The Coming Second American Revolution

Once again I overstep my friendship with Dr Jack Wheeler and run his entire column (PAID only) from To the Point News, because it needs to be said. And Dr. Wheeler pulls no punches. He tells it straight and true, which is so necessary in these mendacious and Orwellian times. Jack restates the obvious.

Quantum Weirdness Dr. Jack Wheeler

The great physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962), who pioneered the study of sub-atomic or quantum physics, was fond of saying, "If someone says that he can think about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it."

The

Alice-in-Wonderland

quality of sub-atomic physics is called quantum weirdness. It was in response to such weirdness that Bohr's contemporary scientist J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) claimed "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Today, however, the concept of quantum weirdness seems also to apply to politics in America.

Clearly, we are no longer living in a world of normal reality. For the first time in US history, we have a president who hates his own country. A president who is on the side of America's enemies, not on the side of America.

(The latest example, explained this week by Jack Kelly, regards Honduras.)

We have a media who reveres and worships as a demi-god a president who hates his, and their, country.

We have a government spending trillions of dollars it does not have in a seemingly determined effort to destroy everyone's life savings via inflation.

We have a Congress that passes the largest tax increase in the history of the world (literally) via a 1,300 page Climate Bill that no one has read and based on utterly fraudulent science.

We have a governor who goes so around the bend that he trashes his wife, four children, his career and life for some broad in Argentina.

We have a people who go completely bananas with grief over the suicide of a washed-up pedophilic fruitcake ex-rock star.

This is societal quantum weirdness, a dissociation from normal reality, of which additional examples could be endlessly provided. Yet extreme, unhinged, over-the-top weirdness is normally what you get when you get close to a tipping point, close to the bursting of a bubble.

Madnesses of crowds are most often economic, such as the dotcom craze or the housing bubble. A lot of folks lose a lot of money, and that's it. But when such a madness pervades an entire society, the consequences can be far more dramatic. Such a madness is often the runup to a revolution.

Revolutions are chaotic, dangerous things. We were blessed-by-Providence lucky in our first one in 1776. We got freedom and George Washington, while the French with theirs in 1789 got the guillotine and Napoleon. Which will we get in the coming Second American Revolution?

The pervasive quantum weirdness we are experiencing is clearly pointing towards mass societal breakdown. We will emerge out the other side of it with either more freedom or more fascism. You can bet it will be the latter unless there is a planned, concerted, purposeful, and organized effort to secure the former.

The focus of such an effort should be clear: constitutional government. Advocates of freedom in America have an extraordinary advantage over the advocates of fascism: the legal foundation of the country, the Constitution. But will they take that advantage?

There is no constitutional basis whatever, for example, no enumerated power for a single page of the 1,300 pages Climate Bill. None for 90% of the laws, regulations, programs, and agencies of the federal government.

Yet if there is not a Movement to Restore the Constitution that takes hold of the Republican Party - the only political entity that can realistically stop the Democrat drive towards fascism - then the end result of our quantum madness will be Darkness at Noon.

The July 4th Tea Parties - now registered to take place in 1,347 cities - could be the start of such a constitutional movement. If they remain an amorphous unfocused complaint against "too much" government regulation and taxes, then the tea party movement will fizzle.

Only with a clearly understandable and positive focus on what it wants to achieve, not just what it opposes, can it reach a threshold capable of driving the direction of coming chaos towards freedom and away from fascism.

So if you are participating in a tea party this Saturday the 4th, consider doing what you can for it to have a constitutional focus.

We're all in this together. It's up to all of us individually to help enable our country to escape from quantum weirdness, to become normal and sane once again.

[Note: for a well-thought discussion of how quantum weirdness is no stranger than "Newtonian weirdness" - to this day, science really doesn't understand gravity - see this essay by physicist Paul Quincey.]

Comments

[culturist]

Great article! I like the points about the need for a second American revolution. I agree that the Republicans are the only ones who can realistically lead it. I disagree, however, with his analysis of the tea party movement.

Being against government spending is a really direct issue that actually encapsulates the "clearly understandable and positive focus" he wants. The climate change legislation can, for example, be challenged based on the taxes it requires. Fiscal responsibility is huge and understandable.

