Like cures like.
It’s an homeopathic principle. I’ve had very little benefit from formal homeopathy and believe the discipline to be mostly well-intentioned, romantic nonsense. However, I have benefited from this axial principle.
I’m in the midst of yet another poison oak insult after a recent climbing trip. Utilizing the principle of “like cures like,” I manage the acute, itchy, inflammatory response of my skin with the application of heat via a blowdryer. The local nerves get overwhelmed and essentially stop transmitting any signals for several hours. Peace comes through the intentional exacerbation of my condition.
We are on track for total societal collapse by 2040. The global events we see unfolding before us are timed to coincide with this understanding that has been in place since MIT first published its paper in 1972 detailing the limits of unchecked economic expansionism on a finite planet.
To be clear, we’re not talking about Armageddon or global annihilation. Rather, we’re talking about total social and economic collapse that will undoubtedly usher in an extended period of civil unrest as we fight our way toward new, more sustainable models. With this in mind, billionaires are building their bunkers as many in power work feverishly to fleece the masses for one last massive money-grab before it all goes catawampus.
There are a few philosophical pathways to consider as we navigate elections and careen toward this inevitability.
Nihilism is being adopted en masse by our young people who are experiencing alarming levels of depression and hopelessness increasingly recognized as a public health concern. There is almost certainly a correlation between this and the historically low American birth rate which further threatens to undermine social stability. With no hope for the future, many of our young people are simply refusing to bring children into the world. The establishment relies on nihilism to keep us checked out. Nihilists maintain the status quo through their apathy. The nihilists will vote for Biden, if at all.
Activism is another option. We’re seeing an exciting uptick here, most notably in the college encampments organized primarily by those young people as yet unwilling to give up on the possibility of a better future. The rest of us have a tremendous opportunity, perhaps even a responsibility, to support this work as a life-ring against the threat of nihilism. As elders, we must consistently communicate our pride and awe, both materially and emotionally. Not doing so is to present still another barrier that our youth will spend precious energy attempting to dismantle. RFK Jr. is courting the activists with his appeals to climate justice, but his tone-deaf allegiance to Israel (a memorial to his fallen uncle JFK- the first President to authorize military aid to the regime) will undermine his campaign.
Accelerationism is the path that many of the dark elite have chosen, an intentional forcing of those factors contributing to societal collapse in order to be in the best possible position to lead the eventual restructuring. Ugly as it will be, this is the path I favor with the understanding that I will likely not live to experience any benefit. However, the promise of this cataclysmic restructuring is so exciting that it’s hard for me to see a better way.
Trump is the accelerationist’s choice.
Christian Zionism
The Christians United for Israel, with an estimated 10 million members, dwarfs AIPAC as the largest Zionist lobby in America. Embracing the rapture theology propagated by John Darby and made popular through its inclusion in the Scofield Study Bible, the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) present a uniquely American spin on Christian end-times. I’m not an expert, but their broad hope seems to require an awkward allegiance with the Jewish Chosen People in the establishment of the Kingdom of Zion. This is required for the return of the Messiah and the salvation of Christians and repentant Jews.
The overwhelming majority of Christian Zionists are Republican, though of late they have expressed concern over the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. While certainly sympathetic to the Zionist cause, Trump cannot be trusted to stay on script with what CUFI brands as a deeply spiritual, perhaps even egalitarian agenda: a lasting world peace through Christ.
Trump and his supporters will center him and his “us-them” rhetoric in the reclamation of Israel. Trump is eager to preside over the Second Coming, though he reserves any forthcoming redemption for America’s Evangelicals because they, “love Israel more than the Jews in this country.” CUFI risks severe PR injury by endorsing Trump’s leadership which will unmask Christian Zionism as being synonymous with MAGA culture.
More to the point, CUFI is leery of a Trump presidency because his thinly veiled antisemitism threatens to disrupt the tenuous alliance between Christian and Jewish Zionists.
They were excited about Nikki Haley who has since withdrawn from the race. History and their constituents will not allow for alignment with Biden and the Democrats. They won’t invest in a third-party spoiler. That leaves Trump, and my suspicion is that his ongoing legal trouble will either intensify or evaporate depending on his willingness to adhere to CUFI messaging.
But can Trump be trusted by CUFI once he’s in office?
Among some Christian Zionist writers is eloquent, if not obsequious praise of the Jewish people. Similar praise for Christians does not exist at any appreciable scale within the writings of Jewish Zionists, making evident the radical divergence of agendas just ahead of us with the destruction and usurping of Occupied Palestine becoming imminent. The consolidation of Zion is, and will continue to be, a cruel and bloody affair, financed by America through the lobbying efforts of both Christian and Jewish Zionists.
However, it is only the Jewish state that will be on the hook for the atrocities we are daily witnessing.
Israeli state consolidation is the moment where Christian Zionists turn their back on their Jewish counterparts. Evidence pointing to the betrayal ahead lies in the fact that CUFI membership wildly outnumbers AIPAC by a ratio of 100:1, and yet they sit quietly even as anti-Zionism is discussed as comparable to antisemitism. Rather than quell this fallacious argument by stating that the overwhelming majority of Zionists are not Jewish, they are content to leave the entirety of the ugly enterprise in the hands of the Jewish people.
Their backstabbing intent is also on full display in the performative criticisms mouthed by Biden, and in the deploying of US military for the provision of humanitarian aid. Even now, as bombs fall on Rafah, the press talks of Israel crossing “Biden’s Red Line.” At the time of this writing, US arms shipments to Israel are currently suspended. CUFI will point to these moments as support for the claim that they were never on-board with Netanyahu’s devilry.
