PLAY THE TRUMP CARD!

In America this is whats happening...

"Here’s how this goes. The Democrats, along with the media and Team Tinfoil, keep whining about Russians Russians Russians, and normal people keep tuning them out. While they’re babbling about nonsense that means nothing outside of the coastal looney bins, normal people are tuning into how the stock market and the job market just keep getting better, how we’re not taking guff from foreign creeps anymore, and we’re not talking about how much taxes will go up but about how much they’ll go down."

While in Australia we have shifted from a soft left-Liberal wobble at the moment of betrayal into a hard-left meltdown as evidenced by the behaviours and political apparatchiks appointed to the Liberal bench.

I cry out.......Bring on Australia's Trump card!

AN ALLITERATIVE SERVE.

The sustained descent into depravity depicted through the degradation of wit:

"And not just not witty but obscene, which is particularly disturbing because it was broadcast on network television, not cable television.

But more than anything, it exemplified a trend in American life that one could identify without any exaggeration as the unravelling of civil society. To anyone -- liberal or conservative -- who grew up watching Johnny Carson on late-night TV, the descent from Carson to Colbert is as breathtaking as it is heartbreaking." [D Prager]

ART AS POOPOO!

The collapse and fall of Western Academia is well illustrated in the following article on how MIT, a once prestigious and reliable academic institution in the Western Tradition and a past incubator of 87 Nobel Prize laureates has succumbed to that intellectual vacuum called 'Post Modernism', an ideology of anarchist philosophy, Dadaist nonsense and anti-Western propaganda.

http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2017/05/raise-high-bolshevik-dildo/

Interestingly (or sadly) the author of this little communist propaganda gem calls herself an 'artist'.

Of course in the afterglow of Marcel Duchamp; the 'artist/intellectual' voted by the worlds 'progressive art collective' as the person who made the greatest impact on the world of art during the 20th century, anyone who chooses too can call himself/herself/itself  an artist, and therefore whatever he/she/it makes is ART, even when the arts made by these 'artists' is perceived by most 'ordinary' folk as rubbish, weak, easy, childish, pathetic, ugly, immoral etc.

Art is made out of a worldview and if what has been made over the past 3 decades or so is really 'art' and if politics (and therefore public policy making) is indeed 'downstream from culture'; then we are in for a torrid next few years. Or to rephrase that by referencing this MIT publication: We are in the PooPoo!

WHAT FORMS OF MONASTICISM?

An idea..

...is it worth considering?

...is it worth examining?

...I think it raises some interesting potentials myself, depending on its outworkings of course:

"It asks why there aren’t more places like St. Francisville—places where faith, family, and community form an integrated whole.

Dreher’s answer is that nearly everything about the modern world conspires to eliminate them. He cites the Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who coined the term “liquid modernity” to describe a way of life in which “change is so rapid that no social institutions have time to solidify.” The most successful people nowadays are flexible and rootless; they can live anywhere and believe anything. Dreher thinks that liquid modernity is a more or less unstoppable force—in part because capitalism and technology are unstoppable. He urges Christians, therefore, to remove themselves from the currents of modernity. They should turn inward, toward a kind of modern monasticism." [Joshua Rothman]

GREEN TREASON

Australia's ideological enemies are using environmental issues to strangle this country.

Being a steward of the environment is a God given duty, using environmentalism (Gaian worship) to cripple our economy is treason:

In 1971 there were 57 pages of federal environmental legislation. In 2016, there was an astonishing 4,669 pages.



Debunking the lies:

"The 97% meme:
This claim is actually a come-down from the 1988 claim on the cover of Newsweek that all scientists agree. In either case, the claim is meant to satisfy the non-expert that he or she has no need to understand the science. Mere agreement with the 97% will indicate that one is a supporter of science and superior to anyone denying disaster. This actually satisfies a psychological need for many people. The claim is made by a number of individuals and there are a number of ways in which the claim is presented. A thorough debunking has been given in the Wall Street Journal by Bast and Spencer."

http://merionwest.com/2017/04/25/richard-lindzen-thoughts-on-the-public-discourse-over-climate-change/

PRAY, ACT, DELIVER!

