I find time-lapse photography fascinating. One of my favorite examples is when someone
in the far north points their camera at the North Star during winter and leaves
it overnight. As a result you typically end up with an image of silhouettes of
trees surrounding an array of circles made by the stars travelling across the
sky as the earth spins. Although that picture captures reality, there’s no
moment where you could ever actually see it by simply looking up. It doesn’t actually exist, it’s only by
seeing the time-lapse that you can see it.
A more consequential example, although I’m not sure it
technically meets the definition of time-lapse, is when a parent takes an image
of their child every day or every Monday for a series of years and then puts
them together so they run in sequence. While
each individual image might tell a story, “That was Janie at 12 when she first
got her braces” or “That was Timothy at 8 when he decided to cut his own hair”,
taken in aggregate the sequence tells a completely different story, when a
daughter grows from a scared kindergartener to a smiling college graduate
student.
The funny thing about such time-lapses is that they often
show us things that we simply don’t see in real time. Like the time in 11th
grade when, seeing your son every day you didn’t realize until your visiting
mother-in-law pointed it out, that his hair had grown from a buzz cut to a mop-top
in one semester. Sometimes it’s only when we step back and see things in a larger
perspective that we can see the big picture or recognize what’s going on.
The point of time-lapse is that it gives a story in a
relative blink of an eye.
That same thing holds true for cultures. Billy Joel did something of a cultural
version of that with “We didn’t start the fire”.
The time in time-lapse is relative of course. It can chronicle the carving out of the Grand
Canyon over millions of years or it can be the life cycle of a bacterium that
lasts a few days…Or it can be the collapse of a civilization over a week.
That last one is a bit of an exaggeration. But not by much. A couple of weeks ago we had the bad fortune
of watching something of the collapse of western society in the period of one
week. I am of course talking about Ceuta,
the African outpost of Spain, population 80,000, that was overrun by 50,000
Moroccans recently.
No doubt some returned home, but the claim that most have is questionable, particularly as it came from Pedro Sánchez, the Communist who runs the Spanish government and who’s facing a political firestorm, both internally and externally. This of course came on the heels of his legalizing half a million illegals earlier this year.
That amnesty was likely the catalyst for the invasion, just
as Ronald Reagan’s amnesty in 1986 led to 50 million illegals invading the
United States over the next forty years.
But here’s the thing.
Even if all of those Moroccans eventually go back home willingly, or are
sent back, either of which is unlikely, no doubt thousands of them will make
asylum claims and seek to be sent to Europe at the first opportunity. Whatever the number of Moroccans who stay in
Ceuta, the outpost is likely changed forever.
Even if only 10,000 stay, you can’t increase your population by 15% overnight
and not have it remake the face of your community.
That week long invasion of Spain, along with the country’s globalist,
Communist leadership, is like a time-lapse of Europe over the last 25
years. Like a time-lapse of a daughter
from the time she’s 3 until she’s 23, when you put the first and last images
side by side you recognize the dramatic change you never see when going from
one to the other by flipping through all of them. Ceuta, going from a quaint
but robust western trading center to a dystopian nightmare in a matter of days
is the west today. The difference is,
Ceuta was relatively easily rescued because Spain belatedly sent thousands of
armed troops to try and eject the invaders. The west in general, and Europe in
particular will not be so lucky.
Why? Two reasons. The first is the fact that the United
States cannot rescue the continent from another suicide as it did in WW I &
WW II. America, led by the Communists in
Democrat clothing, have travelled a similar path over the last half century and
is only now starting to address the cancer within. The second reason, which
dovetails with the first, is that unlike during those previous wars, the enemy
is not easily identified by different uniforms and front lines that can be
drawn on a map. No, today Europe’s leaders
have forced its invaders right into the heart of its breast. From capital
cities to fishing hamlets, European leaders have forced their citizens to
accept millions of invaders into their communities, bringing with them
violence, behaviors and cultures that are utterly foreign to Europe. What’s worse, these globalist clowns are
forcing their own citizens to pay to support those very invaders in their
midst.
Not surprisingly, over the course of this last quarter
century, much of Europe has lost its understanding of who they are and what put
them at the top of the mountain in terms of civilization, power and prosperity
in the first place: Christianity… on its
last legs. Freedom of speech… a distant memory.
Capitalism… a smoking husk on the side of the road. Equal application of the law… a joke with no
punch line. And, perhaps most of all,
their national identities, trading them in for the laughably amorphous moniker “European”
if not in word, most certainly in deed.
Ceuta, even if it gets back to something resembling normal,
has pulled the curtain back on the reality of the civilizational suicide the
globalists are inflicting on their citizens. It exposed the chaos behind the
Potemkin façade that globalist Western leaders have been maintaining for the
last 25 years while pontificating about progress and unity, hoping we wouldn’t
notice the incremental destruction of the greatest civilization in human
history. Some of us have recognized the lie.
Most haven’t. Perhaps Ceuta will
be the wake up call they need… Only time will tell.
