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That statue of Martin Luther King is looking… well… mighty white these daze. I wonder if there’s anything Freudian about that.

Defunded Police Department Forced to Sell Off Nuclear Submarine “My officers put their lives on the line every day, and this is the thanks they get? Without our beloved submarine ‘Ol’ Blasty,’ all we’ve got to keep this town safe are our six tanks, three Apache helicopters, a fleet of exploding jet skis, and that Bengal tiger we bought from the Nepalese government. I tell you, things in this town are gonna go straight to hell.”

Chinese Man Gains 220 pounds During Five-Month Lockdown  … and I’m gaining on him!

To hell with liberals & conservatives :    I came to call myself not a conservative but a Tory, and now call myself a Reactionary to be clearer. We do not, as it were, “stand athwart history, yelling Stop,” but are the knights who say, “Backwards!” Evil must be opposed because it is evil, good must be advanced because it is good, and the wise can know the difference. There can be no glib, superficial “progress”; only a way to Heaven, and a way to Hell. “We walk to heaven backwards.” (Newman.)

The Ascendancy of Anarchotyranny     So what exactly is “anarchotyranny”? To give a succinct definition, anarchotyranny is the unequal enforcement of laws that serves a systematic ideological strategy, but which is not openly presented as such to those who endure it, hence, giving them a false impression of equal treatment until they find out the hard way. As such, it differs from the sort of kafkaesque system in which a person is punished in an impenetrable maze of arbitrarily and unequally enforced rules, but the reasons for which are byzantine and impenetrable. Likewise, anarchotyranny is not the sort of situation, such as Jim Crow in the American South, in which inequality is systematically present, but which is widely known and understood by all involved.  Instead, anarchotyranny involves subtle (yet sometimes rapid) shifts in the way laws are enforced and involves a good deal of manipulation of procedural outcomes from those who are doing the shifting. Indeed, the process is often associated with literally revolutionary changes in a society, during which one ideological regime is being replaced by another, and adherents to the former regime are punished for trying to operate under the old rules by those who are instituting the new.

None of this really matters, of course, to the progressive Left’s intersectionality alliance since they’re not really interested in justice for George Floyd. Instead, their aim is to systematically undermine the rule of law system that is based upon Anglo-Saxon common law.  As I’ve noted elsewhere, most blacks in America view this system as an imposition upon them because it implicitly enforces white norms of behavior (because the USA is a country founded by white people, obviously) instead of those derived from the generalized African cultural patterns that they still retain after 300 years in America. Progressives also desire to subvert this rule of law system since it is based on a bowdlerized Christian substructure and protects regressive institutions like property and the family, both of which are competitors with the progressive state for the affections of the people.  Hence, blacks form the perfect tool which progressives can weaponize against existing “white male power structures” (something which has been literally taking place in the current riots).

Whitening Cream Sparks Controversy As Before And After Pics Show Shocking Differenceersy As Before And After Pics Show Shocking Difference

Never Yet Melted : Strunk & Black!     A normal person given The Elements of Style would read through it, and see the book as a helpful tool for improving their writing skills. An African American who has emerged from today’s American educational system loaded with entitlement and flowing over with self-esteem is liable to perceive suggested improvements in grammar, usage, and style as slights upon Ebonics and an insult to herself.

After COVID-19 | Joel D. Hirst  People’s faith in democracy is low, because people’s faith in each other is at an all-time low. They blame “fake news”, do those who refuse to recognize their own role in the mayhem. Without restraint they lash out, blaming their abandon upon others. We have become obese, addicted to Opioids, loose of lips and quick to insult and take offense. We have ceased reading, the study of history to know the experiences of those who came before and the great wisdom of those who invented it, before they too lost it. We have no more great men and women, no names which resonate, none who can stand tall and look into the face of the almighty and ask “What is now to be done?” Instead we have put our faith in scientists, weaselly little men in lab coats as a bait and switch, to no longer consider a great God in our contemplation of what man can do without the corresponding question of what we should do. We have forgotten that while our gadgets might improve, following Moore’s law, humanity itself remains the same.

