A wonderful piece of writing that cuts to the chase. We are being manipulated on all levels no matter what evils are being meted out to us or what has beset or befallen families. As long as the narrative of the regime gets up and running as organic or spontaneous the media will take care of the rest. It was the same when David Ames was murdered. The following Monday when parliament reconvened (the poor man was slaughtered on a Friday) online hate speech dominated the dispatches. Their fellow MP was just butchered by an Islamist terrorist and they all jump on the agree consensus of online hate. These people are utterly repellent and their actions/words, unconscionable.
Whenever a person of knife commits a person of knife crime, the news cycle:
1. Suppresses known information on the identity of the suspect which would not prejudice criminal justice
2. Awaits speculation
3. Reports online speculation as misinformation
4. Narrative shifts to online hate speech
5. Story becomes the need for more censorship
6. News cycles past the crime and its causes.
This is a method. Not a mistake. Persons of truck, persons of bomb, persons of knife: the news cyclists race away from the subject to the moral of the story in the same way. Every single time, everywhere.
People are so stupid - they believe anything they are told is true. The nonsense of singing a pop song to show you are a kind, considerate person is as stupid as banging a saucepan whilst standing on your doorstep to show you worship the NHS or putting a piece of paper over your face to show you care about not killing granny with a cold. Come the Revolution, I intend putting them all up against the wall!
Actually, just putting the instigators up against the wall would probably be enough - most people just follow the crowd for fear of being shouted at so, get rid of the sanctimonious instigators and the sheep can relax.
Excellent article, thank you. Like Morrissey I shall be looking back in anger. And also I will look towards the future angrily. Which I suppose inevitably means I’ll have to do some ‘bird’ at some point vaguely soon for thinking the wrong things and then saying them out loud.
As a related aside, when are we allowed to speak about the Army Colonel who was stabbed over a month ago? That hasn’t been mentioned anywhere since it happened. We seem to be unable to look back angrily about that because it has successfully been memory holed. Which doubtless tells us what we need to know about the perpetrator.
Ahhh! Then Frank, please do consider displaying those menes as a bonus post today. For those of us swimming in a sea of “longform” seriousness. Thoughts, concepts, ideas, observations, expressed blissfully briefly, might help us smile again. 🥸🫠🙏🪷💜
As an American, it is obvious our regime has contempt for us regular citizens, but, my God, the British government seems to hate/fear working class Brits to a level that is almost impressive. Do you think it is a remnant of the aristocracy or is it that Britain is so much older and at a more advanced state of decline?
Britain has no political opposition. You can vote for left-liberals, right-liberals, or extreme liberals. That is the legacy of our vaunted liberal democracy, home to the mother of Parliaments. We are the most controlled nation in the West, and our political class certainly one of the most murderous - be that in the sponsorship of international terror, or in the aggressive omnicide of our civilisation at home.
I do not think this a legacy of aristocracy, moreover of the vanity of professional politicians and the system of pilot-fish significance we adopted when the Second World War handed our empire to the USA. In short, our political class typically promotes wars to remain relevant.
In your 17th century, if I recall correctly, England went from a relatively uniform religious state to one of the most varied (within Anglican Christian ideas), but even the Jews experienced some toleration there -- within fifty years. Your history is replete with dissension, warring factions, times of liberty, eras of repression, violent action and extraordinary liberty. I'm very encouraged to read writing like yours and to learn of your patriots.
I am reading Robert Tombs' "The English and their History" just now. It is good in most parts, the taint being the chauvinism of the liberal mind, but serves as a very good overview.
Tombs says the Peasant's Revolt and those other pre-Tudor ones like it were about the restoration of the natural order and were appeals to the King, rather than attempts at revolution. The Puritanical one was regicidal, as it was led by fanatics and iconoclasts who despised, err, joy.
