Frank, you talk about "unreality" and how the hallmark of "liberal democracy" IS unreality. I have a theory: WWII was a conflict based on unreality, and was fought to impose that unreality on the world.
At the close of WWI, there were no real monarchies left, and in their wake, instead of well order societies, imposed "egalitarian" models in the world. Many states in the West were struggling under the unreality of "egalitarianism", to the point where people began to notice things. They wanted order. They wanted a return to normalcy. They wanted a return to Christendom. People heard the message of certain parties, and saw an alternative to the unreality of "liberal democracy". In three states, that alternative gained control. In others, that alternative became dangerously influential.
I believe that communism is the logical conclusion to "liberal democracy"...which is why the liberal democrats in Europe and the US needed to crush the alternative. The end result is that anything that is not part of the liberal democrat perspective is seen as morally reprehensible. To accomplish this, liberal democracy needs to double and triple down on the unreality. The American colonies rebelled over a 2% tax. Now they consider themselves "free" to pay close to 40% in taxes.
I love Renoir’s film La Grande Illusion, especially for the exchange between von Stroheim and Fresnay.
Reality shattered by the illusions of war is one idea I took from the film, about our times. About theirs - the film isn’t about war really. It’s about the world the war destroyed, within men and without them.
I wrote a piece on this a couple of years ago. I think I called the Grand Illusion and in it I baselessly claimed that “Liberalism is dead”.
My old man had a system of "conflict resolution" passed on from his father and his before . It usually involved someone getting thrown down some stairs . It's judgement was swift and final . Also from his forebears , a method of therapy called work , plenty of it and hard . Seemed to work as I remain in the Church with my people about me .
Im always at a loss when people who are yearning for some meaning and harken back to what their fathers and grandfathers had and refuse to see that it was exactly the beliefs , ways and conduct of those men that made it all possible . "If only I could have a nice safe neighborhood and tight community, but with fags and dusky hordes and no God" . You can have tacos (maybe kebabs for you Anglish) or no rape . But not both .
Nah, it was good. It’s serious subject matter given the state of the Church, but some lols were certainly appreciated to break it up. I meant it when I said it was a really great balance.
Group think seems to be the taste of the day provided by our powers that be. It can be the most disgusting thing to see, smell, and digest---but if no one else is declining a bite and actually seeming(pretending) to enjoy it, must be good!?! What a bunch of gullible fools we’ve become!?! Inspiring as always, God Bless!!!
Not gullible fools. The good nature of people has been manipulated for ten decades by people who thought it best for us all to do so. We weren't asked - of course. That is the point of our whole system.
Early in the dreaded monkeypox outbreak, the #2 hotspot in the world was Vatican City. This did not surprise me.
I'd be interested to read your take on the Brandon humiliation rite last night. Clearly, the hand up the butt of the Biden puppet is being withdrawn and a search for the Oligarchy's new cabana boy in DC is underway. It's gonna be Newsome, I reckon. Every catwoman and wine guzzling aunt will turn out to pull the lever for him. That will be the pretense used to explain another election fortification.
Could be Newsom. It's convenient to have a simpleton at the helm. Foreign policy is Israel, neocons. Domestic is factional - Obama, Clintons (not so much now - and Bill not Hillary who is toxic) - with the progressives yapping from beyond the AIPAC pale.
I don't think they will ditch him. Obama came out today to "folks post" in support of Biden, who also addressed his audience as "folks" today. They are going to stick with him and the media will fall back in line behind him next week. Hillary came out in support of Biden a few hours ago, too.
Incapacity is an asset. Guilt is victimhood etc. The party will unite behind him because they wont get anyone else (Obama says no) and they will lose harder if they fight. Biden has lost the black vote and the youth vote. He's finished in reality. As far as the election goes, they could say he is on minus ten percent approval and declare a shock win for him.
This would be a disaster for the US, but these people are all for disaster.
Personally I don't think they will fix it. Don's problems have evaporated since he was bought by Adelson money (half a billion plus in 9 years to him and the party). Cameron went to dinner with him to arrange the passing of the Ukraine bill, to which Trump agreed (and then it passed). Cameron said Mike Johnson wanted 2 things - to pass the bill and keep his job. He went to Trump to get them and he got them.
