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Time to Enforce Civilization

Mark Noonan4 Comments

In Delta State, Nigeria, allegedly during something called the Alue-Do fertility festival, gangs of young men were caught on video assaulting women. Broad daylight. Girls stripped of their clothes and manhandled. This has sparked outrage around the world and a criminal investigation by the Nigerian government…but as local leaders are denying it happened (in spite of ample video evidence that it did) my expectation is that it’ll all be swept under the rug.

We’ve all heard of the horrific Islamist attacks on Nigerian Christians and Delta State is predominantly Christian so this is surprising…until you realize that “predominant” doesn’t mean “everyone”. Quite of lot of paganism survives in the area – and this festival, whatever it actually is, stems from pagan practices. This is just more proof that it takes a while – a long while – to get people to be civilized. And from what I can glean from reports about the area, it seems that the traditional – pagan – social structure is politically dominant. This is not surprising as Christianity is always a bottom up social movement…that is, the poor and oppressed are usually the first people to get baptized…the rulers come last and usually fight a desperate, rear guard battle. Because, of course, the prime mark of a Christian society is that everyone has to be treated with respect. You know: no gangs of men roaming the streets and assaulting women with impunity.

What this means is that, once again, if we are to have immigrants from this area, they have to be carefully vetted. I know, personally, some Nigerian Catholics and they are as Christian, educated and civilized as you can want. Far more so than that section of the American population which is rapidly barbarizing under Leftist policies. It is just the vetting that the Left doesn’t want – because, in the end, they don’t want civilized Nigerian Christians coming in. No more than they want civilized Boers coming in. They want the savages…the descendants of those whom Garnet Wolseley whacked very firmly back in the 19th century – and who very much deserved that whacking. Just as their savage progeny need a whacking today. The Left wants barbarism because the total destruction of the Christian West is their goal – has been since the first, fevered Leftist imaginings of Robespierre and Danton during the French Revolution.

To fully get where we need to be, we must stamp out the idea that all cultures are equal. They aren’t. Not by a long shot. All humans are created equal – all of us are equally God’s children – but the social structures of the world are not all equal. Some are good. Some are bad. Some are downright evil. It is an evil culture which has gangs of men assaulting women in broad daylight. I don’t care that some of that culture are claiming the assaults aren’t what it is all about – the damned culture still created bands of young men brutally assaulting women in the streets. Whatever that culture has which led to this outcome is a bad culture and it needs to be changed. It is results which ultimately matter – every last human being on Earth has an absolute right to be in the public square without even a hint of violence being directed at them. If there’s a culture out there that isn’t doing this, then it is time for some changes. Compulsory changes if they aren’t voluntarily forthcoming.

As President Bukele of El Salvador recently pointed out: what about the human rights of the victims? We have entirely lost sight of that – orchestrated by Leftists who hate us, we have fallen into the habit of being solicitous of the well being of the robber, the rapist and the murderer. Sure, they have rights – but so does everyone else. And the robber, rapist and murderer are out to violate rights…we must not weep too many tears if the bad guys are in for a bit of rough treatment. They made their choice. It was a bad one. They will now have to pay – and pay a high price. We must whip the barbarians back into their caves – simply because we all have a right to peace.

The Multi-Generational Lie

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It occurred to me yesterday that we’re on our third or fourth generation of liars. That is, those in charge are not only liars, but are the heirs of storied liars of the past. Like this:

In 1973 the Supreme Court issued the Roe decision – this was based upon a couple of lies: that there is a right to privacy in the Constitution and that the unborn child isn’t a human being and thus endowed with rights. This was the original generation of liars: people who knew full well they were lying but they felt the result – legalized abortion – was so important that they willingly lied to get it. But it didn’t just stop there.

After that lie, it went into the books as a “Constitutional right to an abortion” and the next generation was taught this as fact, especially in law schools. Arguments against were disparaged or completely ignored. It was seriously said that it was obvious the Founders intended it to be in the Constitution. Later rulings in the 80’s and 90’s struck down some pretty common sense attempts to at least restrict the practice with the Court essentially holding that obtaining an abortion is akin to free speech or going to Church…just about sacred. And this feedback loop continued into education and overall society until we got to the point where women were out there shouting their abortions and Democrats shifted from “safe, legal and rare” to Abortion Barbie in Texas and a full throated commitment to federally funded abortion on demand. All based on the original lie – right to privacy – but built up over decades with lie after lie until millions of Americans seriously believe that if we don’t pay for someone’s abortion we’re fascists. The people out there wearing the Handmaid costumes are sincere, guys: they really believe that if they can’t get an abortion then they’re nothing but oppressed breeding stock. They are third and fourth generation liars – that is, liars who think they are telling the truth.

And that is just one of ten thousand things, right? The lie that we had to engage in limited war in Vietnam was based upon the lie that limited war was a success in Korea. Later, both of those lies would create the lie that every war had to have an exit strategy and that US military action must be carefully regulated by lawyers checking us for possible war crimes. And so we’re eventually jailing our guys for killing the enemy in the Iraqi shooting gallery which was created because war had to be limited. Hegseth over at Defense is doing the most crucial work in decades right now – starting to re-implant a desire for victory in our military. Can he undo 70 years of liars? The Department of Defense is run by 5th or 6th generation liars; gonna be tough to fix.

And, overall, can we cure this in our society? The lie that freedom means we have to let a bum urinate on the street. The lie that we must let pop culture be a moral sewer or it won’t be interesting. The lie that we must maintain our alliances even if our so-called allies hate us. The lie that free trade is superior to protection. On and on and on through lie after lie after lie. Trump is getting the ball rolling…but its going to take decades…and the people we fight against will never understand why we’re doing it. They will be convinced to their dying day that we’re the actual liars…destroying all that is good. So deep have the lies implanted themselves.

Happy Settler-Colonist Day!

Mark Noonan23 Comments

As we head towards Columbus Day and the annual whines from the Left about what a meanie he was I am inspired to point and laugh at how stupid they are.

