One of the very few things I Know to be True is that life, the universe, and everything operates as a pendulum.  As far as it may go in one direction, it will come back and go just as far in the opposite direction.  The pendulum can be pushed and pulled and forced to go farther than normal in a direction, but it cannot then be subsequently stopped from returning farther than normal in the other direction.  Something I’ve noticed in my brief time on this planet is that people who understand the way the Great Pendulum works tend to leave it the fuck alone.  They understand that while it is possible to manipulate the pendulum, any and every manipulation will inevitably, inescapably result in an equal and directly opposite reaction, not only undoing whatever progress was made bringing the pendulum further in the desired direction, but making things worse when the pendulum then goes deep in the opposite direction, even farther away from the original desired goal.  Conversely, the people I’ve seen who discover their ability to manipulate the pendulum and then think they can actually take over and control the behavior of the pendulum.  And it is always amusing to watch the shock cross their faces when the pendulum comes slamming back, hits the back of their already soft skulls and violently takes them out.
Two examples that come to mind of this phenomena in nature (keeping in mind my definitely of nature is likely fundamentally different from yours):  If you ever find yourself in a nuclear explosion, you’ll notice that initial blast packs a hell of a wallop: knocks over everything that it doesn’t vaporize.  Buildings, trains, forests, everything.  The things that escape vaporization and survive the initial blast might feel a tad cocky in that moment, but that is the last thing they will feel, because a shock wave the size of one from a nuclear explosion…all that energy going elsewhere instantly creates an inescapable vacuum, and it is as if there is another shock wave going in the opposite direction.  Anything that did survive or manage to stay put through the initial shock wave was weakened, and thus, not able to survive another shock wave in the opposite direction.  It the second wave, or the reaction to the initial action that finished a lot of things off.  A second example would be a hurricane: at first, black skies and unbelievably strong winds and bullet rain in one direction.  Then calm.  Sunshine.  The eye.  You think it’s over, that you survived, and then, the skies blacken again, but now the wind and rain are slamming into your life from the other direction!  And again, things already weakened from the first wave are usually in no shape to survive the second, opposite wave.
So it is with everything.  If you interfere with the pendulum of society and push it much out of its usual arc, there is going to be an equal and opposite reaction.

Mobs and radical movements always eat their own.  Always.  Which is something that the various cowering corporate entities presently desperately pandering to anyone will listen with meaningless and masturbatory virtue signaling completely fail to understand.  And it going to cost them in ways they can’t even imagine.  This LiveLeak video of idiots illustrates my point rather perfectly:

Jeff Bezos, Guitar Center, A&E, and the Paramount Network are the high-fivin’ white guys who have been totally engrossed in a marathon game of beer pong until about 2 seconds ago when they here politically correct bleating in the street and thought it they just stood in the window and gave the mob a big thumbs up that they’d be left alone.  What is not illustrated in the video is the landlord the high-fivin’ white guys are now going to call to try to get to come out and repair their busted-ass windows in the middle of the night.  The landlord is the demographic of loyal customers than have been sustaining your business for decades that you permanently alienated through your bullshitty and hypocritical virtue signalling early in the day.  “Fuck you and your windows,” the landlord would say.  At least that’s what I’d say.  You picked your side, your side broke your windows out.  Now you need to live with it.
Guitar Center has lost my business permanently.  I was a big fan of A&E until it was revealed earlier in the day that the network is run by spineless morons.  So no more A&E.  They were the only reason I was keeping cable.  So now I can get rid of cable.  I did have some dealings, or at least talks of dealings, with Paramount shortly after my first book came out, back when they were calling themselves Spike and attempting to market themselves as a men’s channel.  There will be no dealings with them in the future.

That spineless, nutless coward of a lieutenant in the NYPD that knelt down before the throbbing mob last week has now apologized for being a twat.  Robert Cattani emailed his “fellow officers” (if I were a cop in his precinct, him referring to me as a “fellow officer” would piss me off….we ain’t fellow anything, you undignified turd), saying, “the cop in me wants to kick my own ass.”  The cop in me wants to kick your ass, and I’m not even a cop.  In the email, Cattani expressed regret for his “horrible decision to give into a crowd of protesters’ demands.”  He continued, “The conditions prior to the decision to kneel were very difficult  as we were put center stage with the entire crowd chanting.”  Holy Jesus.  I’m sure it’s been a while since the academy, but surely, lieutenant, at some point in your training or career somebody must have told you that occasionally you will be asked to deal with large crowds who will be chanting.  They might even use colorful language.  They might even have bad breath.  It’s gonna  be scary, but whatever they come at you with, you’ve gotta stand your ground.  Didn’t they?  “I know I made the wrong decision.  We didn’t know how the protesters would have reacted if we didn’t and were attempting to reduce any extra violence.  I thought maybe that one protester/rioters who saw it would later think twice about fighting or hurting a cop.  I was wrong.  At least that [sic] what I told myself when we made that bad decision.  I know that it was wrong and something I will be shamed and humiliated about for the rest of my life.  We all know that a-hole in Minneapolis was wrong.  Yet we don’t concede for other officers’ mistakes.  I do not place blame on anyone other than myself for not standing my ground.”  Well, that’s might big of you, Bobbi.  “I could not imagine the idea of ever coming back to work and putting on the uniform I so wrongly shamed.  However, I decided that was the easy way out for me and I will continue to come to work every day being there for my personnel.”  Unless, of course, a big crowd shows up and god forbid starts chanting, and then all bets are off.

I guess the guy gets a point for acknowledging his testicular deficit and apologizing.  But I saw a lot of cops kneeling.  I saw a lot of citizens kneeling.  They all owe humiliated and shamed grovelling apologies to their fellow officers and fellow citizens.  But I seriously don’t understand how they can live with themselves, having to wake up every day for the rest of forever and have the face they see in the mirror be that of a coward.

N.P.: “Pretty Vacant – Live From Finsbury Park, London/1996” – Sex Pistols