A pandemic reminds us of all this. As we watch the numbers tick up the chart, the deaths mount and we realize that even our greatest minds are powerless against an invisible little bug – and at the end we just have to let nature take her course, a nature that is as old as our ancient planet – we rejoin the river of history.

To hell with liberals & conservatives :    I came to call myself not a conservative but a Tory, and now call myself a Reactionary to be clearer. We do not, as it were, “stand athwart history, yelling Stop,” but are the knights who say, “Backwards!” Evil must be opposed because it is evil, good must be advanced because it is good, and the wise can know the difference. There can be no glib, superficial “progress”; only a way to Heaven, and a way to Hell. “We walk to heaven backwards.” (Newman.)

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  • James ONeil June 21, 2020, 11:01 AM

    Reading Warren’s ‘ To hell with liberals & conservatives”, in his Essays on Idleness; his looking at the world today from way back when. I read the ̶n̶e̶w̶s̶ ̶ essay today
    oh boy!

    I’d just finished a rant, attempting to view today from my callow youth, 1958 20 year old perspective, and concluded that much of today I couldn’t even have imagined, let alone understand.

    I won’t clutter up this space, but if anyone wants to read it and, perhaps, go though the same thought exercise, how your 20 year old self would view today’s world, here’s a link to it:

    https://fromthetopoftheworld.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/rant-6858/

  • jwm June 21, 2020, 11:42 AM

    James O’Neil:
    Just read your post. Yeah, huh?
    David Warren is one of my favorites. His wry, dry and subtle humor is a bright spot in my daily trudge through the bookmarks. Yet even Warren is letting his anger slip. He wrote that he’ll be taking some time off. I’ll miss him. Zman posted the blackest of pills today, a double dose of despairinall, washed down with a shot of some cold Boommerbash. I thought about dropping a comment, but just moved on instead. I wonder how long fuckblacklivesmatter will remain alive on twatter. Not long I imagine. I scrolled through, saw a couple or three of the video clips, and just got ill. BLM? ow e . It’s a good thing I’m not dictator for a day. I’d fucking nuke the bastards right off the planet.

    JWM

  • ghostsniper June 21, 2020, 1:27 PM

    JWM sed: “Zman posted the blackest of pills today, a double dose of despairinall, washed down with a shot of some cold Boommerbash.”
    ========

    One of these days you’ll no longer be able to cling to the notion that you are part of a thriving community. It’ll be scribbled right across the lenses of your eyeballz with a big red marker. You are in this alone and everybody else lives for the sole purpose of killing you. Horrible, no? And true. You just haven’t realized it yet. But you will.

    They take out the stragglers first, you know, the weak ones, the low hanging fruits, those unable to fight back. This will make them stronger in all ways and they will reach for the next rung, ever climbing higher. Eventually your time will come, when you must do what’s necessary, or be consumed. Which will it be?

    Does anybody else besides me think on this level? About next week, or next month, or 6 months from now? You’re staring at the lug nutz as they rotate backwards, one by one coming off the wheel. Can you see that last nug nut as it just starts to wind counterclockwise? What is your plan when things get realer than real? Do you have any plan at all?

  • John the River June 21, 2020, 1:33 PM

    Heat wave just got a temporary break with a sudden thundershower, temps dropped twenty degrees. It’s summer all right.
    I wonder how many people would have paid a hundred to get one of those e-scooters, I would have. That’s the strongest impression I have of the “Eco” freaks, waste. Broken toys that the children leave on the floor and walk away from.

    Having had and used guns when I was young, I got away from them when I started working in the City and my ‘gun buddy’s’ moved away. The sobering news and developments of this insane year is making me think about changing that.

  • jwm June 21, 2020, 7:05 PM

    Ghostsniper:
    What to do? Wife and I just spent the afternoon on Zillow. We’re getting out. As a side note, I read where Porretto is scouting Idaho.

    JWM

  • ghostsniper June 22, 2020, 8:49 AM

    Good luck John. The pickin’s are getting slimmer each passing day. My wife and I watch Zillow all the time as we are looking for a 2nd chunk of land – much more remote than what we have. The prices on everything have went through the moon. And we ain’t gettin’ no younger.

  • james wilson June 22, 2020, 11:19 AM

    Marty jr’s statue is soooooo Soviet. Kinda perfect.