Quick reality check:

Our "happily ever after" is in Heaven.

Anyone telling you it is in this fallen world is scamming you.

Life is difficult here. Accept it.

...But you're not alone.
Forwarded from Bertie Bassett
Wondering what all the MMT geniuses are going say if Ruble pegged to gold works.
Forwarded from Bertie Bassett
Keynesianism is nothing but a short-term tactical justification of specific power structures using post-hoc rationalisations like all leftist arguments which is why its defenders are spinning their wheels in my comments.
I'm not going to share the whole tirade. Just go to AA's Telegram channel and read the goodness.
Forwarded from Bertie Bassett
“Listen free traders, we have to put controls on this area because if we don’t, we haven’t got a culture or a nation. I don’t care if it costs us more.” These are the sorts of economic arguments nationalists should make not just adopting leftist lies and passing it off as your econ.
"People of the world, stop listening to the US regime! They're just using you and they're going to abandon you as soon as things start to go bad."

Ryan McMaken on how to get your country wrecked.

https://youtu.be/xLe0sX0orTE
If we lived in a sane world then images like this would be in everyone’s mind when they thought of the Soviet Union.
Forwarded from Cruel History
Explosion Of The Bell Tower Of The Church

The Communists constantly justified the mass demolition of churches.

"Holy places are demolished, but factories are built."

Not a single factory was built in place of a church. In their place there often appeared only wasteland and fields of asphalt, and the cities were deprived of their unique image.

Murom, Vladimir Province, USSR, 1937

Cruel History
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This was revealed on Barney Miller in 1981. Predictive programing hidden in plain sight, as per usual. Front running the truth with the "conspiracy theory" labels.

That script was greenlit on a comedy show, they knew they could flaunt it, and none would believe it.

Any word on who wrote this episode? I'd be interested to know if they have any links to the CIA.

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“he lied for the right reasons, it was a good lie, a necessary lie!”
The Journalist exists to cozy up to Power, to amplify, defend and make palatable the narratives of Power, and to attack anyone who criticises Power

With every waking moment the Journalist tries to better understand where the Power emanates from, not to critique or expose it, but to better fine tune his writing to more closely align with Power’s desires and agenda. He does it in the hope Power notices him and gives him advancement.

The Journalist is constantly on the hunt for the enemies of Power in order to slander and harass them. He will use any and all manner of tactics to achieve this, he will lie, attack people’s families, try to get people fired etc. To the Journalist the guilt or innocence of his victim is irreverent, the personal character of his victim is not so irreverent. The more decent and accomplished his target is the more he relishes in their personal destruction. See Roger Scruton as an example of someone who received the Journalist treatment.

The Journalist is utterly devoid of anything a normal person would consider a morality. He sees absolutely no contradiction in writing propaganda that’ll lead to a war that’ll kill hundreds of thousands of brown people while at the same time penning an Op-ed decrying racism. It isn’t that he couldn’t understand the contradiction in what he’s doing, he simply doesn’t care.

The Journalist sees his powerless victims as his abusers, and his entire “profession” as being persecuted by the people he attacks. Thus criticism to the Journalist is a personal attack of the most egregious nature. If exposed as a wilful liar the true morality of the Journalist is apparent in his outrage - he lied for the right reasons, it was a good lie, a necessary lie!

You need to think of every tweet or personal posting of the Journalist as a mini job interview, even if he has a job, because he can always get a more prestigious one. He’s poking, he’s prodding, he’s throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, he’s saying what he thinks most closely approximates the right things Power wants to hear. The fact he most often appears to be a liberal is irrelevant, he is simply a sycophant to Power.
“O let the nations be glad and sing for joy:

For thou shalt *judge* the people righteously,

and *govern* the nations upon earth.”

Psalm 67:4
Reading this makes more clear the sort of thing that CS Lewis was opposing in That Hideous Strength.
Forwarded from Thuletide
First recorded usage of the term 'transhumanism,' from New Bottles for New Wine (1950) by Julian Huxley, the first director of UNESCO:

"We are already justified in the conviction that human life as we know it in history is a wretched makeshift, rooted in ignorance; and that it could be transcended by a state of existence based on the illumination of knowledge and comprehension, just as our modern control of physical nature based on science transcends the tentative fumblings of our ancestors, that were rooted in superstition and professional secrecy.

The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself — not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature."
Sorry for that confusing post of Frodi's pagan anti-Christian comments!

I was trying to save it off because I’m considering a response… And hit the wrong button.
Chardin's view here is parallel to one that Rothbard identified as at the root of Marxism and other leftist worldviews:

"So man and God will be united in some cataclysmic species unity. Each individual will also be united with every other individual in one blob."

This eschatological perspective flows from a flawed creatology (doctrine of creation) which Rothbard here calls the "mystical" approach:

"The orthodox Christian position is that [a perfect] God created the universe out of pure love. … The mystical approach is that [an imperfect] God created the universe out of felt need, out of what Mises would’ve called felt uneasiness – God was lonesome."

This leads them then to the doctrine of alienation.

The solution to alienation? Re-merge into the blob!

https://blog.acton.org/archives/119822-murray-rothbard-on-christianity-catholicism-and-theology.html
Forwarded from Thuletide
Mistake in this post: https://t.me/thuletide/2560

Apparently Huxley did not coin the term transhumanism. He took it from the Jesuit Catholic humanist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was a pretty weird guy. Teilhard believed that the human soul is fundamentally a product of the material world, advocated for a materialist one-world religion, and believed that the technological singularity would awaken the "spirit of the earth" and create a "Noosphere" (mind-sphere), which is a sphere of conjoined consciousness that envelops the entire earth. So, kinda like The End of Evangelion (if you've seen that movie - if not, sorry for the forthcoming spoiler) where all life gets mushed into goop and becomes one singular hivemind.