The Unoriginal Muse

The anti-jihad doesn’t matter.

It’s a pretty controversial statement, I agree, but it’s true. We cannot change the world.

We fight, but our governments and their useful idiots ignore us. We protest and they call us “racist” and “haters”. We ask only that we be allowed to share our views and they call us “intolerant”. The way things stand we are not able, and will not be able, to make an effective change. We will be condemned to forever flit around the edges of society, holding aloft the guttering torch of truth as the crowd turns its back on us, preferring the self-inflicted twilight of its own company. In that situation we cannot effect any change because to do so would require overwhelming power, and overwhelming power – the power to force people to take our views – would destroy us utterly.

But that isn’t why we don’t matter.

Islam has that power. Islam has the power to overthrow governments at a snails pace. It has the power to discredit dissent, emotionally and reputationally destroy its opposition. It has the power of government and keeps the people in darkness, by telling them that the light of truth is a lie. It hides behind tolerance and screams “racist” at the people who oppose it, and uses that same government and those same useful idiots to do the hard work so it doesn’t get its lilly-white hands dirty. It enslaves and ensnares and is at the point, now, where overthrow by the means we employ is virtually impossible, or would take so long that it cannot hope to succeed in time.

But that isn’t why we don’t matter.

Several events happened this year, largely unremarked, that dictate how the world will be shaped for the next 20 or 30 years.

First, we reached a new record of “spotless days” for the sun. The sun is at a solar minima not seen since modern records began, and estimated as similar to that preceeding the Maunder Minimum, which coincided with the little ice-age. Though the mechanism is not fully understood there is a definite causal link between sun-spot activity, cloud-cover and temperature.

Second, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO, did what in the parlance would be called a “flip”. It reversed. The PDO is a well-known cycle of currents and temperatures in the pacific ocean that periodically moves through warm and cold phases. The most recent flip has brought it into a cold phase.

Third, the push for “green energy” has finally resulted in the application of CO2 emission controls being implemented in EU member states. The significant part of this is that many power stations are now no longer operating at anywhere near their peak capacity. In order to comply with the new regulations many large coal-fired energy producers are required to effectively switch off for up to half the year.

The result is that we are facing an effective energy capacity shortfall just when we are apparently entering a period of global cooling. In the UK, there is no margin in our capacity. One power station going offline will result in a shortfall large enough to see a city the size of nottingham without power. Given the fragility of the UK’s power distribution it is unlikely that such an event would be isolated. Sudden drops in supply tend to create conditions that trigger other generators to cut themselves off, in a cascade event similar to the New York power cuts several years ago.

The last time such a production shortfall occurred the British government fell, bringing in the Thatcher government. This time we face potential shortfalls across the entire continent of Europe, within and without the entire European Union, already destabilised by the global financial situation.

This is why we don’t matter. In a year or or two, or three from now the EU will be collapsing, the current order will be falling apart. Our efforts to foment change are going to be overtaken by worldwide events. As civilisation appears to collapse Islam will attempt to wrest control, far too soon.

The devil and Islam both play their hands too soon. And then the truth will be out there, finally.

I’m saying this for two reasons: First, so that we don’t get hubristic about the changes that will occur and try to say that it was all down to us. We can take advantage of the situation to reveal the truth but we cannot claim credit for it. The people I consider my friends won’t do this, but there are others who will.

Second, I say this in order to encourage hope, that once these events occur our efforts will matter, we will be able to effect change. People will listen. The light of truth shines brightest in the dark.