Monday 30 December 2013

Old And Young

Looking back over the last year, one of the nicest things has been the emergence of an informal Spanish speaking group on a Wednesday evening at a local bar. There are usually a few English and a few Spanish, and one Catalan (he is definitely not Spanish!)
Unlike most groups in pubs and bars the people who come for a chat, this little group has a large age range, the youngest and the oldest of the regulars being fifty years or so apart.
From our schooldays onwards we are segregated in age bands, and this age segregation is re-inforced by the media. In times gone by it was normal for people to live, work and meet together. Only in advanced Patriarchy has this division, so natural in a world of bosses and servants, of social and economic grading, been introduced, keeping us segregated by our age.
Over the years I have very lucky that the nature of my work has kept me in touch with the very elderly and the very young, those with wealth and influence, and those with none, but I am aware that this is unusual.
It does us all good to get together as equals. Divide and rule is the aim of those in Power. Men and women, old and young, are not aliens to each other. The most revolutionary thing we can do, apart from opting out of the power structure as much as possible, is to get together as much as possible. There are no gradations in Paradise. We are all the children of Adam and Eve.

Sunday 29 December 2013

Christmas Gifts

Mary Malone writes:
Christmas is a big excuse for keeping in touch with family and old friends, but it is much more than that. Christmas is the season when we give gifts to each other.
 In a Patriarchal society  giving to each other is not normal. Indeed, giving freely is rather frowned upon, as giving does not help the economy, the Economy of Control, grow. Those who give freely are disparaged as being a bit simple or a bit stupid, or perhaps devious, deviant, and self-seeking. People are encouraged to buy and sell, and to pay taxes. Only the State has the right to take our resources through taxation and redistribute them to those whose support it wishes to gain or those it wishes to weaken by creating habits of dependency - such as foreign governments and mothers.
The Patriarchal economy is the economy of Hierarchy - a mixture of the exchange economy and the command economy. It is enforced with egotism and violence.
In the past fifty years we have seen women brought under Patriarchal domination as never before. In the two hundred years up to the Second World War the great Liberal project was to smash the autonomous power of the peasantry, whether they be Chinese, African, Russian, Scots Highlanders or Red Indians through land expropriation, taxation and conscription of men into armies and forced labour. In the past fifty years or so we have seen the assimilation of women into the Patriarchy, through the destruction of the family and the monetarization of both domestic activity and the care of the young and old and sick.
Our grandmothers lived almost entirely within matriarchal parameters - theirs was a gift economy. They were not paid in money - tax tokens - and except for what they were given by their husbands, they lived cash free existences. They cared for the young and the old, they grew food and cooked food, washed clothes, mended clothes, made clothes.
The Gift Economy was at the centre of women's existence. In her children she gave the future to the human race.
Women's natural activity, her giving, is central to human life. Woman's Gift is the core of human society. It is the Gift of Love, not the Exchange of Egotism, nor the Demand of Domination.It is the Gift that is the absolute essential for our well-being, both woman and man alike.
The agents of the State, the Vichy Feminists and their fellow travellers, the ideologues of the overseer class, forever seek to belittle the Gift. They seek to replace it with their own degradation, that of reward and punishment, that of compulsion.
At Christmas time we celebrate the Economy of the Poor, the God of the Powerless, the Gift of Woman, the Gift of Our Lady, the Mother of God.

Saturday 28 December 2013

A Verse On Sunday

The Gospel according to John, Chapter 1, verse 2:

'The same was in the beginning with God.'

Jesus was with God in the beginning, whenever that was, an idea our mortal minds find difficult to grasp. But what is clear is that Jesus is not a creature of God. He was not made by God, like you and me. Jesus is God. He is of the essence of God. What God is, so is he.
Throughout the years there have been many sects that have tried to claim that Jesus is a creature like you and me, but the idea is farcical. He is a man, yes, but not a creature. How can a creature, obsessed with self and survival, in a world of compromise and sin, be the perfect Son of God? His sacrificial love, his perfect suffering, his boundless love, was pleasing to his Father. How can a sinful human do anything so great that he could pay for the sins of the world, that he could set us free from the chains of sin?
Jesus Christ, the Word was in the beginning with God.

Friday 27 December 2013

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - The Incarnation

'Our Lord Jesus Christ is, in some senses, more completely man than Adam ever was. Adam was not born; he was created as a man.  Adam never had to struggle through the risks and weaknesses of infancy; he knew not the littlenesses of childhood, - he was full-grown at once. Father Adam could not sympathize with me as a babe and a child: but He is cradled with us, He accompanies in the pains, and feebleness, and infirmities of infancy, and He continues with us even to the grave.'

