NASTY NAZIS

If you really believe that Socialism is the way forward...then I suggest you examine your historical knowledge or your moral character because at least one of them is severely flawed. The evidence provided for the demonic incinerator that is 20th Century Socialism is stacked up to the tune of around 100 million bodies. Most people are offended if someone calls them a NAZI, but those same people are not when called a Socialist. Why? The former is not equal to the latter because the latter is far worse.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF?

It appears that the obnoxious behaviour and ill concealed contempt aimed at all 'beneath them' is not new to modern day tertiary students.

The 'normals'(deplorables) of Oxford in the middle ages afforded the 'intellectuals' of that era their due comeuppance:

The seed of the riot was an altercation in the Swindlestock Tavern in Oxford (now the site of the Santander Bank on Carfax, on the corner of St Aldate's and Queen Street) between two students of the University of Oxford, Walter Spryngeheuse and Roger de Chesterfield, and the taverner, John Croidon. They complained about the quality of drinks, which led to an exchange of rude words that ended with the students throwing their drinks in the taverner's face and assaulting him.[2] Retaliation for this incident led to armed clashes between locals and students.
The mayor of Oxford, John de Bereford, asked the Chancellor of Oxford University, Humphrey de Cherlton, to arrest the two students, to no avail. Instead, 200 students supported Spryngeheuse and Chesterfield, allegedly assaulting the mayor and others.[2] As the situation escalated, locals from the surrounding countryside poured in, crying: "Havac! Havoc! Smyt fast, give gode knocks!"[3]
A riot broke out and lasted two days, which left 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead.[2][4] The scholars were eventually routed.

Anyone want to predict that something of a similar outcome is brewing in our post-modern utopia called academia?

SNIPPETS

Cue Australia's ABC network:

Part of the problem for the “journalists” in legacy media is Groupthink. You may hear it referred to as a bubble, but it’s more complicated than simply being isolated from others. It’s a concerted and dangerous state where a group of people believe they have sole possession of the truth and work to make sure alternative facts never infect the inner circle of decision-makers, or those they’re trying to influence. [T Bruce]

The Rainbow Gestapo are opening up a new front, could prove to be fatal if history has resonance:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/annatimmis/2017/07/05/untitled-n2350901

Trump trumps the left:

"Leftists call his wife a “whore”, and run around with signs saying “rape Melania”. They hold up his bloody and severed head as a “joke”, call for his assassination as a “joke”, call his 10-year-old son a rapist and autistic and a homeschool shooter, and they are suddenly claiming the moral high ground?

This is why they hate him so much. Because despite doing everything they can think of, Trump is still standing. Then he punches back. His blows are surgical and hilarious. They take next to no effort, while the Left is literally expending all its energy and having no impact. He’s using the media’s own tools against it. He’s using social media – the Great Equalizer – against them. He’s using Alinsky against them. He’s kicking them when they’re down."

AS THE WORLD TURNS

I am not sure about the veracity of the hoary old myth that states; prior to the Bolshevik revolution the Church hierarchy (the Bishops) had neglected their duties to such an extent that they spent their final days debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.

I am sure the whole point of tales such as these was to illustrate that the Church had lost all relevance to everyday life and history appears to indicate that that was indeed the case. I am also convinced that a similar irrelevance has gripped the Western worldview today.

Those who have been given the responsibility of nurturing and maintaining almost two thousand years of hard-won freedoms and traditions; i.e. the Politicians of the West (the new world 'priesthood'), have neglected their responsibilities to the point where apparatchiks and commissars are more interested in debating how many definitions of sexual identity can be included on an official form...thus making the bishops earlier digressions seem sane by comparison.

And perhaps the result of such neglect will indeed see history repeating itself.

HOLLOW MINDS = HOLLOW LIVES

Ideas have consequences and the inflammatory and dangerous ones that are being foisted upon the most fragile members of our society these day are taking their toll. I am talking of course of our primary school children.

