Less bad? I'm not sure what that even means. I want to be more bad. We need to be more opposed to policies that are destroying our nations. We need to be less tolerant. More strict. More standards. Less forgiving. If you want forgiveness, turn to Jesus Christ, otherwise, we need to enforce more rules and standards. Also, they all have to go back.
I can definitely see our nihilistic, self-absorbed, self-righteous, spiteful "elite" class try to pull a Samson and pull the edifice down on regular citizens, for whom they display nothing but contempt. A world without their magnificence is a world not having, they might figure, as they view the commoners gathering with pitchforks and torches.
Perhaps. But we are not without agency ourselves. Everything they do exposes them to ever more people. And as we are learning, our elites are not very able. I'm not sure their plans for full-spectrum ruin would work any better than the windfarms they wanted.
Do we think the people banning democracy and blotting out the sun are the good guys? This will get worse - or better - depending on how you see that going for them.
I doubt there is the hard power remaining in the system to enact full control absent digital transition.
They’re making an enemy of everyone who isn’t insane, even within their own factions and parties. If they adapt - change to populism - their ideology dies. If they don’t - their legitimacy does.
Yes, legitimacy matters. And they are not keen on overt displays of power or control, hence the digital panopticon and not troops billeted in your town.
More and more see it as a farce heading for collapse.
Their incompetence coupled with their arrogance has made mortal enemies of many formerly easy-going people. Their apparent blindness to this reality is simply mind-boggling. I can't imagine another ruling class so out-of-touch.
They are in the Fuhrerbunker, awaiting news of Steiner's attack which will sweep the Red Army back to the suburbs of Moscow.
I believe that the levels of incompetence comes from inheriting this system from minds more able and devious than their own. In other words, they Didn't Earn It.
There is another way to look at this accelerating "sharp right turn” among populations. It is not, as Aris Roussinos says, the breakneck speed of rightwing radicalisation amongst western peoples. It is happening because the sponsorship of social revolution has stopped. I think our people always thought like this, and their views were simply excluded from the sponsored mass culture. There is no money left to do this any more, and so what people really think is coming out. This means the lunatic minority is no longer in charge, and is the reason comedy has been replaced by smug lectures from insufferable people with adolescent views. For example.
I believe this is the consequence of most systems based on nepotism. It becomes an incestuous disaster quickly. The pathological attract other damaged people, for example. They also tend to shun the able which is a major factor in collapse.
I would also include the artificial elevation of women. Men and women have quite different drives and outlooks, and this is not working in our favour.
But they are foxes by nature (no offense to foxes). It is not in them, at a deep socio-sexual level, to be lions. Everything in them has been purposefully maladapted to that. They won’t be any better at this transition than their tranny freak pets are at theirs.
Western civilization is a big place. It includes Europe, America, Russia (yes, they're Western Civ, too), the Aussies. I'm not sure that it has to get much worse than now, because in our modern concept, this shit is pretty bad. It most certainly will get better as the realists gain and assert power.
I am not so sure. The goal is to significantly increase immigration under the guise of climate. Climate migration. I have seen figures of 5m plus per year just into Britain.
Doesn't mean it will happen of course. But if they succeed in imposing their digital tools things could get very bleak indeed.
Disclosure: I couldn't make it past high school. Needed private tutoring to get through trade school.
When I post or mention to the credentialed that half the transformers in the local electrical grid are over 40 years old, the response is, overwhelmingly, silence/blank stare. A few might sincerely ask if this is bad.
There must be a word for the world where people like this live.
The map is not the territory is one way to look at this. The map these people have came at great expense and carries prestige - but it does not correspond to practical reality. The shock is twofold - how can *I* not understand this - and how come *he* can?
I have had real jobs and watched men with no academic aptitude demonstrate the sort of resourceful practical wisdom that cannot be taught but only acquired, and only within personal limitations. The pure academic route is simply a means of monetising magic paper which is said to enclever men. In reality it more often sells work permits on credit for nonexistent or inessential jobs.
Yes it was. I think I found out who I was by failing at things, which corrected how I imagined myself. At other times, it corrected my imagined view of the world. So I found out a bit about what was around me. Neither were what you would call pleasant, but they did have the virtue of being true.
In Canada during Covid it was the truckers who brought an end to the government's controls. The middle classes realized with shock they relied on normal people for food, medicine and heating their homes. The PhDs mean nothing when you are freezing and starving.