Diarmuid McCullough, among others, has written extensively on that period of English/Scots/Welsh/Irish, et al religious war-making, repression, etc. Makes for delightful reading, too. Now that was a bad scene to be living in, far worse than today, but out of it came English liberty and a century or more of toleration after ravages -- smashed churches, executions of heretics, mass slaughter -- in the cities throughout the countryside. Why is now not the opportunity to strengthen liberty, against the ravages of the Left over the past century? The conditions are ripe, the seeds have been planted, the populace is receiving the electric shock of awakening and you've got strong personalities willing to strive for the prize. I am inspired when I read of people like you and the like-minded.
A minor point: I wish writers would not use the term "liberal" to describe the illiberal. I see it everywhere misapplied. The linguistic trait of the Left is to similarly invert language, to mean its opposite. "Liberal" and "Communist," as currently used in the UK and the US by people who consider themselves conservative, are inapplicable. Liberal humanism was never this tyrannical parastical negation of the opposition; Communism, which was an economic (fraudulent) theory, has been dead and gone everywhere, except perhaps in school systems in China, where no one believes in it anymore any way. None of the current authorities are Communist in any way. It's not liberal, nor Communist. It's something else.
I have a book coming out about liberalism, and have gone on about it at length. Mainly I am on about post-Soviet liberal democracy and its values, but not exclusively, as I think the liberal-democratic model a century old creation - somewhat distinct from Mill and so on, but not entirely.
The modern word is a travesty of Berlin's value pluralism, and equates to the despotism he denounced.
All my life I’ve had this problem with authority. I’ll respect a man if he gives me reason to but this blind adherence to laws and to just “do as I am told” never stuck. I couldn’t figure out why I was this way, why only I seemed to have this burning individuality within me but then came Covid and it clicked. I guess I should be thankful for Covid in a way - people don’t want truth, people don’t want justice or goodness or beauty they want to belong, be feel safe and comfortable. That’s what matters to people above all else and they’ll do anything to get it.
The argument for authority is contingent on consent, and has no absolute value outside of demonstrable expertise. Our system promotes people for loyalty and for superficial characteristics - race, sexual extremism and so on. There is neither consent nor legitimacy in our system of government.
The success of propaganda relies not on its truth value but is contingent on the attachment of some good feeling to its product.
If your life is disappointing, if you feel lonely and insignificant, in short, if you hunger for meaning and to feel good - you can, for a moment, if only you make some display of loyalty and of condemnation.
The liberal democratic model is the manufacture of substitutes. This includes religion. A Christianity absent Christ was proposed by John Dewey in "A Common Faith", building on the ideas of people like Matthew Arnold, who argued in the 19th century that poetry could replace the divine, whilst Western civilisation retained the armature of the Christianity that built it. How it started, how its's going .jpg
The same self-destructive attitude colonizes the brains of all "good" Americans. Rally behind whatever cause our Deep State endorses, and viciously attack its enemies (racist white supremacists, homophobes, the unvaccinated, etc.).
Recently in a nearby town a boy was killed when an illegal teenager working at a car wash struck him with a car that he drove at a high rate of speed from the washing area. The town's police was flooded with calls asking how people might be able to reach out to the illegal and offer condolences and gift cards. People are trained to feel sympathy for illegals, no matter the circumstance.
Just as newly created gun laws in blue states are physically disarming Americans, we are being disarmed mentally for the necessary fight to restore our countries.
The "Gutmensch" is a concept from the German - the person who is characterised by the display of all that is said to be "Good".
Brecht talked about this in the Good Person of Szechuan, and Frisch did to a degree with his "Jedermann" ("Everyman") in the bourgeois Biedermann - who is so "Good" he allows self-declared arsonists to wheel in petrol and burn down his house.
I know a few police officers who voted for Brexit due to immigration concerns. I was told that their concern stemmed from the number of foreign nationals in custody.
It would be worthwhile testing this observation via a FOI request. People are also of the assumption that a disproportionate number of foreign nationals are responsible for sexual offences. Perhaps it would also be helpful to know for sure.
