Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto led the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Whether he actually wrote or said the following, which sometimes is attributed to him, is of little consequence. He certainly should have said it. “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” More than say it, he would have been well served to feel the crushing weight of its meaning pressing down upon his bones.
The sheer numerical difference in population between America and Japan would have given the admiral cause for concern. He had an awareness of our burgeoning industrial output, which dwarfed Japan’s, and knew that once this production was turned from civilian to military purpose that it would prove disastrous for his nation. These things the admiral, educated and intelligent, well knew. What it is unlikely that he comprehended –the element most crucial in sealing the eventual fate of his apparently successful sneak attack as instead a blunder of historic significance—was the full measure of our truth. It is truth boldly declared as the beginning of our sacred document: We the People. Our truth is that we the people are the giant.
Yamamoto did not know truly what it was he had assaulted. Could not know it. Numerical superiority and industrial might beyond rival were not what he had attacked that would doom his cause. Coming from his world with its restrictions and limitations on that which is our most empowering quality, individual liberty, he could not comprehend the strength of the giant he had awakened. Freedom of thought, of action, pursuit of one’s own happiness, personal freedom, primacy of the individual; these constitute the colossal musculature of the giant he poked.
It is being awakened again today, the giant. Yamamoto, from his culture and time, could not grasp who the giant really was and what was its motive power and so could be forgiven his ignorance of its nature. The damn fools prodding the mighty, quiet beast today are American by birth and live here in the land of the free. It is astounding that they fail to recognize what it is they unleash upon themselves.
In most part the giant, now grown past 330 million individual souls, quietly keeps to itself, pursuing its own individual interests; 330 million in variety. The giant is slow to anger. Slower to wrath. The giant’s normal behavior is to focus on pursuing the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. This focus has lately been mistaken by enemies of freedom as weakness by the giant. Complacency. So, these miscreants, like Yamamoto, have attacked. Who are they? They are the collective. The borg. The hive. They call the state lord and the individual servant. Their army is the individually mindless flying monkeys from that dark castle that is not in Kansas.
Feel the gargantuan strength that flows throughout yourself. You are the giant; unassuming, busy with the living of your own life –until others threaten your freedom to live it. When those others wrongly and in vain attempt to force you to live by their dictates and not by empowering your mind, then those fools, like the admiral, gain your attention. Earn your wrath. Deserve that wrath.
Yamamoto proudly flew his country’s flag into battle when he attacked your recent ancestors: he was a villain easy to identify. The giant knew full well in that time of turmoil who to smite. Your enemy today dwells among you, calls himself fellow citizen, neighbor, swears he has your interest at heart. He says demanding you grant him authority over your life is somehow in your good interest. This foe can be harder to recognize than one wearing a uniform of a nation openly opposed to yours and flying that nation’s banners.
But recognize them you can. Know them by their actions. They begin by introducing something to the populace to instill fear, then very quickly fan the flame of fear into hysteria, and then, every time, coach you not to trust your mind about how best you can cope with the object of the fear but instead to abdicate authority over your brain and your body. Sign that authority over to them. Whereas, they say, you are incompetent to do this for yourself, they know how to make it better for you.
Even when they don’t wear another country’s uniform or fly its flag, even when they dress like you and live just around the corner, telltale identifiers mark them as the loathsome creatures they are. One sure way to know them is that, in claiming they have the people’s interest at heart they will always diminish the people’s freedoms and the people’s right to control the wealth the people have earned for themselves. Always you can be sure that when the witches who command the winged monkeys pass down from on high their prescriptions for protecting the helpless, hapless rest of us, then the monkeys will swoop in with the witches’ collection plates to relieve you of your birthright to control and use for yourself your wealth, and they will try to rob you of the sovereignty of your own thoughts and the good disposition of your spirit.
Wake giant. Rise. Swat the monkeys like the insects they in truth are: 1) In 1970 the world’s population was 3.7 billion. The witches proclaimed and their monkeys shrieked the earth could not sustain such a heavy throng and soon civilization must collapse beneath the weight. Mass starvation to ensue. Today there are 7.9 billion souls of us. 2) Very shortly after that, in 1973, the witches spat their venom and mounted their brooms to spread the dire news the world was on the very brink of running out of oil. There are more discovered oil reserves in the world right now than then –those 48 years gone by. “BUT THE AIR POLLUTION IS KILLING US ALL!” This is the next hysteria the witches primed us with. But in 2020 both the American Lung Association and the EPA confirmed dramatic improvements in United States air quality over the last fifty years. (Send the monkeys back to their barracks. Let them rest and keep their hands out of the giant’s pockets. There is no need for them to pilfer 330 million purses to pay for some cockamamie climate accord. 3) The forced wearing of permeable cloth masks under the farcical pretense they stop a microscopically sized virus from passing thru the gaps between their fibers? Violating the Nuremberg Code by mandating –and enforcing by threat, coercion, bribing, social shaming, etc. –that citizens be injected against their will with a scarcely tested, often dangerous, ineffective pseudo vaccine.? Telling one citizen he must be responsible for the health of others while those others blithely walk about having eaten and not exercised themselves into obesity (with its many attendant ill health outcomes) while they puff away on cigarettes.? The unconscionable withholding of known, effective treatments which could all but empty our hospitals of those suffering with covid?
Do you see the formula the witches use? Exaggeration. Lies. Fear. Hysteria. All always used to cowl the individual citizen into submitting to the will of the state at the sacrifice of his or her own will (here use as synonym for the word “will” the word “freedom”.)
Wake, Giant. Rise. Swat these robbers off you. Stride the earth.
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