HOT STUFF!

Reading an article such as this [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-i-call-my-son-he-against-my-better-judgement-a6710851.html] because it was part of another story I was interested in and because it was so 'out there' that I felt compelled to read it; left me with a feeling of hopelessness for our current 'civilisation'.

In light of the atrocities being committed by ignorant savages in the middle east, the slave trafficking of more than 27 million young souls, the huge increases in suicide, drug abuses, mental breakdowns, and depression in our societies; the unreflective narcissism and unblemished pig-ignorance of this article was like a blow in the face.

Such folk and their potty-mouthed, militant, shills are being given unprecedented access to the ruling elite (many of whom share their peculiar bondages) which in turn affects government processes and outcomes resulting in unprecedented social engineering on a scale never before imagined outside of Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' (now) prophetic utterances.

As our world auto-indoctrinates itself through deconstruction, political correctness, and the various guises of self delusion thrown up by the Post modern psycho-babble establishment, so we move 
purposefully onwards, lemming-like, towards our rose-coloured, socially engineered demise, until as so aptly put by Mike Tyson: "we get punched in the face".

By then it will be too late.............Like Shadrack & Co we are headed for the furnace.

But be of good cheer, there is the 'fourth man'.

THE MATRIX REINTERPRETED

Malcolm Muggeridge, a famous journalist at the time, wrote these words in 1966:

“Some future historian, I suppose, will one day survey this curious time with the ironic detachment of a Gibbon[i]. He is to be envied. What a rare harvest awaits him! – always of course, assuming that we do not, in obedience to the death wish which seems to possess us, destroy ourselves and all our records. Even if the records survive they will, in any case, be difficult to make out. Such a vast accumulation of lies and slanted information! Such contradictory conclusions and conflicting evidence! How will it ever be disentangled? A recent newspaper correspondent in Moscow was asked by a wide-eyed visiting leftist, when Stalin’s purges were in full swing, how far the court proceedings were to be believed. Everything was true, he replied, except the facts. It might be our epitaph. Never have so many facts been accumulated; never have such an ingenious and efficacious means of propagating them far and wide been devised, but only to weave a great web of deception. 

The Dark Ages were noontide compared to our light.”[emphasis mine]

Remember this was before ‘Post Modernism’ and its deconstruction of ‘truth’, facts, and objectivity.

How much more must this be ‘true’ today? The Matrix of today is not technological it is philosophical.

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[i] The Historian not the primate.

SUBVERSIVE EDUCATION

The ruling elite who have gained power over the past few years appear to be increasingly, and acquiescently wedded to ideologies that not too long ago used to called treasonous:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424860/New-York-City-Honors-Communist-Monster-Ethel-Rosenberg?target=author&tid=903320

Why are we, the ordinary people, the large 'silent majority' allowing such subversive doctrines to be openly disseminated and promoted by the new polysexual 'chatterati?'

I accept that it has something to do with what the late, great, Francis Schaeffer called; 'the drive towards personal peace and prosperity', but it has increasingly become much more than that alone.

I would contend that we have been seduced by our educational authorities (experts?) to not think critically about issues, but to follow the 'expert opinion' of our 'betters'(the experts?). And I would also posit that it has not only been the curricula of our primary, secondary and tertiary educations that are the culprits (though they do share some of the blame), but to echo Marshall Mcluhan's pithy educational mantra: 'the message is the medium', a significant portion of the blame can be laid at the feet of the actual educational systems.

I did not begin home-schooling out of an ideological conviction, it was a purely practical response to our circumstances at the time. However, the more I pursue it, the more convinced I am that home-schooling is the best way to educate and civilize a child. Anecdotal references would be that we have sent two children through the school system and are home-schooling our third.

One of the first questions I have to field when I mention that I homeschool is: "how well is your child socialised?"....generally meaning: "does home-schooling deprive the child of other children's acceptance/enjoyment/company etc". It is instructive that this is always the first question that is thrown at me. (I wonder if it is the same for others...I do believe I shall indulge in a small poll in the future!)