Trump already wields this considerable power over the House. There is no reason to nix him now. He is the rescue candidate for the US, and the money has moved behind him - corporate etc. Not just Adelson's. I think he will win the election.
Having completely tuned out regime propaganda organs, I missed Hillary and Obama's attempt to reanimate the cadaver. Maybe they're fortifying it in Trump's favor this time. Still, the ridiculously early date of the debate leads me to think that they gave themselves enough time to swap out Biden for a less odious and more coherent ventriloquist's dummy.
Trump's support for Israel and his efforts to continue the slaughter in Ukraine have been disappointing. I guess we'll never have a president who does not reside in AIPAC's lap. Trump remains the best chance to return the US to a semblance of sanity, as far as I can see. That's something I never imagined I'd be typing.
Expending the lives of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in an attempt to destroy Russia is perhaps the most evil action the US government has ever committed, imo. Especially after a reasonable peace proposal was nixed a couple of months into the conflict. Vietnam, at least, had the pretense of halting Communism's spread.
John Dewey wasn’t Jewish, and neither were the many US and UK state level actors who implemented the proposed “common secular faith” which was parcelled with the sales cult of “liberal democracy” powered by propagandists like Lippmann.
Matthew Arnold (not Jewish) was very much like many anglicans today - one of whose bishops described Christianity as “ethical jazz”.
If you read Irving Kristol (“on the future of American Jewry”) he talks about a postwar surge of secular liberal humanism powering the western ideological shift from Christian roots towards what John Gray called the illusion of progress. Isaiah Berlin, perhaps the most intelligent champion of the liberal idea, was Jewish. I think he would be appalled at the state which goes by that name today, as his first and last essays argue it is a form of despotism.
Frank, you talk about "unreality" and how the hallmark of "liberal democracy" IS unreality. I have a theory: WWII was a conflict based on unreality, and was fought to impose that unreality on the world.
At the close of WWI, there were no real monarchies left, and in their wake, instead of well order societies, imposed "egalitarian" models in the world. Many states in the West were struggling under the unreality of "egalitarianism", to the point where people began to notice things. They wanted order. They wanted a return to normalcy. They wanted a return to Christendom. People heard the message of certain parties, and saw an alternative to the unreality of "liberal democracy". In three states, that alternative gained control. In others, that alternative became dangerously influential.
I believe that communism is the logical conclusion to "liberal democracy"...which is why the liberal democrats in Europe and the US needed to crush the alternative. The end result is that anything that is not part of the liberal democrat perspective is seen as morally reprehensible. To accomplish this, liberal democracy needs to double and triple down on the unreality. The American colonies rebelled over a 2% tax. Now they consider themselves "free" to pay close to 40% in taxes.
I love Renoir’s film La Grande Illusion, especially for the exchange between von Stroheim and Fresnay.
Reality shattered by the illusions of war is one idea I took from the film, about our times. About theirs - the film isn’t about war really. It’s about the world the war destroyed, within men and without them.
I wrote a piece on this a couple of years ago. I think I called the Grand Illusion and in it I baselessly claimed that “Liberalism is dead”.
This one - March 22.
https://open.substack.com/pub/frankwright/p/the-grand-illusion?r=18ihr9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
My old man had a system of "conflict resolution" passed on from his father and his before . It usually involved someone getting thrown down some stairs . It's judgement was swift and final . Also from his forebears , a method of therapy called work , plenty of it and hard . Seemed to work as I remain in the Church with my people about me .
Im always at a loss when people who are yearning for some meaning and harken back to what their fathers and grandfathers had and refuse to see that it was exactly the beliefs , ways and conduct of those men that made it all possible . "If only I could have a nice safe neighborhood and tight community, but with fags and dusky hordes and no God" . You can have tacos (maybe kebabs for you Anglish) or no rape . But not both .
Conflicts are traditionally resolved from where I come from by someone getting “telt”.
Stairs may be involved. Telting also ensures disambiguation.
You’re on fire, Frank! Well done 👏
You're crushing it again, Frank. I remain impressed.
Cheers m8 I’m glad you liked it and it is very helpful to know I am not just shouting up an electronic drainpipe
Thanks for including the pictures of Gay modernism in the middle. It was good to break up the piece with some laughter.
Comments should allow image posting for aftermenes. I tried to get some lol in the notlol.