And with the anticipated collapse of supply-chain economics over the next 10-20 years, America will be in an excellent position to take advantage of the wide-spread confusion and fear, utterly obfuscating our role in the genocidal horrors.
But global Christendom has no attachment to Darby and his rapture theology.
Israel, for her crimes, will be isolated as an unconscionable pariah. The Jewish diaspora will experience an enduring wave of antisemitism as never before, and leading the pogroms will be American Evangelical Conservatives who will blame the Jews not only for the bloody campaign of Israeli state consolidation, but also for the worldwide economic meltdown.
Shades of the crucifixion. Who are we, Americans, if not Rome?
None of this is good. None of this is desirable. But here we are, at the junction of the double-crossing Christian/Jewish Zionist agendas, and I am baited by the homeopathic axiom:
Like cures like.
The people of Gaza are suffering an extermination fueled by nationalist, racist, and unhealthy religious ideologies. The region is riddled with sickness.
Leaning into all of these malignancies and voting for Trump may just be the homeopathic key to breaking this fever.
At least for those of us destined to survive the treatment. A Trump presidency will come with casualties. We’re not voting him in to improve conditions for Americans or the world. We’re voting him in to confirm global suspicions about America’s fascist imperialism and to destroy our domestic and international reputation as an invitation to global condemnation and intervention.
Importantly, electing Trump accelerates the widening schisms within Christian Zionism and between Christian and Jewish Zionism, potentially obliterating their unseemly alliance entirely.
They’re going to turn on each other eventually. Better to hasten the process before more innocents are killed and the Jewish people are left holding the bag.
Trump does not have the restraint to keep America’s bad intentions hidden. A Trump presidency bares the plot, allowing for swift and calculated diplomatic responses from world leadership and global citizens. It is how we save Jewry and begin to imagine a conversation about Jewish/Palestinian state consolidation that puts an end to conspiratorial vengeance and mutual destruction.
Voting in Trump as a destabilizing wild card to destroy any remnants of Zionist cohesion will buy us some precious time, but it is only the beginning. There are still other bold, collaborative enterprises that we must undertake as common people, and we must do this quickly.
Next time, God willing, we’ll talk about how Hamas is the key to a radical, regional peace.
Hmm an interesting plot twist in the journey of a recovering cynic. Very bold and thought-provoking ideas.
One more pathway which I’m sure you’ve considered, and I’m calling, “Allah, take the wheel.” This probably involves some measure of I’m not voting for anyone; I’m moving far into the mountains, Turkey, or ideally the mountains of Turkey; and 100% trust that if I go about my business to the best of His commandments, He will take care of everything outside of my control the way He has planned as the best of planners.
As for me, I’m leaning towards the accelerationism outcome. Maybe to live out the post-apocalyptic fantasy novels I grew up on.
😂😂 I think many of us echo Rania’s sentiments! This was a great piece Ahmad. I call it “payback for Jesus,” 🫣. Christian Zionist get to bring him back and finally punish all the Judas that “did what they did” to Nabi Issa. Your assessment of Trump is spot-on. He is totally off script and tends to go rogue. It’s both scary and refreshing at the same time, because you never know what that bloke will do or say. You are also spot on about Christian’s Zionist being a bigger threat than the Jewish ones. I am however always conflicted with my role as a Muslim and not wanting to “mind my own business and let Allah SWAT take the wheel.” Which is peobabaly what I should do😂. My anxiety about nihilism won’t let me. Pushes me towards the activism camp, cause if I’m going to die, I’d rather go down fighting. I had championed RFK because of his stance on Covid and climate change, but his stance on Isreal is making me think he’s a closeted Christian Zionist (payback for his Uncle and Jesus, if your theory holds true). Either way thanks for a great read. As Muslims we know how this ends. Good always wins over evil so long as we hold on to our morals & keeping those antisemitic thoughts & feelings in check. Because the devil was the first outright racist, and he’s doing a number on us all today.
Nothing stopping you and Rania from booking your flights and sending in your absentee ballots : )
This is exactly 💯 how I feel – thank you for putting it in words “My anxiety about nihilism won’t let me. Pushes me towards the activism camp, cause if I’m going to die, I’d rather go down fighting.”
I also wonder if it’s the maternal instincts to protect our offsprings.
I enjoyed this read. Great insights (and links). Interesting, provocative take.
However, sorry to break it to you, but your vote will have ZERO effect on the election and that which you are trying to accelerate. Not because the election is rigged (which it might be), but because of the electoral college system that makes your vote have no impact at all.
California’s 54 electoral votes will go to Biden whether he wins California by 10 million votes or by 2 votes. Our votes do not matter. I assume you already know that.
The common obsession with our Presidential election circus is part of what is leading to our decline. People walk into the voter booth, knowing nothing about the votes that will actually matter in their locality. They spent all their attention on the clown show, and no nothing about the meaningful and impactful votes that have regarding who controls their town, its schools, its water, and more.
I guess if your goal is accelerating society’s demise, perhaps this is part of what you want to see.
Thanks for stoping by, Sean.
We agree about civic responsibility and local politics, participation in which is perhaps even more critical should we adopt an accelerationist stance at the national level. Our neighbors, local business owners, and regional resources will require more support and protections than ever, assuming the MIT timeline holds.
And you’re also correct in that my personal vote may not amount to much within the electoral college system, but that may not hold true for others in different parts of the country. Perhaps this post will give them something to think about in a time when when all of our options feel like illusions.