RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
wretchard (aka Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club) commented, in the first of several paragraphs, on his own post, titled Who’s In Charge Of The Oncoming Train?, as follows:
The problem you describe should be termed the Problem of Historical fluctuations. Is there a way to progress ever upward from 1900 to 2015 without experiencing the dips of the World Wars and the great depression? Can we smooth out the curve so that it rises modestly but avoids these horrible periods of mayhem and decline?
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I commented on wretchard’s comment, with expansion here, as follows:
This problem of grasping historical fluctuations has been agitating me of late, also. I do not see even the possibility of unbroken progress, or a path, dangerous or not, rising or not. There is no road ahead — no security — only war and peace — opportunity. The World Wars were not dips in a line of, otherwise, progress. They were necessary preludes to peace. Here is where/how I come out, differently than you:
The idea of an even rise is delusional. The idea of a dangerous path, left or right, even center, is delusional. Seeking an even rise is manipulative, which means stupid, because no plan contemplates or can contemplate all the prime variable factors, as Bucky described them. Seeking a safe path, even by trial and error, is a depressing and debilitating thought, which means insane, because everyone knows there is none. And there IS none.
We are not living in a post-WWII era. We are long, long, long past that, in another era altogether. Our era is Communism’s death-throes, retching and farting all over us. The question is, Why?
The late 1940s and 1950s in the USA were for the most part paradisiacal. Cold War, yes, bomb drills and shelters, yes. But civilians felt safe and economy expanded, generally, protected by US military, financial and diplomatic strength. Actually, a war had been going on against America since the Bonus March at least, the belligerent being Russia and later also China, but Americans were told almost unanimously by clergy, academics, politicians and entertainers (media) to ignore it, disparage it and consider it less than a trifle. We felt safe, were told to feel safe despite simultaneous warnings and compensatory exercises. That sense of safety ended with Sputnik and the assassination of JFK, not entirely unrelated events, BTW.
However, the sense of the Cold War as being a trifle or at least not an unmanageable national existential concern — and definitely a well-managed one, to hear clergy, academics, politicians, entertainers and their bureaucrats tell it — did not end. There was a schizophrenic posture in Americans’ minds after Sputnik and the assassination. We felt that paradise had ended, but we did not know that it had, and we did not trust our feelings, which were less than orderly, regarding the significance of those two events. And so most of us did not try to think it through. We breezed along, and that was those who were NOT eating drugs. So, even though we felt paradise had ended, we did not think — and were encouraged to not think — that the Cold War threatened imminent harm to us or our nation.
In evidence thereof: the nation has not been put on war-footing since 1941! Congress has not declared war since that year. Even though the nation has conducted — successful militarily but unsuccessful politically and financially — at least five major wars since 1941!
By the time of Sputnik and the assassination, decades of Cheka/NKVD/KGB subversion — making a people unable to think with moral clarity and courage so they cannot defend themselves against overt much less covert attacks — blossomed as 1960s counter culture. Cute and edgy, yes, but true to its name: belligerence against American culture, which is America. This was the Cheka/NKVD/KGB and by then also ChiCom goal along. And by American culture they mean … CHRISTIANITY !
There was no path being sought there, no even rise of a nation’s affairs. It was undefended war, straight up, against American institutions of culture, every last one of them, starting with the family, by a domestic force patiently trained up by a foreign one. It was a war that is on-going, only now we live with carrion thrown up by its successful prosecution, by a foreign-made domestic insurgency and a colossally stupid domestic rear-guard.
We have been in a war for over a century without decisively fighting and defeating the belligerent. In this world there is no security, only opportunity. (Douglas MacArthur) So, change the software, which is to say, the metaphor. Go to the battle metaphor, as Heraclitus did and as Rama, Krishna, Jesus the Christ and Saint Paul do. To wit:
Peace has to be earned by fighting and defeating the belligerent. No one can confer peace. It cannot be negotiated or agreed. Peace obtains only when the belligerent is thrown down and his will to aggress dissolved. That is the way life processes, in small matters and large. If you want peace, not only do you prepare for war, you fight the war to the defeat of the belligerent. There is only one way to end war and establish peace: unconditional surrender of the belligerent to the defeating power.
That is how we make our way forward in small matters and large, in families, in nations and among nations. There is no other procession alive.
The period from 1945 to Sputnik and the assassination in the USA was paradisiacal because the nation had fought belligerents to their unconditional surrender. That peace was the war’s dividend. No one was left to aggress, we were told, though not unambiguously. During that brief period, upon which those who lived it look lovingly, there was a general rise. But it was brief, just enough time to get the boomers on their feet.
(The previous period of peace in Latin civilization, to which very many today look lovingly, was the High Middle Ages. The reason: the Crusades succeeded. Successful war against Moslems, to reopen MENA to communication with Latin and Greek cultures, produced the great, grand and colorful outpourings of joy and confidence we call Gothic Cathedrals and Mendicant Orders. The High Middle Ages lasted far longer and produced far more general and cultural wealth than the USA’s victory over fascism in 1945 did, BTW.)
And boomers were told, and never thought otherwise, to expect those paradisiacal conditions to continue. Those boomers who did not become domestic insurgents, that is, those being a sizable and very noisy lot. This is why boomers are a selfish, grasping, looting gang, Clintons their archetype. They never disabuse themselves of the delusion that paradise, which only war can make, and fleetingly, is perpetual … and deserved by them … an entitlement, whether I have to lie, cheat and steal (all species of belligerence) to make it so or not.