I know a few who have left - important ones too - such as senior firearms officers doing close protection for ministers. Also I know a few people in Border Force, and in the Prison Service.
If what these people knew was in the headlines the country would be even less governable than it is now. It will be known, it is inevitable. The dam, as it were, has burst, with UK prisons releasing machete murderers from Africa to make way for white British men who complain about them.
Good to see you writing about it, but it is not new. Falsehood as a camouflage for actions otherwise unacceptable is an inveterate feature of animal nature. How else does the wily predator capture his prey? Is just this false-naturedness in man of the past century or so that has been exposed for all to see. That is, to me, exceptional and very encouraging.
A wonderful piece of writing that cuts to the chase. We are being manipulated on all levels no matter what evils are being meted out to us or what has beset or befallen families. As long as the narrative of the regime gets up and running as organic or spontaneous the media will take care of the rest. It was the same when David Ames was murdered. The following Monday when parliament reconvened (the poor man was slaughtered on a Friday) online hate speech dominated the dispatches. Their fellow MP was just butchered by an Islamist terrorist and they all jump on the agree consensus of online hate. These people are utterly repellent and their actions/words, unconscionable.
Whenever a person of knife commits a person of knife crime, the news cycle:
1. Suppresses known information on the identity of the suspect which would not prejudice criminal justice
2. Awaits speculation
3. Reports online speculation as misinformation
4. Narrative shifts to online hate speech
5. Story becomes the need for more censorship
6. News cycles past the crime and its causes.
This is a method. Not a mistake. Persons of truck, persons of bomb, persons of knife: the news cyclists race away from the subject to the moral of the story in the same way. Every single time, everywhere.
Liberal democracy is rule by media.
NS Lyons: “the Soviet Union had a state run media, but it’s fair to say we have a media run state.”
Cleaver
Randolph who owns/runs Netflix is a direct descendant of Freud and Berneys.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph
Shocked I tell you.
Well said, Frank!
People are so stupid - they believe anything they are told is true. The nonsense of singing a pop song to show you are a kind, considerate person is as stupid as banging a saucepan whilst standing on your doorstep to show you worship the NHS or putting a piece of paper over your face to show you care about not killing granny with a cold. Come the Revolution, I intend putting them all up against the wall!
Actually, just putting the instigators up against the wall would probably be enough - most people just follow the crowd for fear of being shouted at so, get rid of the sanctimonious instigators and the sheep can relax.
We have been told for a century that the lies of the machine are true, and are more real than reality.
It is reality itself which is radicalising people to the point of the wholesale rejection of the counterfeit culture.
Except, I hope, for the dinosaurs
U WOT M8
Dinosaurs aren’t real. They’re a figment, a virulent fantasy concocted by BIG DINOSAUR to sell more dinosaurs.
Believe your own lying eyes . Look back to the wisdom of your forefathers . Have Faith in our God . Set your minds and harden your your hearts .
I can fix the West, and effect a full scale reengineering of our society.
Yup, me.
(I sound like Trump, did you notice Frank’s reference to November 5?)
Switch jobs: teachers police our cities and police teach our children.
That ends leftism, it’s the end of invincible ignorance and reintroduction of common sense as a virtue.
You are welcome.
Excellent article, thank you. Like Morrissey I shall be looking back in anger. And also I will look towards the future angrily. Which I suppose inevitably means I’ll have to do some ‘bird’ at some point vaguely soon for thinking the wrong things and then saying them out loud.
As a related aside, when are we allowed to speak about the Army Colonel who was stabbed over a month ago? That hasn’t been mentioned anywhere since it happened. We seem to be unable to look back angrily about that because it has successfully been memory holed. Which doubtless tells us what we need to know about the perpetrator.
He was an African who arrived on a motorbike armed with "kitchen knives and a machete".
BBC report does not picture him, of course.
