We are being invaded and conquered. This will be the end of Western Civ. To control our borders is an act of self-defense. It meets the criteria of "just war" to defend one's cointry from take-over, protect one's security and that of one's family. But not in Britain or Canada I suppose.
Lately I have been “rage reading” your substack (which btw I have read from its very beginning!)… but suddenly today you are Pat Buchanan circa 1992 and 1996!
lemme vent about something I have disliked about trads for decades.
Begin rant:
how trads think about economic issues: if any decision would hurt/cause-pain/shoot-self-in-foot at either the local community level or national level, then YES it must be the Christian/moral/ethical thing to do. Christopher Dawson says so!
End rant
midwesterners in the 1990’s were completely aware of the problems with unrestricted, non-assimilating immigration. Are others finally getting this!? Welcome to being called racist and Christian nationalist!
It also reminds me of the thing where I talked once about how I like the post-apocalyptic sci fi movie genre where most of the human race is wiped out because it challenges characters in a unique way to take away all the supports of modern civilisation. (Same reason I like those Man Against Nature things, like that Hopkins film where he's a billionaire crashed in the arctic getting stalked by a grizzly bear.) . Mark Shea - for YEARS - declared every time my name was mentioned that Hilary White wanted to wipe out 80% of the human population. Yeah, Shea, I'm a genocidal maniac... You go with that buddy.
"What I was attacking was not Jesus, but this imagined caricature of Jesus dreamed up by Leftist ideologues who either distort their Christian faith for political purposes, or don’t even believe in Christianity but try to twist it into a weapon they can use to goad believers into feeling like they should support their social justice goals."
I don't follow anyone on Twitter, but I would have laughed long and loud at your comment. I'm happy we live in the US, so we won't have to share a jail cell!
Speaking of Hindu temples, you must have driven through Morrisville, which is now a very heavily Indian enclave. My sister and her husband bought a house there 30 years ago (they are white), and I stay there with them whenever I visit, which often around Diwali time in the fall. I don't worry about it too much; that whole area was swampland when I was a kid, so nobody has been displaced.
For what it's worth, the new Catholic cathedral near NC State is beautiful.
I'm still laughing at the complete insanity on your T-feed.
There simply must be something in the discussion around the general loss of nuanced understanding of reading. Quite apart from the egregious loss of 4th grade grammar skills, we don't have complex sentences, we don't have subordinate clauses, we don't understand metaphor, figurative language at all. I understand how educational standards have fallen across the West, (though it's jolting to compare what a high school graduate was expected to know in 1900 with today) but I can't help wondering if it was like this generally before the internet and the internet is what has given every uneducated fool a loudspeaker, or if the internet has somehow made the problem worse.
We are being invaded and conquered. This will be the end of Western Civ. To control our borders is an act of self-defense. It meets the criteria of "just war" to defend one's cointry from take-over, protect one's security and that of one's family. But not in Britain or Canada I suppose.
Is there hope? Yes. But it is getting late.
Lately I have been “rage reading” your substack (which btw I have read from its very beginning!)… but suddenly today you are Pat Buchanan circa 1992 and 1996!
lemme vent about something I have disliked about trads for decades.
Begin rant:
how trads think about economic issues: if any decision would hurt/cause-pain/shoot-self-in-foot at either the local community level or national level, then YES it must be the Christian/moral/ethical thing to do. Christopher Dawson says so!
End rant
midwesterners in the 1990’s were completely aware of the problems with unrestricted, non-assimilating immigration. Are others finally getting this!? Welcome to being called racist and Christian nationalist!
It also reminds me of the thing where I talked once about how I like the post-apocalyptic sci fi movie genre where most of the human race is wiped out because it challenges characters in a unique way to take away all the supports of modern civilisation. (Same reason I like those Man Against Nature things, like that Hopkins film where he's a billionaire crashed in the arctic getting stalked by a grizzly bear.) . Mark Shea - for YEARS - declared every time my name was mentioned that Hilary White wanted to wipe out 80% of the human population. Yeah, Shea, I'm a genocidal maniac... You go with that buddy.
I think it's this commitment to purposeful misconstrual of what you said that bothers me the most.
Even after explaining, writing this post, etc., I keep getting, "Aren't you the guy who wants to kill Jesus?"
I LITERALLY NEVER SAID ANYTHING OF THE SORT
Real and raw discussion about immigration aside, your tweet is hilarious. I audibly snorted when I saw it
LOL. Thank you! People are acting like I publicly declared my intention to commit deicide. It was always supposed to be a dark joke.
Your kindly "Jesus is fine" post was even funnier.
"What I was attacking was not Jesus, but this imagined caricature of Jesus dreamed up by Leftist ideologues who either distort their Christian faith for political purposes, or don’t even believe in Christianity but try to twist it into a weapon they can use to goad believers into feeling like they should support their social justice goals."
Preach!
I don't follow anyone on Twitter, but I would have laughed long and loud at your comment. I'm happy we live in the US, so we won't have to share a jail cell!
Speaking of Hindu temples, you must have driven through Morrisville, which is now a very heavily Indian enclave. My sister and her husband bought a house there 30 years ago (they are white), and I stay there with them whenever I visit, which often around Diwali time in the fall. I don't worry about it too much; that whole area was swampland when I was a kid, so nobody has been displaced.
For what it's worth, the new Catholic cathedral near NC State is beautiful.
I'm still laughing at the complete insanity on your T-feed.
There simply must be something in the discussion around the general loss of nuanced understanding of reading. Quite apart from the egregious loss of 4th grade grammar skills, we don't have complex sentences, we don't have subordinate clauses, we don't understand metaphor, figurative language at all. I understand how educational standards have fallen across the West, (though it's jolting to compare what a high school graduate was expected to know in 1900 with today) but I can't help wondering if it was like this generally before the internet and the internet is what has given every uneducated fool a loudspeaker, or if the internet has somehow made the problem worse.
Either way, some of it was hilarious.