This touches on a long running debate here, about whether the future is entirely predestined and perfectly predictable, or whether it is subject to quantum randomness and/or conscious free will actions of human beings. I don't see any reason to expect to be able to settle this puzzle now, as the flow of events seemingly becomes more chaotic.
I agree that the Biblical playbooks are influencing the course of modern human events. This could be because the logic of the Biblical stories arose under the same basic human condition that still pertains today. Or, it could be because the bible is so widely revered and studied, that its memes have become a part of human nature. Or it could be because the elite institutions and/or families that arose in the ancient past, are still in existence today and are well aware of their ancient heritage. Or, some combination of all three.
Events are also influenced by modern conditions, and innovations that could not be dreamed of in ancient times. So some sort of struggle between ancient Biblical ethics vs. modern rationalism may indeed be inevitable. But I don't see that the course of events can be predicted successfully with any particularity, whether or not the outcome is predetermined.
With my comment "The
new "new normal" is that we're arming ourselves to the teeth for the coming civil war" I was mainly meaning this as an observation. An article at "
The Federalist" confirms my statement:
May 2020 marked the third consecutive month of record-high firearm sales, bringing the total to an estimated 6 million guns sold since the coronavirus outbreak began in March. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a large portion of the sales records were driven by first-time gun owners.
“Our recent survey of firearm retailers shows us that 40 percent of these gun buyers are buying a firearm for the first time,” Mark Oliva, a spokesman for the group, said in a statement. “Of those first-time gun owners, 40 percent are women and these buyers are overwhelmingly purchasing handguns for personal protection.”
Also at the Federalist, I noticed this article headlined "
Americans Should Never Again Comply With Pandemic Lockdown Orders". I feel that this argument is transparently obvious to nearly everyone, and that nobody henceforth is going to refrain from doing anything they want to do on a voluntary basis because of coronavirus. Future lockdown orders are only going to be respected to the extent that they're backed by police actions and marshal law, and I guess that's a prediction? Anyhow, from the Federalist:
We’re told a second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful of states. We’ve heard warnings in recent days from the Centers for Disease Control and various public health experts and elected officials that a new series of lockdowns might be necessary.
What these experts and officials don’t seem to realize is that Americans will never comply with their lockdown orders again. They have burned their credibility to the ground, and they no longer have the moral authority to tell us what to do.
Simply put, the people in charge have shown themselves to be rank hypocrites who care more about politics than science. For months, we were told that large gatherings were deadly because of the coronavirus, but when protests broke out in late May, large gatherings were suddenly okay.
As an epidemiological matter, large outdoor gatherings might be much safer than large indoor gatherings, because of the effects of sunshine and breezes. But that is beside the point, because, as
the Federalist pointed out in another article: the mass media complained incessantly about Trump's campaign rally held indoors in Tulsa, but not at all about George Floyd's funeral, also held indoors.
If Trump is holding massive indoor campaign rallies, are the Democrats going to handicap themselves by abstaining from doing the same? If George Floyd gets a funeral, why shouldn't anyone's grandpa or grandma have the same respect? Restrictions are being lifted at breakneck pace anyhow.
So let's face it. Except for individual acts of voluntary social distancing, the lockdown phase is over. We are moving into the mass pandemic death phase, with no treatment (HCQ + AZT + Zinc disdained by the MSM and their audience), no known vaccine, and with the economy in shambles and not coming back.
And with unprecedented animosity between the "red" and "blue" teams. And there's a virtually unlimited stockpile of guns and ammo ready to be deployed.
