John C. Wright's Journal

Those of you following the news know that the Canadian trucker convoy, who gathered to block traffic in protest, at first, of mandated injections at borders crossings, and, later, of curfews, internment camps, and other totalitarian measures by the Canadian government.

The Canadian government moved unlawfully to against their bank assets under a modern form of Bill of Attainder (conviction before trial) and Corruption of the Blood (property seizure), by freezing their bank accounts.

However, those who had invested in cryptocurrency were not as vulnerable.

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This is a column from a dozen years ago, which I thought worth reposting, as it seems more relevant now than when first written.

In Robert Heinlein’s famed ‘Future History’ he constructed an elaborate timeline of thing to come, to provide a structure for his short stories.

Looking forward from the year 1940, when the timeline was first formed, it was reasonable, even conservative, guesswork to predict the moonlanding by the 1980’s, forty years later, since the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers had been forty years earlier. Heinlein’s Luna City founded in 1990 a decade or so later, with colonies on Mars and Venus by 2000. Compare: a submersible ironclad was written up as a science romance by Jules Verne in 1869, based on the steam-powered ‘diving boat’ of Robert Fulton, developed in 1801. In 1954 the first atomic-powered submarines—all three boats were named Nautilus—put to sea. The gap between Verne’s dream and Rickover’s reality was eight decades, about the time separating Heinlein’s writing of “Menace from Earth” and its projected date.

Looking back from the year 2010, however the dates seem remarkably optimistic and compressed. We have not even mounted a manned expedition to Mars as yet, and no return manned trips to the Moon are on the drawing boards.

One prediction that was remarkably prescient, however, was the advent of “The Crazy Years” described as “Considerable technical advance during this period, accompanied by a gradual deterioration of mores, orientation, and social institutions, terminating in mass psychoses in the sixth decade, and the interregnum.”

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A reader with the ballistic yet devotional name of Guns and Rosaries pens a thoughtful objection to the column entitled ‘Color Coding the Enemy‘. He writes:

I would like to call into question the classification of “isolationists” as the enemy. I think the commitments to maintaining the USA’s global military and trade hegemony have enriched and empowered the very same globalists who are our enemies under the blue-helmet category. The enslavement of most of Asia and the impoverishment of the American blue-collar worker would not have happened were it not for unrestricted global free trade, protected by this hegemony. This global hegemony has also paved the way for the woke types in the Establishment to attempt to spread their cultural rot all over.

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On the Hugh Hewitt radio broadcast not long ago, I heard a guest summing up his plans to save the West which aligned so nicely with the goals of the Last Crusade, that I regret being unable to recall his name or find him by looking up the published guest lists of the show. Would that I could give credit where credit is due.

Allow me, nonetheless, to summarize his remarks:

He started, first, by saying it was the duty of every man to recognize that we were at war, and to rouse both public and political leaders to that fact.

At war with whom? He color coded the enemy for ease of discussion: Green is the Jihad of Islam, their traditional hue; Blue is the color of the United Nations flag and helmet, and stands for the Globalists; White, the flag of surrender, stands for Isolationists and Uniparty GOP; Red are the Socialists.

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