They have also found they are not replaceable by immigrants.
indeed, as per our environment, our motivations, so many factors zig zag through ones lifetime.....all unique all different, it does make for the best of us, my 2c, thankyou for the post Frank.....
God, let me die in a world in which the future is looking bright for my grandchildren; and may they have the sense and gumption to make it shine even brighter.
You are living through this transition now. The sponsorship of insanity and evil is over, the monopoly of the counter-sane is ending. There is a better world emerging. It is one based not on being based, but simply on the sanity routinely excluded from politics and culture as a means of perpetuating the liberal system.
"I believe that dignity can be returned to working life - following the example of the social teaching of Pope Leo XIII."
Speaking of which, my new book on that very subject is now published and is live on Amazon. It is a unique type of extended essay of a sort that I don't think has been tried before: an ontological critique of modernity through the lens of neoliberal economics, written with the soul of an adventure.
"Written in a unique and picaresque style and with great breadth of insight, Traffic and Weather Together Next represents the first attempt to chart a course beyond neoliberal economics that preserves the gains of industrial society while liberating mankind from the ennui of modern existence. Both conceptually dense and startlingly brisk of pace, combining a learned survey of economic history with almost painful personal reflections, finding syntheses between town and country, abstract and concrete, Marx and von Mises, the author leaves nothing out and nothing to chance. This is one of those books that we almost thought could no longer be written: a devastating critique of a complex field by a learned amateur that needs only to be read before its truth becomes apparent to all. Answering the call of Rerum Novarum to outline a Catholic theory of economics that is true, ethical, and productive, this book is a modern masterpiece and an instant classic that will appeal especially to the younger generations. The clarion call to "pay off your debt, buy back your job, don't waste your life" will resonate with many in these economically troubled times. This is the book that breaks the modern world; this is the book that frees the modern soul."
And here is a special appeal to Kevin Michael Grace: I know you're out there. I know your read this Substack. I would be especially pleased if you would obtain a copy of this book and read it. You will not be disappointed; it is much better than the sources from which you currently draw your inspiration.
Great news! (I'm glad you too suspect that the choice of name yesterday wasn't candid, but that you're nevertheless leaving room to hope for a conversion; stranger things have happened, I tell myself.)
It doesn’t really matter whether it is or it isn’t (I think the meme is behind the times).
The elite civil war has caused the curtain to pull back, which permits the entry of public opinion into public discourse.
The formerly prohibited presence of the views of normal people is described as “extremism”, because from the point of view of the liberal elite being normal is extremely bad.
Lots of hopeful things being said about the new Pope. People need hope. I think your assessment is correct, however. The Church *will* continue but it's not going to look like people think it will - or should.
My first comment here, just wanted to say - thank you Frank! Your writing resonates with me on so many levels. I wonder what your upbringing were like?
This morning I listened to an interview with the brother of Pope Leo Ex Ivy. Bro mentioned that his bro is very much attuned to Francis' compassion towards the marginalized and outcast. Translation from American to English: more illegal immigrants. Does not sound promising.
I wonder if the globalists didn't look at JPII's election from the Eastern Bloc and the collapse of the Soviet empire a few years later and think they could precipitate the collapse of MAGA America with an American.
The Church is made of men, but its spirit is Christ. The flesh is weak and corruptible, but the spirit is strong and eternal. Men come and men go, but the Lord is one.
You're discounting the damage arising to our various complex systems from the upcoming conflict as we lurch into the 'changing of the guard' conflicts as the illiberal order is outcompeted by the technocratic order.
I agree it's inevitably bound to fail and people will gradually wake up along the way, I just don't see a happy ending. Our societies are really complex and cascading failures to critical systems is more than likely (for example, food or electric production, processing, transport, storage, distribution: the supply chain is tight. And going into the wild isn't an option for the urban masses).
Ok. In general terms I don't think the technocrats and the globalists are on the same team. I think there are more than two teams, and things are more complicated than meets the eye. Since it's a winner takes all scenario, etc etc.
Love your writing, but just cannot see your hopeful outlook.
The world I live in is barely aware we can make our own decisions. The globalist, elitist television narrative still rules the roost in Canada, with no serious competition on any front.
Even Polievre was barely a conservative and barely interested in real freedom. He was right behind Trudeau, pushing for more jabs, faster.
I would suggest that 80% of the Canadian evangelical church are 80% governed by globalist ideologies. Sure, some of the obvious stuff has better % values, but all in, it is very difficult to find so called Bible believing church goers who have any interest in reality beyond what has been indoctrinated into them since birth.
