Orlando Pulse Nightclub Shooting leads the news. Really, it Wasn’t Much of a Surprise—at least to those paying attention. Except maybe for the fact that ISIS and its proxies may be getting better at it.
P. T. Carlo spots Rival Victimhoods at war. More on that below.
Of course Leftists blame Christians for Orlando . Of course! At this point the narrative basically writes itself…
Poetry… ripped, as it were, from the headlines? E. Antony Gray imprecates: Fifty’s Lottery.
Topynate iterates toward a Minimal solution. Explicitly racist Israeli policy has certain advantages.
Sydney Trads stand proudly and Happily on the Wrong Side of History.
This latest act of terror in the United States illustrates the perfect storm that aging hippies of our governing class have wrought on our civilisation. On one end, the victims: an organised group of the emotionally confused, now regimented into one of the most powerful electoral blocs and political lobby groups presently flexing its muscles within America’s hyper liberal democracy. On the other end, the perpetrator: Omar Mateen, a jihadi whose own declarations of intent are ignored by the good-thinkers of the multiculti industry, and whose act of terror is instead explained as the result of “mental problems”. Unfortunately for the leftist commentariat, both victim and perpetrator are representatives of protected classes, which in their own way have been endeared to the ayatollahs of political correctness.
Six days in (as of the time of this typing) and the timeline still doesn’t make sense. Were there two (or more) shooters?
Mark Citadel calls it The Slaughterhouse the Left Built.
Richard Cocks over at The Orthosphere notes: Gay men have just discovered that they do not remotely have most favored status. Clienthood is overrated anyway.
Chicks Can’t Stop Loving Jerkboy Killers.
Definitely related.
Let’s see… what else?
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Jim whose wife passed away after a long illness.
She was always a good wife, she gave me two good sons, and we were together since we were teenagers.
Mrs. James A. Donald, requiescat in pace.
It was perhaps a bit odd of him to reveal that not altogether unexpected news in a post entitled: What people really mean when they say there is a lot of rape—which is about what people mean when they say there really is a Santa Claus.
Nydwracu has some thoughts on The American experiment. Both of them. The “nation of immigrants” experiment, for which Noah Smith has a such a boner, is so recent and implausible as to not count.
These days, a lot of people—especially the intelligentsia, who are used to thinking of themselves as a separate class, detached from and foreign to the population as a whole, living in bubbles believed to be impregnable to the disgusting outside world—seem to think America has always been a ‘nation of immigrants’ […]. Since these people are a phyle of their own, […], they have no problem with the prospect of those who are phyletically American having their homeland taken from them and used as grist for the mill of their ideological fantasies, nor with the idea that our homeland was intended as such.
And this is not just a problem with the intelligentsia either. Nyd impresses The Committee in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Neal Devers comes back on The Future Primaeval after a bit of dry spell. He discusses The Fundamental Skill of Sociology, which he thinks is the ability to reserve moral judgments on distasteful ideas, at least until you have analyzed why they’re distasteful. Collective moral systems may be gamed, and they’re gamed more these days than at any time in the past.
Nick Land digs up an old gem from Foseti Is Libertarian Racist? Of course it is, but not everybody knew that in 2012. Also this: when discrediting tinfoil hatters confirms their most feverish suspicions. Speaking of feverish: Jonathan Haidt’s liberal sense of fairness.
A View Of Dubai At Night
This too at Land’s: Free Cities. Reactionary Future approves (so long as you don’t call them “liberal”). I think we are all agreed that freedom is one thing you cannot get by seeking it.
Oh… and another happened this past week: British Labor MP, and by all accounts rainbow luvin’ Islamophile, Jo Cox was gunned down by some crazy British Nationalist guy. Nick Land was not pleased with this sort of “lunatic activism”. Alrenous adds a few comments. As for me, I think we can all agree that we should keep better control over our idiots, but A)there is only so much one can do; and B)they are our idiots.
Land digs up some very good Moldbug to support his case against the “Alt Right” (and the Cathedral). The issue here is that the “Alt Right” isn’t really a distinct essence. There are individuals and institutions that fall under the umbrella of the “Alt Right” which may be judged on a case-by-case basis for… erm… fitness.
Alrenous has a thought puzzle with The Venezuelan Former State. Not sure I get it. Here he makes his predictions on Trump Specifics. Also, Alrenous welcomes suggestions for boundaries beyond which The Pozz shall not go in a search for Hard Floors for Social Status.