'That any of us should be willing to seek after the lost is nothing wonderful - they are of our own race; but that He, the offended God, against whom the transgression has been committed, should take upon Himself the form of a servant, and bear the sin of many, and then should be willing to receive the vilest of the vile, this is marvellous.'

'There are some points in which no one man is all that manhood is; but Jesus was the summary of all manhood. I might also venture to say that he had about him the whole nature of mankind, as it respects the mental conformation of both man and woman, for he was as tender as a woman though as strong as a man. Holy women, as much as godly men, find in Jesus all that is in their own souls. There is nothing effeminate in him, and yet all the loveliness which is feminine; read his life-story and see. He was a man in the broadest sense of the term, taking up the whole genus.'

'You must not transform his humanity into deity: his deity is everywhere, but his substantial humanity can only be in its proper place, and to suppose it to be everywhere is virtually to deny that it is anywhere.'

'He, on whom all worlds are hanging, hangs upon a woman's breast. He must do that, or he cannot put away sin.'

Thursday 26 December 2013

Together At Christmas

Mary Malone writes;
I hope you have had a lovely Christmas. I have had a wonderful time here with my husband, my two daughters and three sons, not to mention visits from uncles and aunts, cousins, and Granny and Grandad. Santa Claus turned up too, with a few presents for everyone.
I cooked an enormous Christmas dinner. My mother and my daughters were a great help. The boys were having fun too, playing with their train set, their father teaching them the art of being hairy and masculine.
There are plenty of people who aren't as blessed as I am. They are lonely not just at Christmas, but all year too. Even when they are living with other people, people seem so lonely these days. Here in our house, we may not be very rich, and all of us except the youngest has to share a room, but I like to think that we actually live together.
As a Feminist, a woman who believes in the equality of the two genders, and the greater importance of women than men, it saddens me to see the destructive power of the Patriarchal State, willingly abetted by all those phoney Vichy Feminists who are hooked on power and domination.
We must never forget the destructive power of the State and the Vichy Feminist ideology. It is important to know our enemies. They come to us with their smiley concerned faces but they only want to control us. Never trust a bureaucrat, I always say. Never trust anyone who works for the State or Local Government.
Divide and Rule is their game.
Segregation is the path of absolute triumph for the State. First the young people are separated from the adults, the children from the grown ups, older people are marginalised from society, and men and women are increasingly kept apart, so that everyone, isolated and alone, diminished, irresponsible and driven mad by lack of social experience can be subdued and dominated by the institutions of power.
So let's get revolutionary! Let's get together, everyone, old and young, girls and boys. Love your families, be together. Together we can rebuild Society and destroy the Patriarchal State!

Wednesday 25 December 2013

But One King

John Ball writes;
A free people needs but one King, Jesus Christ, and but one Priest, Jesus Christ.
Those who wield the power of expropriated violence, the lords of this earth and their stooges like to speak to us at Christmas. They address us in condescending and lying tones. These days they even smile at us. Both the new pope of Rome, Papa Francesco, and the new Archbishop of Vichy, Justin Welby, wear the same goofy lying grin, the smiley face of the oppressor. They smile and they wave and they make pious statements about economic injustice, as if they do not know that wealth follows earthly power, a power that they are dedicated to uphold. It is the distribution of power, not the distribution of wealth that is the problem.
Like the Bolsheviks, the Prelates of Power believe they can introduce equality of wealth whilst stealing people's power. But the end result is always death and destruction.
The solutions of these Priests Of Hierarchy are no better than Lenin's. They are unable to forego earthly power. But in one sense they go further than Lenin. Lenin wanted to steal the power of the peasantry, the Prelates of Power want to steal the power of God. Fortunately, God I'll never allow this to happen. They can only steal an illusion.
So, ignore the imposters, love God, obey God, live in peace with your neighbour if you can, and pray to God that the white Wolves of Power may howl in the wind far away from your door.

In The Bleak Midwinter

In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long ago.

Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him,
Not earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak midwinter
A stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.

Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay
Enough for Him whom angels
Fall down before
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.

Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air,
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.

What can I give Him
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb.
If I were a wise man
I would do my part
Yet what can I give Him,
Give my heart.