I guess he wants us to include a protest of the vapidity of media, ala his Michael Jackson complaint. I suppose he wants us to denounce adulterous Senators (that would hurt Republicans). If there is an underlying moral message, that seems to me to be diffuse.

I like the tea parties as they are. GOOOooOOO TEAM !!

[sweetness and light]

Read George Washington's Farewell address....he warned that if parties existed, we would lose our country because the politiians would divide us. The Tea Parties are all about that...the republicants cannot and never will lead a second American Revolution because they are just that: they are a party. They do not represent the will of the people, but their own once they are in "power"; they have waaaayyy too much to gain by being in office.

What it takes to get nominated by the republicants is nothing less than a lay-down of your conscience just as it is so with the demnocraps. It is the system of two party rule that got us here.

We will have a second revolution but it will be against the status quo. Try reading GOOOH.com for a start, and then decide to ruin for office yourself. I personally will vote for anyone who is not a lawyer, never has been a lawyer and has been going to the Tea Parties. That's plenty easy to prove. Go get a petition and start the process and quit bitcchin.

[mgoldberg]

Fine article, by Quincy on Quantum Weirdness. I used to get my subscription to Skeptical Inquirer but it's anti religion, which is just as boring and it was when it was the reverse 500 yrs ago. For me, I like to read those who point out the same weirdness has been calculated in for several thousands of years, and if you think I'm exaggerating, check out some good articles by Dr Gerald Schroeder, MIT nuclear physicist and religious jew, who's articles and audio downloads are worth taking a look and listen too. Here's his artilce on existence at-http://www.geraldschroeder.com/existence.aspx. His site has a bunch more of his articles, as well as audio files, which are wonderfully surprising.

[moderationist]

Non cultural warfare issues like taxes and constitutional issues will doom the Rep Party, this guy doesn't get gut based cultural warfare

[Mongol in the Mountains]

sweetness and light :

Couldn't agree with you more. I would like to see more non-lawyers in charge so maybe our votes would actually be counted.

Greedy lawyers (professional liars) blinded by money and yoked to corruption. They don't give a shit about the People.
Is that true, you ask? "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. " (willieboy clinton)

[Mongol in the Mountains]

"the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

My electronics professor used to talk about computer malfunctions that had no obvious cause; he explained it like this: positive electrons are attracted to negative electrons, and negative electrons are attracted to positive electrons, and everything will work right as long as that law of electricity is followed in an atomic environment. It is when you get the occasional "queertrons" that seem to be unnaturally attracted to electrons of the same charge (positive or negative) that things really start to get screwed up and strange malfunctions occur.

Also sounds a bit like the chaos theory where things get moving faster and faster just before an explosion or just before the downfall of an empire.

When the shiite hits the fan and everybody is through wiping their faces, maybe then they will see the importance of "Change" of government -- if it's not too late by then.

Right Wing Extremist against left wing socialist pussies.

[Mongol in the Mountains]

Correction:

positive protons attract negative electrons. Electrons are negative (unless they are queertrons).

[David R. Graham]

Concur in the spirit of things, however, my understanding (unprofessional) is that quantum mechanics is a fact of life and not one to be escaped. By analogy, one would expect that quantum weirdness is as well.

Better therefore to cope -- not the same as manage -- with both quantum mechanics or quantum weirdness than try, forlornly, to escape either. Even suicide would participate in both, which is why the Classical Skeptics, in their radical honesty, eschewed it.

Our US Constitution is a fine instrument for coping with life without presuming to manage much less escape it, both of which are impossible.

These collectivists' presumption of escaping life in order to manage life is what is giving everyone fits -- including them -- because the presumption is doubly false. Pretty soon we are going to observe the White House order its minions to approach the sea and lash it for disobedience, figuratively speaking. King of the World my foot.

The Mercer Island, WA 04JUL09 Tea Party was a lovely event, probably 4-500 people, very hot weather, well-organized, nicely led, fine mixed crowd, and the emphasis was on constitutionalism. So Mr. Wheeler should be pleased with that one at least.