Whilst my early response used to that I would point out how school was originally intended as a place of learning rather than socialising, I would then defend our decision with the fact that we are fortunate to have a number of children in our neighbourhood that my son is friendly with, plus that he has made some good friends at church and within the sports clubs that he participates in. In other words my response would be defensive..............I have changed my response.

I now counter with the fact that schools were indeed intended to be places of education but that the original intent was so much more than that; that the early systems were also intended to train the children for participation in the factories, mills and workhouses of the industrial revolution. That both sociological statistics and anecdotal reference indicate that bringing children up together in a 'closed system' adds power to such issues as bullying, peer pressure, conforming to the groups 'accepted' norms, shaming, dislocation of loyalties, distrust of authority outside the peer group, rebellion against those who would seek to control or dissipate the impact of the peer group etc, etc......all of which were articulated brilliantly in William Golding's book Lord of the Flies. Here is another authors view of what takes place on 'educational' campus's all over the West:

Everyone will conform to the predetermined mindset of the school – a mindset determined by the loudest and most fascist minority groups – and no dissent will be permitted. ‘We are not here to teach you how to think, but what to think.’ Welcome to modern education in the West.

This is commonplace now, not just in Australia, but throughout the once free West. I have now documented heaps of these cases where faith, freedom and family are all under attack as our PC schools act as thought police, banning any recalcitrants from offering a differing spin from the party line.

Meredith wrote that the concept of political correctness is not about “promoting respect for others” but is “rapidly being turned into a weapon of intolerance to silence those whose views or actions don’t chime with a liberal-fascist agenda”.

“This isn’t about protecting the vulnerable and the marginalised. It’s not about ‘duty of care’. In fact, it’s censorship masquerading as enlightenment. If in doubt, ban it: that’s the prevailing credo”, she commented.  [B.M. 8.10.15]

BOVINE FAECES AND THE ART OF CONCEALMENT

The real tragedy surrounding the 'chicken littles' of the chatterati is how many people actually believe the rubbish that emanates from the poison pens of the Western lame-stream-media. Such a flood of leftist propaganda illustrates how deconstruction and its illegitimate brood have impacted on critical thinking in Western society:

"Alas, the nutrition nazis seem to lack the legs of the warmist crowd, which has made a prolonged art of extracting cash from the improbable, contradictory and absurd. A climate scientist leads a shipload of weather worrywarts to Antarctica to observe ice he says has melted, gets caught fast in that which is no longer supposed to exist and has to be rescued at enormous cost and inconvenience. Do the dire prognostications cease? Does embarrassment silence those who have proven themselves so spectacularly and repeatedly wrong? Not at all. Here we are, more than 18 months after the Ship of Fools wedged itself in an icefloe, and yet the alarmist absurdities continue to pour forth. The latest: that killing sharks  somehow boosts global temperatures."[Roger Franklin]

How did I arrive at my title? Read Neil Postman's 1969 essay:Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection. 

MEDIA THE DRUG

The 'game' of politics is the scab on top of an 'open wound' which is; contemporary Western civilisation. That 'open wound' is nowadays crawling with septicemia, gangrene, and cellulitis and is well on its way towards that mysterious bright light at the end of the tunnel.

Most of the media these days operates like that renowned rat-poison 'Warfarin', a drug that weakens the bloods ability to clot, thus rendering the scab notably less effective and prone to breaking down at the most inopportune times. Unfortunately the longer the wound takes to heal the more infected the body becomes until eventually limbs are amputated and ultimately the heart stops beating.

Thus the true villain is the media?...well we all know that's not true. There are a few good people in the media. The media is merely another 'brick in the wall' (popular cliches abound) towards the fomented collapse of Western civilisation when Marxists, anarchists and utopians will rejoice...that is for the short time before totalitarianism raises its head to take control of the chaos.

As Francis Schaeffer said many years ago, the Arts (which includes the media, the 'fine' arts, movies, TV radio etc) are indicative of the path that society in general is doomed to take.

Encouraged anyone?

I am but only because I have read the end of the story.