Monday 23 December 2013

Christmas Eve - One Of Us

John Ball writes;
This is a world of Popes and Princes, of soldiers and politicians and thieves, scoundrels who dress up their crime with all kinds of fancy uniforms and medals and robes. But Jesus Christ, when he walked the earth was not one of the oppressors - he was one of us. He wore no tiara except the Crown of Thorns of the common man. He completely rejected the power of this world, a power that falsely calls itself Authority, but which, in reality, is based on nothing but deception, the weasal words of priests and propagandists, the self interested morality of caring institutions designed to protect the powerful from the hordes.
 The Ten Commandments was the Law of a free people, a people like our own ancestors, the Saxons, who before the imposition of the Norman Yoke ran their own societies without overlords and priests. Our ancestors were 'Germans', that is 'brothers' and Authority came from the people.
But the feudal thugs and the lying priests joined forces to form a military bureaucratic complex. The false authority of the rulers came from the lying priests, - no longer from us, the people.
The rulers learnt to hate the people, because they are parasites, and they hate our self-sufficiency and our love. These perverts only know domination and they are all around us today.
So remember this - Jesus Christ is one of us. He came not to tax us nor to tithe us, nor to set up institutions with bureaucracies and police forces with their guns and batons and chemical coshes and their universal compulsory brainwashing for our poor bairns.
Celebrate Christmas because through the darkness the Word of Freedom shines on. God Himself is made flesh - in the form of a powerless common man, and it is his supreme lack of earthly power which makes him the Son of Man, and pleases God to give our Lord supreme Authority.

Sunday 22 December 2013

Lord Byron - To Inez

From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:

'Nay, smile not at my sullen brow,
Alas! I cannot smile again:
Yet Heaven avert that ever thou
Shouldst weep, and haply weep in vain.

And dost thou ask what secret woe
I bear, corroding joy and youth?
And wilt thou vainly seek to know
A pang even thou must fail to soothe?

It is not love, it is not hate,
Nor low Ambition's honours lost,
That bids me loathe my present state,
And fly from all I prized the most.

It is that weariness that springs
From all I meet, or hear, or see:
To me no pleasure Beauty brings;
Thine eyes have scarce a charm for me.

It is that settled, ceaseless gloom
The fabled Hebrew wanderer bare,
That will not look beyond the tomb,
But cannot hope for rest before.

What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life......the demon Thought.

Yet others rapt in pleasure seem,
And taste of all that I forsake:
Oh! may they still of transport dream,
And ne'er, at least like me, awake!

Through many a clime 'tis mine to go,
With many a retrospection curst,
And all my solace is to know,
Whate'er betides, I've known the worst.

What is that worst? Nay, do not ask......
In pity from the search forbear:
Smile on........nor venture to unmask
Man's heart, and view the hell that's there.

Saturday 21 December 2013

A Verse On Sunday

The Gospel According To John, Chapter 1, Verse 1.
'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'

Jesus Christ, our Lord is the Word. The Word gives meaning, form, ownership. God gave Adam the gift of speech, to give names to all creatures and all things of this earth. The animals, who cannot speak, can only relate to something else from the perspective of their own appetite. A creature might be something to eat, or something which might eat the animal. A stone or a river is simply an obstacle.
But mankind, through the gift of speech, knows meaning. And Jesus is the original Word, who was with God and was God, right at the beginning.
 It is Jesus, God Himself, who brings meaning out of chaos, who brings life and love  and form and harmony to a mass of nothing, whose love redeems us from an eternity of animal egotism.

Friday 20 December 2013

Ivan Illich - A Life

From 'Brave New Biocracy':
'What I fear is that the abstract, secular notion of 'a life' will be sacralized, thereby making it possible that this spectral entity will progressively replace the notion of 'a person' in which the humanism of Western individualism is anchored. 'A life' is amenable to management, to improvement and to evaluation in a way which is unthinkable when we speak of 'a person'. The transmogrification of a person into 'a life' is a lethal operation, as dangerous as reaching out for the tree of life in the time of Adam and Eve.'

''A life' is the most powerful idol the church has had to face in the course of its history. More than the ideology of empire or feudal order, more than nationalism or progress, more than nationalism or progress, more than gnosticism or Enlightenment, the acceptance of 'a Life' as a God given reality lends itself to a new corruption of the Christian faith.'

'When the Lord announced to Martha 'I am Life' he did not say 'I am a Life.' He says 'I am Life', tout court. This Life has its historical roots in the revelation that one human person, Jesus, is also God. This one Life is the substance of Martha's faith.  In the Christian tradition, we hope to receive this Life as a gift; and we hope to share it. We know that Life was given to us on the Cross and we cannot seek it except on the Via Crucis. This life is gratuitous, beyond and above having been born and living. But, as Augustine and Luther constantly stress, it is a gift without which being alive would be dust.'

