Good Faith Vs Bad Faith
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation,
"In conditions of mass democracy, the soft and the infantilising will be preferred over the hard and the necessary again and again."
- Eugyppius on X
Clusterfuck Nation never sleeps, even while everybody else lays aside their labors. Later today we'll light up the ceremonial grill, but for now it's onto the tribulations of this dolorous moment in history.
It was just such a sparkling September morning twenty-five years ago when those hijacked airliners knifed into the World Trade Center towers (plus the Pentagon + a field outside Shanksville, PA). Despite all the forensic debate since then, I go with the original explanation that four teams of jihadi maniacs did the 9/11 deed. And also, yet, despite all the official defenses mounted since then - the Patriot Act, etc. - here we are allowing a massive Islamic infiltration and even takeover of many places in America, proving, at least, that history is trickster.
After the trauma of 9/11, you can't deny our country went off the rails psychologically, along with the rest of Western Civ, as if its immune system broke down and the body politic admitted all kinds of malevolent parasites into itself. They have induced disease in most of society's organs - our institutions - the main political parties, the news media, the government agencies, the foundations, the schools, the arts & letters. The West's collective brain got badly damaged in the process.
The disease is identifiable, though some of its mechanisms remain mysterious. The disease is called bad faith: acting or speaking falsely, and knowingly so. Pretending one thing as a cover for meaning something else, such as hollering about "justice" when you really mean vengeance; "inclusion" when you mean to cancel others out of careers and livelihoods; "diversity" when you won't tolerate disagreement; "democracy" when you just want to push everybody else around.
The forces behind all this give off an odor of the occult. You can perhaps name and locate some of the engines driving it - the "Globalists," the Marxists, the London banks, the EU, the WEF, the São Paulo Forum, the CCP - but their motives remain obscure. Angela Merkel has stated plainly why she allowed the mass immigration of the Third World into Germany (and thereby into all Europe due to the Schengen agreement that erased the EU nations' borders): "to counter right-wing extremism," she said. That sounds pretty clear, but it also seems quite crazy. And why on earth does Ursula von der Leyen do everything possible to keep that going? Have the migrants not sufficiently demonstrated their antipathy to Western society? How many rapes, knifings, beheadings, café massacres, and Christmas Village drive-throughs does it take?
It's also hard to fathom how the London bankers (whoever they are?) have any sympathy with the Marxist revolutionaries who want to end the concept of private property and the instrumentalities of money that go with it. Or how the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations became so enamored of socialism. Or why the CIA seems bent on betraying the American common good. Or how come the League of Women Voters stridently opposes common sense election reform.
The race hustle is more comprehensible. It operates within a permission-structure built on the agonizing differential between success and failure.
It's just plain extortion: our failure is your fault, so pay up. And meanwhile, thanks for no-bail-and-no-jail, and for permission to shoplift, rape, murder, loot, and riot when we feel like it. (And cry harder about it.) It's an obvious sado-masochistic setup.
The gender game gets more complicated, but it also comes out of a permission-structure based on success / failure, aggravated by a mutual shortage of marriageable males and females forced to compensate for any combination of bad luck and bad choices that lead to failure in life.
But that dynamic has been neatly hijacked by groups seeking to create as much social chaos as possible. Why else would the Democratic Party get so avid for drag queen story hours in the early school grades? Is it not obvious that this isn't really comedy, as claimed? Rather, it's the presentation of women as monsters. Have you ever stopped to wonder how many of the kids watching these exhibitions are actually terrified by the disturbed adult males acting-out in their faces?
And now, the gender lunacy has climaxed - in Massachusetts, arguably the craziest US state - where mobs of deranged women chant and blubber in sympathy outside the courthouse where a mother who strangled her three kids just got off the hook.
The kids were unfairly cluttering up Lindsey's life, you understand. . . .If anything is an apt tipping point for a society to go one way or another, there it is.
Twenty-five years of being insane is enough.
It's not making life easier for anybody. This is the meaning of Trump. He is aiming to fix as much of this as possible. That it's his fate to play this role is further evidence that history is a trickster. It's easy to make fun of him and his mannerisms; harder to weigh who and what he is fighting against - and what the stakes are. You might just boil it down to a battle between good faith and bad faith, of meaning business and playing games. The time for meaning business is at hand, and the time for playing dishonest games is over. Happy Labor Day and get ready for the action that's about to come at you as we turn this corner into fall, for real.
Tyler Durden Tue, 09/08/2026 - 16:20