Interesting read, thanks Frank. I see this jarring clash between the oppressive push for equality a lot in the workplace. At a recent conference every guest speaker was a senior/very senior, well paid (six figures), white middle age woman who was ordered by the white, middle aged, well paid female organiser to tell a full auditorium of their trauma (many of whom couldn't recall any) but the pace was relentless and a 'i can't recall any' was dismissed as 'clearly too traumatic to remember'. When it was a British Asian man's turn to talk (again senior and no doubt had a few tales to tell) he was introduced with a cursory intro and a sneer and cut off after 5 mins - the messaging was clear, woman are oppressed victims and men are evil and deserve everything bad that happens to them. And this isn't a small business, it's a national org. The Equalities Act has been used to browbeat men into submission and shift promotion to gender and political biases rather than competence. I know many competent men and women, but only the women will thrive and achieve senior unless a man assumes the they/them mantle. Sad days, it's very very hard to fight against the fantasy those in power are forcing on us, and many skilled, competent people are being swept away to allow the less competent to prosper at the nation's expense. This is why our public institutions don't work, why our services are crumbling, why our politicians can't function and why ultimately the country we knew has gone, perhaps forever.
The real tragedy is your writing, your videos and the continued existence of banned books (history pre-liberal utopia) allows us to remember the things those in power almost got us to forget: what we were, what we achieved as we stare at the wreckage of what is.
Our current rulers, who relentlessly push equality, spend an awful lot of effort separating themselves from us.
I'm interested in Christopher Lasch's analysis of how 20th-century American elites began to despise their fellow Americans, and withdrew from reality. This has only gotten worse in recent decades. Lasch also described how, in America, a false debate developed among the chattering classes, between the "market worshippers" on one side and promoters of the deeply flawed welfare state on the other. Lately, the debates have opened up from that, thank goodness.
The American Founding Fathers had a very good understanding of reality, because they were firmly rooted in the Classics, Christianity, and experience. They were almost all Protestant, yet many of them would still agree with substantial parts of the Roman Catholic understanding of human nature.
Thank you for this essay. It has so much food for thought, and so much wisdom.
I'm a Portuguese man and I have politicians in my family.
You can be absolutely sure that ALL western politicians (regardless of their nationality or culture of origin) despise the people they rule and only see their voters as cattle.
They all follow the same books and have the same overlords. Who these "overlords" are still remain to be seen.
The Jews? The Freemasons? Aliens? The Bilderberg? All of the above or none of them.
Time will inevitably tell. My only true fear is that - when everything is finnally revealed - things will be so disrupted and messed up that no one will care anymore.
Yes, we have to remember that truth is on our side, no matter how outnumbered we are. And a minority of committed people can defeat a larger enemy.
The commenter Charles Haywood seems to agree that this current system can’t last long. It’s based too much on lies, as Frank Wright points out. Things could still get very ugly for a while.
It is shocking how all of our countries in the West got captured by the same types of scoundrels, isn’t it? And all of our institutions. Well, the game isn’t over yet. It looked pretty dark for Washington and his men at Valley Forge, but things changed.
ehm, We're landing at Gatwick. Is there a pub nearby? Taxi to fine dining? I have a pocket full of debit cards. They confiscated all my bows and arrows. You Brits. You'll never know fun till you hiked onto the Latin summit, we call it the name that cannot be known. Sound much better in the original language.
I worked very well in the USSR. I witnessed it first hand during 6 weeks there in the summer of 1968. Everyone equal in their material poverty and their poverty of spirit.
Excellent. Satan, as always twists Christian teachings to evil ends. Equality in the eyes of God--prince and pauper alike--is perverted to the notion that we are all equal in every way.
I had thought that the US would be at the forefront of confronting this madness but Trump has proven himself to be nothing more than a greedy, unprincipled huckster. The Brits and the Irish appear to be at the vanguard of smashing this poison.
For such things was the Catholic Church tasked. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be up to this task.
The Fabians made a plan to destroy the United Kingdom in 19th century, built up al movement that spawned intellectuals and politicians. The people who are accelerating the death of freedom of speech here are Fabians. Fabianism has been called out only last year as the root cause of the problem.
Good read. Reminds me of Skinners box and operant conditioning. Set the environment, indoctrinate the rules for survival and watch the rats behave as predicted especially if you can convince them they like it. While Plato talked about cave shadows, Aristotle talked about observable events. Its not a popular position but both approaches can be correct at the same time. How that sort of conditioning is broken is the nub of the discussion. Humans learn through trauma, whether that's simply perceived only or actual events outside the psyche, and I do fear trauma will have to be visited in real time to break common perception out of its miasma. Another alleged pdf you might want to pursue (if you haven't already - apologies I haven't caught up with all your work as yet) is Michel Foucault. His work is religiously followed in Universities but having been directed to study him and his work it was odd to see that he withdrew from his modernity models and relied more upon his medieval modelling around leprosy for one, later in his life. I was informed that I should focus on his power discussions around sex and politics, bio-power I recall was its tag line. I was at university in 2019. Kids get a lot of this stuff presented to them as factual content, along with a lot of the Frankfurt school stuff. Maybe that's the sort of bordello you should be looking at? No shortage of morally redundant behaviour there. Its macro element many decades later seems to be alive and well and living in the democrat party of the USA via San Diego, California.