That will get their ire up big time to be sure. The vast majority of these people are jabbed. Most of them are either unaware of how stupid that decision was, or refuse to acknowledge it. There are a total of zero churches in Canada that I am aware of that are tackling the last 5 years with enough zeal to be heard.
Zero.
There were about 6 churches that stood up at all, mostly to do with freedom of gathering.
What they are all doing today is pretending nothing happened the past 5 years, and are back doing whatever they did previous, which was obviously unbelievably inadequate,if our freedom matters at all.
Would love to hear a good challenge from an evangelical telling me I am way off in left field.
All this actual "reality" is only sustained by Boomers. As soon as they croak, this sociocultural reality croaks with them.
GenXers and Millennials don't give a shit about Boomerworld, but pretend to, because they're still afraid the Boomers will delist them from the inheritance (I personally know some who were).
GenZers have zero interest and politics and in their opinion, all politicians are criminals and charlatans.
What must a man do now?
Love God.
Be rightous.
Get married.
Have kids.
Plant a garden.
Live in Truth.
Therein lies victory.
I try to be less bad. I might not be the best at that but I don’t give up trying.
Less bad? I'm not sure what that even means. I want to be more bad. We need to be more opposed to policies that are destroying our nations. We need to be less tolerant. More strict. More standards. Less forgiving. If you want forgiveness, turn to Jesus Christ, otherwise, we need to enforce more rules and standards. Also, they all have to go back.
Oh I mean in terms of sin, etc. try to be better than myself and that.
God need His soldiers, too. Would work for free clearing Dover beach etc.
I totally agree with you on that point Frank, one good Centurian is better than a thousand cheerleaders.
It is good to have some hope. Western liberalism cannot survive. I think it will get worse before it gets better, but it will get better I am sure.
I can definitely see our nihilistic, self-absorbed, self-righteous, spiteful "elite" class try to pull a Samson and pull the edifice down on regular citizens, for whom they display nothing but contempt. A world without their magnificence is a world not having, they might figure, as they view the commoners gathering with pitchforks and torches.
Perhaps. But we are not without agency ourselves. Everything they do exposes them to ever more people. And as we are learning, our elites are not very able. I'm not sure their plans for full-spectrum ruin would work any better than the windfarms they wanted.
Do we think the people banning democracy and blotting out the sun are the good guys? This will get worse - or better - depending on how you see that going for them.
I doubt there is the hard power remaining in the system to enact full control absent digital transition.
They’re making an enemy of everyone who isn’t insane, even within their own factions and parties. If they adapt - change to populism - their ideology dies. If they don’t - their legitimacy does.
What happens then? People stop cooperating, paying taxes etc.
Yes, legitimacy matters. And they are not keen on overt displays of power or control, hence the digital panopticon and not troops billeted in your town.
More and more see it as a farce heading for collapse.
if only!
Their incompetence coupled with their arrogance has made mortal enemies of many formerly easy-going people. Their apparent blindness to this reality is simply mind-boggling. I can't imagine another ruling class so out-of-touch.
They are in the Fuhrerbunker, awaiting news of Steiner's attack which will sweep the Red Army back to the suburbs of Moscow.
Absolutely. I am astonished at the levels of incompetence we are witnessing and they really are oblivious.
I think this all bodes well for the future. The collapse will take them by surprise in my view.
I believe that the levels of incompetence comes from inheriting this system from minds more able and devious than their own. In other words, they Didn't Earn It.
There is another way to look at this accelerating "sharp right turn” among populations. It is not, as Aris Roussinos says, the breakneck speed of rightwing radicalisation amongst western peoples. It is happening because the sponsorship of social revolution has stopped. I think our people always thought like this, and their views were simply excluded from the sponsored mass culture. There is no money left to do this any more, and so what people really think is coming out. This means the lunatic minority is no longer in charge, and is the reason comedy has been replaced by smug lectures from insufferable people with adolescent views. For example.
I believe this is the consequence of most systems based on nepotism. It becomes an incestuous disaster quickly. The pathological attract other damaged people, for example. They also tend to shun the able which is a major factor in collapse.
I would also include the artificial elevation of women. Men and women have quite different drives and outlooks, and this is not working in our favour.
Force is, increasingly, all they have left.
