The Sky is Still Falling
This is fine. It has always been this way.
In 2015 AARP produced a public service announcement about family members acting as caregivers of their elderly parents. The muffled sound of a radio broadcast could be heard in the background. When the volume was amplified enough, a news bulletin about the President declaring martial law amid civil unrest could be heard. During that same year there was a military training exercise called Jade Helm, “ a strategic, unconventional warfare exercise incorporating the efforts of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army and took place from February 7 to May 7, with the JFE portion taking place in the last week. The exercise spanned multiple states and focused on “beyond line of sight” communications and coordination over a large geographic area.”
The PSA was never aired. It was an unpublished YouTube video. The URL was somehow discovered and shared widely among people who had grown suspicious of government. The video’s use of jade colored bath towels and a lamp stand decorated with a helmsman’s wheel added to the excitement of these Conspiracy Theorists. After the Jade Helm exercise had ended without apparent incident, news media made a laughingstock of these suspicious citizens.
Fast forward to 2025, the National Guard has been deployed in Los Angeles and the District of Columbia. There are promises to send troops to Memphis, Chicago and other cities to fight crime.
Military policing is here. Will it ever end? The State of Emergency declared on September Fourteenth 2001 by George W Bush is still in effect. In fact it is quietly renewed each year. It was most recently renewed on August Twenty-ninth 2025. There is never any mention that these emergency powers may have lapsed due to the autopen scandal. Governance by Crisis Management seems to be effective. It will continue as long as we continue to react predictably.
The sky is still falling!
There has been no sudden crash as you may expect with such a Chicken Little alarm sounding, but the sky is falling just the same. It is like a gentle rain that gradually intensifies as the day wears on. We are accustomed to being wet. We are increasingly accustomed to gust of wind, thunderclaps, and periodic deluges. This is fine. It has always been this way.
Maybe someone will guide us to safety, but who? In 2015 Alex Newman warned us that President Obama was laying a foundation to nationalize local policing. In 2016 Newman warned us that George Soros had been helping Obama and globalist forces to federalize control over American police forces under the guise of pushing “criminal justice reform.” Maybe he could offer us some insight with this context in mind, but it seems that he has changed his focus of attention since then. It seems that he has grown to believe that the man now implementing the same Federal policing that Newman once feared is somehow trying to save us. * Maybe someone else should guide our thoughts. In 2013 Brandon Smith warned us of events that now seem to be unfolding, with his essay Has America Been Set Up As History’s Ultimate “Bumbling Villain”? Since then something seems to have changed. He seems, somewhat approvingly, to acknowledge that Martial Law is upon us by writing this.
Frankly, I see martial law as nothing more than a stop gap even with the best of intentions; like giving someone morphine for their Stage 4 cancer. It feels good and takes the pain away for a little while but on the inside the body is still dying. Martial law doesn’t go far enough. The time for measured responses is over.
Surely he must know that Martial Law, once instituted, is no more likely to end than the State of Emergency declared after September Eleventh 2001. He makes no mention of how this stopgap can ever be rescinded.
The word Karma, in common use, usually suggests a fatalistic belief that your current circumstance is the justifiable natural consequence of some former life. When used in a forward looking sense it often has a dark threatening undertone, a common phrase like “Karma’s a bitch” is used to promise suffering to someone who has offended you. The same principle is also stated “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” When given in this form it seems to be a forward looking cautionary statement.
The past is an unchangeable reality. Even when the details of the past are not fully known or accurately given it is still the foundation upon which the present was built. The present is also a fixed reality, it is the natural consequence of everything that has already happened. The future however is a mixture of inevitability and diverse possibilities. The trajectory from the past through the present has an established energy and has set purposes. These things are an unchangeable contributing factor to what the future will become. The degree that this future can deviate from the trajectory projected from the past increases with time. The events of the next second are an almost absolute certainty. By tomorrow you may have changed your own course, in thought or in deed, in some meaningful way. As days, then weeks and years pass the outcome can become substantially different, but still you or I are each only one among countless people driving the course of history. Our relative insignificance leads to a fatalistic despair. It seems reasonable to just play along while choosing safe, comfortable, and unchallenging seats on this ride. It is tempting for those wanting to see their influence felt to join some team and enjoy the advantages of strength in numbers.
