got on the stage. Same as the oil thing. Building is bad; limit yourself to Zoom meetings and spreadsheets. Park your heavy equipment and find a job at a solar panel plant, or SpaceX might need HR people. Why not just collect unemployment and watch Netflix like cattle on a vote farm? One can debate whether either construction is or was wise. That doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that a dam is a whole lot harder than a fucking fence. A century ago we managed the dam but now we cannot build.

If you see something and wonder if it’s evil. See what it can build. Evil cannot build.

Almost done… one more post coming.