But they are foxes by nature (no offense to foxes). It is not in them, at a deep socio-sexual level, to be lions. Everything in them has been purposefully maladapted to that. They won’t be any better at this transition than their tranny freak pets are at theirs.
It’s a detransition and soon no one will use their pronouns any more.
Western civilization is a big place. It includes Europe, America, Russia (yes, they're Western Civ, too), the Aussies. I'm not sure that it has to get much worse than now, because in our modern concept, this shit is pretty bad. It most certainly will get better as the realists gain and assert power.
I am not so sure. The goal is to significantly increase immigration under the guise of climate. Climate migration. I have seen figures of 5m plus per year just into Britain.
Doesn't mean it will happen of course. But if they succeed in imposing their digital tools things could get very bleak indeed.
Disclosure: I couldn't make it past high school. Needed private tutoring to get through trade school.
When I post or mention to the credentialed that half the transformers in the local electrical grid are over 40 years old, the response is, overwhelmingly, silence/blank stare. A few might sincerely ask if this is bad.
There must be a word for the world where people like this live.
The map is not the territory is one way to look at this. The map these people have came at great expense and carries prestige - but it does not correspond to practical reality. The shock is twofold - how can *I* not understand this - and how come *he* can?
Many such cases.
I have had real jobs and watched men with no academic aptitude demonstrate the sort of resourceful practical wisdom that cannot be taught but only acquired, and only within personal limitations. The pure academic route is simply a means of monetising magic paper which is said to enclever men. In reality it more often sells work permits on credit for nonexistent or inessential jobs.
Thanks. I hadn't considered that.
I could go on about this a lot as I have beclowned myself in both walks of life lol.
yep...snap
Feels
But the experience gained was worth more than gold!
Yes it was. I think I found out who I was by failing at things, which corrected how I imagined myself. At other times, it corrected my imagined view of the world. So I found out a bit about what was around me. Neither were what you would call pleasant, but they did have the virtue of being true.
In Canada during Covid it was the truckers who brought an end to the government's controls. The middle classes realized with shock they relied on normal people for food, medicine and heating their homes. The PhDs mean nothing when you are freezing and starving.
They have also found they are not replaceable by immigrants.
What happened to the people who followed Peterson’s advice and directly challenged the Canadian state in that moment?
What a despicable man.
Indeed. He has made his pact. I am sure he has done well out of the arrangement.
I can’t remember where I read about that but it was on Stack recently. Quite the question.
indeed, as per our environment, our motivations, so many factors zig zag through ones lifetime.....all unique all different, it does make for the best of us, my 2c, thankyou for the post Frank.....
You’re welcome Linda!
How did you get that picture of me in my pornhub shirt?
👍
God, let me die in a world in which the future is looking bright for my grandchildren; and may they have the sense and gumption to make it shine even brighter.
You are living through this transition now. The sponsorship of insanity and evil is over, the monopoly of the counter-sane is ending. There is a better world emerging. It is one based not on being based, but simply on the sanity routinely excluded from politics and culture as a means of perpetuating the liberal system.
"I believe that dignity can be returned to working life - following the example of the social teaching of Pope Leo XIII."
Speaking of which, my new book on that very subject is now published and is live on Amazon. It is a unique type of extended essay of a sort that I don't think has been tried before: an ontological critique of modernity through the lens of neoliberal economics, written with the soul of an adventure.
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Weather-Together-Next-American/dp/B0F78VD3TJ/
From the book description:
"Written in a unique and picaresque style and with great breadth of insight, Traffic and Weather Together Next represents the first attempt to chart a course beyond neoliberal economics that preserves the gains of industrial society while liberating mankind from the ennui of modern existence. Both conceptually dense and startlingly brisk of pace, combining a learned survey of economic history with almost painful personal reflections, finding syntheses between town and country, abstract and concrete, Marx and von Mises, the author leaves nothing out and nothing to chance. This is one of those books that we almost thought could no longer be written: a devastating critique of a complex field by a learned amateur that needs only to be read before its truth becomes apparent to all. Answering the call of Rerum Novarum to outline a Catholic theory of economics that is true, ethical, and productive, this book is a modern masterpiece and an instant classic that will appeal especially to the younger generations. The clarion call to "pay off your debt, buy back your job, don't waste your life" will resonate with many in these economically troubled times. This is the book that breaks the modern world; this is the book that frees the modern soul."