Ideas like the 'Safe Schools project' (an Orwellian honorific if ever there was one) are being ladled into the minds of unsuspecting minors in the school system creating a grooming environment for future exploitation by emotional sociopaths.

The damage that these ideologies are causing to the emotional well-being of the 'normal's' in society is well captured through this excerpt of a conversation between a psychiatrist and the person who recommended the shrinks patient to him.

"Free floating anxiety, reactive depression and hysteria are rampant!” he yelled into the phone, and after catching half a breath: “It’s like a medieval plague!” He explained: “But the carriers of today’s epidemic are the dismal Marxist rats that have washed up into our universities from the rotten hulk of communism … legions of progressive ideologues have infiltrated and infested all the institutions of higher learning, they are brainwashing our uncritical youth and they are turning them into compliant PC teacher warriors like the one that is screwing up our patient through her daughter!”
That’s a very harsh analysis, Maurice. You make it sound as if the university has become a health hazard. Could it be that the teacher has been misunderstood because of poor communication?
“Teaching is about good and proper communication,” he insisted. “This person is talking sex to little kids in newspeak. In our day a school leaver needed a good pass mark to make it into a teachers’ college to learn how to teach—in English. These days a university will admit anybody from an open field of applicants and drum into her (occasionally it’s a he) gender studies, post-Freudian evolutionary psychology and all sorts of reconstituted neo-Marxist claptrap. The academics marinate her grey matter in social-science slime, season it with the latest teaching fads, and when she’s demonstrated a satisfactory level of Orwellian fluency, they send her out to teach. In this case, fashionable fantasies of sexual liberation at a school near Marrickville.” [J J Prineas]

The problem of course is that universities are pumping out hollow people whose objective in life becomes not the 'education' of his/her/its charges, but the indoctrination of their pupils into a destructive way of living. Sort of like giving your local arsonist a can o petrol, a box of matches and a map to the driest tinder in your neighbourhood.

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.                                                                [T S Eliot]

The cultural Marxism espoused by so many on the left is another form of the oligarchical cult foisted upon the unfortunates in North Korea, and its consequences will be just as dire:

Gender dysphoria robs a mother of her daughter.
“The teacher has done what the university taught her to do: Disregard the parents and prepare the youngster for an orderly transition into a new fluid and gender-diverse multicultural world community, even while your old-fashioned nation-state withers away. The new world of PC harmony and unity in diversity is progressing satisfactorily in many other advanced Western societies as well, and soon all the communities, collectives and covens of the world will be joining hands, dancing in circles and singing ‘Kumbaya’. Just as presaged by neo-Marxism.
“Also, in the new world order the principles of social Darwinism will prevail so that in the schoolyard, unnatural selection will favour the gender-diverse community (GDC) thereby ensuring that the GDC will gain dominance. [J J Prineas]

 In a twisted sort of a way I suppose that teaching your children to be in the world and of the world prevents them from suffering the more obvious wrath of the coming persecution, but what good does that do when they shuffle off this mortal coil...I shudder to think.

I for one am not exactly comfortable with the now and yet to come persecutions,but I am firmly, logically and emotionally convinced that Jesus is the WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE and that what is to come is far greater than what we might have to go through here on this gorgeous but flawed green and blue marble in a vast ocean of marbles.

IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES (A REFRAIN)

Why has the Anglosphere become what it is?

Why has Western civilisation, the font of so much good in this world, the lifter of so many out of poverty, the bringer of science, technology and medicine to billions, the  source of lifestyles for so many 'ordinary' citizens which overwhelm the lifestyles of many of the most famous and powerful figures of the past....how has this civilisation allowed itself to become so chastised, so maligned, so hated by those it has served so well?

Melanie Phillips provides a few clues:

The demoralisation of the west dates back to the rise of Nazism and the Second World War. Europe, the crucible of the Enlightenment which had nevertheless descended into barbarism, came to believe that it had to be protected against itself. Its constituent nations, particularly Germany, could never again be trusted with any power.

