"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” C. S. Lewis
Tuesday, 5 February 2019
SURE-FIRE WINNER
I have an interesting idea for making oodles of cash out of the least admirable loons in American society.
Bullying those you aren’t afraid of has recently been renamed Punching Up.
How about putting a couple of equally despicable whack-job ideologies in a cage together?
Imagine setting the Westboro Baptist's best mauler against a Black Hebrew Israelite's thug?
Ticket sales would go through the roof.
Bullying those you aren’t afraid of has recently been renamed Punching Up.
How about putting a couple of equally despicable whack-job ideologies in a cage together?
Imagine setting the Westboro Baptist's best mauler against a Black Hebrew Israelite's thug?
Ticket sales would go through the roof.
Sunday, 3 February 2019
POLY'S PUTTING THE SQUEEZE ON
In this old (2005) article in England's Guardian Newspaper, an antiquated holdout to Neo-Marxist propaganda, it should not surprise us to read of how 'evil' the Christian story is. The writer is of course criticising the Narnia story recently realised in a new movie.
Marxists in every country unfortunate enough to have embraced their life ending ideology, have made it their life's work to stamp out the God they say doesn't exist:
Marxists in every country unfortunate enough to have embraced their life ending ideology, have made it their life's work to stamp out the God they say doesn't exist:
Of all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed his body in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to? Poor child Edmund, to blame for everything, must bear the full weight of a guilt only Christians know how to inflict, with a twisted knife to the heart. Every one of those thorns, the nuns used to tell my mother, is hammered into Jesus's holy head every day that you don't eat your greens or say your prayers when you are told. So the resurrected Aslan gives Edmund a long, life-changing talking-to high up on the rocks out of our earshot. When the poor boy comes back down with the sacred lion's breath upon him he is transformed unrecognisably into a Stepford brother, well and truly purged.
Tolkien hated Narnia: the two dons may have shared the same love of unquestioning feudal power, with worlds of obedient plebs and inferior folk eager to bend at the knee to any passing superior white persons - even children; both their fantasy worlds and their Christianity assumes that rigid hierarchy of power - lord of lords, king of kings, prince of peace to be worshipped and adored. But Tolkien disliked Lewis's bully-pulpit.
Over the years, others have had uneasy doubts about the Narnian brand of Christianity. Christ should surely be no lion (let alone with the orotund voice of Liam Neeson). He was the lamb, representing the meek of the earth, weak, poor and refusing to fight. Philip Pullman - he of the marvellously secular trilogy His Dark Materials - has called Narnia "one of the most ugly, poisonous things I have ever read".The perspective reflected here perfectly captures Paul's admonishion to the new believers in 1 Corinthians 1:18>30.
Why? Because here in Narnia is the perfect Republican, muscular Christianity for America - that warped, distorted neo-fascist strain that thinks might is proof of right. I once heard the famous preacher Norman Vincent Peale in New York expound a sermon that reassured his wealthy congregation that they were made rich by God because they deserved it. The godly will reap earthly reward because God is on the side of the strong. This appears to be CS Lewis's view, too. In the battle at the end of the film, visually a great epic treat, the child crusaders are crowned kings and queens for no particular reason. Intellectually, the poor do not inherit Lewis's earth. [Poly Toynbee]
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
PRETZEL ILLOGIC
A perceptive peroration by Max Hyams about the 'Covington affair':
Go figure!
The unfortunate fate that the boys encountered and the Orwellian dishonesty and public Two Minutes Hate that followed hew to a broader and increasingly familiar trend of exacting revenge on historically privileged groups for the secularized original sin imputed to their unalterable characteristics, without regard for truth, consequences, or even simple human decency. Whether it be the paucity of evidence corroborating the Kavanaugh allegations or the miscarriages of justice handed down by Title IX kangaroo courts, vindictive tribalism is being allowed to determine individual and institutional actions. Regardless of one’s political orientation, we will all suffer if this vengeful distortion of reality is allowed to get any further out of hand. A course correction that returns to a sober assessment of the facts before rushing to judgment is long overdue.In short, our new world order is blindly racist, anti-science and tribalist in the worst sense of the word yet adheres to a self-belief that such a position exemplifies tolerance, love and peaceful cohabitation.
