The Bad Guys Won—Now What?
I think about this post a lot.
On a recent trip to the grocery store, for instance. You walk into a Kroger and are offered a 360-degree multi-sensory experience of severe spiritual devastation. Crowds of chronically unvigorous and sadly blank-eyed people.1 Shelves filled with nutrient-free and borderline-poisonous foodstuffs which will make people even more unvigorous. (Of course all these foodstuffs are made by the same six or eight megacorps cashing in on our woes.) Endless packaging, destined for landfills or the side of the road. Lots and lots of diversity. Credit card readers buzzing away. Glum employees in blue vests going through hopelessly monotonous tasks for $12/hour. A thoroughly corporate voice coming on the loudspeaker to remind you it’s time for another Covid booster, or shingles, or monkeypox, or whatever. I could go on and on. Your country has been transformed into a sheep-shearing operation, and if you don’t see it you’re not looking hard enough.2
The bad guys won and you live in the world they made. Those with eyes to see spot it in the most uneventful things, the total banality of evil. What you do about it is up to you, but that’s the situation.
