Motus Mentis

By now you’ve probably heard about the sad end of P’Nut the Squirrel, who, during his brief time on Earth, lived in happy and playful companionship with a fellow named Mark Longo (who had rescued the wee rodent after its mother had been squashed by a car). As their relationship blossomed, Mr. Longo had made P’Nut a beloved celebrity on social media.

But last week New York State, which has no patience for unsanctioned human-sciurine liaisons, got wind of these star-crossed lovers, and fell upon them in its wrath. The hapless P’Nut, wrested from his savior’s arms, was dragged away and put to death. (You can read about it, and see a picture of this winsome ex-squirrel, here.)

Outrage ensued, and rightly so. In no time at all, the martyrdom of poor little P’Nut became a cause célèbre all over social media.

I weighed in briefly myself on X (I’m trying not to call it “Twitter” any more):

A small thing, really — smaller even, say, than Jenkin’s Ear. But it is things like this, things that create outrage at the most personal, granular, commonly relatable level, that often end up having the most vastly outsized effects on the course of history.

But then along came the actor James Woods, one of the sturdiest conservative voices on any social platform these days, with this fantastic tweet (or post, or whatever they’re called nowadays):

Physicists in 1900 basically accepted the Newtonian model of the universe. The only troubling anomaly was that Mercury, as it came into view in its journey around the sun, appeared to be in the “wrong” place. How was this possible? After much discussion brilliant scientists concluded that it “appeared” to be closer to the sun because the sun’s gravity was bending light rays reflecting off of Mercury on their way to earth. This defied all the “settled science” embraced by classical physicists. It was to them heresy essentially, because by implication it would mean that energy and matter were interchangeable. Indeed a young physicist named Albert Einstein created the most famous equation in history, formulating that exact relationship: e=mc(squared). The longwinded point I’m trying to make is that throughout history the most minor anomalies are often windows into a completely different understanding of the world.

Which brings me to my point.

This event where armed officers took a pet squirrel from an individual in New York opens a Pandora’s box of the horrors of leftist tyranny. The facts of the incident are disturbing enough: an anonymous instigator over 1000 miles away reported a humble man who had rescued a wounded squirrel and made a pet of him for years. The informer’s motives in doing so can only be guessed, but the owner of the pet had made the horrific mistake in today’s America of supporting conservative thought. A cadre of armed officials got a search warrant, rummaged through the man’s property for five hours, illegally questioned his wife about her immigrant status, ultimately seizing the pet and killing it without giving the owner any recourse to save its life. Now let’s take a look at the universe in which this macabre horrid little leftist “comedy” took place. In a nation overrun by tens of millions of illegal aliens, crushed by rampant crime and gang warfare, enduring a $35 trillion deficit, soul-crushing inflation, a culture of infanticide and child mutilation, sexual dysphoria, and insanity, and waging illegal lawfare against candidates of another party, New York State spent a full day killing a squirrel, that had been a harmless pet cherished by its owner for literally years.

The event in and of itself was just an act of petty cruelty. As a window into a larger universe, however, it is a fissure in the mantle of our world, signaling a cataclysmic eruption that may well end this nation. The tsunami of rage coming from ordinary and loving individuals was quite frankly astonishing.

Has America in the hands of the lunatic left become a powder keg about to explode? Will the power-hungry Democrats and their media minions spew enough hatred that even the most gentile among us will finally say ENOUGH? Does 87,000 newly minted and armed IRS agents offer you comfort or fill you with terror?

Are you sick of this yet?

Are we “sick of this yet?” Yes, Mr. Woods — yes indeed, sir, millions and millions and millions of us most certainly are. And even if the outrageous destruction of little P’Nut isn’t the spark that ignites this powder-keg, I have a feeling that, before long, something is going to be.