There exists an unfortunate reality that if you want to enjoy the freedoms you have you might have to work for them.

You might question what such 'freedoms' mean, given that you can observe the depravity, sinfulness, greed and all of the other unpleasantness that this so-called freedom delivers on any given day.

Some in Russia look back to the days of Bolshevik rule as the 'good old days', just as some black folk in South Africa say that their lot was better under the Apartheid regime. Both groups are deceived and I have no doubt that both are in the minority even though the main-stream-press, who have an agenda to push, would have us think that these 'when-we's' are in the majority.

You might disagree with the sad state of affairs in the world today, you might think that to do nothing would be to invite a better world to come, I believe you are wrong. Irrespective of how bad you might believe this world to be, if you live in the English West you are still living in the most peaceful, abundant and free period in the history of the world.

We still enjoy freedom of movement, of ownership, of gathering with friends, of worship, of thought and although it is being whittled away there still remains some freedom of speech in the West.

These things should not be taken for granted and everyone of these current freedoms are being challenged by a philosophy which promises utopia but delivers unimaginable evil. 

We must fight the culture wars in whatever capacity we are able because:

"But don’t be fooled: Small groups of violent leftists have done significant damage to countries in the past.

The Bolsheviks were a tiny group of determined thugs who took over Russia. The Nazis were a distant second in the 1932 election, yet a year later – through threats and violence – they were in power. On paper, Mao and his allies should have been defeated easily by Chaing Kai-shek and his much larger forces and western supporters, but it went the other way.

History has shown a small group of people, especially when they’re willing to oppress others and commit violence against their fellow countrymen, can attain power. This dance is made easier when both sides sit silently – one out of fear, the other of impotence." [Derek Hunter]

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood but it can sometime take the form of opposition against evil men and women.
Prayer is vital and essential but actions are part of the solution.

LIGHT & DARK

"We intended to stand between them and those who they wanted to intimidate. We intended to block out their hate and shut down their violence," a leftist militia leader said in a surreally Orwellian quote. They were going to "shut down" perceived hate, violence and intimidation through genuine hate, violence and intimidation."

In Orwell's frighteningly prophetic and increasingly important book 1984 , we see how the Government of 'Airstrip One'(UK) invented a new, confusing jargon with which to communicate called 'Newspeak'.

We have entered that realm in real-life. The  Post Modern intellectual elite have successfully invented their own 'Newspeak' currently called 'fake news' and like the savages of 'Ingsoc' (English Socialism in 1984; the ruling elites) these post modern dictators wield their power with obfuscation, lies, stand-over tactics, intimidation and savage violence.....and they do it all in the name of peace and democracy.

It would be laughable if it were not so serious. Reading the (non-fake) news is like reading from the novel; ie. the above quote from TownHall's Guy Benson.

The truth of the matter is that the culture of the West for all its faults (and there are many as with All human activity), has managed to bring about a standard of living and a generosity towards all other cultures unequalled in human history. Unfortunately that very success has engendered a weakness, which is, and I am sure has been experienced by most parents, safety and comfort breed complacency and entitlement and it is every parents task to educate these failures out of their children or to leave them to discover the consequences of these errors themselves.

But with the miraculous advances of the previous few decades (and the particular achievements of the men and women of God and science who were rightly recognised as the 'Greatest Generation' of all) having all but vanquished the dire consequences of disease, hunger, poverty, and physical pain, an ideology that sought to re-create Paradise by eliminating rational thought was able to find fertile ground. [Evan Sayet]

We are witnessing this 'syndrome' writ large in the culture and unfortunately allowing our children and children's children to experience the consequences might instead mean that they will never again know what real freedom is.
The consequences of a failure to defend this civilisation could mean a real 'dark age' to  come.