EVOLUTIONARY HYPOCRISY

A deep sigh!!!!!...for the hypocrisy (stupidity?) of the emotive age...further reflections on Cecil the dead lion:

"....if humanity owes its existence, along with the lions, to millions of years’ worth of brutal bloodshed in the struggle to survive and pass on our genes, any antipathy against animal cruelty seems a little naïve and counterproductive. After all, if natural selection got us here in the first place, one more dead lion is hardly a tragedy. According to evolutionary opinion, lions appeared on the scene about 700,000 years ago. This means that at least 10 billion lions would have died before Cecil did. And I would hazard a guess that most lions, like Cecil, have not died peacefully in the wild. If the evolutionary story is true, we actually have very little basis to care.

In fact, looking at this from the perspective of all the other animals which have been killed and would be killed by Cecil, it’s hard to see why we should lament rather than rejoice that Cecil finally got his just desserts. What grounds does evolution give us to choose between being a lion-lover instead of an antelope-lover? And why is it commendable to film, for entertainment, animals torturing and killing each other, but wicked and cruel for human “animals” to do the same? A male lion can kill all the lion cubs of another pride, and no petitions are put out for justice to be served, yet when a human kills a lion, culpable of mass animalicide, in the late stages of its retirement, the international community cries ‘foul’.

If nature is intrinsically “red in tooth and claw”, what grounds do we have to protest any bloodshed or cruelty in the world? Within the evolutionary model, death and cruelty are not only necessary for natural selection, but according to Charles Darwin himself, these evils should be seen as “most beautiful and most wonderful”. Thus Charles Darwin wrote in Origin of Species:

Evolution fails to explain why caring for animals is morally superior to torturing them.
“It may be difficult, but we ought to admire the savage instinctive hatred of the queen-bee, which urges her instantly to destroy the young queens, her daughters as soon as born, or to perish herself in the combat… maternal love or maternal hatred… is all the same to the inexorable principle of natural selection.” [Martin Duboisée de Ricquebourg]

THE TROJAN OUROBOROS!

I agree with Merv Bendle. The new 'progressive' initiatives which have seduced the majority of Australians are very dangerous to the future of Australians in general and yet many otherwise intelligent people appear blinkered to the risk...why?:

All of these areas of public policy share one crucial characteristic – they involve the mobilization of state power to impose vast new structures of tightly regulated behaviour upon society that would not otherwise have evolved of their own accord. They also necessitate massive bureaucracies based on the Promethean assumption that the almost infinite intricacies of social, economic, and ecological life can be grasped, modelled, manipulated, and directed by the apparatus of the state (in which, of course, much of Turnbull’s progressivist constituency would be employed).

And let there be no doubt about it, this is the progressivist agenda: systematically to erode the power and autonomy of the individual, the family, the community and civil society, and to replace them with the Leviathan State, with its great tangled mass of bureaucratic tentacles reaching down to surveil, regulate and ultimately strangle the most intimate of personal and social relationships, covering every area of life.

I believe that the promotion of these invasive new dictates has succeeded because they have been couched in the emotive packaging so beloved of societal 'guru's' such as Oprah and the myriad of women's 'table talk' forums that have erupted on daytime television, and are of course echoed by their morning and late-night male counterparts who have been equally seduced or cannot dare be seen to be 'patriarchal' in any sense of the word. Thereafter these emotionally laden catch-phrases and literary Trojan horses are widely picked up and disseminated throughout the main-stream-media who add their peculiar prejudices into the mix, prejudices that are to a massive extent left of the left.

'marriage EQUALITY',  a myriad of RIGHTS with little to no responsibilites, PRO CHOICE, REFUGEES rather than illegal immigrants etc.

Political Correctness, which is one of the foundational 'attack dogs' of the new 'progressive' worldview, has set the scene for these freshly minted, manipulative initiatives currently in vogue amongst the chatterati/twitterati. That plus the reality that there has been an almost total domination of the university/higher education sector by neo-Marxist post-modernists who have deconstructed the search for truth and meaning into a quixotic quest and redefined truth down to an 'expert opinion.' 

Thus we find ourselves awash in 'experts' all of whom bear the mark of the university stamp of approval...Ouroboros anyone?