Thursday 19 December 2013

Mary's Boy Child

Mary Malone writes:
A Merry Christmas to all you girls and boys who avidly read the blogs I write for my friend Revolting, and especially to those of you who have bought my books, 'The Denial of Woman,' 'Men and Matriarchy', 'The World in Blue and Brown,' and so on.
I love this time of year. I think of my namesake, Mary, heavy with child, and how lovely it s to be pregnant. It's what it's all about really. How happy Our Lady, the Mother of God, must have been!
 Her child, the Son of God, was a boy!
I know that a lot of Vichy Feminists either deny God completely, or would like Mary's boy child to be differently gendered, but they are sadly mistaken.
In Jesus Christ, God's love is sacrificial. Jesus suffers an awful death for our sake - that's you and me, girls. Not only do boys grow up knowing that they must sacrifice their health and lives for us, such selfless love is in the nature of the male of the species. It is how he loves.
In the very act of love, that great mass of masculine energy gives up his strength to us girls, and suffers a little 'death'. How wonderful it is to hold the inert body of a powerful man, like Mary holding the body of the crucified Christ in Michelangelo's sculpture, the 'Pieta'.
Christmas reminds me how lucky I am to be a girl, to be a mother like Mary, to have given birth to a wonderful boy child.
I think those Vichy Feminists are crazy. Who wants to be God when we are loved by God!?!

The UK's Horniest Student - Subjected To Sharia Law?

The UK's Horniest Student, Elina Desaine, is being disciplined by Exeter University for bringing the university  into disrepute. A woman is being punished for seeking sexual pleasure as freely and openly and pro-actively as any man. But do we hear an uproar from the State Feminists? While they are bleating about the smoke screen of Islamic seating arrangements they ignore the very real attack on the most important and hard won freedoms against Patriarchal society - for a woman to be respected for who she is and not what she does with her pussy.
In recent years Exeter University has risen up the university rankings, in large part due to donations from Arab Islamofascist ultra Patriarchal regimes, where women are treated like dirt, foreigners treated like slaves, Christianity is banned and whose main ideology is hatred of the Jews.
Wikipedia states;
'Gifts from the Gulf States made it possible to build a new university library in 1983 and more recently have allowed for the creation of a new Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. A further major donation enabled the completion of the Xfi Centre For Finance And Investment. Since 2009, significant further investment has been made into new student accommodation, new buildings in the Business School, and the Forum, a new development for the centre of Streatham Campus.'
One of the 9 'research strengths and key themes' include 'Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.'
According to a report concerning Libyan investment in the LSE, the Daily Telegraph of 3rd March 2011 said,
'Yet, on the most conservative estimate, other British universities have received hundreds of millions of pounds from Saudi and other Islamic sources - in the guise of philanthropic donations, but with the real intention of changing the intellectual climate of the United Kingdom.
 Between 1995 and 2008 eight universities - Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, University College  London, the LSE, Exeter, Dundee and City - accepted more than £233•5 from Muslim rulers and those closely connected to them.
Much of the money has gone to Islamic study centres: the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies received £75 million from a dozen Middle Eastern rulers..........the LSE's own Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, which got £9 million from the United Arab Emirates; this week, a majority of the centre's board was revealed to be pushing for a boycott of Israel. While figures since 2008 have yet to be collated, the funding has only increased: such donations are now the largest source of external funding for universities by quite a long way. The donors claim they want only to promote understanding of Islam - a fine goal for any university.
The man who gathered the earlier figures, Prof. Anthony Glees, argues that their real agenda is rather different: to push an extreme ideology and act as a form of propaganda for the Wahhabist strain of Islam within universities. "They push, he says, "the wrong sort of education by the wrong sort of people, funded by the wrong sort of donor."
This is not simply scare-mongering. The management committees of Islamic Studies centres at Cambridge and Edinburgh contained appointees hand picked by Prince Alwaleed. Other universities have altered their study areas in line with their donors' demands. And it works. A study of five years political lectures at the Middle Eastern Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford, found that 70% were 'implacably hostile' to the West and Israel............... The gift by foreign governments of language books , for instance, can have a significant effect on what is taught: in one case, the gift of an art gallery was found to have a direct impact on teaching and admissions policy.'
So writes Stephen Pollard of the Telegraph.
Could it be that Britain's Horniest Student has offended Islamic funding? In which case Miss D. may be an enthusiastic amateur, but the University of Exeter, and all the men in suits who will judge her, and all the State Feminists who rush to sew the letter 'A' to her garments, are shameless whores.

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Extremely Horny

Exeter University takes the fight against extremism very seriously. In such an esteeme centre of education men and women sit together, but not too closely.  The students have to be careful about what they say, and about where they sit, suitably sandwiched between otherly gendered people, and ever vigilant in case they are perceived to be extreme or unequal.
One must, of course, be moderately horny.
Chastity is just so extreme and religious, yet surprisingly, perhaps, a woman who sleeps around and is unashamed of her activities, is deemed to have brought the university into disrepute.
Elina Desaine, who has won the title of Britain's Horniest Student, might well ask what has changed in this brave new world of State Feminism.
 According to student magazine Exepose, Exeter University student Miss Desaine is facing a major disciplinary action from the university on the grounds that her own particular actions 'may cause reputational damage to the University.' It continues, 'Possible sanctions  from a major disciplinary hearing include permanent exclusion from the University, a fine not exceeding £500, community service or the signing of a behavioural contract.'
In her entry Miss Desaine, who won £500 and a years supply of condoms wrote:
'I should be the UK's horniest student because I have sex with 2/3 different people a week.
Sometimes I go clubbing, have sex with someone, and then go back to the club go pick up my second victim. Feeling horny right now, so might just text someone on my 'shag list' and do it in the computer room (I've done this before, was great!) With your help and Alcohol I will be able to become an even hornier student!'
Pretty tame really, but too extreme for the conformists and moralists of Soviet Britain. Miss D. must learn to shag a little more earnestly in future, yah?