Settler-Colonialism is the best purely human thing to ever happen. It is what made us – all of us. Most importantly, the Natives who were Colonized. That is, it is what gave them the ability to pathetically whine about being Colonized. Their ancestors were too busy trying to scratch out a bare, hand-to-mouth existence to be pathetic. Yesterday, the aurora borealis came down pretty far south and there’s this one Native activist account on X who said we’re not supposed to take pictures of it because the gods would get offended or some such drivel. Just tried to picture that:

Pagan god: “Just remember, when the crackers show up, don’t let them take photos of the aurora borealis.”

Savage: “uh, sure…but, what’s a photo?”

PG: “you want a fork of lightning up your bung?”

S: “got it: crackers, photos, no go.”

Its all just so ridiculous – and I mean pretty much the whole Native ethos they try to sell us these days. As if getting here earlier endows a person with some special connection to the land. It doesn’t. It is dirt. It is for anyone who is on it and they’ll do a good or bad job at stewardship based upon their moral character…not because of some legend, probably only half remembered because it was passed down orally, said a certain mountain was sacred to the gods (or, more likely, had the really good hunting ground so make sure you keep the other tribes away from it).

Also ridiculous is the notion that, somehow, Natives are more in touch with Nature. Nothing like that at all. All of humanity once used stone – from paleolithic beginnings to some pretty advanced things in the neolithic. But here’s the thing: as soon as anyone came across usable metal, they dropped stone like a bad habit. Nobody knows when the first person made bronze. It might have been made in several different areas but the main thing to keep in mind that as soon as bronze comes in, stone goes. There is just no comparison in quality and durability between even the very best stone tool and bronze.

The Natives in the Americas were still stone age when the Europeans showed up. Some pretty sophisticated stone age societies, but all still using stone. They had gold and silver but nobody in the America’s ever got around to combining tin and copper to make bronze – so, gold jewelry, stone knives. This also indicates that the Americas were cut off from the rest of the world some time before bronze was made – because wherever it arose outside the Americas (there’s some dispute about this) it spread everywhere…but not to the America which were lands pretty much unreachable from the end of the last Ice Age until ships as good as the Nina were built. This doesn’t mean that the Native of America were dumb – they just never put copper and tin together. Whoever did was some sort of genius or just very lucky (think about it: why would you try to combine metals? Who would think of that? But someone did…but not in the Americas). Without that stroke of luck or genius, the Americas just went on and on in the Neolithic and would have continued to do so unless that bronze stroke of luck happened…but what did happen is Europeans showed up. And not with the bronze the Americas missed out 5,000 years earlier, but the iron they missed out on 3,000 years earlier. But like everyone who first came across bronze – and then later came across iron – the Natives of the Americas dropped stone like bad habit as soon as they did so. In other words, they were just like everyone else. They weren’t living in harmony with Nature – they just lacked the technology to alter it like Europeans, Asians and Africans had.

The main thing to keep in mind here is that Cortez showed up in Tenochtitlan, not Moteuczoma in Madrid. Why? Not for lack of desire for conquest and glory. Both men engaged in that quite a lot; as much as they could, in fact. Not based on inherent intelligence: there’s nothing in the history books which indicates that either men – or their people – were intellectually inferior to the other. So, what happened?

Well, Cortez had a compass on his ships. That originated in China. He also had arquebuses, which used gunpowder which also originated in China. For calculation he used the efficient numbers developed by the Hindus. He wrote with pen and ink. On paper. He had steel swords and lances. He had horses; the use of none of these things originated in Spain. But they were all in Spain, along with a lot of other things. And this Spain wasn’t inhabited by the first human beings to show up. Heck no! Whatever indigenous stock had been there had been overlayed by Celts, Phoenicians, Gauls, Romans, Germans, Berbers and just about everything else outside of East Asians. All of that Spanish history – which included multiple periods of being Settler-Colonized – worked to produce Hernan Cortez meeting Moteuczoma. And then looking around at a nation of proud conquerors and going, “I can take this”. And take it he did – because he was better than the Aztecs. Not inherently braver. Not inherently smarter. But better. The total sum of knowledge Cortez had was the total human inheritance…Moteuczoma just had his own culture to fall back on, and it wasn’t sufficient when the whole world, as it were, pressed against it. What Moteuczoma needed more than anything else when Cortez showed up as all the history, trade, war and development behind Cortez.

And it must be kept in mind that Cortez was helped by other Natives. These people didn’t like their Aztec tyrants. They were also quite impressed with what the Europeans had and wished very much to take advantage of it. No, they couldn’t see the future – nor the very crucial immediate thing of the European arrival: that Cortez and his men brought with them the collected disease environments of Europe, Africa and Asia – diseases the Natives simply hadn’t encountered before and initially had little resistance to. It is very important to remember that when we talk of the Native death toll following the European arrival, most of the dead died of diseases before they even saw an European. The activists call it deliberate genocide – which is ridiculous because (a) it wasn’t intentional and (b) it didn’t kill them all. It was something that was going to happen some day – and it was going to be tragic when it did. But it was never a crime.

But that also needed to happen. It is part of human development. The world has certain diseases and until modern medicine came along the best way to make sure they didn’t destroy you was, counterintuitively, to be exposed to them. It built up resistance – both in the infected individuals and in the fact that those who survived the new disease environment were biologically stronger and would pass that along to their children. And, once again, it highlights the crucial importance of getting around out there. To not be isolated in your own, little world. To meet with others. In other words, having a Settler-Colonialist show up is, long term, the best thing that’s ever going to happen to you. A better world is going to rise out of it.

Now, this is not to excuse any crimes. Wrong is wrong – and as the Spanish moved into the New World there were crimes committed as the Spanish found that they could just lord it over Natives who had no chance against them. But it wasn’t all Spaniards. And the law did try to protect the Natives. Spanish voices were raised in protest against ill treatment. And this was also something new brought to the Natives – the concept of a human right. That certain things can’t be done to you simply because you are human. This is something the Natives had never had as a concept before – which is why in 1500 they were still engaging in human sacrifice which had been extirpated in almost all of Europe, Asia and Africa ages before. Long term, this was a huge benefit to the Natives…it eventually gave them the freedom to speak a lot of nonsense about Columbus, for instance.

So, what I do is bless the Settler-Colonists. Heck, if my ancestors in Ireland hadn’t been Settler-Colonized I’d be living in a mud hut by an Irish bog rather than typing on a computer in my air conditioned home. Three cheers for the Limeys that came to Ireland – even if they did hang great-great-great-great-Grandpa for stealing a sheep. On Monday, take a moment to remember Christopher Columbus and the incredibly brave men who set out with him to discover the New World. It changed everything, and for the better.

