Out of a Nursing Home, & The Long, Scenic Route Home - LOTR 73
Or, Buckling for Your Sacred Dust Versus Scarabs, Zombies, and DEI
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History is a scroll sealed with seven seals, for the Americans...
It doesn't seem to matter, much, with the passage of time or the "progress" of history. The same, stupid things happen, over and over again. As my old Professor, Dr. Reist, used to say, "it's just one damn thing, after the other". What does seem to have changed, is that we have less and less capable people, competent enough to read the runes on the sacred scrolls of history, or to even notice that the runes are there to read at all. As James Howard Kunstler has it, "bad things happen because they seemed like a good idea at the time".
Why does everything feel like you're Bruce Campbell ("The King") in Bubbahotep? Probably because there really are soul-sucking mummies running loose over our landscape at this moment of time.
"I think we got some major bug problems in this place, man!"
Perhaps the forces of Ahriman are not as recondite as some people would have you believe.
“Ahriman uses the Christ’s forces for his purposes. This is his main job...turning Michaelic intelligence into Ahrimanic intelligence. God appointed him to do this work and Ahriman is a good servant. He is becoming the god of this civilization, the god of this earth; this is Ahriman. We can only overcome Ahriman if we know him and understand him. (We must) ...appreciate the people, creative and fantastic people who work for him. The greatest human spirits, the greatest humans are working for Ahriman today.”
Regardless, the not-so-benign neglect of the art of reading the runes has reached a point where even the rocks, and stones, and trees are beginning to rise up against us. Is it possible to reach a point, where the planet just doesn't welcome your "Culture" anymore? Or recognize your viability or desirability, for the long haul destination that Life inevitably has to factor into its cosmic gene pool? Nothing says "forever", like a government printing money from sea to shining sea.
Ben Davidson claims this is Telluric Lightning - a discharge upward. Get ready for a show.
Frodo and Co. arrive (after a delightful stay in Rivendell) at the Shire, to find the air crackling with electricity. The Shire has been so sorely hard put to it by Sharkey and his men (Sharku in old Orcish means old man) that it is bristling with energy, and just waiting for a spark. Frodo & Co's arrival, is that spark. The Tooks are already up in arms in the wild country, but Farmer Maggot and other stalwarts have had just about all they can take, a bellyful, of Sharkey's use of the Shire.
And what else would we call such doings as these, other than (as Samwise puts it) "Orc-work"? Man-hating witches using the Force to get pregnant? That's just art, you say - the Cinema. Well, Cinema Paradiso, it ain't. And how about this? An official goverment ministry in Australia dedicated to "fixing" the behavior of men? You may say, very well, but these are scattered instances. The "scattering" of these instances is precisely what concerns me about them. If they were isolated (for instance) to one Department of government, one country, or one area of life, they could be reckoned as mitigated Evils of limited scope. Such, for instance, was Apartheid in South Africa, which was notoriously both unpopular and highly ignored in big business, which did not care about the political object, but only personal merit in service of the firm (Baron Ledhin pointed this out in his massive chronicles of the failure of Leftism). Leftism was always exaggerated in its grievances, and has a traditionally bad habit of over-selling its talking points. This has been true from its inception, and necessarily so. They made some good points and had a few valuable insights, but it's all lost inside their chosen Pandemonium now.
The evils and excesses of Leftism are not isolated, but rather ubiquitous. You can find Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity (in both words and misdeeds) everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere, all at once. It is a species of madness.
Leftism has operated with the basic standard operating assumption of Progress: Wealth is always increasing, and there is plenty for everyone. If that's true, then why not Get Flamed about inequality in the world, when there's plenty for everyone? The Left came up with the rise in complexity and wealth, and will go out with it. It was non-existent during ages of Scarcity. When famine stalked the land, everyone was conservative, even the revolutionaries. Leftism mistook a modest rise in wealth (which translated into fantastic levels of personal consumption) for an infinite increase in economic production. Leftism also had little, to no idea, how this new wealth was produced. It was always a Consumer.
Obviously, this is no longer happening, if it ever was even possible. Rather, the returns on increased complexity (which enabled the rise in humanity's expectations and standards of living) are now diminishing rapidly, and indeed, may even soon become a net negative.
Humans interact with the environment when there is some problem and they offer technical solutions or even political solutions and they apply those solutions and the problem is solved. So this allows us to keep doing what we’ve been doing. For me, contrary to what one might think, that is exactly what has thrown us into this situation that we can’t get out of. Because this belief that we can solve everything, it only works short term. Yes, antibiotics helped humanity. Yes, the phosphates we extracted from the ground increased agricultural efficiency. The nitrogen we extracted from the atmosphere increased agricultural efficiency. But, we’ve hidden the negative externalities of our interactions with the environment. We gambled on the expectation that we would always be able to solve them. That’s our ontological relationship with the environment. We see ourselves as separate from the rest of nature and of living creatures. And we believe we’re sovereign over all the decisions we make. We think we can always control an environment which elsewhere might be considered sacred, especially in some spiritual philosophies in the west that have roots in ancient beliefs. And we think nature is something unchanging and everlasting which we can repair whenever we need to and that we can solve all our problems.
Micro-forever-plastics and pesticides seem to be making our health more fragile. While the cost of groceries doubles and triples, you can rest assured that our Elite organizations are doing everything they can, to bring you more and more of that. So far, Ireland has held off on massacring every cow on the island, for instance, but for how long? As Charles Nenner puts it, "a lot is on fire below the surface they don't tell you about". Expect things to hotten up this summer. Frodo is back in town - Adrastia has returned. The War of the Rings is over, and they have lost.
DEI is going to get us all DEAD.
So, as things "go down all over again", in your little corner of the Shire, consider standing with Farmer Maggot, Frodo & Co, & the Tooks and other brave hobbits, rather than with the "Sherruffs" and their Sharkey.
This one is up to us to fix. We got ourselves into this tar baby, & God expects us to try to work our way out. There won't be a "Rapture" to beam you up, or an Apocalypse to end your premature suffering. We are going to have to get the ball back, and march it back down the field, and punch it into the end zone.
Our universities will need either overhauling or failing that, abolishing by defunding, like the monasteries of England under King Henry VIII. Our newer libraries will need to be shadow banned (by defunding), or gutted for useful purposes. We've known all this for some time! Our Empire is winding down, and we no longer can deter our designated foes. The Army and Navy need to come home, and also be overhauled, since all the flag officers are either Socialists or Marxists. Our social fabric is in tatters, & will need rebuilding one brick at a time. It takes a long time to come up, but a short time to come down. The US Dollar is terminally ill, & we will have to rebuild it, too - a debt default is coming. This is the Divine Reset - Satan always apes God and gets the first move, but things are going to work a little differently in Reality than on globalist paper or inside vacuous AI.
It's going to be "Double Plus Not Fun", and there will be some dead hobbits, I am sad to say. I may be one of them.
But the Shire will live, and go on. And on, and on, and on, first star to the right. That's real Progress, when you are already there, and have what you are fighting for. There can be no patriotism for the Empire, only for the Shire. And you, dear reader, your heart and your heart of hearts, already are that future.
"There are other worlds, but they are all inside this one." - Paul Eluard
What do we want the Kingdom of God to be like? Work for that. Then the Shire will be manifested.