Tuesday 17 December 2013

Just Not Equal

Once again the government has chosen to interfere in the minutiae of daily life, pronouncing on matters concerning people's free choices and their freedom to act according to their beliefs. All must abide by the Democratic will, the bovine herd directed by its masters, who only want to milk it and slaughter it.
In this case, the government want the universities not to 'pander to extremism'.
How? By not teaching certain Chemistry or History lessons? No, by outlawing segregated seating. You see, separate seating of men and women is dangerous, extremely dangerous, dangerously extreme.
According to the Independent newspaper, a newspaper for moderate, normal and equal people;
'Controversial guidelines for universities on separating men and women at certain religious events at universities, which were branded a 'legitimisation of sex apartheid', were being reviewed by Universities UK after the Prime Minister criticised them.
The body, which represents universities in the UK, has said that it is withdrawing a specific case study referring to external speakers from 'ultra orthodox religious groups' being able to request that men and women are separated at events they speak at. It is now reviewing the guidelines.
Both David Cameron and Education Secretary Michael Gove criticised the guidance, with Gove describing the guidelines as a 'pander to extremism'.
A spokesperson (sic) for the Prime Minister also said: 'He doesn't think that guest speakers should be able to address segregated audiences and he thinks that Universities UK should urgently review its guidance.'
The tyrant speaks and his will is - democratically - done.

Monday 16 December 2013

Just Not Funny

According to the Daily Star of 8th December 2013,
'Comedian Simon Amstell has apologised for a joke he made in reference to Nelson Mandela while on BBC  Radio 1. Appearing in the station's breakfast show  less than 24 hours after news of Nelson Mandela's death was announced, the former Pop World presenter joked about racial segregation between different aspects of BBC radio and referenced the late South African leader.
During the show on Friday he said, "What is going on? We're next to (urban music station) 1Xtra, it's so white in here. Mandela would not approve of the situation here at the BBC."
Amstell took to his Twitter account later the same day to apologise for the joke, writing, "It may have been unclear this morning, as things often are, but what came out of this mouth today was very silly. Apologies go everyone else."
So there you have it Simon. No being disrespectful to Old Uncle Tom Mandela, y'hear?
And a Happy Mandelamas to you all!

Sunday 15 December 2013

Thomas Hood - Faithless Nelly Gray

Ben Battle was a soldier bold
And used to war's alarms
One day a cannon ball shot of his legs
So he lay down his arms

Now as they bore him off the field
Said he, "Let others shoot
For here I leave my second leg
And the Forty Second Foot

The army surgeons made him limbs,
Said he, "They're only pegs
But there's as wooden members quite,
As represent my legs."

Now Ben he loved a pretty maid,
Her name was Nelly Gray;
So he went to pay her his devours,
When he'd devoured his pay.

But when he called on Nelly Gray
She made him quite a scoff,
And when she saw his wooden legs,
Began to take them off.

"O Nelly Gray! O Nelly Gray!
Is this your love so warm?
The love that loves a scarlet coat,
Should be a little more uniform.

She said, "I loved a soldier once,
For he was blithe and brave,
But I will never love a man,
With both feet in the grave,

Before you had those timber toes
Your love I did allow,
But now , you know, you stand,
Upon another footing now."

"O Nelly Gray! O Nelly Gray!
For all your jeering speeches,
At duty's call I left my legs
In Badajo's breaches."

"Why then," said she, "you've  lost the feet
Of legs in war's alarms
And now you cannot wear your shoes
Upon your feats of arms."

O false and fickle Nelly Gray
I know why you refuse!
Though I've no feet, some other man,
Is standing in my shoes.

I wish I'd never seen you face,
But now a long farewell,
But you will be my death - alas!
You will not be my Nell."

Now when he went from Nelly Gray,
His heart so heavy got,
And life was such a burden grown
It made him take a knot.

So round about his melancholy neck
A rope he did entwine,
And for a second time in life,
Enlisted in the Line.

One end he tied around a beam,
And then removed his pegs
And as his legs were off, of course,
He was soon off his legs.

And there he hung till he was dead,
As any nail in town,
For though distress had cut him up,
It could not cut him down.

