Locked Out Of The Cockpit

[Rollie]

A very good analogy.

This is the flight we’re on-- whether or not you fasten your seat belt is your choice.

Worth reading/heeding, including his message introducing the article.

From a former Navy fighter pilot and a retired UAL Captain

We are all flying on the Germanwings plane, with a twisted pilot at the controls. Will we just wait, and assume the "Crash Position"?
The 'real' pilot was locked out of the cockpit.

That set of circumstances finally revealed the full horror of the crash of Germanwings flight 9525. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his re-entry. Then Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps unknowable, deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8-minute plunge ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountainside. 150 men, women and children met an immediate, unthinkably violent death.

Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn't be stopped because anyone who could change the jet's disastrous course was locked out.

It's hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet them.
Hard ... but not impossible.

Because America is in trouble. We feel the descent in the pits of our stomachs.
We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits. We don't know where we're going anymore, but do know it isn't good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack Obama has locked us out.
He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national healthcare system. Locked us out when we wanted to know why the IRS was attacking conservatives. He locked us out of having a say in his decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over a trillion dollars in benefits to those who broke those laws.

Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals. Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings about the growing threat of ISIS. He locked out anyone who could have interfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return for one U.S. military deserter.

And, of course, Barack Obama has now locked out Congress, the American people, and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than those in his head? Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the right thing?

The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. There was probably some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with seatmates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet metastasized into terror.
It was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they began to scream.

Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation's decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge.

Lubitz was a nutcase.

But now we are on a ‘plane’ piloted by a narcissistic megalomaniac who has locked everyone out of his cockpit.

 

[caseyjones955]

Excellent analogy. It's not over yet though, I'm sure there will be some parting gifts from this deplorable administration.

 

[SpecOps13]

I Don't Claim Him. He's Not My President.... The Worst Is Yet To Come, No Fat Lady Is Anywhere Near Singing......... We're only in the first minutes of this planned crash.

 

[Redbone]

The voices in obamable's head are worrisome indeed. I wonder just what his idea of "flexable" is?
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/the-communist-who-whispers-in-obamas-ear

 

[silverado6x6]

He is going to try for a third term, will declare martial law just before the elections.
He made comments about it recently.
I hope he gets Trumped.

 

[dannymax]

The voices in obamable's head are worrisome indeed. I wonder just what his idea of "flexable" is?
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/the-communist-who-whispers-in-obamas-ear

+1 to that BB.....VERY worrisome....and completely untouchable!

 

[dannymax]

This is a little long but pretty well explains the situation IMO:

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
-Antonio Gramsci

In the past, I've written a few times about what I think prompted the sudden cultural shift in the 1960s to take place - what drove the Hippie movement - aside from a long march of leftists through the various systems in the USA finally getting traction.
As I wrote in my bit on the new counterculture:

In the 1960s, young people recognized the culture they lived in and found it wanting. There were established traditions, morals, and patterns of behavior that the general public lived by, but were unable to defend or explain. Although culture had been passed down generation after generation, the reasons why things were done were just assumed, not explained. Parents did not think about why they held certain beliefs, and when confronted were unable to teach their young people. Part of this was because of a great failure of the primary foundational force of these cultural norms: Christianity.

People didn't know why they had their worldview - they'd never examined or questioned it - and were unequipped to answer when it was challenged. Young people often took this to mean that there weren'tgood answers to their questions and rejected it. Sometimes the parents agreed.
But when you do this, you leave the culture without a basic agreed upon set of foundations principles and ideals. I wrote about this as well:

Christianity has been abandoned as the basis for ethical decisions and cultural framework in the west. Without that basic system of ethics, worldview, and law, western culture has been cut adrift in relativism and without foundation. There has been an attempt to replace the foundation of civilization with relativist leftist ideology, but it has no strength itself, like replacing someone's bones with Jell-O. Its very flexible and allows you to bend however you choose, but cannot hold up a civilization.