Go figure!
Sunday, 27 January 2019
BOGGLING MINDS
During the latter period of the 80's and 90's in America, elites in Congress used the Community Reinvestment Act and anti-discrimination laws to coerce banks into making mortgage loans to low-income borrowers with lousy credit ratings and in some cases, no down payment.
Why? because they were trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. The idea was to promote minority home ownership by redistributing finances...an ideological gambit tried extensively throughout the 20th Century and which has delivered a 100% failure rate.
So when the Sun rose in the East and failure became the name of the game what happened?
Did those legislators apologise to the banks for forcing them to throw their money away on ideological merry-go-rounds?
NO WAY...THE LEGISLATORS TURNED ON THE BANKS AND BLAMED THEM FOR THE COLLAPSE.
How very Soviet Russian of them. Blame it on the capitalists!
No one denies the excess and greed that motivates large segments of the banking world. Welcome to planet earth. Governments are supposed to regulate and police these greedy bastards and they used to do it quite well until the anti-Western elites began to inject their poison into the system removing morality from the educational and workplace environments.
When the population then begins to act without restrain and like the 'accidental mistakes from the primordial slime' that they are constantly informed is their 'heritage' and that 'true freedom' is the freedom to do anything you 'feel' like doing i.e. acting like pagans; the keepers of the new relativistic morality cry foul.
Its self-contradictory madness on a stick!
In the states democratic demiurge Maxine 'loon' Waters has just assumed the chair of the House Financial Affairs Committee together with her Marxist colleagues Acasio-Cortez expletive-shouting Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren acolyte Katie Porter, D-Calif., and progressive Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Welcome to the inmates running the institution!
Looking forward to some real intelligent actions on the part of this Marxist cabal.[sarc]
Unfortunately a similar bevy of short-sighted socialistic femme fatales and their emasculated myn-friends are approaching election hour in Australia and are so far favoured to win the 2019 elections. If so look out for similar attacks on this countries capitalist underpinnings.
BTW, All of this is taking place under the world news of Venezuela and Zimbabwe literally collapsing under the same ideological madness.
The mind boggles.
Why? because they were trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. The idea was to promote minority home ownership by redistributing finances...an ideological gambit tried extensively throughout the 20th Century and which has delivered a 100% failure rate.
So when the Sun rose in the East and failure became the name of the game what happened?
Did those legislators apologise to the banks for forcing them to throw their money away on ideological merry-go-rounds?
NO WAY...THE LEGISLATORS TURNED ON THE BANKS AND BLAMED THEM FOR THE COLLAPSE.
How very Soviet Russian of them. Blame it on the capitalists!
No one denies the excess and greed that motivates large segments of the banking world. Welcome to planet earth. Governments are supposed to regulate and police these greedy bastards and they used to do it quite well until the anti-Western elites began to inject their poison into the system removing morality from the educational and workplace environments.
When the population then begins to act without restrain and like the 'accidental mistakes from the primordial slime' that they are constantly informed is their 'heritage' and that 'true freedom' is the freedom to do anything you 'feel' like doing i.e. acting like pagans; the keepers of the new relativistic morality cry foul.
Its self-contradictory madness on a stick!
In the states democratic demiurge Maxine 'loon' Waters has just assumed the chair of the House Financial Affairs Committee together with her Marxist colleagues Acasio-Cortez expletive-shouting Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren acolyte Katie Porter, D-Calif., and progressive Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Welcome to the inmates running the institution!
Looking forward to some real intelligent actions on the part of this Marxist cabal.[sarc]
Unfortunately a similar bevy of short-sighted socialistic femme fatales and their emasculated myn-friends are approaching election hour in Australia and are so far favoured to win the 2019 elections. If so look out for similar attacks on this countries capitalist underpinnings.
BTW, All of this is taking place under the world news of Venezuela and Zimbabwe literally collapsing under the same ideological madness.
The mind boggles.
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
BLIND APOCALYPTO
I have just today finished reading a novel and a non-fiction book on the horrors of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Both bought tears to my eyes.
