Had a Man Cold this past week – toughed it out to Thursday end of shift by means of using up my “work from home” days but for Friday I had to do the worst possible thing you can do: take a sick day while sick! Total waste of a day! But, I needed it: slept most of the day. Didn’t go to Mass today because I’m still feeling it and I don’t want to get people sick just in time for Christmas (feel a bit guilty about that even though it isn’t a sin to miss a Mass because ill) – but what this really got me thinking is that I’m 61 and I felt the first symptoms last Monday while by tomorrow – a week in – it’ll be almost all done. Always been like that for me: I don’t get ill much and I get over it fast. Same thing with injury. I never bruise. I take falls that should break bones but they don’t. I heal fast – like when I have a root canal in the morning the pain is gone by afternoon and I’m eating normally that evening. The dentist is flabbergasted about how strong and deep the roots of my teeth are. I go and get a physical and everything is fantastic. I might be from what they call “the deep end of the gene pool”…that is, one of those people who’s genetics have determined a strong constitution. Generally people in my family (both sides) make it into their 80’s but I did have a grand-aunt who made it to 100. We’ll see how long this ride lasts!
As you might have guessed, I’ve been pondering my own mortality – not in a morose way! We all owe God a death, right? True, we all want a highly extended line of credit, but it stalks us all. It is more in thinking of how much time has passed, what I’ve seen – and when considering, say, my grand-niece born earlier this year, what she might see? I mean, if she lives the normal female lifespan for 2025 of 81 years, she’s going to 2106! And she’ll have met a man who as born in 1964. And will be one handshake away from a man (my grandfather) born in 1896.
Let’s roll that 81 years back – and its 1944. Call it 1945. Think of all that has changed since then. There was still a British King-Emperor of India. Israel was still in the future. To us oldsters, that world seems familiar but not for the young. Black and white photography? You had to dial a phone. And the number was Lakewood 2697. Long distance seemed a bit miraculous. The kids are now asking, “what the heck is long distance?”. Hardly anyone had flown in a plane as yet; if you could afford to travel you still got aboard a train…or a ship if crossing the sea. Television existed but was still years away from common; you listened to radio shows. And if you needed to reach someone fast you sent a telegram. This is an alien country to anyone, say, under 40. You know: born in 1985 or later. As for the rising generation (born after 2000, now, guys!), even a cell phone without video capability would seem stone age.
Things change very rapidly. In the Mirrors series I deliberately created a world where change wasn’t happening – the final explanation (and end) of that status is explained in Book X (honest, I’ll have it out soon – but its the last of the series and I love it so much I’m loath to finish it…I keep refining the refinements!). Change is good. Change is natural. But, also, change is deadly. Gotta be careful with it. In general, the Revolutionary is someone to be afraid of – most of the time, he really doesn’t understand anything and is entirely destructive. Only very rarely does a Revolutionary create something better than what was destroyed (our Founders, of course, being one of the rare examples of good Revolutionaries). In this bit more of a century since the end of World War One, we changed very much too rapidly. We let the Revolutionaries run wild. Sure, this got us the Moon and some very amazing medical advances…but it also got us nuclear weapons and assisted suicide. There’s some plusses and minuses here.
In the main, most people do just want to live their lives. To be sure, “living their lives” for some subsets of humanity is, well, bad. Afghan tribesmen living their lives see a bit of rapine as a fine way to make a few extra bucks. But, for the common run of humanity, just living as they see fit is the sum total of life’s goal. Tolkien noted this in his works when he had Aragorn point out that his job – his purpose in life – is to protect the simple people so they could remain simple. That is, not stupid: but untroubled. It is the duty of those who know to protect those who do not. Just as a parent sets guardrails for children so, too, must the true leader set guardrails for the people as a whole. Our Founders set them! But, just perhaps, not firmly enough? Trusted too much? Living as they did as free and equal people and being honest and upright patriots, they possibly assumed that the perverse could never gain sufficient purchase in the American mind to ruin their great work…we have found, now, that some things should have been much more firmly written. Ah, well: live and learn, right?
After Revolution, Reaction. And I think that is where we’re heading. These days, the word “reaction” has a bad connotation. Of course it does: we’re under the rule of Revolutionaries! But the last great Reaction was after the maelstrom of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Everyone had had quite enough of Revolution! That is why the later attempts to revive Revolution – most notably, 1848 – failed miserably. There were gripes and, indeed, even things to fight over. But, in the end, nobody wanted to create another period like 1791 to 1815. People opted for incremental change. And, year by year, they largely got it – the 19th century was a century of political, economic and social improvement. It was only after the turn of the 20th century…when the Bad Old Days were getting on to a century before and out of living memory…that people started listening again to the siren song of revolt and Revolution.
