Security Protection

I am probably unduly crediting a stock phrase with a philosophy, but the dimly mechanistic worldview enclosed in the notion that “society is broken” is worth laughing at. Harhar, if only we adjust the B-tension on the rear derailleur, society will stop rattling! If only we replace that last bit of ball-and-tube wiring in the basement, society will stop flickering when the compressor in the fridge turns on! What this society needs is a lube-and-fluids job, ahem, so to speak. Here comes David Cameron with the monkey wrench. Let’s get you bent over, er, up on the lift.

Western liberalism—and please, spare me the comment that Cameron is a conservative; conservatism is also Western liberalism—is a computer virus in the human operating system; it is one of the fake security scam programs that tells you that you’re infected with a bunch of other viruses that do not exist; it promises to inoculate you against these threats. Just send your credit card info, date of birth, astrological sign, passwords, bank account transfer numbers, vial of the blood of your firstborn. Soon none of your executable files run; you are stuck in a self-inflected cycle of rebooting; your money is gone; your registry logs are corrupt; your mind-file indexes destroyed; you are slaved to an evil network, your sole active purpose to choicelessly spam other minds with the very disease that you mistook for a cure.