There is Always Censorship

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I have said many times in the past that all education is indoctrination and all law is the imposition of morality: it is just a debate over what dogmas and morality will be imposed. The Left and the Libertarians reject this with scorn and even most on the Right would be uncomfortable in saying it, but it is nevertheless true. Something will always be imparted to the rising generation. We can see this right before our eyes when we see polls showing something like 25% of youngsters say they are something other than straight. The idea that a fourth of humanity would not be biologically geared towards reproduction is both theologically and biologically absurd, but the kids say they are. And they say this because they’ve been told to say this. Like all young people, they want to know what to say and do in order to be accepted into society and the sure-fire pathway to acceptance these days is to be a weirdo…and so weirdo they are.

But there is a follow-on to both my assertions that I’ve only tangentially brought up before: and that is there is always censorship to defend the reigning dogma. I’ve hinted as this before when I’ve discussed things like the Inquisition and pointed out that it wasn’t set up to prevent thought and development, but to ensure that thought and development went in the right direction. Most people these days would condemn such an idea but such it was, and something like it is necessary in any society. These days the reigning orthodoxy is not defended by learned men backed up by the rack but, instead, is defended by ideological gatekeepers backed up by social ostracism. But it all works out the same: heresy is rooted out and those who transgress are punished. With today, in my view, being worse than the Inquisition because our current gatekeepers are not only determined to prevent thought and development but, indeed, to ensure that various obvious falsehoods are asserted by society. At least Torquemada was trying to defend something true; the modern Inquisitors are determined to defend something false. But the main point here is that there is always a mechanism in society to hound those who don’t conform to the reigning orthodoxy.

This is why when I see current debates about free speech I do believe that a lot of people are missing a crucial aspect of it. This is especially true on the Right which almost universally adheres to Voltaire’s “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. Perhaps Voltaire really would have (he was never put to the test), but most people won’t really. It is philosophical boilerplate. But the attitude underlying it has been used to push our civilization to the brink of extinction. Thinking it wise, we’ve allowed all manner of false, evil and downright anti-human speech to be made. And made by people who are bound and determined to exterminate everyone who disagrees with them. Most importantly, those who have imposed the current reigning orthodoxy don’t hold to Voltaire’s dictum for a minute – and they are now busily enforcing their speech codes on us.

There are, after all, things we already can’t say in public. Things we’ll only say in private, quietly and only around people we trust absolutely. And year by year the things we won’t say in public grow – because the new Inquisitors are always listening, always ready to destroy the next person who states a heresy. Don’t be too harsh with them on it. When our views dominated, to even say “damn” in a movie was a shock. Our civilization at its peak had a very strict set of rules of behavior and speech and they were enforced by a mixture of law and custom. We were told (or, actually, mostly told ourselves) that we could dispense, one by one, with these laws and customs and that we would somehow still retain our civilization. We have now found out how false that notion was…and our backs are against the wall as the ideas we let lose are getting ready to destroy us.

To be sure, those who wrote the First Amendment lived during the peak of our civilization. When they wrote those words “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” they weren’t stupid or naive. They just didn’t realize – couldn’t realize – that later generations would assume that the words meant there were no rules. These were educated, responsible men; they were sure that the First Amendment would only secure the right to say things within the rules. De Sade lived when the Constitution was being written and he was writing his vile works…I am absolutely confident that Madison would have led the charge against anyone advocating de Sade’s ideology. In the end, we allowed de Sade and his heirs free reign. How is that working out for us?

There are certain things which must be in order for a civilization to survive. For instance, the Albigensians of the 13th century held that physical reality is evil. This in stark contrast to the orthodox Christian view which asserts that God called His creation good and, of course, became incarnate. In our modern mind we would allow the Albigensians to propagate their ideas freely on grounds of who are we to say who is truly right? Those back in the 13th century didn’t and this is held as a sin against them. But the reason they exterminated the Albigensians wasn’t to stop people from thinking, but to prevent a monster from growing all powerful. A society based on the belief that matter is evil is a very different society than the Christian. It despises life and seeks only the end of all things. On balance, the people then preferred an explicable world ruled by God and eventually to be redeemed by Him.

Were they right? Well, lets take another case: Islam. Suppose it had totally triumphed instead of being fought tooth and nail for centuries. What then? Well, just take a look at the Muslim world in, say, 1823: no real advancement since it had emerged in the 7th century. Ancient nations of once-great prosperity reduced to poverty. A completely stagnant society; once the scourge of Christendom and now the plaything of European buccaneers. The Muslim worldview is different from the Christian. It is much more gloomy; deterministic and, because of this, greedily materialistic…but it is a greed only of taking and hoarding…not the materialistic greed of the Calvinists who at least asserted that one had to build.

The point here is that if you want what you have, you must defend it. If you don’t defend it, then it will be replaced by something else which will then exterminate what you have. It can’t freely compete with other world views; it must triumph, or die. As much freedom as you want, as much as you, personally, want to think and say what you want, there must be a limit. And an enforced limit. Some things that are just outside the pale and may not be openly advocated for in the public square. In short, no matter how much freedom you want, you’re going to need some censorship…just as you’ll have to use law and custom to ensure your dogmas are transmitted in the schools.

Do keep in mind that there is no correct answer. No Euclidean certainty. You’re dealing with human beings so things don’t work like that. What you will determine tolerable is a prudential judgement and may vary over time. But what must be is the hard and fast rules: what you cannot do, no matter what. To give an example: we know that Nazi ideology is evil and has no merit whatsoever. It should, then, be illegal to propagate it. If not in law, then in custom. And, of course, overt adherence to Nazism is banned in our society – you can almost ensure your social ostracism if you proclaim your adherence to Nazism. You might still have some Nazi friends, but forget a career in most avenues and be prepared for routine harassment. Do you see what I’m saying?

Just as the Nazis would arrest us all if they were given power so, too, will what we currently call the Left. The rising reigning orthodoxy. The thing which is already causing us to self-censor and now increasingly demands we overtly proclaim our support for. They don’t have any truck with the idea that speech should really be free. They believe you should only be free to say what they find acceptable. Spoiler: you aren’t acceptable. Eventually you will be squashed.