Here is Reactionary Future making an awful lot of sense: Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai: Classical Liberal Paradises. Putative classical liberal paradises are not all that liberal, but do bear a remarkable resemblance to formalist paradises.
In fantastic news (and we hope a sign of more to come), Skyagusta has dusted off Losing the Creek, reconnected the batter, and it started right up: The Necessity of Southern Reaction. He sees the current day as a time to make hay:
Gratuitous pic of girl in field
The European New Right, Neoreaction, and the Alt-Right are already making waves and all indications are they are still in their infancy. Quite suddenly the very exporters of the kind of leftism that the Southern Right has fought against, alone, for so long are beginning to experience a rising tide of rightist dissension. This is an opportunity the proportions of which Fitzhugh, Tate, and Weaver could’ve only dreamt of.
What shall be done with this opportunity? The tradition must be revived.
He discusses the history and current state of Southern reactionary institutions and searches for a way forward for the Southern particularist right. The Committee welcomes Skyagusta back with a well-earned ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Sydney Trads have up another @WrathOfGnon creation: Alexis de Tocqueville on Aristocratic Society. And another.
Speaking of Down Under, Social Pathologist Slumlord continues to peel the layers of James Burnham by way of Sam Francis.
Burnham, due to his historical determinism, felt that the managerial revolution was inevitable but what perplexed him was, unlike previous revolutions in the West, specifically when bourgeois society replaced the medieval one and which resulted in even greater civilisational advancement, the current elite was presiding over a civilisation that was dying. Burnham saw that the Elites were not just presiding over a new type of society but they were presiding over a society that had lost the will to live.
Spandrell catches Mark Zuckerberg faithfully denying the obvious. He also makes yet another pitch for Islam. Yes, Gavin McInnes making out with Milo is degenerate. Much of the “Alt Right” is degenerate. So is Islam.
E. Antony Gray has some more fresh poetry: Bridge Song.
Mark Citadel has A Quick Note on Apostasy of substantial length. He singles out one kind of apostasy for particular condemnation:
‘Liberal Christianity’ is itself a syncretism, but one of the most insincere and abominable ones. It is a cover, a disguise, a guard’s uniform that ardent enemies of the Holy Faith might slither about unnoticed and engage in all manner of fiendish antics.
Dividuals is, thankfully, paying attention to BTC: Why “the code is law hence no fork” position with regard to the Ethereum DAO is inconsistent.
CWNY’s Saturday Epistle: We All Shall Come Home.
The European people are suffering from a spiritual Alzheimer’s. They have flashes of humanity when they remember who they were, but the memory is soon absorbed by the ever-present, ever-vigilant, liberal, medical staff. It is their special mission to keep the European people in a permanent state of spiritual Alzheimer’s. There must be no memories of old Europe, because such a memory, if it is sustained and acted on by the European people, would destroy Liberaldom.
This Week in Social Matter
Russian maestro plays in Palmyra ruins
Ryan Landry kicks off the week with thoughts on The Russian Orchestra At Palmyra: A Symbol Of Civilization. Civilization is not go down without a fight, at least if Putin has anything to say about it.
Mark Yuray takes note of the fact that Ethnic Warfare Doesn’t Stop At The German Border. Well, it would if you used that border to keep out the ethnic warriors. But that would be, apparently, profoundly un-German. Meanwhile, Turks and Kurds appear to have little propensity to leave their ingrained grievances behind to join in Germany’s Great Global Group Hug strategy of international politics.
Oscar Reichenbach takes an Inside Look: The Hungarian Border Fence. The village of Asotthalom, Hungary is the focus of Reichenbach’s sketch. It is picture of small scale sovereignty and effectiveness, and seems applicable to situations where the emperor is far away, incompetent, or willing to look the other way.
Since the fall of communism in Hungary in 1989, every local mayor in charge of a municipality has had the option of hiring a local police force independent from the national state police. This local police force would be paid through the local mayor’s budget, but would therefore answer only to the mayor. This option was rarely if ever exercised, but once illegal migrants began pouring over the border, Mayor Toroczkai decided to use it.
Asotthalom has five local policemen who answer directly to the mayor. They are equipped with guns, 4x4s, and motorcycles. They have the same legal right as the national police to arrest, handcuff, and imprison anyone. These local policemen were the ones who picked me up at the town center and who transported conference attendees around the area.
