Everything is Going According to Plan

307 Pages·2017·0.99 MB·English

by  Dmitry Orlov

Everything is
Going According to
Plan
Dmitry Orlov
Everything is Going According to Plan
© 2017 Dmitry Orlov
Publication date: September 11, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1976297670
ISBN-10: 1976297672
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Introduction............................................................................1
Brain Parasite Gonna Eatcha!................................................7
Is Obama a Russian Agent?...................................................17
How to Make America Great Again with Other People’s
Money.....................................................................................21
You are not in control..........................................................31
The Real Nuclear Threat.......................................................37
From Hypocrisy to Cynicism................................................43
The guy who created the universe......................................51
The Demiurge and the Banality of Evil...............................61
Groundhog Day in Syria........................................................71
The Mystery of American Violence.....................................85
Obsolete Maps, Unfamiliar Landscapes............................101
Revenge of the Polite Men in Green..................................113
Olduvai on the Dnepr..........................................................121
Venerating Stalin’s Ghost...................................................141
A Walk in the Garden of Unintended Consequences.......159
Collapse Mitigation Strategies...........................................171
Past-Peak America..............................................................183
The Terrorizers, the Terrorists and the Terrorized........195
Are Humans Even Necessary?............................................205
Embarrassing Times............................................................215
Nature’s Conquest of Man..................................................223
Trump Trolls America........................................................233
“Facts on the Ground”........................................................243
The Great American Health Care Non-Debate.................255
The Laughing Gas War........................................................275
The Danger of Being Taken Seriously...............................285
The Nuclear Solution..........................................................295

Introduction
If you look at the contemporary condition of the United States,
it is easy to fall into the emotional sinkhole of feeling sad, be-
moaning the sorry state of things, complaining bitterly and
cursing your fate. It’s all coming unstuck! Is it even possible,
under these conditions, to continue to entertain the sunny no-
tion that everything is exactly as it should be in this, the best
of all possible worlds? I sincerely hope so! There are, of course,
the easy rationalizations of “it could always be worse” and “we
ain’t dead yet”; however, few of us find them entirely satisfac-
tory. But there is also the far more enticing possibility of un-
derstanding how we got here and where we are going. Once we
achieve it, we can briefly blame ourselves for ever having ex-
pected anything different, and then move on to better things.
This understanding is not easily won; for many of us, it is be-
coming increasingly hard to bridge the yawning chasm be-
tween the observed and the wished for. Just look!
A new civil war is brewing in the US between a rainbow
coalition of aggrieved minorities and the assorted scions of a
vanishing breed railing at having their once glorious history
erased. First to go are the heroes of the Confederacy who
showed true valor in bravely defending their home states
against colonialist invaders from the North (inadvertently also
defending the ghastly institution of American slavery—possi-
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bly the worst kind of slavery ever).
But why stop there? The next batch of American heroes to
be rubbed out using the newly patented Magic History Eraser
are all those complicit in the genocide perpetuated against Na-
tive Americans (once erroneously referred to as “Indians”)
turning the story of “How the West Was Won” into “How the
West was Raped, Tortured and Killed,” which, lacking an up-
beat message, will turn out to be not quite as popular and
quickly forgotten. And why should Latinos (and Latinas) ven-
erate the perpetrators of the Spanish American War, or any of
those who came after and are continuing to meddle in the in-
ternal affairs of Latin American countries to this day? And
what about that ghastly white supremacist slave-owner
George Washington? Let’s rub out his name everywhere, and
rename Washington, District of Columbia, to Obamaville!
Speaking of District of Columbia… in the end this will all in-
evitably come down to Christopher Columbus—the man guilty
of starting this whole mess by accidentally “discovering”
America. It is perfectly obvious that the historical accident
that is “America” must be un-discovered. Easier said than
done! It isn’t some small object that one can simply misplace,
or mislabel, or hide under a rock. It is a civilization, and to be
rendered sanitary it has to be fed through a special de-civiliz-
ing machine.
Is it enough to topple all the statues, blast the faces off
Mount Rushmore and criminalize politically incorrect speech?
Hardly! The libraries might still contain records of numerous
politically incorrect utterances, such as the following classic
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by Sir Winston Churchill: “I do not admit… that a great wrong
has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black peo-
ple of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to
these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade
race, a more worldly wise race… has come in and taken their
place.” Some impressionable young person might read that
and decide that efforts to promote diversity empower losers
and disempower winners, causing everyone to lose, and we
certainly can't have anyone thinking that! Therefore, the li-
braries must be burned as well. And Churchill's monument in
Washington… sorry, Obamaville… must of course be toppled.
Once America has been shorn of its history, its monuments
defaced and destroyed, its graves desecrated, its libraries
burned and its stories forgotten, the survivors of this cata-
clysm of anger and forgetting can be reassigned to one of a
myriad of tiny micro-identities designed to celebrate diversity.
Ideally, these micro-identities should be based not on his-
torical times, places or events but on cosmetic and below-the-
belt personal peculiarities and proclivities. Then those subject
to identity reassignment can be relocated to safe spaces where
they will be taught to express themselves in carefully scripted
platitudes to avoid micro-aggressing members of some micro-
identity or other.
In the normal course of human affairs there are usually one
or two adults on hand who keep the kindergarten class from
arming itself and going on a murderous rampage. But here in
the US there are no adults left because the entire political
realm seems to be nearly defunct. I hesitate to call it a political
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spectrum, because a spectrum consists of light, whereas here
we have just the infrared—residual heat—plus an overpower-
ing stench of death.
Consider the Democrats: unable to countenance the fact
that half the country (just about everyone outside the big
cities) hates them and refuses to vote for them, they have con-
cocted a false narrative in which their losses have been caused
by “Russian hacking/meddling.” When that narrative turned
out to be a tissue of lies, they proceed straight to Plan B:
Trump is a fascist, everyone who supports him is a fascist, and
therefore we must fight a civil war against fascism.
Of the Republicans, the less said the better, except it bears
pointing out that majority parties that can’t get a single thing
done don’t usually remain majority parties for very long. And
I'll confine my mention of other parties to a single sentence, to
avoid wasting everyone's time. In short, that’s no way to run a
kindergarten class.
And then there is the poor hapless Trump who thought
that pretending to be a politician and getting himself elected
president would allow him to change things for the better: se-
cure the borders, put people back to work, stop losing wars, re-
build the infrastructure, fix health care, rework unfavorable
trade deals, etc. But apparently he applied for the job without
bothering to read the job description, even though it’s quite
short. In fact, it contains just one sentence: “Promise the sun
and the moon, but then preserve the status quo.” Trump is an
actor who didn't know that he is an actor, who blundered onto
the stage of a farce not knowing that it is a farce. He promptly
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