Mail does. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13670805/man-charged-attempted-murder-lieutenant-colonel-stabbed-kent.html
Of course! How they think we’re all thick enough to fall for the ‘mental health’ excuse is beyond me.
Mennel elf as Sadiq says. Mennel elf.
The whole ideology is trans-sane. How's that for mental?
Haha! Yes. God, I hate that man.
Thanks so much for all the sanity, Frank!! And for some splendid mene-ings too!! 🙏🪷💜
I did not have room for menes today. NOT XDDDD!!! NOT XDDDD!!!
Arr, but I thought you did. Maybe I only *think* I know what you mene!!? 😁😂😉
I was sadly undermened despite having many menes of suitable dank to deploy.
Ahhh! Then Frank, please do consider displaying those menes as a bonus post today. For those of us swimming in a sea of “longform” seriousness. Thoughts, concepts, ideas, observations, expressed blissfully briefly, might help us smile again. 🥸🫠🙏🪷💜
I promise menes in the next post. Pic will not be related lol
That’s very kind. Thank you Frank. 😊
The road to hell is paved with good intentions... and road signs that read 'at least, you don't speak German'.
As an American, it is obvious our regime has contempt for us regular citizens, but, my God, the British government seems to hate/fear working class Brits to a level that is almost impressive. Do you think it is a remnant of the aristocracy or is it that Britain is so much older and at a more advanced state of decline?
Britain has no political opposition. You can vote for left-liberals, right-liberals, or extreme liberals. That is the legacy of our vaunted liberal democracy, home to the mother of Parliaments. We are the most controlled nation in the West, and our political class certainly one of the most murderous - be that in the sponsorship of international terror, or in the aggressive omnicide of our civilisation at home.
I do not think this a legacy of aristocracy, moreover of the vanity of professional politicians and the system of pilot-fish significance we adopted when the Second World War handed our empire to the USA. In short, our political class typically promotes wars to remain relevant.
In your 17th century, if I recall correctly, England went from a relatively uniform religious state to one of the most varied (within Anglican Christian ideas), but even the Jews experienced some toleration there -- within fifty years. Your history is replete with dissension, warring factions, times of liberty, eras of repression, violent action and extraordinary liberty. I'm very encouraged to read writing like yours and to learn of your patriots.
I am reading Robert Tombs' "The English and their History" just now. It is good in most parts, the taint being the chauvinism of the liberal mind, but serves as a very good overview.
Tombs says the Peasant's Revolt and those other pre-Tudor ones like it were about the restoration of the natural order and were appeals to the King, rather than attempts at revolution. The Puritanical one was regicidal, as it was led by fanatics and iconoclasts who despised, err, joy.
Diarmuid McCullough, among others, has written extensively on that period of English/Scots/Welsh/Irish, et al religious war-making, repression, etc. Makes for delightful reading, too. Now that was a bad scene to be living in, far worse than today, but out of it came English liberty and a century or more of toleration after ravages -- smashed churches, executions of heretics, mass slaughter -- in the cities throughout the countryside. Why is now not the opportunity to strengthen liberty, against the ravages of the Left over the past century? The conditions are ripe, the seeds have been planted, the populace is receiving the electric shock of awakening and you've got strong personalities willing to strive for the prize. I am inspired when I read of people like you and the like-minded.
A minor point: I wish writers would not use the term "liberal" to describe the illiberal. I see it everywhere misapplied. The linguistic trait of the Left is to similarly invert language, to mean its opposite. "Liberal" and "Communist," as currently used in the UK and the US by people who consider themselves conservative, are inapplicable. Liberal humanism was never this tyrannical parastical negation of the opposition; Communism, which was an economic (fraudulent) theory, has been dead and gone everywhere, except perhaps in school systems in China, where no one believes in it anymore any way. None of the current authorities are Communist in any way. It's not liberal, nor Communist. It's something else.