The mayor explained to me that these local policemen would arrest and round up the illegal migrants, as well as take them to court when necessary. After the fence was built, they would bring a judge along in their jeep and arrest, sentence, and process border-jumping migrants on the spot. This was how the Hungarians achieved such an effective border defense operation.
This was a very strong article and, because of the unique subject and first person perspective, edged out a couple other very strong contenders for ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀. Congratulations, Oscar! Try not to spend the award all in one place.
Yuray returns on Tuesday with A Letter From Royal America, in which a highly formalist American future government is imagined.
Landry is joined on Weimerica Weekly by Dark Enlightenment for a very interesting discussion on: Broken Down Housing.
Social Matter doesn’t usually do “ripped from the headlines”, but P. T. Carlo’s timely contribution Rival Victimhoods Go To War In Orlando is exactly the sort of analysis you won’t see in the headlines. Center stage is the liberal Fukuyamaist End of History Thesis, butt naked and about 100 pounds overweight.
Much like how the failure of the industrialized nations of Germany and England to embrace Communism as Marx had predicted fatally wounded the prospects of the Global Proletariat, so too has the failure of non-Western societies to assimilate wounded the lofty pretensions of global neoliberalism. If it is empirically demonstrated that the Islamic world (perhaps along with Indian, Russian and Chinese societies) are mostly immune to the allures of the atomic individualism preached from the pulpit of the Cathedral, then the Hegelian narrative of a universal triumph is fatally undermined.
Carlo sees this increasingly unpatchable fissure of the left coalition as an opportunity for the right to rip apart the prevailing Care Bear Globalist Narrative. I hope he’s right, but we have to remember that it’s hard to persuade people by facts and logic out of positions they never arrived at by facts and logic to begin with. (FD: long popcorn futures.) P. T. Carlo takes home yet another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his efforts here.
On Friday, Yuray contemplates Civilization’s Precipice and how indebted we are to those who lived closest to it at the dawn of any civilization.
The task of all good men today should be to relight the flame of civilization. I could re-state the same sentence in a thousand ways: to decrease societal time preference, to renew faith in God and his Word, to improve social technology, etc. And yet, the original civilizers did not civilize through electronic devices, at office desks, on their behinds, during conferences and conventions. The original civilization was a baked mud cabin and a fire illuminating a dangerous black void.
And Saturday’s Prose & Poetry continues on that theme, i.e., the fragility and historical contingency of civilization, with some verse from E. Antony Gray: No .
This Week in 28 Sherman
Over on the home blog, Landry wonders Can A Show Resist Progging? Generally, no. But he finds one counter-example in the BBC’s Poirot. Being both indispensable and influential is a huge plus.
Like any corporate lackey that seems to avoid the axe at layoffs, one has to be indispensable. One also has to have the will and drive to resist or push counter-narratives. Suchet was strong in faith and impossible to get rid of. If he annoyed showrunners and writers, well they were going to give into the man who had become Hercule Poirot and carried the show for years. Who was going to junk the man who brought the chubby little detective to life?
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Only you can prevent progging on your own sovereign territory.
And since we’re on the subject of Poirot, SoBL highly recommends it. I remember loving the show with Hastings and Miss Lemon, but being disappointed when he went solo later on in the series… Perhaps I shall have to revisit the “New School” era.
This Week in WW1 Pics: Above Ground Trenches.
This Week in Kakistocracy
As I mentioned above, Porter takes an early stab at coverage of the coverage, which was as predictable as it was wrong:
But, of course, confederates weren’t exclusively responsible for the Orlando massacre. Guns also played a malign role. In much the same way mules forged America and scaffolds defeated the Axis powers. The point is that you can’t allow a flatbed full of flamers to expire without advancing your agenda. And that agenda is to make certain future Omars are unimpeded by armed civilians when committing violence in alignment with Huffington Post dictates.
In Franchising the Globe, Porter pieces together a particularly perspicacious set of observations from unz.com commentator “Kiza” about the nature of American global hegemony.
Gersh Kuntzman had to choose between propagandizing rich cat ladies that firing the mean-looking, temporary PSTD-inducing AR-15 was the scariest thing in the universe and not looking like a girly man. Fortunately for us, he chose the former. Porter has complete coverage: Walking into a Bar Mitzvah is Horrifying, Menacing, and Very Very Loud. Funny how Jews weren’t quite so squeamish about guns back in ’40 and ’41.
