More transnational nationalism, sorta

Boston Marathon:

The first "American" man to win the Boston Marathon in a display of "humankind" at its best.

We avoid praising Americans for bouncing back, --that would be narrow chauvinist jingoism--so we broaden it to the transnational and post-sexist "humankind" and then make believe that one "Meb Keflezighi" is an American.

But if the president of America's (most recent) name is Barack Hussein Obama, then what the hell, no? Why not?

Nancy Pelosi, if you recall, that fine flower of American wymynhood, reminded us that the more foreign immigrants we have in America, including all the illegal invaders, the more American we are. Someday when all the actual Americans are gone, that Race Which Must Not Be Named, America will finally be itself.

Thus the logic of Liberalism.



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Captain Phillips

Very good movie about a very bizarre situation: the re-appearance of piracy and the strangely restrained response of modern Western powers to its incursions.

I was amazed at the quite accurate description of how self-limitingly suicidal is the policy of requiring merchant ships to travel unarmed in east African waters. Massive vessels worth many millions are captured by small groups of Somali men armed only with rifles, on pathetically small boats. 

Bruce Charlton includes this phenomenon in his reflections on the decline of the West.

The piracy test for moral inversion 

A few quick questions on attitudes to modern piracy and what should be done about it can be used to detect moral inversion (moral inversion being the endemic disease of modern elite ideology which reverses traditional evaluations).  

The facts are that: 

1. Piracy is a 'natural' state of affairs, which will recur unless suppressed - because gangs of reckless and aggressive young men will be able to prey upon the productive population 

The reason why so many old Mediterranean towns are built on hills away from the coast is not for convenience or fine views, but because coastal and non-fortified towns would regularly be attacked by pirates, and their population robbed, killed, raped and enslaved (on galleys where they would be worked to death, or marched across the Sahara desert where the survivors would be worked to death).  

2. Piracy is a very great evil - gangs of aggressive young men will do utterly appalling things, and will enjoy doing them; and if unchecked pirates will act as parasites on decent and productive society, until decent and productive society is destroyed utterly, when they will move on to their next victims. In other words, piracy is not necessarily self-limiting or self-correcting: it could be fatal, like cancer.  

3. It is relatively recently that piracy worldwide was suppressed - just the past couple of hundred years. The main agents were the British Navy and also the navies of the other great European powers. However, piracy was long enough in the past for wishful-thinking pacifists to imagine (like Shire hobbits) that peace and plenty are the natural state of affairs, and need not be defended, need not be fought-for.  

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Therefore, the fact that piracy has been allowed to re-emerge over recent years as a highly profitable business - unchecked and essentially unpunished and despite technical developments which make the suppression of piracy easier than ever in the past - is the most conclusive evidence that could be imagined to demonstrate Western decadence: the reckless, complacent, futile, hand-wringing, self-absorbed, morally-paralyzed blindness of Western political leaders and their ruling elites. 

Julius Caesar would be stunned.

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On Easter, Pope calls for end to war, condemns waste exacerbating hunger - Yahoo News:

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Article V Fun

I would love to be rich enough to fund this political passtime: to fund two separate Constitutional Convention think-tanks, one for the Right and one for Left, in order for each of them to come up with a sufficiently amended or even new Constitution for the country they want to have.

The Lefty one would morph the country into a racialized version of the EU. It would be fun to watch all the White Liberals being faced with just how ravenous their beloved Persons of Color would be.

1st Constitutional Convention session

And signing.
A shamefully undiverse lot of Straight White Christian Males. 

My guess is that the Righty version would be a very hard-fought compromise between the Christians and the Libertarians. Would the Mighty Whities even get in the door?

And then people would have to vote for which constitution they'd want to live under. You'd see two nations in front of your eyes, more different from each other than the Union and the Confederacy.

Since I have come to feel and think of America as Yugoslavia, the internal fights seem to me to have the tenor of a married couple who have come to hate each other and for whom divorce is the unhappy but only solution.

So much waste.

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Democrat NewSpeak

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Potemkin Train

Watch the race and gender regime we are supposed to accept a The New Virtuous Normal.




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Well, this is novel

Jesus Had Game | Chateau Heartiste:


It does take another perspective on the widely-ignored fact that Jesus "the servant" was in fact always in control.

So when Pope Francis says that he's "the slave" of the poor, etc. you should take it with a beachful of grains of salt.

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Decline and Fall

There they are, America. You elected 'em.

Twice.

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Off Fence

I get offended a lot. Not by people I know. Mostly by media.

The endless propaganda.

Right now I am trying to watch a mystery series but I can't get myself not to notice the feminist and multiculty propaganda built into it. And into almost everything else produced for our viewing pleasure. Teaching us how the world both is and ought to be and how we should think and feel about it.

Phallic Phemales and Numinous Negroes requisite and abounding. It's especially cool if they're In Charge. And there's The Sacrosanct Interracial Couple/Family. (In this particular one, we have a bi-racial lesbian couple with their Blond daughter...A home run.)

A Potemkin village of race and gender ideology. Lies presented as unquestioned reality.

Hardly any White male, especially if he is a lead and not evil, can be allowed to be by himself without minders of color and vagina. Not even Raylan Givens, who's now got a Black girl boss.

Most men, especially White, are presented as venal, stupid or cowardly. Women, the more of color the better, are smart and responsible. Stronger and better than the men.

It offends the hell out of me.

It was long conventional status-wisdom to sagely poo-poo the dramas and comedies of the 50s for their "unreal" depictions of pleasantly monochrome worlds of picket-fenced intact White families with working fathers and housewife mothers and non-pathological children, etc. It was hell, apparently.

Everything now is "open-minded" and "realistic"...and just as much propaganda as the Soviet posters in Jay Carney's kitchen

PS The film is Under The Dome. Episode 1 was so offensive that I skipped to Episode 13. It added stupid to offensive. Stephen King is a hugely, vastly, galactically, ineffably over-rated writer. The Langoliers. The Stand. OMG.
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The Titanic States of BalkanAmerica

IMHO, all efforts to get the new separate and hostile nations aborning inside the boundaries of the USA to cooperate are as useful as it was trying to get the Croatians, Serbs and Bosnians in the 1990's to continue to make believe that they were "Yugoslavs." Or to imagine that the Confederate states really wanted to be part of the Union anymore (which is why they had to be bludgeoned into it.)

The conventional date for the fall of the Western Roman Empire is 476, but in fact it had effectively ceased to exist for 100 years prior, Roman in name but mostly barbarian in fact. They just kept making believe. The Eastern Roman Empire continued on for almost another 1000 years til the soldiers of The Religion of Peace finally wiped it out in 1453.

Do really believe that AG Eric Holder and Sheriff Joe Arpaio are both "Americans"? Do Mayor Bill deBlasio and Sarah Palin belong in the same country?



Aw, c'mon.

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