ex cathedra: Another kind of beauty

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Another kind of beauty

Noble simplicity. Hermit-monks of the Carthusian cloister of Marienau in Germany.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I wish the RCs had brought this good taste with them to North America!; 12:32 AM, May 15, 2011
OreamnosAmericanus said...: Well, it is a quite particular aesthetic, not congenial to everyone.
And not even like that in all Carthusian houses. The Carthusians are the most elitist of orders, and therefore small. They never exercise any outside ministry and you can't even go to their monasteries for a retreat or Mass unless you are thinking of joining. The long silent film called "Into Great Silence" gives a glimpse.; 11:07 AM, May 15, 2011

Toward Our Future

What the sons of Europa need is a new religion: one that is as tribal, portable and survivalist as Judaism, as masculine, terrestrial and tough as Islam and as intellectually and aesthetically creative as Christianity...with a dose of the unflinching realism of the ancestral ways of the Greeks and Romans, Germans and Celts and Slavs..And for the larger Indo-European frame, something of the Indian capacity to combine an ultimate and philosophical realization of The One with a robustly mytho-poetic religion on-the-ground. Oh, and some of the psychological acumen of Buddhism.

Liberalism's Basic Flaw

Liberals believe that the chief role of the State is to force everyone to be equal, (ie, take vengeance on the successful). So when they are confronted with any group that they deem less well off than themselves, they are morally disarmed, completely and utterly. Any group that can achieve Victim Status is on their way to power and the (White) liberal's only job is to give them what they want, no matter how much that damages him. And nothing may ever be expected, much less demanded, of them in return. It's a recipe for suicide: no other outcome is possible.