Unless you squash them, first.

This is what I mean when I talk of us using power to destroy the Left. It is an effort to place their ideas beyond the pale. When I say things like “confiscate their money” that is just a means to an end – a way to get them to stop saying things which undermine civilization. But do note that I go on to say things like, “use their money to educate the rising generation in our views.” I’m not just trying to switch my power for theirs – I’m really in the business of stamping out heresy. Of getting rid of those who assert things which are at defiance of what I consider basic, human decency.

As we brace ourselves for this battle for our civilization it is important that we start to think about things. To really determine who we are, what we believe and what we want at the end of the fight. Just opposing the Left isn’t good enough. It needs to be replaced. What will we replace it with? What will we do to prevent a repeat? What ideas will have a social and legal ban imposed?

And we must do this; because it is the only way we survive.

We Live in a Progressive World: It Sucks

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You might have heard about Ryan Carson getting killed in New York – a Progressive activist, it appears he was killed by a random lunatic over nothing; the lunatic likely being high at the time. After reading the story my reaction was to post on X that I simply felt no sympathy. Trying to express it, I brought up that scene at the end of The Cowboys where the boys are standing around the bad guy pinned under his horse with a broken leg; my reaction is like that. Not hating. Not gloating. But not caring; the person on the ground chose this.

It ended up being one of the most engaged posts I’ve ever done on X. As of this moment, it has more than 155,000 views; 20 reposts and more than a thousand likes. And lots of comments. The basic Left comment is that I’m a horrific bastard; un-Christian (always amusing to get that comment from avowed Marxists!); evil; hate-filled. I shouldn’t cheer death. Which, of course, I didn’t. I merely pointed out that I had no sympathy. Most of the Left comments got no response from me (a huge numbers of comments were blocked). But I did engage some people who seemed to be trying to say something. Unfortunately, in the end, they had nothing to say and were just doing polite variations on “you bastard” that the less articulate went with.

I think the reaction all stems from the fact that the Left in general but also many people on the right don’t know what morality is. Basic right and wrong is very confused in their minds. You see – and this is especially true in a Republic – everyone bears responsibility. None of us ever get to stand aside. What we choose as individuals – both by action and omission – goes to make up the corporate decision of the whole body politic. We are not – at least in theory – ruled. If we were, then we could assign blame for many things to our rulers. Such is not the case; we are free (pro tempore). As such, we must ensure that as far as possible our choices tend towards furtherance of liberty, peace and prosperity. You woke up this morning and you decided not to get drunk. Because of this decision, you went to work instead of passing out on the floor. Because you went to work, your job got done which allowed other people to get their job done and so on. Just that one, small decision rattles on and on through our society for good or ill.

So, too, the bad decision. Had you decided to get drunk, your job doesn’t get done and so on. And there’s no excuse. Unless you are a minor incapable of reason or verily insane, you know very well what you are supposed to do and you also can understand, if you but put some effort into it (said effort you are morally bound to make), the likely results of your decisions. The drunk knows full well – or, if he doesn’t, he ought to know; he has an inescapable obligation to know – what bad things are likely to result from the choice to drink rather than go to work. This is why when the drunk loses his job and house and the Mrs leaves him we’re not terribly sympathetic, if at all, to his plight. What on Earth did he think was going to happen?

Well, it goes like that for every decision. One of Carson’s pet projects – one of the things he advocated for – was “safe” places for drug addicts to get high. From what I can determine, he asserted this as a merciful and kind service to drug addicts. Here’s where a lot of people will reject what I say: Carson was lying when he made that assertion. He knew full well that the only proper course of action to take with someone who gets high is to get them to stop. To be sure, none of us may be able to stop any particular person from getting high, but if we can’t actively stop it, we must certainly not abet it. Because we all know what happens when people get high; they ruin their lives and wreck destruction on the lives of everyone who comes into contact with them to a greater or lesser degree. There is no upside to drug addiction. It is all downside. Every person who gets high makes life for everyone else in society worse. If Carson were to be able to assert to my face this very day that he thought it was good to give a “safe” place to get high I would not take the coward’s way out and go, “well, your heart is in the right place”. His heart was not in the right place. It was in an evil, wicked place. I would call him a liar because as a mentally competent adult he knows you can’t properly help someone get high.

So, too, with a host of other Leftist nostrums: de-fund the police; ending cash bail; de-criminalizing looting; false accusations of racism. These are not the actions of people who have their heart in the right place. These are the actions of evil people who know full well they are doing evil. Their only way out of being wicked is to proclaim themselves simpletons and surrender their franchise. If they aren’t idiots, then they know you can’t do things like de-criminalize looting and expect anything other than more looting to occur. Looting is bad. There is never any justification for it. Society cannot function if the products of labor can be taken without compensation. Carson, from what I can tell, backed all of these Leftist programs. Given he is of the Left – and the way the Left enforces ideological conformity – we can with great certainty assume that every aspect of Leftist ideology was supported by Carson. And what this means – as small time as he was in the grand scheme of things – he was a willing, knowing participant in policies which are obviously evil. Policies which make life miserable – and especially for poor people who are not insulated from the results of Leftist policy.

So, when Carson was killed by a crazed person likely high, all I saw was a bit of poetic justice. Just like the bad guy in the movie now suffering…the bottom line is he was suffering because of what he tried to do. People like Carson – upper class, white, urban Progressives – have mostly been insulated from the effects of their policies. But that insulation crumbles as civilization at last crumbles under the Leftist assault. We’re now several generations in; the inculcating of barbarian ideals into the minds of people has taken its toll. Its why we see those videos of people getting into brawls over nothing or packs of feral children mercilessly beating a weaker person. This is what Leftists wanted. Heck, they told us it would be great – if we just got past our old, Christian hang-ups and embraced a society of free flowing drugs and sex everything would be wonderful. This world we live in is a Progressive world. It is what they wanted. We never approved of it. We warned repeatedly what would happen. We were ignored on the best days and viciously slandered on most. And, so, when a cog in that Progressive machine runs afoul of his own actions…sure, I’m going to watch impassively. I’m not going to shed a tear. Why should I? Should I shed a tear for the drunk who is killed driving his car into a telephone pole?