Consider this illustration of how this tactic works against us in reality. Imagine a Tug of War contest with two equally matched teams pulling against each other. The rope has a heavy weight attached at the center. The contestants imagine that they are pulling against each other in opposite directions 180° apart. Coaches urge them to pull harder, while in reality they are pulling one from 10° and the other from 170°. Every time one team or the other gains some advantage the burden at the center of the rope shifts roughly in one direction or the other charting a zigzag line in a direction that none of these combatants want to go. Still, just abandoning the game seems frightening. Those despicable people on the other team might win. I’m pretty sure the coaches on either side don’t want this game to end. The risk from stepping away from this battle may be smaller than you think.
Consider also the conversations we have. Have you noticed that everyone seems to focus on the same matter at the same time, and how the convincing arguments offered often seem to be stock items that are copied and passed around. I remember that during the time leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, one team of the jeering crowd had begun to call Joe Biden “Creepy Joe”. Back then, Google auto-fill suggestions would never suggest “Creepy Joe Biden” even when I had typed the inquiry to the last letter. I soon noticed that these jeering crowds had shifted their slur from “Creepy Joe” to “Sleepy Joe”. I was wondering who among the thought leaders was leading this shift until I noticed that Donald Trump had begun working this name “Sleepy Joe” into his sentences as often as possible. The coaches on the sidelines of this Tug of War had altered the tactic. The combatants who supply the energy that keeps this game alive dutifully played along, with not one in one-hundred pausing to have an original independent thought. It is as if the creepy aspect hit a little too close to home for the game’s sponsors, or maybe it risked bringing the contest to some decisive conclusion. Our conversations are hollow. They are a shifting self perpetuating feedback loop with little substance, so much so that both teams are mirror images of each other. They are both identical and polar opposites at the same time.
Let us return now to the topic of Martial Law, this time not as current events but in an historic context. I have used Kitty Werthmann’s account of Austria’s having welcomed Hitler’s government more than once already. With Communist and Nazis fighting in the street, Austrians were desperate. Communist were rioting and destroying property. Austria held a referendum and invited Hitler to restore order. Does the situation that she described not resemble what we are witnessing now? Should we presume that we are somehow inherently wiser than Austrians were? We may even dare to project something about how events may unfold after this next order ultimately fails. Beyond Hitler’s rise consider his defeat as documented, by James Corbett, in Why We Must Oppose Bilderberg. This documentary, about the once infamous Bilderberg group, proceeds to reveal how after Germany’s defeat became imminent, Nazi industrialists and collaborators conspired to form the European Union and to establish influential groups to guide international relationships. This time however, the ultimate order may not be regional but global.
So this strength in numbers should take a new form. Take a lesson from the two analyst mentioned earlier. In a former season they seemed to serve as good resources for informed opinion and analysis, but recently their judgement or purpose may be failing. This should remind us that with each passing moment as our future is becoming the new unchangeable past, we are constantly alone, left again on our own, to make judgements and to choose a course. A group banded together for strength while devoted to strong leadership is unstable. Every error, by being ubiquitous, becomes a fatal mistake. Every small deviation from rightful purpose becomes a moral tragedy. Any group in need of a strong leader can become a tool in the hands of some would be tyrant.
Keep this in mind also, those who constantly sow confusion while setting and resetting the stage are not infallible but they do have one great advantage. Their advantage is consistency of purpose. Every failure is a new starting point, the course is corrected but the goal remains the same. The Empire of Chaos is built on failure. Failure is its strength. This is how we are kept confused, with near term goals that constantly change and no time given to consider fundamental questions. We should take a lesson from them also by choosing what purposes that we will serve, prioritize them, and correcting our courses when needed, all while remaining steadfast in purpose.
A vast horde of active, independent, conscientious minds will not react so predictably. Such a group will not be easily lead to waste there strength by playing someone else’s game.
The Sky is Still Falling © 2025 by Mark Gresham is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Well-said, and timely. Much of my own thought recently has been on this subject. The sky is always falling but it never hits the ground...
Well written and marshall law is here to stay! I am convinced that all these "minor" events lead to one conclusion.