I blame boomers’ parents, first, especially their mothers, and boomers themselves, second, who, past their youth, cling to their a-historical claptrap and cringing slavery.
Talk is about this ideology and philosophy and that, the betterment of man, world peace, justice, equality, global community … an endless squabble in ignorance, namely. The truth is war, surrender, peace, a new belligerent, war, surrender, peace, a new belligerent … That pattern is not delusional and not fleeting. It is perpetual and singular.
It is not a path, not a steady rise, or a steady fall. It is not a fitful rise or fitful fall. That pattern is the phenomenology of historical fluctuations. Periods of peace follow successful war and end upon the advent of the next belligerent. And no amount of intellectual brilliance or moral courage can anticipate the nature and destiny of unknowns inserting themselves into those fluctuations.
Our experience today follows upon refusal by American clergy, academicians, politicians and entertainers (media) to fight and defeat the Soviets, the ChiComs and their Fifth Columns in the USA, Europe and Asia in 1920, 1935, 1945, 1950, 1965, 1975, 1989, 1998, 2008 and 2015. Those refusals made peace post-WWII more fleeting than one could expect following a momentous geo-strategic victory and surrender.
Boomers’ parents, especially their mothers, were culpably negligent for not teaching their children that a new bully will come along — one was already inside the house! — who must be fought to unconditional surrender. Boomers themselves became culpably negligent and malicious when, upon adulthood, laziness and promiscuity rendered them dull and in-artful.
Boomers, awash in money and conceit — the peace dividend — replicated themselves in two succeeding generations each of increasing determination to ignore phenomena and principles, to rip out American institutions — CHRISTIANITY ! — and doctrines, on one jejune pretext or another, and to kick every last can they can find down the road, so to speak, excepting the one labeled, Me And My Travels.
We see the mess created by not defeating a belligerent over the foregoing century. This is to say the mess happened because clergy, academicians, politicians and entertainers (media) did not defeat that belligerent. In fact, they fostered him. We see his carrion lying about now and it offends us, it stinks and it is messy. Well yeah, that is what happens when you ignore, fear or try to make nice with a belligerent.
Let parents, especially mothers, teach their children that peace — and prosperity — follow and only follow successful war and can be extended past a brief, fleeting period to a longer one only if the next belligerent — who will come, and is already prefigured if not present — is met and fought to his unconditional surrender. Again and again and again. Thinking peace will last without making war to make it last is to beg for slavery, and that plight will meet enthusiastic acceptance by any number of SOBs.
If you want peace, make the SOBs surrender to you. It is the way of life. There is no road ahead — no security — only war and peace — opportunity.
The World Wars were not dips in a line of, otherwise, progress. They were necessary preludes to peace.
Amen.
Update 1: A leftie rag now wants American boots on the ground against ISIS. They must feel the beheading knife getting too close. They are right about that and will never admit that their general frame of reference made it so.
Update 2: Eric Raymond: Gramscian Damage.
Update 3: The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism and Global Jihad, and related: Qatar.
Update 4: Ralph Peters: Islamic State And The Utopia Problem: Destroying The Past To Command The Future.
Update 5: The Real Deal.
Update 6: Reconstituting The Militia.
Update 7: Thomas J. DiLorenzo: Economic Fascism (also here)
It’s called fascism and that is what it should be called, over, over and over, to its face and from the rooftops.
Update 8: Sultan Knish: No More Mr. Nice Conservative
Update 9: Saud meets karma
Update 10: Roger Kimball’s thoughts on Michael Walsh’s The Devil’s Pleasure Palace
Update 11: A statement regarding equating Christianity with Communism:
Several New Testament parables are used, since decades, to equate Christianity with Communism. Virtually the entire “mainline denomination” leadership, to include now Roman Catholics, concurs at least in principle with that equation. Thus the pews empty out, which, remarkably, convinces that leadership to embrace leftist manners and language more tightly: cut loose by God, let’s be saved by politics.
Christianity brightly distinguishes the realm of civil authority and law from the realm of religious authority, which transcends civil authority and law and has no law of its own. Each realm has its utility, powers and necessity (“Give unto Caesar….”) and neither has authority to control or dominate the other.
The relationship between religion and science is the same. They are about different matters entirely, without intersection, confirmation or conflict. Like civil authority and religious authority, however, they are parallel, indomitable vectors of human experience and history.
Update 12: Scott S. Powell: The Quiet Revolution: How The New Left Took Over the Democratic Party
Update 13: Colin Woodward: Eleven American nations. Woodward’s purpose is to justify national gun confiscation, but along the way his analysis of American regions — he calls them nations in order to divide the country to ease confiscation — is accurate and useful. Has a fine map supporting.
Update 14: Institute For The Study Of War: ISIS’s Global Strategy: 2015
Update 15: Charles Kenny: Saudi Arabia Is Underwriting Terrorism. Let’s Start Making It Pay
Update 16: Americans not confident their government will protect them
Update 17: Robert Zubrin illustrates the obsolete Cold War frame of reference, not even a thought that a new structure (Three Brothers Doctrine) is indicated by current facts, families, constitution and land.
AMDG – VICTORY