Sure it is bad that he’s dead. I’d rather he hadn’t died. I am going to do my best to build a world where such things don’t happen. But, guess what? In fighting for that world, I’ll have to battle through a host of people like Carson who will fight tooth and nail to keep the system which killed him. It is still what they want. They are still lying; still saying that if we just get more Progressive, it will at last get better. They know it won’t. They don’t care; no person with the least bit of humane feeling can be a Leftist. It is how they become Leftists; they kill genuine sympathy; they kill off anything resembling love. They come to view all people are entirely utilitarian…and that is why they can say, “hey, lets help junkies get high”. They don’t see a suffering soul who will spread suffering…they see a block of wood with appetite, just as they see themselves. And as their only measure is to feed their own appetites, so their only reaction to another person is to figure out how to feed their appetites. You want drugs? Here are some drugs. You want sex? Here is some sex. Never for a moment is there the thought of repenting because, indeed, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

So, thanks very much, I’ll save my sympathy for the real victims – the usually poor or middle class people who have been suckered by the Left and who are diligently ruining their lives because of it. They still have agency, of course; but at least they aren’t actively destroying society. So when one of them runs afoul of our dying Progressive society, I will shed a tear – I will express sympathy. But for one of the Leftist architects of destruction? Not a chance. They got what they wanted – that what they want sucks isn’t my problem.

As a side note; after more than a day of Leftists calling me an insensitive bastard for not expressing sympathy for Carson’s demise it came out that in his own X account he was free with advocating violence against his opponents and had gloated over the death of Rush Limbaugh. I did not know this at the time I wrote my post. It does not surprise me in the least. As I’ve said: the Left is wicked. They are not nice people with misguided programs to get to peace, freedom and prosperity. They are wicked people doing evil things to destroy society…and they do it because they are wicked. You really don’t have to explain it beyond that.

A Coming Dark Age

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Over on X yesterday a mutual noted that he was watching Band of Brothers for the umpteenth time and he was wondering – even though he was a combat vet, himself – if he could have done what those soldiers did. I think everyone does wonder when they watch that. And it gets you also thinking of the men who took Tarawa, who sailed the USS Johnston into certain death. Of all those who have done incredible feats of arms in our past.

It is good to point out here that courage is the strongest desire to live combined with a complete willingness to die. It is a paradox; you’re only way to safety is through death. A soldier pinned down in a murderous crossfire has the choice: try to hide and hope he gets missed (unlikely as time goes on) or charge at the enemy and stop him from shooting. Of course, you do present a much better target when you’re charging. But if it works, the danger is over. He who would lose his life shall save it. You remember suddenly the men of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment who crossed the Waal river in canvas boats under murderous fire…and when they got ashore the Germans pretty much ran away, terrified at these demons who seemingly couldn’t be stopped. Do we have that any longer?

Well, another thing which crossed the time line was a report from 2014 that 41% of the newly commissioned Marine officers did not meet the minimum requirements – mental and physical – for being commissioned in World War Two. I can only assume it has gotten worse since then as Woke demands have further infested the military requiring an ever lowering of standards so that various demographic boxes can be checked off. Given this, it is almost a certainty that we do not have an officer like Julian Cook who led those men in the canvas boats…we don’t have officers who can take regular people and turn them into killers that battle-hardened Waffen-SS troops would run away from.

But it gets worse than just the fact that we’ve got substandard officers. There is such a thing as esprit de corps. This is the collective memory and ability of an organization. It isn’t dependent upon any single person but it is dependent upon the overall organism remaining true to itself. If you watched Band of Brothers you know that Captain Herbert Sobel comes off pretty poorly overall as an officer – and in truth he was roundly disliked by his men and appeared to lack combat leadership ability. On the other hand, he made Easy Company into what it became. The intensive training and stern discipline – which Sobel himself learned in officer training – turned civilians into tough as nails warriors who simply would not quit. After the war even some of the men who hated him as a CO acknowledged his part in making them into warriors. Sobel learned his trade from a man who learned his trade who in turn learned his trade and on and on back…and the men Sobel trained passed that corporate knowledge on down and they, in their turn, also passed it on and so the American military organism – in spite of individual failures – retained its ability to engage in combat effectively. But that chain has been cut; at some point fairly recently, the mental and physical requirements of being an infantry officer were dispensed with in favor of other criteria. It is gone; or, at best, almost gone. It is highly likely that our average company commander these days hasn’t the foggiest notion of what being a warrior is, nor how to impart that capability to subordinates. They might know the books; that is, they might know the mechanics of having a company assault a fixed position…but that technical knowledge is worthless if the officer can’t, with a scratch force, improvise an attack and be certain that the soldiers will carry it out.

And it is not just the military. Every area of expertise has suffered a dumbing down. A lowering of requirements in order to make certain demographic boxes are checked off. Have you noticed it? When I went to a doctor with my bum knee the doctor pretty much had no idea what might be the problem even though I described clearly what had happened and offered my informed amateur opinion that it was likely soft tissue damage. Nope. She just went to her checklist – and I was sent to get an x ray even though it was obvious no bones were broken. And after that I get sent for physical therapy. Huge sigh. I mean, I’ll have to do it because that is the way it works these days but what isn’t happening here is an actual physician thinking about my problem and coming up with a likely solution (and there may be no solution; I might just have a bum knee). I’ve heard of people watching their doctors Google their stated symptoms to see what might come up.

We’re breaking the chain. That is, we’re severing ourselves from our collective knowledge because mastering that knowledge is a difficult task which not everyone is suited to perform. But the deal the modern Left offers is that you can be whatever you want. And once the chain is broken it can’t be restored. You have to forge an entirely new chain. That is what the Dark Ages were – it wasn’t that people got stupid; but the late Roman world simply stopped transmitting corporate knowledge to successor generations. Everyone got more concerned with the latest avant garde art, their position at court, the acquisition of money. This is why the Romans pretty much stopped building their famed aqueducts and bridges by the Third Century and when Constantine built his triumphal arch in Rome during the Fourth Century he had to steal parts from monuments built in the Second Century. The Romans had forgotten how to do things. Side note; they also forgot how to build and maintain an army and pretty much as soon as the barbarians worked up the courage they overthrew the form of Roman power which had long since vanished in actuality.