Wading deeper into the sociopolitical ramifications of the Orlando shooting, Porter pavement marks burgeoning fissures in Left Coalition™, Inc.: Lookin for Love in All the Wrong Places.
Having onboarded both gays and muslims, liberalism is now in its tock phase after the tick. It’s much like Apple’s iPhone cycle: introduce a new product in year one, then smooth, sort, and consolidate with the “S” model. That S is in sifting who will be the beatified class until next year’s roll-out–perhaps Burmese pedophiles or Bantu devourers of albino genitalia.
This directly effects conservatives, since it is their function to feed on liberal droppings. The new left model is to be politely opposed as the legacy unit is being fulsomely embraced.
It’s not entirely clear to me what direction liberals will take in their consolidation cycle, though by observation of their conservative shadows the matter is pretty well settled: muslims occupy the summit… Somewhat.
The Committee awards Porter an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his timely and perspicacious observations.
Finally this week: Right Side of History Produces Surprisingly Shitty Third Wave Microroasts. Incongruities, not to mention incontinence, run past a mile a minute as Porter counts the ways that Brazil is not ready to host this summer’s Olympics, or even pretend to be a developing country.
This Week in Evolutionist X
Evolutionist X has some thoughts to add to Scott Alexander’s own in Albion’s Seed and discreet vs. overlapping groups.
Next, the eternal question: Why do women love cupcakes?
[M]en don’t tend to decorate their steaks with tiny baseball bats cut out of steak the way women like to decorate their cakes with tiny flowers made out of frosting.
It seems that men and women may have evolved to have different food preferences, or vices, depending on how you look at it.
I suspect, therefore, that women are naturally inclined to eat as much as possible of sweet foods in order to put on weight in preparation for pregnancy and lactation–only today, the average woman has 2 pregnancies instead of 12, and so instead of turning that extra weight into children and milk, it just builds up.
Matches up with my anecdotes.
Women also love freaky stuff. At least Evolutionist X does. This was a treat for the eyes: The Gaboon Viper, Pangolin, and Bioluminescence. What would plants fungi use bioluminescence for?
For Anthropology Friday she begins a review of Still a Pygmy, by Isaac Bacirongo and Michael Nest—probably the only extant autobiography written by an actual Pygmie.
This Week around The Orthosphere
Chris Gale offers without irony: #PrayforOrlando and a trip down Romans chapter one. Christians, he notes, “want to warn and pray. But the Muslim will just kill.” The Muslim is, in all meaningful ways, a progressive—only with a different eschaton that needs imanentizin’.
Agatha Christie
Gale is among the Reactosphere’s foremost experts in psychiatric medicine. He pays attention to the science so you don’t have to: Personality dysfunction and Geelong Sheilas. He also has some praise for The feminine prose voice. Especially Sarah Hoyt’s.
Over at Imaginative Conservative Bruce Frohnen’s The West’s War on the Family is sadly lacking in imagination. America never was one nation, never will be, and the Progressive’s have always been in charge and won their territory fair-n-square. Making peace with these facts is the beginning of wisdom. This was a heart-warming story for Flag Day: The Day Rick Monday Saved the American Flag, and rightfully so. In spite of all the anti-Americanism around here, we hate our government, never our people.
Also there, Roger Scruton tackles Postmodern Music: Groans Wrapped in Mathematics.
And for Fathers’ Day: Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Fathers’ Day Proclamation.
Over at West Coast Reactionaries, Adam Wallace delivers the latest installment of “Primer” Pt. 11: Early Summertime Blues in which We Done It To Ourselves plays a prominent role.
Kristor takes a walk through the Frisco Financial District and analyzes his findings. Also a welcome development: Homo Economicus Baptized. Well it’s about time.
The homo economicus that people gripe about is miscalled. His true name is homo irreligiosus.
Kristor talks a lot about “improper reduction” (things are merely X). He brings much together in this: Improper Reduction Weaponized.