A dozen men sat upon his corpse,
To see why he had died,
And they buried Ben in four-crossroads
With a stake in his inside.

Saturday 14 December 2013

Water The Earth With The Tears Of Your Joy

From 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Dostoyevsky;
'"Do not fear Him. He is terrible in his greatness, awful in his sublimity, but infinitely merciful. He has made Himself like unto us from love and rejoices with us. He is changing the water into wine so that the gladness of the guests may not be cut short. He is expecting new guests; He is calling new ones unceasingly forever and ever........There they are bringing new wine. Do you see, they are bringing the vessels................"
..........Something glowed in Alyosha's heart, something filled it till it ached, tears of rapture rose from his soul.......He stretched out his hands, uttered a cry and awoke........
...........He did not stop on the steps either, but went quickly down; his soul, overflowing with rapture, yearned for freedom, space, openness. The vault of heaven, full of soft, shining stars, stretched vast and fathomless above him. The Milky Way ran in two pale streams from the zenith to the horizon. The fresh motionless still night enfolded the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the cathedral gleamed out against the sapphire sky. The gorgeous autumn flowers in the beds round the house were slumbering till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens. The mystery of earth was one with the mystery of the stars.
Alyosha stood, gazed, and suddenly threw himself down on the earth. He did not know why he embraced it. He could not know why he embraced it. He could not have told why he longed so irresistibly to kiss it, to kiss it all. But he kissed it, weeping, sobbing, and watering it with his tears and vowed passionately to love it for ever and ever. "Water the earth with the tears of your joy and love those tears" echoed in his soul.

Friday 13 December 2013

Costanza Miriano - Marry and Be Submissive

Costanza Miriano was asked about her books and why they should be so controversial.
Any errors in translation are entirely mine.
'To begin with I thought that it was the word 'submissive' that caused offence. Then I saw that in your country (Spain) other books are sold that contain the word 'submissive' with no problems, books with titles such as 'Diary of a Submissive Woman' or 'Confessions of a Submissive Woman.' Then I realised that it is the word 'Marry' that causes offence. Submissive, yes! To your lover, certainly, or to a passer-by, to anyone, but not to your husband! The mainstream ideology hates the Christian idea of marriage because it is exactly the opposite of the totem of contemporary man, which is auto-determination, the total absence of ties, of belonging, of boundaries. Contemporary man does not accept even the most obvious truth, that gender is a given identity and not one we chose, and it is an identity in which the masculine and feminine dynamic states the deepest truth about the nature of man: man and woman, in his image, says the Bible. In the man/woman dynamic there is the secret of the image of God, which is one and triune. But today God is rejected, and they want the complete auto-determination of every man. Orphan, sterile, alone.
Why people have wanted (my books) to be censored, it is not for me to say. I'd like to ask them why, those who want censorship. I find it all rather grotesque and also quite worrying. Who is to say who can say what? I ask myself too: I am a nobody, just a wife and a mother and I represent nobody, and I speak only for myself. Why is it that what I say is so threatening? You don't have to buy my book; you can think badly of me, reckon me to be of little intelligence. Censorship shows weakness, it is clear.'

Thursday 12 December 2013

Unacceptable Opinions

In November 2013 El Mundo reported that Ana Mato, the Spanish Minister for Equality had criticized the book, 'Marry and be Submissive,' and had asked for the bestselling book to be withdrawn. Any errors in translation are entirely mine:
'The Minister of Health, Social Services, and Equality, Ana Mato, has said that she has asked the Archbishop of Granada to withdraw the book, 'Marry and be Submissive,' According to her, neither she nor 'the majority in society' share the sentiments expressed by this title.
For the first time, Ana Mato has pronounced on the controversial book by the Italian Costanza Miriano, during an interview with television station TVE on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
"I don't agree with either the title or the content, so I have asked for the withdrawal of this book; I believe that it is wrong, and that it lacks respect towards women," she pointed out in the interview.
She continued to point out that "for the moment" she had received no reply concerning her request for the withdrawal of the publication, and insisted that she hopes that it will be withdrawn as, in her opinion, "no woman, nor the majority in society" are in agreement with either the title or the content of the book.
Two weeks ago the director of the Institute of Woman, Carmen Plaza, following orders from Ana Mato, sent a letter to the Archbishop of Granada asking him to reconsider the publication of the book 'Marry and be Submissive' because it did not have the values of Equality that any public institution must defend, it has been revealed by sources at the Ministry of Equality. Already the provincial government of Andalusia has requested the withdrawal of the book, but for the moment, the Archbishop of Granada has said that he sees no reason for the publishers, New Beginning, which depends on the diocese, to withdraw the book.'