And then they had to start all over again. The barbarians admired the Roman world and were astonished at what they saw around them. But they didn’t know how to maintain it. Neither did the Romans. It all had to be learned again and it took a thousand years to do it. We’re heading right to that. We haven’t entirely lost the ability but those who really know how to do things are rapidly aging out. Before too long there will be no resource to turn to…and people won’t even look for the resource because they won’t know that they don’t know. It could get very bad very fast; and worse than last time because the population has not only lost their skills, but they’ve also been taught that lying and laziness are ok. At least the barbarians who took over Rome knew that you had to put some work in and at least try to tell the truth.

I do think we can arrest this development. I’ve mentioned how in the past – keeping in mind that to love means to will the best for the beloved, the primary way for us to love our neighbors right now is to start punishing – sometimes with exceptional violence – the lazy and the dishonest. They have to be forced to do the right thing. To work. To keep their word. To be brave. Of course they don’t want to. Right now in America you can be the definition of a lazy, cowardly liar and you’ll still get enough food to get fat…and still have your ample leisure time filled with the products of pop culture. But we can’t allow it to go on. It doesn’t work unless nearly everyone works. Nearly everyone is brave. Nearly everyone always tells the truth. The decent can survive deviancy, but a society of deviants will kill the decent.

Affirmative Action Open Thread

Mark Noonan43 Comments

So, no more Affirmative Action with one, small problem: they’re still going to do it. They have to – ideologically they are committed to two things here:

  1. That America is systemically racist and the only way non-white people can get ahead is via set-asides.
  2. You can’t indoctrinate the best of the best – so, get people in there who really don’t know and aren’t capable. Indoctrinate them and then credential them. As stupid and ignorant as they are, they’ll now be inserted into power all up and down the government and corporate bureaucracies.

There is the additional “butts in seats” thing, as usual – the more people they have jammed into the colleges, they more money they make (and via student loans, the more government dependents they create). But that is secondary to getting mindless zombies credentialled and into power.

So, how will they do it? That is, how will they violate the law?

Well, first off, they’ll only move when specific court orders force them to move – and even then only if the State and local government puts some effort into enforcement. So, we’re still just at the start of many years of litigation. And we haven’t really started in the private sector: that, too, is going to have to be sued. And that will take even longer because the private sector is, well, private: it has more flexibility. First up will likely be major government contractors and then it will spread out from there. One again: years long process.

Secondly, they’ll back-door it. They’ve already started a bit of this, starting with the dumbing down of requirements. Much easier to get the unqualified in there when you drop the qualifications. But now they’ll take it to the next step: they’re just going to stop accepting grades and test scores as criteria for admission. Oh, for some there will be a side-door requirement: the elite universities will try to pull a significant portion of their entrants from elite primary education on the theory that these people will have some minimal level of competence (they won’t over time: the elite prep schools are also rapidly dumbing down). But for most it’ll be just “we need diversity – so, without telling us your race or giving us your test scores, just what is your background”. Kids will be coached in what to say to be properly oppressed and so meet diversity quotas on the sly; and this will get funny at times as full-blown upper class crackers take advantage of it.

The point here is that you can’t just win a fight with these guys; you have to win the war. If they are defeated in one area, they’ll just try another. They never give up; they are mostly taxpayer and foundation funded and they’ve got endless resources and all the time in the world. So, we must win the war. And that is actually fairly simple in this area:

In the Red States where we have total control, fire all the woke teachers and administrators and then toughen up the academic standards for entry. In just a few years, the private sector will quietly drop the Ivy League as the criteria (though for a while they’ll give lip service to it) while they seek out Red State grads simply because such will be educated – because in just a few years, you mark my words, the Blue State colleges will be passing out diplomas to illiterates (it isn’t good enough to have diversity in, you must have diversity out…and if that means the moron gets a degree, then the moron gets a degree).

We must dismantle their power, step by step. I’ve been saying this for years and finally some halting steps are being taken in that direction. Both Trump and DeSantis are pledged to war against the Establishment…just ten years ago, nobody on our side would have thought it possible, but here we are. We’re still a long way from anything like victory…but we are moving in the right direction.

And do keep in mind that Affirmative Action is very unpopular. Polling shows somewhere around 70% against. Even in Deep Blue California, the voters banned it in 1996 and then reaffirmed the ban by a wider margin in 2020. People have a deep mistrust of any system which awards points or punishment based on anything but objective criteria.

We all understand that black Americans got entirely shafted 1776-1865 and then significantly shafted 1865-1965. Some of us are even willing to entertain some measures designed to help bridge the wealth gap caused by nearly two centuries of black Americans not being able to build wealth due to legal and social disability. But the bottom line is that no matter how unfairly anyone was treated, either you can do the job, or you can’t (and, lets face it, with each passing year there is simply less and less unfairness directed at non-whites in general and blacks in particular…Elizabeth Warren didn’t fake being a Native American in order to punish herself…she did it because it was more advantageous to be non-white than white). If you can’t do the job, then you shouldn’t get the position over someone who can.

Sure I’d like to see more black doctors and engineers (and please note that far too many black college students are channeled into the “soft” subjects). But before we send a kid to college to learn medicine or engineering there are certain minimal requirements without which the advanced education can’t even start – in other words, just to start going to medical school, you’ll need some specialized knowledge which only a relatively small number of people have the capacity to learn. And that is just to get started! To get to the finish successfully takes an enormous amount of work and intellectual capacity. And if you don’t have that then you shouldn’t be a doctor.

What we’re faced with now in the name of diversity is people who aren’t good enough at the start, cannot catch up in the process and are passed out of the system and into jobs when they do not and never did have the capacity to do it. Meanwhile, other kids who were good enough didn’t even get their chance because they came in second in the Intersectional Olympics…so we not only get more incompetent doctors and engineers than we’d normally have (any human system will allow a percentage of the worthless to slip through even in the best of circumstances), but we’re also getting fewer competent doctors and engineers.

