The Rabbit Hole: Politics & Prose

Fear is a powerful force; it can control our very basic responses with fight or flight; it can control families; it can even sway a continent's nature when properly applied. We often hear of how fear lurks in the heart of man, but it is also something that can be writ large in one's countenance.

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Writers of the past have already given us the insight and strength to understand 2020. There is nothing new under the sun, and all thoughts have been expressed before; we stand on the shoulders of our ancestors yet do not look to them as often as we should to unravel the torment of the modern world. You see, we may feel our time is one of uniqueness and unprecedented troubles, but the reality is a stark contrast. And as ever, the writers, the poets, and playwrights of the past have the words to express our contemporary circumstance in a way that contemporary artists appear unable.

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If the last few years have taught us anything in our ongoing political education, it's that conspiracy theories often turn out to be true, and that it is the dominant narrative that is, in fact, a conspiracy.

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The year 2020 will long be remembered for many aspects. Whether it remains in the mind as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the year of questionable election results, the year of Black Lives Matter and riots in the streets, there is, as they say, something for everyone. But perhaps the greatest legacy of this nefarious year will be the shift towards tyranny and the destruction of freedoms.

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We are told by gasping pundits that Donald Trump is refusing to hand over the power that has been taken from him in a legitimate vote and that by refusing to do so, he endangers the very Republic. But is it those fanning the flames who are the real destroyers of the nation?

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In terms of monumental political events, it's hard to argue that 2020 wasn't big in a lot of different ways. Certainly, there were no traditional major wars, and despite warnings of Armageddon, we are still here, in one piece … but perhaps a little wiser and a fraction more jaded. What can we learn from a poem written 100 years ago on the nature of man? Did William Butler Yeats see it all coming?

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There is a growing trend among global organizations, and it's one that sparks any number of convoluted conspiracy theories: Wargaming. This process sets out scenarios to look at strategies, reactions, and tactics. But they do not advertise their experiments as such. And fascism is behind it.

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In the last edition of The Rabbit Hole, we discussed tyrants throughout history and what their motivations may have been. We examined the life of General William Walker and his war campaign to become the President of Nicaragua and the actions of Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.

This week, we look at individuals who have tried to carve out their own minor kingdoms of either land or influence. And perhaps show that the heart of man, despite technology, despite millennia of civilization, has not really changed.

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History is littered with the names of those who sought to seize power, but we really only remember those who succeeded. And it hasn't stopped. We may think that despotism and land grabs are a thing of the past, but there are examples of it happening this very year.

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Identity politics and political systems will eventually fall because they have within them the seed of their own destruction. Yet there are pegs, written texts, that we can use to ensure the good remains when the bad is washed away.

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