The inhumanity of man towards his fellow creatures and the tragic reality that because of 'total depravity' we are all capable of becoming the monsters that peopled the SS and those who supported them. In fact the in the book 'Ordinary Men' the point is made that it was not only the SS that undertook these horrors, but ordinary everyday men and women as well.
After the second world war many thought that such a thing could never happen again.
Unfortunately it did, very quickly, and if possible far, far worse.
Solzhenitsyn bore witness to that.
Lenin, Stalin and their successors made the Nazi horrors look piffling.
Mao outdid them all.
Pol Pot annihilated one third of his country.
Mugabe plunged his country into starvation and a chaos which is accelerating as I write.
Hugo Chavez caused one of the richest countries in South America to flounder towards its deathbed.
Fidel and his brother ransacked and impoverished Cuba.
These are but a few legacies of the ideology which made the Nazi's look mild in comparison.....
AND YET OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WESTERN WORLD LOOK WITH FAVOUR UPON THE SOCIALIST DOCTRINES.
How is it possible one might ask, that given all the historical and experiential evidence that has been amassed over the past 100 years that anybody, never mind millions of free people, could once more be seduced by such a demonic philosophy.
It has to be more than blindness and stupidity....I confess it escapes my birdbrain, though perhaps this discussion might shed some light on the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdeFJ4WCqhk
The inhumanity of man towards his fellow creatures and the tragic reality that because of 'total depravity' we are all capable of becoming the monsters that peopled the SS and those who supported them. In fact the in the book 'Ordinary Men' the point is made that it was not only the SS that undertook these horrors, but ordinary everyday men and women as well.
After the second world war many thought that such a thing could never happen again.
Unfortunately it did, very quickly, and if possible far, far worse.
Solzhenitsyn bore witness to that.
Lenin, Stalin and their successors made the Nazi horrors look piffling.
Mao outdid them all.
Pol Pot annihilated one third of his country.
Mugabe plunged his country into starvation and a chaos which is accelerating as I write.
Hugo Chavez caused one of the richest countries in South America to flounder towards its deathbed.
Fidel and his brother ransacked and impoverished Cuba.
These are but a few legacies of the ideology which made the Nazi's look mild in comparison.....
AND YET OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WESTERN WORLD LOOK WITH FAVOUR UPON THE SOCIALIST DOCTRINES.
How is it possible one might ask, that given all the historical and experiential evidence that has been amassed over the past 100 years that anybody, never mind millions of free people, could once more be seduced by such a demonic philosophy.
It has to be more than blindness and stupidity....I confess it escapes my birdbrain, though perhaps this discussion might shed some light on the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdeFJ4WCqhk
Friday, 18 January 2019
THERMOPYLAE REVISITED
Some hard truths for those who believe that 'peace' just magically appears like the unicorn at story time:
Unfortunately if History has any bearing on the future (I believe it does) these weak bodied fantasists will be amongst the first to be annihilated when the tyrants emerge to control the chaos fermented by the anarchists and cultural self-haters.
"See, the vast majority of the world does not have the time or inclination for this kind of frivolous campus pap. The real world is hard and ugly, not the soft, safe and secure urban zone cleared and protected by the toxic males (and females – there are gloriously toxically masculine women too) in uniform that these SJWs despise. Toxic masculinity created a safe space here in the west where fundamentally silly people can freely express these ridiculous notions. But out there, there are real monsters, not mere childish boogeymen like “manspreaders.” And the only thing that keeps them at bay are those infused with toxic masculinity (some of them women) with bayonets." [KS]Please do not believe that the stability and comforts we enjoy in the West emergeD as the result of some evolutionary process.
They have been won by strong people with strong values not the mealy mouthed, limp wristed, non-binary's currently infesting the news.
Unfortunately if History has any bearing on the future (I believe it does) these weak bodied fantasists will be amongst the first to be annihilated when the tyrants emerge to control the chaos fermented by the anarchists and cultural self-haters.
Take a look at Zimbabwe right now...do you really want to go down that path?
Take a look at Venezuela right now...ditto?
Right now you and I can cut these socialist Utopians off at the pass before they reduce our culture to warring tribal entities...JUST DO IT...( in Schwarzenegger accent) now before its too late.
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