Wednesday 11 December 2013

Ana Mato - Receiving Gifts

Ana Mato is the Minister for Health and Equality in Spain. She is divorced  from her husband, and like Adolf Hitler, the Austrian politician, and Samantha Lewthwaite, the  British alleged terrorist, she is the child of a uniformed government official, in her case a naval officer.
The newspaper El Mundo published this report in February this year. Any errors in translation are entirely my own.
'The 'Gurtel' web of corruption gave to the family of the Minister of Health, Ana Mato and her husband, Jesus Sepulveda, ex-mayor of Pozuelo de Alarcon, tourist holidays  worth 50,000 euros, and luxury items from the firm, Louis Vuitton, worth 610 Euros, at the same time defraying the costs of 'private family events' such as birthday parties with clowns, which cost more than 11,800 Euros. They also picked up the tab for 75,000 Euros at the People's Party office in Pozuelo, as well as other expenses.
Such is the information given in a report to which Europa Press has access, written by the Economic and Tax Crimes Unit, which gives a summary of the 'Gurtel' case, which details how the organisation headed by Francisco Correa rendered 'various touristic services to Jesus Sepulveda and/or various members of his family between 2000 and 2004 through the company, 'Pasadena Journeys.'
The report details the existence of various gifts in cash (60,000 Euros) into the accounts of the Pozuelo People's Party, the payment of expenses related to various political activities  and the setting up of an office for the People's Party in that locality for the 2003 elections (15,000 Euros) and the organising of a number of family events for Sepulveda.
The report details the discovery of documents that show the purchase, on the part of 'Special Events', one of the companies in the 'Gurtel' network, of two items from Louis Vuitton, destined for the Minister of Health to the value of 610 Euros. The said document contains a hand written note, 'Present for Ana Mato'.
The two items are valued at 225 and 385 Euros. Also, there is a receipt for the handing over of 480 Euros in cash to Alvaro Perez, the man thought to be responsible for the network in Valencia. The receipt states the money is 'to buy a present for Ana Mato.'

Tuesday 10 December 2013

TEBO - Democratic But Not Free

The United Kingdom government is planning to introduce Terror and Extremist Behaviour Orders. Civil authorities such as the police, local government and national government, will be given the power to silence those who seek to 'radicalise' others. If you have a TEBO you will be banned from speaking in public, entering certain buildings, and who knows, writing a blog like this.
Certainly, though supposedly designed to combat 'Islamism' these orders will be used to silence those who campaign against public corruption and unjust laws. Once again law has been transformed into an administrative process, whose aim is not justice, but the quiescence of the population.
David Cameron, the Chief Bureaucrat stated: 'We have already put in place some of the toughest terrorism-prevention  controls in the democratic world.'
Take note! No longer do the politicians talk about the Free World!
Now they talk about the Democratic World.
'We must work harder to defeat radical views which lead some people to embrace violence.....'
Does Cameron mean ideas such as Responsibility to Protect, ideas that lead to extreme violence in the form of bombing foreign cities and the murder of men, women and children?
I suspect not.
'There are just too many people who have been radicalised in Islamic centres, who have been in contact with extremist preachers, who have accessed radicalising information on the internet..........I want to see an end to hate preaching in Britain.'
Ah, the internet!
I'm beginning to think this Democratic Trojan Horse is disguised as an 'Islamist'.

Government Interference

According to the BBC, the Minister of Culture and Sport, Maria Miller, has called  a 'Whitehall summit following allegations of fixing in football.'
The government bureaucrat is calling together 'leaders' from football, cricket, horse racing, rugby league and rugby union.
Why is she doing this?
Apparently she is 'deeply concerned'. But so what?
If there have been criminal actions committed, that is a matter for the police. And if there needs to be rule changes that is a matter for the respective sporting bodies, not for government. FIFA, the world footballing organisation demands that each football association is free from interference from national government.
Not so long ago, governments in this country kept out of private life, but now every sphere of human life is the government's business.
If they would simply content themselves with passing the occasional law, balancing the budget, and dealing with foreign powers, nobody would mind the government too much. People could then live in relative autonomy and peace.
But the imperative of power and the imperative of democracy lead to ever increasing government interference. When a people elects its government, instead of electing representatives to restrain its government, a collectivist mentality kicks in and liberty dies.
Maria Miller has no intention of introducing a new law to deal with gambling related fraud in sport. There are already sufficient laws in place. So why stick her oar in? Why politicise common crime? Indeed why politicise anything?
Yet many will tell you, police, civil servants, journalists, ordinary workers  how their lives lives are impacted by the government's need to impose their Narrative. Such is the collectivist, totalitarian consequence of democracy.
Before long they'll be telling us exactly what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot think.
What did you say? They already do that?

