RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
On Dr. Dre and Vladimir Putin, Spengler writes. This brought comment from me on another commenter’s evocation of Cromwell, as follows:
This is what I meant by let the Russians feel safe but be strong keeping them militarily out of Europe, Eastern Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Let them trade, accept the usual hurly burly of life with us, and keep their warm water port at Crimea — and definitely do not go puritanical hectoring at them — but let them know we are not their enemy and to stop militarily challenging us and instead, with us and India, focus on popping the China (and here) bubble (and here). Exercise their patriotism eastward, at China (and here), who is moving to take over Siberia, and much more, to include across the Bering Strait to Alaska, Canada and USA. The little tarts want to recapitulate their ancestor’s island jumps into the Western Hemisphere.
Such a different way of thinking from what the Cromwellian harpies with hands on the mechanisms of government struggle to impose.
Some years ago these harpies reminded me of Cromwellians, out of New England Puritanism which became New England Unitarianism, one of two main groups who opposed our Constitution from the start, the other being Quakers (think, “peace movement”). Recently they do again remind me so. Ramming abolition down the nation’s throat, at cost of war and loss of freedom, ramming prohibition down the nation’s throat, at cost of inspiring organized and unorganized crime, and as each year goes on more rammings, telling everyone else how they should live. Definitely from New England, definitely Cromwellian/Unitarian.
Soon they will dictate equal representation among airline pilots of this “minority” and that. Hang the crashes, we want equality. And control our morning alarm clocks. Comedy show material. But serious business to Cromwellians.
The first settlers in New England were Separatists, Calvinist Anglicans but not Cromwellians. True religious freedom people, inspired Roger Williams, among others, and the Great Awakening movements. The second and huge wave were the Puritans, Calvinist Anglican Cromwellians all. Real tyrants. Stout and resolute but prone to edicts, non-self-criticism and more interested in civil than in theological affairs, a disposition from which the nation benefitted as well as suffered at Constitution-writing time. Harvard, founded as a Puritan seminary, became Unitarian very early, solidly so by the time of Emerson. No place for Jonathan Edwards, a Separatist descendant, in New England for a very long time now.
Unitarianism is to the USA what Arianism was to the late Greco-Roman Empire. There were more Arian bishops in the Empire than there were Orthodox at the time of the Council of Nicaea, who rejected Arian Christology. The Emperor, who convened the Council, was Arian, or had been.
The triumph of error is never so certain as it appears … or as error, always the chest-beating bully, would have one cower to believe.
Unitarianism is fascist, as was/is Cromwellianism.
Update 1: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy. At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:
Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.
It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.
The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?
Related: On 04 March 2015 Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS. I commented:
I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public. Thank you, General! Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back. And they will be that. This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening. I am content.
Update 2: What is Putin about? And here.
Update 3: Paul A. Rahe: Political theater and coordinated disinformation are the order of the day.
Update 4: Patrick Buchanan: Is Trumpism The New Nationalism?
Update 5: Traitor To His Class [:-)] Page 2
Nothing is more terrifying to the elite than Trump’s embrace of a tangible American nationalism.
Update 6: Spengler: Balance Of Power – The Board Game
Update 7: The Witch Hunters
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
