On Saturday, I published an article on the apparent suicide of Jason Arday using Émile Durkheim’s concept of anomie as an explanatory concept. Anomic suicide occurs when an individual is subjected to extreme or disrupted forms of regulation. As I was penning that essay, I became aware that the mass media, consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), launched an attack on President Trump by exploiting sailors attempting suicide on the USS Lincoln, currently deployed in the Middle East.
I am sympathetic to the situation of sailors on the Lincoln; however, the media is not telling their audience that sailors attempting suicide is common in naval history. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell is blaming the media for what he called “a false narrative.” Parnell is right; the media is disseminating a false narrative. Before I explain the deeper reasons why, I want to say a bit more about Durkheim’s suicide typology to help the reader see why the media narrative should be understood as false on its face.
One might consider Durkheim’s concept of anomie to explain this, as I did in the Arday article. But Durkheim’s concept of egoistic suicide is more apt in the Lincoln case. In egoistic suicide, the individual is insufficiently integrated into collective life. During a long naval deployment, a sailor may feel detached and isolated, with no meaningful connection to the crew. The longer the deployment, the more detached and isolated the sailor becomes, and suicide is a risk. There are approximately 5,000 service members stationed aboard the aircraft carrier Lincoln. Predictably, a handful of sailors will be insufficiently integrated with their crew.
The media is reframing a common phenomenon and making it appear as the result of an extraordinary situation. But there is nothing extraordinary about long deployments during times of war. Sailors may not be fully aware of what they signed up for, but they did sign up for military service. The solution is not to bring the Lincoln to port, but to understand the problem of egoistic suicide and confront it in those terms. Given that the problem of suicide among service members is a chronic one, the Navy has ways of addressing it. This would likely not be news but for the fact that Trump is president.
Supposing that the story originated with popular concern originating in family complaints, rather than explaining this to the public in the terms I just outlined, the media is taking a personal tragedy with known sociological causes and using it to attack the Commander-in-Chief. Media elites are weaponizing egoistic suicide to undermine the command structure of the US military. Why would they do this? This is the more important question.
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One cannot address the question without understanding the aims of transnational corporate power and the anti-West project. We must therefore move beyond Durkheimian functionalism to conflict theory. The conflict is at scale, so we turn to macrosociology and political economy to orient our observations. Here, the picture becomes clear: China and Iran are strategic partners with significant economic and security cooperation. China is essential to the designs of the globalists who are effectively denationalizing the world order. Trump’s intervention in Iran is, from the globalist standpoint, interference with the transnationalist agenda.
How else would one explain why the transnational corporate order integrated the largest totalitarian communist state in world history into the global economic system? Such a relatively rapid world-changing event doesn’t happen by accident. Indeed, we know who did it. In the United States, the Democratic Party spearheaded the project to fuse the American and Chinese economies. As Senator, Joe Biden played a principal role in this development. It is one of his many betrayals—among others, the opening of America’s southern border and the invasion of tens of millions of illegal alien invaders during the man’s illegitimate presidency.
For what purpose would Biden and the Democrats do such a thing? Is it not obvious? They have deindustrialized the United States by moving manufacturing to China to take advantage of cheap, subjected labor, crash the standard of living for ordinary Americans, demoralize the population, and undermine popular political power. And there is more to it than that. Elites seek to establish a comprehensive control apparatus. China is the paradigm surveillance state of the New World Order. Transnational corporate elites intend to entrench a new mass control apparatus based on surveillance and simulation.
The crisis of late capitalism requires a new model to manage an increasingly disaffected population for the sake of elite power and privilege, concentrated in the hands of a small number of firms and wealthy individuals. The new model is global neofeudalism, where the world proletariat becomes serfs managed on high-tech estates. There will be no democracy or liberty in the future. What may appear as popular participation and individual freedom in the next epoch will be simulacra only—and most observers will be unable to tell the difference. Simulacra are everywhere today, and they are shared by people who believe they are authentic.
How does Iran fit in with this plan? Islam has proven to be an effective weapon in the deconstruction of liberal democracy. Islamized populations are subservient to religious delusions ultimately managed by economic elites. Islam is essentially the fascist design (corporations and financial institutions were behind fascist states like Nazi Germany), but superior to fascism in that Islam explicitly seeks an end to nationalism, which is the greatest threat to globalism. Like communism, Islam envisions a world without nations. However, Islam has proven more effective in colonizing the lifeworlds of Western populations. Tragically, susceptibility to religious delusions is a common disposition, however variable. For every person who resists the siren song of religions promising solutions to man’s problems, there is one or more ready to wreck the ship of society upon the rocks of mythology.
So far in this essay, I have focused on the United States. But we can see the unfolding of the plan in Europe and the regionalization project, i.e., the European Union and the Schengen Area. The United Kingdom, to take the obvious case, has been deindustrialized. The quasi-religion of environmentalism plays a major role in hollowing out the core. At the same time, Europe has been flooded with Muslims. Englishmen now find themselves the minority in their own cities. These developments are driving the nations of Europe to the brink of financial collapse. Out of Europe’s ashes the New World Order will arise like the phoenix.
Those who deny this is happening are of two sorts. The first are those leading the deconstruction project. They control the mass media that confuses popular understanding. The USS Lincoln is a case in point. There are many others. The second sort are the indoctrinated whom the first brainwashed and now mobilize to resist the nationalist reclamation of the West and liberalism. TDS is a sign of the power of brainwashing. The COVID-19 pandemic and the Red-Green Alliance are others. The purpose of mass psychogenic illness is to demoralize and pacify the general population—to render them inert in the greatest conflict of our time.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the free people of the West find themselves in existential crisis. The only way out is through nationalism. The difficulty is that the political party chosen by the moment—the Republican Party—is itself partly captured by transnational corporate power. And with the possibility that Democrats will retake Congress in 2027, the number of captured Republicans will likely grow as the party is forced into a compromise position.
This would already have happened had Trump not prevailed in 2024. That is how close America is to the Republic’s end. Trump is a glimmer of hope. There are glimmers in Europe, as well. Alternative for Germany (AfD) is one of them. But glimmers are not enough. Following the lead of the six US Senators who called on soldiers to disobey Trump’s orders, Germany’s police union has called on officers to defy any “unconstitutional” orders if the AfD takes power.
Defiance of populist governments is part of the elite transatlantic plan. What is needed to counter the plan is mass action by patriots across the Western space and the election of leaders prepared to punish the enemies of freedom. This is no time for compromise. Deconstruct the transnational order.
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