That despairing certainty was the core belief underpinning the EU project. Fascism, went the thinking, had been created by nationalism. To prevent nationalism – and thus prejudice, fascism and war – you had to emasculate the nation. Trans-national institutions, based on the idea of the brotherhood of man, must henceforth take precedence over national governments, institutions and laws.

Britain threw in its lot with this European project because it too was demoralised after the end of World War Two. Bankrupt and deeply in debt to the US, it had also lost its empire – after which, famously, it couldn’t find a role.

In this vulnerable state, its official and intellectual elites were unable to resist the tide of destructive and dangerous ideas which emerged during the sixties – all of which rested on the same premise that the western nation, along with the values it represented, was innately bad.

These ideas constituted a cultural revolution, which radicals realised was a far better way than Soviet communism to undermine the west. They could transform western society through a “long march through the institutions”, capturing the citadels of the culture such as the universities, the churches, the media and others and subverting from within the west’s core values. Through ideologies such as moral and cultural relativism, feminism and multiculturalism this strategy was carried out to the letter.

All these ideologies substituted power for truth and, embodying in their different ways the ideal of the perfection of the world, suppressed all dissent.

The oligarchs and mutants trying to rule we 'normals' through lies, propaganda, dis-information and manipulation are either those who believe in the perfectibility of mankind through social engineering, or are misanthropes who care nothing for people and are driven only by a desire to rule and reign, gathering as many 'toys' into their playrooms as possible before the lights go out.

Either way these are dangerous people whom it is our duty to resist in any way we can

THE CALL TO WATCHMEN

I hear all around me talk of surrendering the struggle for normal values; values that have been around for millennia, as 'inevitable'. The Same sex marriage debate for example. Those who argue for retaining the marriage act in its original form as a safeguard against broken family values are vilified as 'haters', homophobes, bigots.

We have not only surrendered our values but are in the process of surrendering our language as well.

No argumentation is forthcoming over the faults in the argument for conserving the age-old reading of marriage, the opposition have no rational arguments other than ideological differences and emotional diatribes anchored in emotional illogicality.

More than 50 years ago the Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer concluded that people would eventually give up everything and sacrifice all of their principles for what he termed; "the hope of personal peace and prosperity.

I believe that is what lies behind these calls for a surrender to the 'inevitable'.

The 'inevitable' is thus not so...it is only inevitable if we surrender.
I believe that the struggle against the now exposed 'cultural Marxism' which has been whittling away at our freedoms and has largely 'won' the struggle within the institutions; think the media, the university's, the education departments, big business(crony capitalism), Hollywood etc....can be defeated by a renewed dedication and a shift in tactics.

Brexit & Trump and the extreme reaction to these conservative victories by the elites who have considered the battle won for many years now, has exposed cultural Marxism for what it is.
The elite left is soft because they have had things their own way for so long.

If the truly conservative voice puts aside their differences for the good of the many, resist the siren call of 'personal peace and prosperity' (i.e. make decisions based on the greater good rather than what is good for me and my pocket) if we are able to finance media outlets, educational institutions that follow the line of objective reporting and absolute truths, embrace those in Hollywood who believe in conservative values and back their movies, boycott all propaganda from the left in all its forms and teach those who follow us to do the same then we can begin to slowly turn the tide.

It will not be easy and I am not sure that we have enough time before the inevitable result of our current course which can only be war because the death of debate and argument can only lead to a power struggle, but we owe it to our children to try.

A friend read a passage of scripture; Ezekiel 3, to me yesterday that was both encouraging as well as sobering in its challenge:

Ezekiel’s Task as Watchman

16 At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me:

17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

18 When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.
19 But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.
20“Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.
21 But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
22 The hand of the LORD was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”
23 So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the LORD was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.