And here is a special appeal to Kevin Michael Grace: I know you're out there. I know your read this Substack. I would be especially pleased if you would obtain a copy of this book and read it. You will not be disappointed; it is much better than the sources from which you currently draw your inspiration.
Great news! (I'm glad you too suspect that the choice of name yesterday wasn't candid, but that you're nevertheless leaving room to hope for a conversion; stranger things have happened, I tell myself.)
Well miracles do happen!
Thanks for the good feels Frank
Welcome Jonathan! I am not at home to Mr Badvibes.
another prophetic banger Frank
Brilliant, Frank.
Thank you CM. I think it makes sense when pointed out, and it is nice to hear I might be a sensible pointer outer.
Hope your assessment is accurate Frank. I really really do!
It doesn’t really matter whether it is or it isn’t (I think the meme is behind the times).
The elite civil war has caused the curtain to pull back, which permits the entry of public opinion into public discourse.
The formerly prohibited presence of the views of normal people is described as “extremism”, because from the point of view of the liberal elite being normal is extremely bad.
Lots of hopeful things being said about the new Pope. People need hope. I think your assessment is correct, however. The Church *will* continue but it's not going to look like people think it will - or should.
Popehope will turn to Popecope, on the way to Seethenhagen.
It’s not the man, its the modernism.
My first comment here, just wanted to say - thank you Frank! Your writing resonates with me on so many levels. I wonder what your upbringing were like?
Well I’m jolly glad you liked it and it is delightful to hear it tunes your fork, as it were.
Upbringing? Skint, not the worst.
This morning I listened to an interview with the brother of Pope Leo Ex Ivy. Bro mentioned that his bro is very much attuned to Francis' compassion towards the marginalized and outcast. Translation from American to English: more illegal immigrants. Does not sound promising.
I wonder if the globalists didn't look at JPII's election from the Eastern Bloc and the collapse of the Soviet empire a few years later and think they could precipitate the collapse of MAGA America with an American.
(Ask me about my other conspiracy theories!)
The Church is made of men, but its spirit is Christ. The flesh is weak and corruptible, but the spirit is strong and eternal. Men come and men go, but the Lord is one.
You're discounting the damage arising to our various complex systems from the upcoming conflict as we lurch into the 'changing of the guard' conflicts as the illiberal order is outcompeted by the technocratic order.
I agree it's inevitably bound to fail and people will gradually wake up along the way, I just don't see a happy ending. Our societies are really complex and cascading failures to critical systems is more than likely (for example, food or electric production, processing, transport, storage, distribution: the supply chain is tight. And going into the wild isn't an option for the urban masses).
No, I’m not. I don’t think there will be an “upcoming conflict”.
Ok. In general terms I don't think the technocrats and the globalists are on the same team. I think there are more than two teams, and things are more complicated than meets the eye. Since it's a winner takes all scenario, etc etc.
Power is always factional. To explain it, look at the actions of factions.
Love your writing, but just cannot see your hopeful outlook.
The world I live in is barely aware we can make our own decisions. The globalist, elitist television narrative still rules the roost in Canada, with no serious competition on any front.
Even Polievre was barely a conservative and barely interested in real freedom. He was right behind Trudeau, pushing for more jabs, faster.
I would suggest that 80% of the Canadian evangelical church are 80% governed by globalist ideologies. Sure, some of the obvious stuff has better % values, but all in, it is very difficult to find so called Bible believing church goers who have any interest in reality beyond what has been indoctrinated into them since birth.
That will get their ire up big time to be sure. The vast majority of these people are jabbed. Most of them are either unaware of how stupid that decision was, or refuse to acknowledge it. There are a total of zero churches in Canada that I am aware of that are tackling the last 5 years with enough zeal to be heard.
Zero.
There were about 6 churches that stood up at all, mostly to do with freedom of gathering.
What they are all doing today is pretending nothing happened the past 5 years, and are back doing whatever they did previous, which was obviously unbelievably inadequate,if our freedom matters at all.
Would love to hear a good challenge from an evangelical telling me I am way off in left field.
Please, make my day.
The adverts do not correspond to reality, and this divergence will fuel the same disillusion and disenchantment as it has in the wider West.
All this actual "reality" is only sustained by Boomers. As soon as they croak, this sociocultural reality croaks with them.
GenXers and Millennials don't give a shit about Boomerworld, but pretend to, because they're still afraid the Boomers will delist them from the inheritance (I personally know some who were).
GenZers have zero interest and politics and in their opinion, all politicians are criminals and charlatans.