Though, to be sure, I don’t think anywhere there was a majority in favor of overturning the entire system. Lenin annulled the Russian election of 1917 – his Bolsheviks only winning 23% of the vote and, by far, a center-left coalition of democrats having won. Hitler never got more than 37% of the vote in a truly free and fair election. Mao, Mussolini and Castro never even considered a remotely free election. As angry as a people might be with the system, a desirous as they may be of deep changes, hardly anyone wants a complete overturn. Sure, the peasants of Russia had abandoned the Czar, hated the nobles and wanted the land for themselves…but they didn’t want to replace all that with a Commissar telling them all their land belonged to the State. That they might have been confused or lacked understanding is neither here nor there – they didn’t get what they wanted. In fact, hardly anyone ever does from the Revolutionaries because, for the most part, Revolutionaries hate the people…and want them punished for not measuring up to what the Revolutionaries believe is right conduct. And I do believe this latest run of the Revolutionaries is coming to a close – their desperate efforts to import a new population to use in overturning things is failing. And this was the last trick they had up their sleeve.
All around the world – and not just in the West – we see people rejecting those who uphold the current status quo. Nobody wants to continue as we have. Everyone looks around and wonders just why there are suddenly tens of millions of migrants and we have to let them in…and give them full benefits, legal protections and the right to vote. And then we also look around and notice that it isn’t our people who need to be replaced. That is, the Christians – the real believers, and the people who are of those who made our nation and civilization – are still having sufficient kids to maintain their population. It is those who have abandoned God who need replacements…not us. But it is those who abandoned God who are importing the replacements…and why replace us with people who aren’t like us? Who in many cases actively hate us? We figure we can do without the replacements as much as we can do without those who are actually being replaced.
This is why Populist-Right parties are going from strength to strength all over the world – even in places like Japan. The system the Revolutionaries made has failed in its promise and we’re all figuring that our old ways are just fine. You know: that tired, old bit about being sober, hard working, loyal, honest. Sure, it is boring as all get out and you don’t get the sort of art our Ruling Class prefers, but it works. And it’ll work forever. It will never fail – and it will always improve things. And so we no longer care what they say about it. It doesn’t sting. Perhaps if they had actually got us wealthier and, say, pushed us to the stars we’d still let them stay in charge…but we’re a bit pinched on the finances and they can’t even build a bridge in less than ten years. So, thanks; but go away.
And if they don’t go away voluntarily? That is, if they don’t surrender the power they lost fair and square in elections we win? Well, that would be…bad. Like very, very bad. Mostly for them, of course. But also for us. You see, we’re kind and tolerant and do want to live and let live. But if pressed to it…well, let’s just say that the Left won’t like what happens.
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Answering Amazona’s question from previous thread … Casper and Rico were terrified to come to AZ when we passed the SB1032 legislation requiring police to “check the papers” of suspects when pulled over. They deemed it racist (of course). One thing I have learned in the last 20 years is that leftists are so easily manipulated by the media and “experts” … it’s as if they can’t think for themselves. Oh wait
I absolutely love history and am extremely intrigued by the time continuum has Mark refers to. Here’s my timeline I like to think about … my grandfather was born in 1913, Thomas Jefferson died in 1825. Someone born in 1824 and who lived to be 89 years old … lived in the same lifetime as Thomas Jefferson and my grandfather …. We are not that far removed.
RIP Rob Reiner. I despised the man and his politics BUT he was Gods child and I pray for his soul.
Not as weighty as Jefferson, but…..Wyatt Earp died in 1929, when my mother was nine years old. It seems odd to know that his timeline overlapped hers, as the history of him and his brothers seems so much farther back. His life went from cattle drives and gunfights to automobiles and the beginning of the Great Depression. My grandmother arrived in NE Colorado in a covered wagon, homesteaded out on the prairie, listened to warnings about Bonnie and Clyde on the radio, and lived to see men on the moon.
Like my grandfather, your mother lived in a very interesting time frame. My grandfather would often tell the story of his earliest memories which were going to church in a covered wagon and his Mom shielding his eyes from some of the town drunks. From covered wagons to men on the moon to FaceTime lol. When FaceTime first came out, I want to say about 2009 or 10, I took my IPad to CA to visit him and we FaceTimed my daughter … he was mesmerized … just blown away. That was fun
My paternal grandfather (as a child) got to meet Buffalo Bill. In what we would today call a photo op but no picture was taken…it was sort of “shake hands with the famous man” sort of thing. It is all so close and so far – and shows why maintaining our national memory is so crucial, and why the Left wants to destroy it.