Maybe I should try harder.
Nah, it was good. It’s serious subject matter given the state of the Church, but some lols were certainly appreciated to break it up. I meant it when I said it was a really great balance.
Group think seems to be the taste of the day provided by our powers that be. It can be the most disgusting thing to see, smell, and digest---but if no one else is declining a bite and actually seeming(pretending) to enjoy it, must be good!?! What a bunch of gullible fools we’ve become!?! Inspiring as always, God Bless!!!
Not gullible fools. The good nature of people has been manipulated for ten decades by people who thought it best for us all to do so. We weren't asked - of course. That is the point of our whole system.
Thank you too Ali and God bless you!
Excellent, as always.
Early in the dreaded monkeypox outbreak, the #2 hotspot in the world was Vatican City. This did not surprise me.
I'd be interested to read your take on the Brandon humiliation rite last night. Clearly, the hand up the butt of the Biden puppet is being withdrawn and a search for the Oligarchy's new cabana boy in DC is underway. It's gonna be Newsome, I reckon. Every catwoman and wine guzzling aunt will turn out to pull the lever for him. That will be the pretense used to explain another election fortification.
Could be Newsom. It's convenient to have a simpleton at the helm. Foreign policy is Israel, neocons. Domestic is factional - Obama, Clintons (not so much now - and Bill not Hillary who is toxic) - with the progressives yapping from beyond the AIPAC pale.
I don't think they will ditch him. Obama came out today to "folks post" in support of Biden, who also addressed his audience as "folks" today. They are going to stick with him and the media will fall back in line behind him next week. Hillary came out in support of Biden a few hours ago, too.
Incapacity is an asset. Guilt is victimhood etc. The party will unite behind him because they wont get anyone else (Obama says no) and they will lose harder if they fight. Biden has lost the black vote and the youth vote. He's finished in reality. As far as the election goes, they could say he is on minus ten percent approval and declare a shock win for him.
This would be a disaster for the US, but these people are all for disaster.
Personally I don't think they will fix it. Don's problems have evaporated since he was bought by Adelson money (half a billion plus in 9 years to him and the party). Cameron went to dinner with him to arrange the passing of the Ukraine bill, to which Trump agreed (and then it passed). Cameron said Mike Johnson wanted 2 things - to pass the bill and keep his job. He went to Trump to get them and he got them.
Trump already wields this considerable power over the House. There is no reason to nix him now. He is the rescue candidate for the US, and the money has moved behind him - corporate etc. Not just Adelson's. I think he will win the election.
Having completely tuned out regime propaganda organs, I missed Hillary and Obama's attempt to reanimate the cadaver. Maybe they're fortifying it in Trump's favor this time. Still, the ridiculously early date of the debate leads me to think that they gave themselves enough time to swap out Biden for a less odious and more coherent ventriloquist's dummy.
Trump's support for Israel and his efforts to continue the slaughter in Ukraine have been disappointing. I guess we'll never have a president who does not reside in AIPAC's lap. Trump remains the best chance to return the US to a semblance of sanity, as far as I can see. That's something I never imagined I'd be typing.
Expending the lives of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in an attempt to destroy Russia is perhaps the most evil action the US government has ever committed, imo. Especially after a reasonable peace proposal was nixed a couple of months into the conflict. Vietnam, at least, had the pretense of halting Communism's spread.
I knew there would be a reference to the WM Review, which I find indispensable.
Yep. WM review is solid.
Frank is the new Chesterton!
Come on now. I am an internet hobbit.
Liberalism is kind of jewish no?
It’s openly anti-Christian
So yes . Only very , not kind of .
John Dewey wasn’t Jewish, and neither were the many US and UK state level actors who implemented the proposed “common secular faith” which was parcelled with the sales cult of “liberal democracy” powered by propagandists like Lippmann.
Matthew Arnold (not Jewish) was very much like many anglicans today - one of whose bishops described Christianity as “ethical jazz”.
If you read Irving Kristol (“on the future of American Jewry”) he talks about a postwar surge of secular liberal humanism powering the western ideological shift from Christian roots towards what John Gray called the illusion of progress. Isaiah Berlin, perhaps the most intelligent champion of the liberal idea, was Jewish. I think he would be appalled at the state which goes by that name today, as his first and last essays argue it is a form of despotism.