I do feel bad for people who can’t hack it for any reason other than personal laziness. I know that in a really good system we’d be able to get far more of the best to rise to the top early so that we can cull them to get the best of the best into the most crucial areas like medicine and engineering. But I can’t fix the past – if a person today, here in 2023, for whatever reason can’t do the work then for goodness sake, they can’t do the work. There could be a score of other things they can do to be useful and productive members of society. It is ok to be an electrician rather than an electrical engineer….and by turning the guy into an electrician I’ll be getting him into a position where he’s well paid and so far more likely his children will be able to reach their full potential. I’m not here to make anyone feel good today – I’m here to help build the best tomorrow. I turn what would have been a good electrician into a bad electrical engineer and I’ll I’m doing is making a mess of things.

It is time and way past time for us to give race the heave-ho. It doesn’t matter. All the races are human; by background they have different gifts and levels of achievement (you know, like Asian kids being amazing at math far in excess of what we’d expect). Everyone is where they are right now. We can’t fix the past; all we can do is root out any remaining unjust barriers based on irrelevant criteria (like race) and move forward. We can, that is, make an ever better world – but we can’t ever make the perfect world.

We Must Restore Civilization

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There was a story I saw of a police call to deal with some squatters in an apartment and when the cops arrived they found several children in the home living in utter squalor and clearly suffering from malnutrition and abuse. Do keep in mind, that the filth – which must have caused a stench – and the neglected/abused children did not trigger police action. It was that there were squatters. The cops can come out for that, I guess – but for massive health hazards and abused human beings, not so much.

This happened just now – in an America which is awash in social programs for people who are poor. Heck, even people who aren’t all that poor can avail themselves of large amounts of government assistance. The USA spends a total of about $5 trillion per year in social spending. This does not include the massive amounts spent in private charity. This is federal, State and local government spending. That’s about $15,000 per year for every man, woman and child in the United States. It isn’t that we’re not spending money to help. The adults in charge of those children could easily have obtained lots of assistance for rent, utilities, food, education, health care and so forth. They did none of that – the kids were basically left to starve unless they could pick up some food that the adults left lying around when not high as kites.

This is barbarism – with a little worse as at least barbarians will make an attempt to look after the helpless. But, make no mistake about it, that wasn’t a priority. In barbarian tribes the men eat first and most, then comes the women, then the children and old people; with old people kicked to the curb in times of dearth. What we have done is created brand, new barbarians – and they didn’t even have to hammer down the gates; we made them out of our own people.

It took a thousand years of whippings and hangings to turn wolves into men and we’re undoing all that in far less than a century. Those videos you see of mobs of people engaging in street brawls are another part of it: barbarians easily take offense and view violence as a first resort. The decay of our cities. The decline of knowledge and enterprise (barbarians are also lazy – doing just enough to get by and always willing to steal in preference to work). If this trend persists for just another few decades, it is done – civilization will be gone.

We can still avoid such a fate – but we have to act now and with great force. You can’t reason with a stoned person living in filth while their children starve. You can’t reason with someone who loots the only store in their neighborhood where they can buy medicine. You can’t reason with thieves and street brawlers. No more than the builders of civilization could reason with their savage populations. You can only force people to be decent. There is no other way to do it. All of you who remain well mannered and adhere to standards of decency only do so because you were told to…and in the long run, the reason you were told was because an ancestor of yours saw a man drawn and quartered for being a barbarian. Civilized behavior is force reduced to habit and hiding its claws. It is time for the claws to come back out.

But as of this moment, I don’t enough people see the need. It isn’t so bad just yet. Sure, a neighbor had his car stolen from his driveway a couple blocks over and that is unusual in my suburban world, as is the sudden appearance of one or two abandoned shopping carts. But no need to worry, right? It’ll be fine. Just go with the flow. Don’t get upset! And the further you get out from the centers of decay, the less urgent it all seems.

But make no mistake about it – it is creeping day by day closer to you. Your completely stable, small community of like-minded citizens is under siege…and the barbarians, once they are done looting their own homes, will come for yours. As I said, a barbarian prefers to not work…stealing your stuff is easier, and fun (for them; not so for you). We must wake up now.

That is, we must take whip and noose in hand and simply start to deal with these people. They aren’t citizens. The only reason we don’t kill them all is because underneath their savage exterior is a human being – God’s creation. But outside of that, they are a menace to be controlled, not citizens to discuss matters with. We have to start beating the savages into submission. To make them obey the rules even though they very much don’t want to.

Or, we can drift along hoping it all blows over. You know, like the Romans in, say, 390 AD.

The Triumph of the Anti-Human

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I had mentioned a few days ago the fracas over the LA Dodgers inviting, un-inviting and then re-inviting the anti-Catholic “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to their Pride Night. There has been some developments in that and it has brought a realization to me.

The developments were Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw organizing a Christian Faith and Family Day with the Dodgers and, more directly, Nats pitcher Trevor Williams explicitly condemning the “Sisters” due to the anti-Catholic nature of the group. It was, naturally, Williams’ statement which caused the most ire as it was a direct challenge to the reigning orthodoxy in America.

I fully expected Williams’ statement to cause a lot of blowback (so did everyone else) and the Left didn’t disappoint. As Williams is devoutly Catholic, a lot of the comments harped upon the usual anti-Catholic tropes old and new but what struck me about it was that the people condemning Williams and the Church are the people most committed to transitioning minors and allowing them to be groomed for sexual abuse. Think about that: these people are in favor of deliberately and maliciously destroying lives and their attack on Williams was based upon their claim that Williams condemnation of the “Sisters” was destructive.

Supposing it was destructive, so what? All you have to do is do a bit of searching of the “Sisters” and the pics and video will be all the argument you need to convince any sane person that the “Sisters” are wicked people. I do strongly advise against such a search – you won’t be able to unsee the images and they are uniformly disgusting. Of course, Williams’ statement wasn’t destructive. It wasn’t even a call for any action against the “Sisters”…it was just a statement saying that we must not tolerate the intolerant. Williams would have condemned just as readily someone inviting the Klan. If the battle is to end hate, then why have a group committed to hatred? The “Sisters” are committed to anti-Catholic hatred. We’re not supposed to hate based on race, color, gender, orientation or religion, right?

Right.

But, wrong. The Left doesn’t mean that at all.

The whole purpose of “tolerance” and “inclusion” wasn’t to get us old fashioned Christians to make nice in the public square…it was for the anti-Christians to seize the public square and then exclude us. It was from the start a war against religion…against truth…against decency…against humanity.

