Mutes “Massie”…

Most people are intellectually unable to imagine a concept of reality that isn't strictly linear and strictly progressive (i.e. Thursday is better than Tuesday because it comes later). Anything we have today or the "Present" must be both inevitable and better than what we had yesterday or the "Past." Correspondingly, if we are inspired by something from a bygone age we have to accept all that came from that age (i.e. if we have the Colosseum we must have the Gladiator or if we have the little cottages with thatched roofs we must also have the Black Death and the Robber Baron). All these assumptions are breathtakingly stupid yet here we are. Especially since the modern or "Present" versions of the Gladiator, Black Death and the Robber Baron, are still with us.

‘Good deeds can be quickly stated. Evil deeds require an excess of language to veil their wrongs.’ - Thucydides (Peloponnesian War, 3.67)

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul? In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable. He calls the result “men without chests.” People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing. Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear. Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning. Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians. Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

“The left is always, at all times and places, a violent phenomenon full of hatred.” — Javier Milei

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'The Persians discuss their most serious issues while drunk, and reconsider them the next day when sober. Only if a decision still pleases them, do they adopt it. Likewise, anything they discuss when sober, they make sure to also reconsider when they are drunk.' Herodotus, 1.133

“The whole modern world is at war with the nature of man, and it calls this war ‘progress.’ It breaks the tools of the soul and then wonders why the soul no longer works.” — G. K. Chesterton

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Enough of the pessimism. Here we are, with a bullhorn to the mightiest public fora in the history of mankind, and yet we whine! We have no weird ideology or purity identity to protect. We grew up bathed in their weird progressive ideology. They saw "a scary tweet by an online reactionary once." Their sad curses doesn't hurt us anymore. We are on the side of beauty, truth, health, roots, life. They are on the side of masks, self-mutilation, disease and denouncement. We are the side that builds cathedrals, plants orchards, learn the languages of our ancestors, make babies, lift weights, build homes. They build "housing", worships the bland box, plants weed not gardens, turn into mutes and stutterers so as not to offend, engage in endless mortification, mutilation and confession sessions. They declare us haters, so as to paint targets on our backs for every drugged up lunatic with a voice in his head, for what use is it to reason with someone who hates? We declare something lovely and lovable in order that it can grow lovelier and greater. Let's stop the whining and laugh in their faces. The counter-revolution starts now.

Montaigne: "Life is a delicate thing, easy to disturb...once my face is turned toward chagrin, no matter how silly the cause which brought me to be so, I goad my humor in that direction. Thereafter it nourishes itself...piling up matter upon which to feed."

“You live in a deranged age—more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy, 1916-1990

“If I were rich, I would have a plaque made up, and sent to every judge in America, bearing a statement made by Adam Smith more than two and a half centuries ago: ‘Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.’” — Thomas Sowell

"If the object of a philosopher is more than merely to seek truth and express it as best he can, but rather to have some social effect...he cannot be absolved of responsibility for the effect that he actually does have, irrespective of his intentions." a.co/d/7teKW3h

What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen. George Orwell

Donoso Cortés was correct when he pointed out that a society’s willingness to punish, and execute was a reflection of its seriousness about evil, and confidence in itself. Cortés understood that the death penalty was not barbarism but a recognition that some acts are so grave they demanded ultimate justice. But when societies grow hesitant toward execute, it indicates that they no longer believe in the reality of sin, nor in their own authority to combat it. Liberalism abolishes capital punishment not because it is more humane, but because it is nihilistic. It no longer has the conviction to affirm anything worth defending with blood.

Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb. foxnews.com/us/new-bombshell…

"the wide moral chasm between journalists and the rest of the public is widely recognized by laypeople, and it significantly undermines their trust in journalistic outputs. Nonetheless, journalists tend to labor under the mistaken impression that their views and politics are broadly aligned with 'the people.'" press.princeton.edu/books/ha…