Our culture for years has been kicking the struts out from under the entire structure and is collapsing in on its self for lack of any sort of skeleton. In the process, everything is beginning to look chaotic, random, and even insane.
However, its not that there isn't a new worldview or structure of ideals being promoted to replace the old. They haven't simply burned it all down and forgotten it. The left believes it has something that answers everything and fixes it all.
This is the one abiding and common theme among most intellectual leftists: they believe they are so smart, so skilled, so right, and so enlightened that they can fix everything they've torn down. That whatever damage they cause will be easily remedied when they finally have enough power and have gotten everything they want.
THE NEW SYSTEM
And they have their system, of sorts, to replace the old. That's what's going on right now on a huge scale. The left has decided that they won, and its time to push through everything they want, no matter how voters think or what the country wants. They've successfully gutted the old system enough now that they think its time to replace it with the new.
The new is simple enough in principle. Its based on feelings and looking nice. Its a system which replaces reason and fact with feelings and perception. It replaces absolute with relative; objective with subjective.
This new system judges everything by a childish oppressor/victim worldview, dividing everyone into those who have been in charge and oppressing and those who have not and thus are victims. The system is like Islam in that it is total: it covers religion, economics, culture, entertainment, education, law, and all other aspects of life in a complete package.
The tremors you're feeling in culture right now is the imposition of this new system from above while from below people still cling to the shreds of the old. Homosexual "marriage" wasn't so much about the less-than-1% of the population that wants to marry. Demanding everyone celebrate and admire Bruce Jenner's self-mangling "sex change" isn't about the 30,000 or so transgenders in the USA. This is all just about replacing the old with the new and demolishing all the ideals and beliefs of the past.
The left will at the same time tell you marriage is utterly out of date and pointless in modern society, as it demands you embrace and celebrate homosexual "marriage." Why? Because they are being consistent - its not about liking marriage, its about leverage to demolish and render marriage meaningless.
A godless, empty, future of as many orgasms and pleasures as possible in your short meaningless life in service to the state is their future. That's what they have planned. Enjoy yourself. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die. They know what they propose is devoid of purpose and hope, so they want to fill it with as many distractions and hedonism as possible so you can forget about it for a while.
A BONELESS SKELETON
The problem is, this new system is lacking in bones. It can't replace the old system because there's nothing to attach to. Relativism and endlessly shifting "progressivism" do not allow any real structures to be built. In real, practical terms, you cannot build for a future you cannot know or predict. You cannot work on new projects, when you never know if they're going to be declared hateful and bigoted next year. You cannot research new ideas because you can't know if they will even be allowed by the time they are developed.
And in a culture without any concept of gratitude, constantly self-obsessed, and demanding all without giving any, you cannot expect any sort of functional work force. In a culture that rejects the old, believes nothing has any meaning, and everything is relative, you can't even educate the workforce or the future. In a culture that is constantly changing to match the newest ideas of "progress," you cannot even start to develop any plans.
In other words, this new system is utterly self destructive, it is violently, stupidly suicidal. And in a sad, strange, but all-too-predictable twist, almost none of the adherents to this system can even begin to attempt an explanation for what they believe and why.
Like the parents of the boomers, the left today holds very strongly to certain basic propositions and ideals, and can't defend or explain any of them. When asked, they become abusive, angry, defensive, and confused. When they try to promote a new idea, they don't have even the tools to understand how to defend it, let alone any rational basis for doing so. In the place of persuasion, they use insults. In the place of conversation, they use demands and attacks. In the place of reason, they use emotion. This is not intentional; its all they know, all they have.
So what they have ended up with is tearing down everything the older generations held dear and built modern civilization around for not having any good answers... and replaced it with an ever shifting cthulhuian horror of insanity, and have no good answers, either.
This cannot last. Cannot. Its a matter of, I fear, a very short time before it all crashes down. This isn't because I think they are so wrong, but because they are building a house of cards on a bed of sand. The slightest wind will knock it over. Almost nothing will fail to collapse it all. When you replace what works and what we know with what you wish to be true and what you feel, that cannot possibly continue to function long.
And in the end, we'll have one of two possibilities. The first, and much less likely - unlikely to the point of absurdity - is that the home schoolers, the traditionalists, the older Christians, and the people who haven't given up on all of it will rebuild and take the reins.
The second, and almost certain, is that a tyrant will arise, promising to save everyone by giving them all the things they want, if only everyone gives up their worthless freedom. All he will ask is that they kneel. And in a collapsing society with out structure or meaning, far too many will hit their knees grateful for some sort of order.
God save us from this future, a future that has played out all too often in the past and was predicted as long ago as 400 BC by Socrates.