I have a book coming out about liberalism, and have gone on about it at length. Mainly I am on about post-Soviet liberal democracy and its values, but not exclusively, as I think the liberal-democratic model a century old creation - somewhat distinct from Mill and so on, but not entirely.
The modern word is a travesty of Berlin's value pluralism, and equates to the despotism he denounced.
I look forward to reading it.
Rather "Illiberalism" is the apt nomenclature.
All my life I’ve had this problem with authority. I’ll respect a man if he gives me reason to but this blind adherence to laws and to just “do as I am told” never stuck. I couldn’t figure out why I was this way, why only I seemed to have this burning individuality within me but then came Covid and it clicked. I guess I should be thankful for Covid in a way - people don’t want truth, people don’t want justice or goodness or beauty they want to belong, be feel safe and comfortable. That’s what matters to people above all else and they’ll do anything to get it.
The argument for authority is contingent on consent, and has no absolute value outside of demonstrable expertise. Our system promotes people for loyalty and for superficial characteristics - race, sexual extremism and so on. There is neither consent nor legitimacy in our system of government.
The success of propaganda relies not on its truth value but is contingent on the attachment of some good feeling to its product.
If your life is disappointing, if you feel lonely and insignificant, in short, if you hunger for meaning and to feel good - you can, for a moment, if only you make some display of loyalty and of condemnation.
Dopamine hit in place of connection to Divinity??
So the solution to "everything" (lol) lies in returning God and Godliness to the Centre of Being..? 🤔
The liberal democratic model is the manufacture of substitutes. This includes religion. A Christianity absent Christ was proposed by John Dewey in "A Common Faith", building on the ideas of people like Matthew Arnold, who argued in the 19th century that poetry could replace the divine, whilst Western civilisation retained the armature of the Christianity that built it. How it started, how its's going .jpg
The same self-destructive attitude colonizes the brains of all "good" Americans. Rally behind whatever cause our Deep State endorses, and viciously attack its enemies (racist white supremacists, homophobes, the unvaccinated, etc.).
Recently in a nearby town a boy was killed when an illegal teenager working at a car wash struck him with a car that he drove at a high rate of speed from the washing area. The town's police was flooded with calls asking how people might be able to reach out to the illegal and offer condolences and gift cards. People are trained to feel sympathy for illegals, no matter the circumstance.
Just as newly created gun laws in blue states are physically disarming Americans, we are being disarmed mentally for the necessary fight to restore our countries.
The "Gutmensch" is a concept from the German - the person who is characterised by the display of all that is said to be "Good".
Brecht talked about this in the Good Person of Szechuan, and Frisch did to a degree with his "Jedermann" ("Everyman") in the bourgeois Biedermann - who is so "Good" he allows self-declared arsonists to wheel in petrol and burn down his house.
I know a few police officers who voted for Brexit due to immigration concerns. I was told that their concern stemmed from the number of foreign nationals in custody.
It would be worthwhile testing this observation via a FOI request. People are also of the assumption that a disproportionate number of foreign nationals are responsible for sexual offences. Perhaps it would also be helpful to know for sure.
I know a few who have left - important ones too - such as senior firearms officers doing close protection for ministers. Also I know a few people in Border Force, and in the Prison Service.
If what these people knew was in the headlines the country would be even less governable than it is now. It will be known, it is inevitable. The dam, as it were, has burst, with UK prisons releasing machete murderers from Africa to make way for white British men who complain about them.
Good to see you writing about it, but it is not new. Falsehood as a camouflage for actions otherwise unacceptable is an inveterate feature of animal nature. How else does the wily predator capture his prey? Is just this false-naturedness in man of the past century or so that has been exposed for all to see. That is, to me, exceptional and very encouraging.
What are their names? Who is ‘the Government’?
Stuffy, ya made me laugh, thanks
Oh yes -a lot of Curtis’ stuff is great. He did a good interview with a fellow in Britain who campaigns for direct democracy if you can find it.