Total agreement here. From Australia - and additionally to the point; the ‘truth’ is merely a figment of imagination that varies person to person. Of course, the talk about moral subjectivism is the only answer to those without an objective moral yardstick, yet it is the only antidote to a culture or civilisations terminal illness.
Degeneracy in all its forms is the default human condition to Plato’s bronze - or tyrannical men who cannot control their own appetites and thus promote it in others as maximum sensual indulgence because life is short and we could be dead tomorrow. The tyranny of the mind is the tyranny not just within politics and education it now forms the very fabric of how we’ve come to understand reality itself. And for that, I’m more pessimistic about our short term prospects. Cheers Mr Wright
When many people live in a box surrounded by a number of other folks living in boxes. Commute to another box, to live out the day away from the family. So they can come home and catch up on propaganda and be brought into belief that the only thing in life is to pursue a better box. To receive a skewed view of how much happier those are that have shinier things than them. It is no wonder most are lost. In the rural areas you can't escape reality and it demands attention. Which is why I think on the balance you find "simple" folk to be much more in tune with what the world actually is.
Thanks, you are the first person I have read who is talking about reality correspondence. I think of this as a positive and a negative scale, and do not engage with people on the negative scale since insanity breeds insanity. As a society we need to move towards more reality, and I wish you well with your writing and interviews.
Reality exists. Equality and all the rest do not. They are fictions.
It is often said progressives are people who invent an impossibly unrealistic world then become enraged it does not exist. Fiction can be perfect; reality is often messy. For example, the homeless are not just people lacking a house, they are often difficult people with complex problems that cannot be easily solved. Virtually everything is like this too. Hence the tragic vision of the conservatives. Life is hard.
Interesting read, thanks Frank. I see this jarring clash between the oppressive push for equality a lot in the workplace. At a recent conference every guest speaker was a senior/very senior, well paid (six figures), white middle age woman who was ordered by the white, middle aged, well paid female organiser to tell a full auditorium of their trauma (many of whom couldn't recall any) but the pace was relentless and a 'i can't recall any' was dismissed as 'clearly too traumatic to remember'. When it was a British Asian man's turn to talk (again senior and no doubt had a few tales to tell) he was introduced with a cursory intro and a sneer and cut off after 5 mins - the messaging was clear, woman are oppressed victims and men are evil and deserve everything bad that happens to them. And this isn't a small business, it's a national org. The Equalities Act has been used to browbeat men into submission and shift promotion to gender and political biases rather than competence. I know many competent men and women, but only the women will thrive and achieve senior unless a man assumes the they/them mantle. Sad days, it's very very hard to fight against the fantasy those in power are forcing on us, and many skilled, competent people are being swept away to allow the less competent to prosper at the nation's expense. This is why our public institutions don't work, why our services are crumbling, why our politicians can't function and why ultimately the country we knew has gone, perhaps forever.
The real tragedy is your writing, your videos and the continued existence of banned books (history pre-liberal utopia) allows us to remember the things those in power almost got us to forget: what we were, what we achieved as we stare at the wreckage of what is.
I agree and would like to add that the passive aggression on display via the mantle of feminism , is far more destructive male aggression .
And sadly…..I’ve been around.
Billy Connolly summed it up nicely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMxgWJ6u_EE
Our current rulers, who relentlessly push equality, spend an awful lot of effort separating themselves from us.
I'm interested in Christopher Lasch's analysis of how 20th-century American elites began to despise their fellow Americans, and withdrew from reality. This has only gotten worse in recent decades. Lasch also described how, in America, a false debate developed among the chattering classes, between the "market worshippers" on one side and promoters of the deeply flawed welfare state on the other. Lately, the debates have opened up from that, thank goodness.
The American Founding Fathers had a very good understanding of reality, because they were firmly rooted in the Classics, Christianity, and experience. They were almost all Protestant, yet many of them would still agree with substantial parts of the Roman Catholic understanding of human nature.
Thank you for this essay. It has so much food for thought, and so much wisdom.
I'm a Portuguese man and I have politicians in my family.
You can be absolutely sure that ALL western politicians (regardless of their nationality or culture of origin) despise the people they rule and only see their voters as cattle.
They all follow the same books and have the same overlords. Who these "overlords" are still remain to be seen.
The Jews? The Freemasons? Aliens? The Bilderberg? All of the above or none of them.
Time will inevitably tell. My only true fear is that - when everything is finnally revealed - things will be so disrupted and messed up that no one will care anymore.
Yes, we have to remember that truth is on our side, no matter how outnumbered we are. And a minority of committed people can defeat a larger enemy.
The commenter Charles Haywood seems to agree that this current system can’t last long. It’s based too much on lies, as Frank Wright points out. Things could still get very ugly for a while.
