I have brought up this idea before, but perhaps enough of the U.S. population is awake now. Those who have studied how our government really works (i.e. have an understanding of fractional reserve banking, soft-kill weapons, cointelpro, etc.) know that the system can only be artificially propped up for so long. Indeed, we see it crumbling around us on a daily basis. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are no longer being incrementally chipped away; they are being shredded and burned by power-mad psychopaths bent on global scientific dictatorship.
If you don't agree, that's fine. It's not my intent here to start a flame war. My days of trying to wake people up on an individual basis are past.
It's my belief that the Founding Fathers were some brilliant motherfuckers. Not, perhaps, paragons of virtue and moral perfection, but they designed a system of government that, had the American people remained vigilant, could conceivably have seen humankind well on its way to colonizing the solar system by now. But we weren't vigilant. We flushed our Constitutional duty as citizens to keep the government in check down the toilet, allowed the monster that is the Federal Reserve system to rule over us, and generally stopped giving a flying **** about anything but carnival entertainments.
All that being said, we are seeing a resurgence in interest in the concepts and ideas behind the Constitution and Bill of Rights, especially among young people. Ron Paul's approval rating is in the stratosphere, while Congress' overall is down around 10%. The false Left/Right Paradigm is crumbling as we begin to see how the system has kept us fighting amongst ourselves and ignoring what our "elected leaders" are actually up to. Even the Republican Party's takeover of the Tea Party movement has not had the intended effect.
What does all this have to do with magick? Well, we go on and on about using existing paradigms and pre-existing icons, egregores, godforms, etc. for our own purposes. Slumbering beneath our very feet, indeed permeating every rock, tree, and grain of sand from sea to shining sea, exists one of the most powerful godforms that ever rocked this planet.
The Spirit of 1776.
Oh, it's been asleep for a very long time, but still been getting a steady trickle of sustenance every time a "survivalist nut" stocks a bomb shelter, every time an agent provocateur is outed at a peaceful protest, every time a good parent explains the concept of Natural Rights to their six year old.
It is what Uncle Sam's nightmares are made of.
I say it's time for those of us in the magickal community, from the fluffybunnies to the chaotes to the shamans to the Wiccans, who can recognize common cause, to come together and wake this sleeping giant. Make it viral! Link it to Ellis! It doesn't have to be a simultaneous working; evoke it yourself and ask it to connect those of like mind. Send it to Congress and have it express its displeasure. Send it to the Bilderberg meeting where it can manifest the rage of the People like Christ among the moneychangers.
Let's show the powers that be just what the old saw about wizards being "subtle and quick to anger" really means.
Let's show them that our answer to 1984 is, unequivocally,
1776!
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