NO WIT WHATSOEVER

This excerpt from a speech delivered 75 years ago today is as pertinent as ever to the times we live in, except for the 'half-wit' appellation...I would guess that is now a 'quarter-wit', perhaps even a 'sixteenth-wit' or even less:

"…One of the great blots on our modern living is the cult of false values, a repeated application of the test of money, notoriety, applause. A world in which a comedian or a beautiful half-wit on the screen can be paid fabulous sums, whilst scientific researchers and discoverers can suffer neglect and starvation, is a world which needs to have its sense of values violently set right." [R Menzies]

THE AUSTRALIAN SWAMP FESTERS

Why is it that the left who loudly eschew Western capitalism as 'sinful' are the ones with all the money? 

Well the answer I think lies in looking at countries like the socialist paradises of Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba, North Korea etc...the ones who have the money are those who are the cronies of the dictators, i.e.'crony capitalism', a stagnant system that has an increasing foothold in Australia:

"Well-heeled activists are outspending the Right to demand even more money be spent on them and their causes: "Research from the Menzies Research Centre shows that politically left groups are spending an estimated $160 million a year on political campaigning — $121m more than pro-Liberal and pro-enterprise groups on the right." This cannot end well." [A Bolt]

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/