[P]olicies based on the improper reduction of society to individuals have the inevitable effect of vitiating all other social organs than the individual and the state. The state either prevents their formal impositions on the individual, or captures their functions altogether (as when the Department of Education takes over direction of public schools from local school districts). They then fall into desuetude and irrelevance, until only a few old-timers remember them, or what they were for. If America continues along her present trajectory, then a century hence marriage and the family for example will be what the social clubs, granges and mutual aid societies so vital to the social life of 19th Century America are today: mostly gone.
An outstanding bit of political theory in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
I’m almost certain this is a parody, but with the way things are going, ya never can quite tell: UCU to Launch Studies Studies Program.
Briggs addresses the I-Have-Big-Muscles Fallacy. It seems to be a species of hyper-rationality: “I can’t see how any of the premises are false; therefore, none are false. Thus the absurdity follows.” He also laments the future Disappearance Of Words. (I, for one, do not think I can read faster than I listen to spoken word. Tho’ I am probably a minority in this community for that trait. Or lack thereof.)
Bonald the Catholic has a dialogue here with Bonald the Pagan (or at least that’s my interpretation of the disputants): Christian Nations and the Terrifying Righteousness of the Jews, a dialogue: Part I and Part II. It is eerie, probably intentionally. This is a bit from Part I:
Moses on Mount Sinai (painting c. 1895–1900 by Jean-Léon Gérôme)
Beyond the little things of paganism, there is some Big Thing that the Jews have discovered. Why imagine It is benign, rather than hostile to the Gentile peoples, as the Jews themselves have tended to believe? What terrifying Medusan Thing did Moses encounter, that to look It in the face is death? The Jews found It holy, and so It is. And later they did look it in the face, the face of Social Justice, and their frail humanity died, leaving a holy hatred for the small, warm, imperfect world of men.
Things wind around to a brilliant point of light in Part II:
Hedonism offers the pleasure of indulgence. Pharisaism offers the pleasure of self-righteousness. Christianity offers neither. Leftism offers both. It’s no wonder so many have traded Christianity for Social Justice.
For the pair of articles, Bonald wins the coveted ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Mark Richardson has the (not entirely surprising) Five Worst Words for Men to Use in a Dating Profile.
This Week… Elsewhere
Roman Dmowksi steps back and looks at the larger picture: Pocahontas is a Fraud, But So is Affirmative Action. (“Pocahontas”… I LOL whenever I hear it.) Indeed AA is a not only a fraud, but harms its intended beneficiaries by solidifying the bias against their group. If you were AAed in, you didn’t meet standards. Thus AAs will tend to be at the bottom of the distribution of the wider class of candidates.
Gratuitous B&W pic of girl
My good buds Brett Carlyle and Simon Melville are up at Counter-Currents to extract a red-pilled esoteric message from exoterically blue-pilled Zootopia.
A very worthy Comment Of The Week: The Lion And The Lioness. Heartiste is concise and 100% correct in The Impossibility Of Open Borders. Borders will always exist for those who can afford them.
Butch Leghorn has an update from the Meme Trenches: Wedging Gays and Muslims.
Brett Stevens says The World Market Needs Editors. He also has an upcoming first book: Nihilism due out this year from Manticore Press. Apparently, he thinks nihilism is a good thing.
Tho’ I disagree with Brett about a few things (especially nihilism), I found much to agree with here: No, Conservatives, “Return To God” Is Not The Answer. He sees it as one of many scape-goat answers (like gas the kikes, open the markets, euthenize the stupid) that spread more blame than fix what’s wrong. Filed under Every Nation in the World exacts the Death Penalty for Stepping in Front of a Bus: What To Do When A Natural Selection Event (NSE) Happens. Also a nice bit of short fiction here: The Loneliness Of An Alien Dawn.
Cato the Younger identifies The Perfectly Effete, Nu-Male, one of whom apparently had the terrifying experience of firing an AR-15 and refused to be too embarrassed to write about it. Dalrock joins in the well-earned mockery.
Over at The Mitrailleuse, James E. Points out Paying people to not work still means they won’t work and some other obvious problems with UBI.
Sunshine Thiry writes of the clear and present dangers to their ducks and fear-induced political manipulation. Also a Happy Fathers’ Day and should girls learn to shoot guns? Inter alia.
Greg Cochran has some interesting evolutionary musings In a handbasket.
Unorthodoxy (with improved template that you don’t have to scroll several pages down for… cudos, mate!) notices The Economist noticing a Red Pill.