It is shocking how all of our countries in the West got captured by the same types of scoundrels, isn’t it? And all of our institutions. Well, the game isn’t over yet. It looked pretty dark for Washington and his men at Valley Forge, but things changed.
God bless you in Portugal!
David vs. Goliath!
Yes!
I will care.
🌹
Yes, Sartre was imposed on me and others at university, it's abhorrent brain washing.
“The criminal and homosexualist Jean Genet” lmao.
Amazing work mate — no f*cking about as per.
Another masterpiece, Frank. Well done. We have been brainwashed for so long ….thank you for your clarity of mind. God bless.
Are you trying to say climate change wasn't caused by imperialism? Lol.
ehm, We're landing at Gatwick. Is there a pub nearby? Taxi to fine dining? I have a pocket full of debit cards. They confiscated all my bows and arrows. You Brits. You'll never know fun till you hiked onto the Latin summit, we call it the name that cannot be known. Sound much better in the original language.
Equality can only be imposed from above.
I worked very well in the USSR. I witnessed it first hand during 6 weeks there in the summer of 1968. Everyone equal in their material poverty and their poverty of spirit.
Except the ruling elite, of course…
There are only two places where human beings are absolutely equal: the grave and the toilet.
Thanks for the smile.
Blessings from Aus.
Excellent. Satan, as always twists Christian teachings to evil ends. Equality in the eyes of God--prince and pauper alike--is perverted to the notion that we are all equal in every way.
I had thought that the US would be at the forefront of confronting this madness but Trump has proven himself to be nothing more than a greedy, unprincipled huckster. The Brits and the Irish appear to be at the vanguard of smashing this poison.
For such things was the Catholic Church tasked. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be up to this task.
The Fabians made a plan to destroy the United Kingdom in 19th century, built up al movement that spawned intellectuals and politicians. The people who are accelerating the death of freedom of speech here are Fabians. Fabianism has been called out only last year as the root cause of the problem.
Good read. Reminds me of Skinners box and operant conditioning. Set the environment, indoctrinate the rules for survival and watch the rats behave as predicted especially if you can convince them they like it. While Plato talked about cave shadows, Aristotle talked about observable events. Its not a popular position but both approaches can be correct at the same time. How that sort of conditioning is broken is the nub of the discussion. Humans learn through trauma, whether that's simply perceived only or actual events outside the psyche, and I do fear trauma will have to be visited in real time to break common perception out of its miasma. Another alleged pdf you might want to pursue (if you haven't already - apologies I haven't caught up with all your work as yet) is Michel Foucault. His work is religiously followed in Universities but having been directed to study him and his work it was odd to see that he withdrew from his modernity models and relied more upon his medieval modelling around leprosy for one, later in his life. I was informed that I should focus on his power discussions around sex and politics, bio-power I recall was its tag line. I was at university in 2019. Kids get a lot of this stuff presented to them as factual content, along with a lot of the Frankfurt school stuff. Maybe that's the sort of bordello you should be looking at? No shortage of morally redundant behaviour there. Its macro element many decades later seems to be alive and well and living in the democrat party of the USA via San Diego, California.
A concise article on Pope Leo 13th foresight
https://ewtn.co.uk/article-130-years-ago-leo-xiii-prophetically-saw-our-troubled-times-and-urged-us-to-pray-the-rosary/
Total agreement here. From Australia - and additionally to the point; the ‘truth’ is merely a figment of imagination that varies person to person. Of course, the talk about moral subjectivism is the only answer to those without an objective moral yardstick, yet it is the only antidote to a culture or civilisations terminal illness.
Degeneracy in all its forms is the default human condition to Plato’s bronze - or tyrannical men who cannot control their own appetites and thus promote it in others as maximum sensual indulgence because life is short and we could be dead tomorrow. The tyranny of the mind is the tyranny not just within politics and education it now forms the very fabric of how we’ve come to understand reality itself. And for that, I’m more pessimistic about our short term prospects. Cheers Mr Wright
Cheers Frank
Brilliant. I am enjoying your work, sir. Thank you.
When many people live in a box surrounded by a number of other folks living in boxes. Commute to another box, to live out the day away from the family. So they can come home and catch up on propaganda and be brought into belief that the only thing in life is to pursue a better box. To receive a skewed view of how much happier those are that have shinier things than them. It is no wonder most are lost. In the rural areas you can't escape reality and it demands attention. Which is why I think on the balance you find "simple" folk to be much more in tune with what the world actually is.
I concur.
Thanks, you are the first person I have read who is talking about reality correspondence. I think of this as a positive and a negative scale, and do not engage with people on the negative scale since insanity breeds insanity. As a society we need to move towards more reality, and I wish you well with your writing and interviews.
Reality exists. Equality and all the rest do not. They are fictions.
It is often said progressives are people who invent an impossibly unrealistic world then become enraged it does not exist. Fiction can be perfect; reality is often messy. For example, the homeless are not just people lacking a house, they are often difficult people with complex problems that cannot be easily solved. Virtually everything is like this too. Hence the tragic vision of the conservatives. Life is hard.
I appreciate your sign of = not , very much Frank . Now back to read your article.