tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5687837472885486173..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Europe Is Falling ApartStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48262403974171882632019-01-29T14:34:24.121-08:002019-01-29T14:34:24.121-08:00Ignatius, as I read your words, a flaming sword ap...Ignatius, as I read your words, a flaming sword appeared in the sky and I heard the words, "conquer by this." I think you are onto something. Great stuff, brother. We need more war monks.UbuMaccabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00237833458790876775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-22303406052857550152019-01-28T14:53:04.925-08:002019-01-28T14:53:04.925-08:00You can't build a great society with everyone ...You can't build a great society with everyone running around living their own "truth." Social stability requires social cohesion -- the glue. When you don't value anything you in common as sacred, transcendent or special, there's no glue. That's where Europe is, and America is catching up. <br /><br />When people ask "What does it mean to be French?" they've really missed the point. They've taken it for granted -- whatever it is. And when they don't think that it's worth preserving, the culture gets co-opted by bohemian, nihilist radicals who claim their highest value is tolerance (which isn't actually a value at all). In reality, they just don't care about their country, culture, etc. They're above it all. They've evolved to a "higher consciousness," or some other cosmopolitan tripe. They're lost, and can't be guides to anything meaningful but their own subjective reality, which by definition can't be a shared reality. And so they're disaffected, starving artists. And they're pissed off. At you. At society. At God. At everyone. About everything. And you're an idiot because you're too stupid to understand what they're saying. You hate their loathsome art because you don't get it. See?<br /><br />That's why the real enemy is cultural rot. The Western rot is an elite consensus coalescing around two radical ideals: (1) social anarchy, and (2) communist economics. Both are the result of a brand of fantasy -- non-thinking masquerading as sophisticated intellect. It is the conceit of cosmopolitan chic. It's the cult of celebrity, which is being famous for being famous. Our academic, political, social and media elites are completely insulated from the chaos caused by their laziness, while they mock the people who speak out against it, labeling such people "bigots" and "_____-phobes." The elite don't mind any of this because they believe (a) they're smarter than everyone else, and (b) they can control it. They're wrong on both counts, and their ignorance will be their downfall.<br /><br />That's how you get NYC becoming unlivable while DeBlasio drones on about police brutality. It's an alternate reality driven by the premise that people should be able to do whatever they want, and those with means should just suck it up and keep working to make this workers' paradise possible. <br /><br />Life sucks. America sucks. You suck. You're a bigot. Shut up.<br /><br />Some people say fighting never resolves anything. That's the kind of bullshit advanced by people who've never had to fight for anything. Anything that's worth anything is worth fighting for. Western Civilization is worth fighting for.<br /><br />The reckoning is coming. You can only lie to yourself for so long. I'm amazed that normal Americans have been so restrained thus far. <br /><br />Yes, Europe is failing. But America is not Europe. And that's a blessing.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-90728321996239227522019-01-28T12:12:12.875-08:002019-01-28T12:12:12.875-08:00Great column on BHL. I have never trusted him on r...Great column on BHL. I have never trusted him on reality since his re-imagining he was de Tocqueville in his utterly wrong-headed trip through America. I'll take Naipaul any day over that poseur. BHL gets everything wrong. <br /><br />Sorry to see Simon Shama on that list. He has at least written some solid history; he should know better. He does a whole series on the fraud of European assimilation of the Jews and then fails to see that European globalism has become the very thing that is driving the Jews to get out of Europe--and move to Hungary! "Stay, the French authorities will do nothing to protect you from the hordes, and we will not allow you to arm yourselves, but stay and make Europe unified." Sick. <br /><br />I love how they mention the rise of anti-Semitism in the same breadth as condemning populism--as if one caused the other. "Populism" is just the reassertion of national identity in the face of a faceless and arrogant EU authority, along with a direct reaction to the mass-invasion of 8th century savages who carry with them a very toxic strain of hatred for Jews. Populism in Europe means: "we're not taking any of those assholes, no matter what you tell us." I spend a lot of time in Europe, and the Muslims are coming out at sunset to chant their prayers in public, openly and aggressively, while the fools walk to the opera and pretend not to notice or understand. I know what language he is speaking, it's called conquest.<br /><br />European Jews should come on down here to Dixie; we'll set them up with a gun, a dog, a cold beer, and a fine smoked brisket. Live like free men and women. Temples all over the place, and the economy is hummin'. Big love for the Jews here in the South. Y'all get out of there, y'hear, it just ain't safe anymore.UbuMaccabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00237833458790876775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42353122092009422132019-01-28T11:36:38.689-08:002019-01-28T11:36:38.689-08:00From a Western European perspective, I think this ...From a Western European perspective, I think this all traces back to the mechanized slaughter of World War I. <br /><br />The Great War created a horror show on such a grand scale that all that was left was despair. Europe quit being Europe, exhausted from hopelessness and betrayed by the remaining vestiges of a social order that couldn't possibly deliver because it was so decadent. They turned against themselves, disgusted by all that arrived with the Guns of August.<br /><br />The legacy of the Industrial Revolution became a financial annuity to fund social programs until the spirit of entrepreneurism was squeezed dry. True social democracy is driven by (a) social cohesion, and (b) economic expansion. Europe increasingly has neither.<br /><br />As for World War II, Churchill, C.S. Lewis and others were drawing on a dwindling social bank account that few were ready to make real deposits on. Militarily, America saved them from Nazism. And they know it. Europe escaped instant darkness but a creeping sunset has being in process ever since. <br /><br />And with the migrant invasion, it's just easier to say yes to feel better about yourself. When you speak out, you're labeled an evil bigot. With all the testicular fortitude that's left in reserve, it's no wonder few say anything.<br /><br />The Poles and Hungarians are a refreshing counter to all this, but they had to fight it out behind the Iron Curtain. They know suffering at the hands of a bankrupt ideology, and they ain't going back.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66058698871720844592019-01-28T10:30:34.618-08:002019-01-28T10:30:34.618-08:00Really disappointing that Milan Kundera added his ...Really disappointing that Milan Kundera added his name to this farrago of nonsense. He saw through one monstrous totalitarian project, only to be duped by another.Toddy Catnoreply@blogger.com