My husband’s grandfather met Buffalo Bill on a train going from Denver to Wyoming and they spent hours in conversation. It took a while for my husband’s grandfather to realize who he was because he didn’t introduce himself as such.
Interesting story about Buffalo Bill. For many years the Gates Rubber Company was a very big deal in Colorado, and a Gates heir told me why their huge Colorado and Wyoming ranches are named Cody. Back in the early struggling days of the company, when rubber was not that widely used, Buffalo Bill contracted for hundreds of horse halters and headstalls to be made of rubber for his Wild West shows in the U.S and Europe, and this gave the new young company enough capital and a foothold to develop into the big business it became.
I was just thinking about this the other day. The subject of what we and our parents and grandparents have witnessed in the course of our lives is mind boggling. My paternal grandfather was born in 1874, 9 years after the civil war. Three of his uncles (one of his mom’s brothers and two of his father’s brothers died in that war. I’ll be 81 next month, so just three generations of my family have spanned 152 years. If I make it to 90, there’s a good chance there will be 5 generations of my family alive at the same time, and civilization will have gone from horse and buggy to a man on Mars.
I’ve been rewatching the first two seasons of Silo over the past few days – getting ready for season three coming out in 2026 (and I hope they don’t louse it up!). It is, IMO, one of the few bits of well-done Sci-Fi of late and one of the premises of the show is that history doesn’t go back beyond Year One (as it were). There was a rebellion which was defeated 140-odd years prior and they celebrate that date…and blame the rebels for having erased history…but if this was so, then why does the whole silo system prohibit having any scrap of pre-rebellion material? On that much of the story depends – but I also like how the writers have made this lack of memory a central fact of the story as the characters try to sort of work it out on their own what is true and false…and both Bad and Good Guys get it flat wrong because, not actually knowing, they proceed from false assumptions.
What I see is the modern world sort of working that out – but with just enough of us old people around to provide some solid guidance. I’ve talked of the bright young people I work with and I am, as I said, thoroughly impressed by their intelligence and capacity for work…and how they are skeptical of the establishment. We can build on that…and I think Trump already is.
100% SPOT ON …
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Yup!
Where did you find this video of Casper 😂 … hilarious
What a great illustration of the logic (or lack thereof) of the Liberal mind.
The Providence Mayor and his staff are the perfect example of DEI. Mayor Smalley is Low T kind of man with no backbone, and the police chief is a small man who is in over his head, all puns intended. And now they have a problem which they are incapable of resolving. That’s what happens. It’s all fun and games until shit goes wrong.
Let’s Globalize the End of the Leftist Fetish for Murderers
It is like that but I’m going with more sinister: they orchestrate the violence and then use the violence as justification for more control. Look at Australia – first thing out the gate is a warning against “white supremacy” and a call for stricter gun control. The government set that up. Wanted it to happen. Now they can use it to further suppress the Australians as they import more foreigners who will do as they’re told.
I’ve been saying for years that the Left can never succeed in taking over a happy and stable country, which is why they have been working to destabilize this country for decades now. They let Europe just do its lazy drift to the Left while they attacked us with their efforts to generate class war, then gender wars which they had to escalate from man v woman to dragging in homosexuality to inventing whole new genders to stir up conflicts. They have been attacking the family, religion, and even the sense of being an American.
They haven’t just tapped into a strain of malevolence and malignance in our society—they have carefully planted the seeds and nurtured the growth, and it is now what identifies them.
It has all been purposeful, and has succeeded as much as it has thanks to their preemptive takeover of education and the media. And the violence has been part of it. They appeal to the mentally ill/violence-inclined through the violence itself and to the rest by claiming the Right is responsible for it.
Hmmmm … this whole Brown thing doesn’t pass the smell test. I think there’s a cover up going on
https://1819news.com/news/item/hunted-killed-in-cold-blood-mtn.-brook-native-ella-cook-targeted-for-conservative-beliefs-in-brown-university-killing-college-republicans-of-america-founder-says
I don’t think there is much distance between the foul-mouthed harridan attacking the woman for wearing a Charlie Kirk T-shirt (she wanted her fired for wearing it) and just killing someone with a similar political position, though someone with a larger platform for expressing it. I do believe it is just a matter of degree.
The attitude on the Left that people on the Right are not just people with different ideas of how best to govern the nation but are enemies, and that enemies must be vanquished by any means, is becoming more intense and accepted. And scary.