The real story is the gatekeepers can no longer control The Narrative. They looked at a fringe of the Dark Enlightenment and had a little freak out, felt the need to let their readers know some bad think is going on in some corners of the Internet. God help them when they stare into the center.
Let’s hope! Also some coverage on Da Pope. Both of them actually. He links this: Not One Pope But Two, One “Active” and One “Contemplative”. It seems Pope Benedict XVI ain’t quite done popin’ yet. Which is quite encouraging.
Thrasymachus on Fathers’ Day: “Having kids is the most important thing we can do”.
Faith & Heritage watches the SBC so you don’t have to: the Southern Baptist Convention voted to ban display of the Confederate Flag, “once again accusing their forefathers of imaginary sins”.
Well… That’s all folks. Everybody enjoy your summer, and keep on reactin’! Til next week… NBS, over and out!!
Oh come on. My post was no pitch for Islam.
But I’d rather convert than make out with Milo.
It seems unlikely you’ll have to do either.
I think you’re mistaking accidents for essences.
Islam is progressivism… just for sand people. What keeps Islamic sand people from turning toward our (Christian) version of Progressivism is the sand, not the Islam. We already have a version of sunni Islam for white people: it’s called Baptist Fundamentalism. If whites turned en masse to Islam one of only two things could happen: 1)they become 90 IQ nitwits and get eaten by East Asia;; or 2)they prog Islam (and get eaten by East Asia anyway). My bet is on (2).
The West has only one problem: Chronic Kinglessness. Nobody’s in charge. As soon as someone takes charge, the West will be whole again in short order.
Chronic Kinglessness + Progressivism, no? What memeplex the King is pwned by matters.
I guess I messed up that quote…
“America has only one problem: America is a Communist Country.”
Oh, essentialism. Islam may suck as much as progressivism, but it certainly is not progressivism.
East Asia has neither the will nor the power to eat us up, so don’t worry about that one. If anything, absent the pressure of Western civilization, East Asia will likely go back to its old cherished lifestyle of collectivist stasis.
Brazil has 1 million Japanese. They haven’t taken over. They haven’t improved the country. Brazil is Brazil. And Brazil is where we’re headed.
Maybe Wwhat Nick means by progressivism is not how people use it nowadays as a synonym for ‘liberalism’.
From Wiki:
Progressivism is a philosophy based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. Progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, out of the belief that Europe was demonstrating that societies could progress in civility from barbaric conditions to civilization through strengthening the basis of empirical knowledge as the foundation of society.
This would not seem to apply to radical Islam, which rejects modernity. But Progressivism is also related to revolution, and Jihad is a form of revolutionary action against Christianity.
Western (Christian) progressivism which we all know as “Progressivism” of course has its own unique and contingent evolutionary history and content. When I said “Islam is progressivism” I was referring more to its essential characteristics. It seems to me (and of course this is debatable) that Islam is a low-church (by the book, no central hierarchy), universalist, chilastic, egalitarian, and fundamentally iconoclastic religion, and that these are the precise characteristics of Western Progressivism which make it suck so bad. I’m looking at them not from a doctrinal standpoint (where of course they differ radically), or a goals and values standpoint (which are of course at odds), but in the sense of a deep occult motivation/human psychology standpoint.
“Islam is progressivism” it is more a provocative statement than a formally accurate one.
But I think the rest stands, Islam imposed on the West would take on Western DNA… it would either be Baptist Fundamentalism with Allah (which if this were possible, why doesn’t Baptist Fundamentalism dominate the west), or take on prog (white) characteristics: Unitarian Universalism (except for Allah).
I’ll counter the certainty of Brazilification. What we’ll get, if the money holds, is a layer that is like South Korea or Japan on top of a bigger layer that is like Brazil. Segregation of the two will occur.
I think Bruce Charlton is the better craftsman when it comes to wading through studies. I’m blogging the interesting things I read.
Thanks for the reading and the links. I pray that God calls Milo: we need a new St Augustine, and we should pray he is not writing, at the end of his life, a new “City of God”.
I had forgotten about Charlton. I agree. He is quite aggravating at times, so I don’t follow him as closely as I probably should.
Hedonism offers the pleasure of indulgence. Pharisaism offers the pleasure of self-righteousness. Christianity offers neither. Leftism offers both. It’s no wonder so many have traded Christianity for Social Justice.
that brilliantly sums it up