They are the anti-humans. They don’t like family, faith or property. They see a neat and tidy community and their blood boils. A woman choosing to be a stay at home mom drives them nuts. They despise a man who stands up for the weak. They don’t want us traveling. Drinking. Smoking. Eating meat. Air conditioning our homes. Grilling in our backyards. They don’t want us to be friends with or marry people of different skin colors. They don’t want cross-cultural social exchanges. They hate our heroes. They loath our history. They, in short, hate everything which makes humanity human.

To be sure, they do have an idea that once they have destroyed all human attachments and desires they’ll be able to rebuild us into something better. They even still give a bit of lip service to that ideal. But I doubt any of them really believe it. They just want us to suffer. Not them, of course; they’re too smart to suffer. Also, they know what’s best for you, so they’ll need their lavish lifestyle to help them build us into something better. But, you? You’re pretty much hopeless…so eat your bug paste and shut up.

But whether they believe it or not, we know it is a pipe dream. Humans are human; they want a bit of a place they can call their own. They want a family of mom, dad and the kids, not some random collection of weirdos pretending to be a family. They want to take that trip to Hawaii and have a steak off the grill. Have a drink. Smoke that cigar. Be human. And any attempt to turn us into a hive of social units living off credits provided based on our social credit score is doomed to failure.

But they are still going to try and right now they stand triumphant. I fully expect quite a lot of pressure on Williams to recant his heresy. We’ll see how strong he is – but if he caves don’t be too ready to condemn him. A lot of pressure will be forthcoming. They will seek to destroy anyone who questions their worldview…all the while holding up as heroes those who are expressly rejecting human sanity. It is deliberate and it is malicious: it is designed to destroy.

What we must do – aside from pray, hope and don’t worry – is work for the power to remove these people from power. I’m not talking about just winning an election and replacing Tweedledee with a slightly conservative Tweedledum…I’m talking about forcing them out of all institutions. Taking away all their money. Reducing them to complete social, economic and political impotence. Here’s the thing – the more we push back, the less social territory they control, the more they’ll be exposed as ultimately a tiny minority of kooks who just happened to get control of the institutions. Even most Left voters don’t fully understand what is being done in their name…so just a few small cracks in the edifice which allows people to stand up against it and very rapidly it will all fall apart.

And then we can just be human, again.

You Still Only Care About What They Tell You to Care About

Mark Noonan34 Comments

Everyone is upset about Tyre Nichols – and it does, from the video we’ve seen, look pretty bad. But, once again, that is the video we have seen. As we’ve learned in the past, what is shown to us isn’t always – or even often – anything remotely what happened. I also note that the event happened on January 7th and nobody was talking about it until yesterday. Additionally, the outrage machine ginned up prior to everyone finding out it was five black officers who did the deed…two of whom were hired after the police department lowered standards to encourage “diversity”.

But we are upset not because of the horror of the crime, but simply because we are told to be upset about it. Someone decided that it was time for us to get hopped up over police brutality again and this is what they found – been better for them if the cops were white, or if even one of the five were white. But you take what you can get, right?

Now, some reading that last bit might be upset with me. Have I no feelings? Do I not care about the death of the man? What kind of a rat bastard am I?

Well, mostly what I am is someone who sees through the scam. The propaganda. Lots of bad things happen. In a nation of 330 million, you will have people doing absolutely horrific things – what I hear about, though, is determined by the MSM (by and large). I hear what others choose for me to hear – and as we know that the MSM is a mere arm of the DNC, what I hear is what dovetails best into whatever message the DNC wants at the moment. With the GOP Congress gearing up to do some investigations of Team Pudding Brain, you can rely on it that the word will go out that something else has to dominate the news cycle.

How can I be so sure of this?

Well, back on January 16th, six members of a family were gunned down in cold blood in California. Included among the dead were a 17 year old girl and her 10 month old son. And it appears that the kid was deliberately murdered, not just caught in some crossfire.

Don’t know about you, but that seems kinda newsy, doesn’t it? And, hey, even for our guys on the Left, doesn’t the massacre of 6 people via gunfire feed into the gun control Narrative? So why don’t we hear about it? I mean, I realize that the cops beating a man to death is big news – I agree that it is. But I just have this sensation that the murder of 6, including a 10 month old, is a little bigger story. But it isn’t what we’re told to be outraged about. Why?

Because it looks like it was a Cartel hit related to the drug trade. And you know damned well that a national conversation about the Cartels, the drug trade and the violence those two things involve is the last thing the DNC wants right now. I mean, we should be talking about it – what it represents is the importation of the Cartel violence we’ve seen in Mexico over the past 20 years into the United States. This massacre happened in Goshen, CA – a town of about 3,000 people in California’s Central Valley (which would be another reason it should be a big story – it happened in a peaceful small town, not a big city). It has all the hallmark’s of the Cartels – with the kid being deliberately killed to send a message. The Cartels are like that – they commit exceptional horrors to keep people in line. Whatever someone among the six – or someone related to the six – did, the Cartels were determined to let everyone know that they better not do it again.

But they don’t even have to Memory Hole this – sure, it was reported, but it wasn’t given the sort of reporting that moves it into the national mind. A wire service story which may be picked up by a few outlets. The local news will give is some coverage…maybe even a few national outfits will give it passing mention. But it won’t be on the loop – we won’t have people pontificating about it. It won’t be noticed. Because we weren’t told to notice it.

Do you want to know how I found out about it? Simple: as I saw the Nichols story unfold, I could easily see that it was another op – an effort to get us looking at something other than what is really happening. I could have searched for a score of different things – real problems – that we’re not being told to notice. I just happened to search “california murder charges” because I knew with absolute certainty – given the Cartels and the drug trade and California’s de-facto legalization of criminality (something we aren’t allowed to notice because Newsom might be the Democrat standard bearer in 2024) – that I’d find some inhuman barbarism within the past 30 days.

It can’t be emphasized enough how important it is to ignore what the MSM is saying – especially on TV. Whatever it is they are saying, if it isn’t an outright fabrication then it is something curated to support the DNC Narrative. We must stop caring about what they want us to care about – and start caring only about the things which matter. I’m sorry Nichols is dead. I hope that those who killed him get what’s coming to them…but police brutality isn’t even top 100 of our problems right now. We have much bigger fish to fry – and far more lives to save – than what the MSM tells us to care about.