Sunday 8 December 2013

Lord Byron - Ambition's Honoured Fools

From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:

Three hosts combine to offer sacrifice;
Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high;
Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue skies.
The shouts are France, Spain, Albion, Victory!
The foe, the victim, and the fond ally
That fights for all, but ever fights in vain,
And met.....as if at home they could not die.....
To feed the crow on Talavera's plain,
And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain.

There shall they rot - Ambition's honoured fools!
Yes, Honour decks the turf that wraps their clay!
Vain Sophistry! in these behold the tools,
The broken tools, that tyrants cast away
By myriads, when they dare to pave their way
With human hearts....to what?......a dream alone.
Can despots compass aught that hails their sway?
Or call with truth one span of earth their own,
Sure that wherein at last they crumble bone by bone?

Albuera, glorious field of grief!
As o'er thy plain the Pilgrim pricked his steed,
Who could foresee thee, in a space so brief,
A scene where mingling foes should boast and bleed.
Peace to the perished! may the warrior's meed
And tears of triumph their reward prolong!
Till others fall where other chieftains lead,
Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng.
And shine in worthless lays, the theme of transient song.

Enough of Battle's minions! Let them play
Their game of lives, and barter beneath for fame:
Fame that will scarce reanimate their clay,
Though thousands fall to deck some single name.
In sooth, 'twere sad to thwart their noble aim
Who strike, blast hirelings! for their country's good,
And die, that living might have proved her shame,
Perished, perchance, in some domestic feud,
Or in a narrower sphere wild Rapine's path pursued.

The Attributes Of God - Immutability

John Ball writes:
It is debatable whether people really change. Although sometimes we might get rid of nasty habits or acquire new ones, the child is very much father of the man. We are, though, affected by time and experience. We change as time changes us.
But God was not born and he does not die. Time does not alter God. God always was what he is now for God is perfect. He is perfect in his Person and perfect in his Work. Arguably, it is sin that leads to change and God does not sin.
Instead, our Lord and Creator, our Father in Heaven, will always be Love. He will always be True. God's justice will always be perfect, his righteousness will always be perfect, his faithfulness will be perfect too.
All this may seem obvious to us, but before God revealed himself to the Hebrews, people worshipped all sorts of 'gods', entities that were vicious, unpredictable and downright nasty. These 'gods' knew little of love, justice or faithfulness.
Mankind knew there was a God, but was not clear who or what that god might be. Only the Hebrews knew the light while other peoples staggered around in darkness.
And that Light was the one true living God, not an idol made of stone. He is the eternal God, perfect, unchangeable, immutable.

Friday 6 December 2013

Ivan Illich - Shaping The Consumer

'The poor have always been powerless. The increasing reliance on institutional care adds  a new dimension to their helplessness: psychological impotence, the inability to fend for themselves.'

'All over the world the school has an anti-educational effect on society.'

'If we do not challenge the assumption that valuable knowledge is a commodity which under certain circumstances may be forced onto the consumer, society will be increasingly dominated by sinister pseudo schools and totalitarian managers of information. Pedagogical therapists will drug their pupils more in order to teach them better, and students will drug themselves more to gain relief from the pressures of teachers and the race for certificates. Increasingly larger numbers of bureaucrats will presume to pose as teachers. The language of the school-man has already been co-opted by the ad-man. Now the general and the policeman try to dignify their professions by masquerading as educators. In a schooled society, war making and civil repression find an educational rationale.'

'As long as we are not aware of the ritual through which school shapes the progressive consumer - the economy's major resource - we cannot break the spell of this economy and shape a new one.'

Thursday 5 December 2013

English Education And State Feminism

Mary Malone writes:
Compulsory education is a key element in the indoctrination of the young with the worldview of State Feminism and the destruction of solidarity between man and woman.
The origins of State Feminism lie in the boredom and resentment of women from bureaucratic patriarchal families who had servant women to do their work. They wanted the same sort of power as their menfolk. The Pankhursts, Shirley Williams, Harriet Harman are all women who have enjoyed the use of servants.
Since the War there have been huge efforts to bring women into the workplace, to subject women to the same sort of patriarchal control as men. New technology has been made available to make domestic work lighter, contraception has been made widely available, and abortion and divorce encouraged. Add to that the destruction of many skilled jobs since the 1980s and the foundations of the working class family have been rocked.
The compulsory education of young people is designed to finish off this destruction and assimilate everyone into Patriarchy. The indoctrination of girls, their training designed to accustom them to endless hours of repetitive work, aims to end women's autonomy, and bring women into the degrading world of paid work, alongside men.
Fifty years ago the education of a girl was still based on the likelihood that she would become the mistress of her own family, whereas now it is assumed that she will be a sort of second class man. Motherhood is regarded as a lifestyle choice. Women are expected to abort rather than 'ruin' their careers. Child care and even child bearing is outsourced to the Third World. If a woman is brave enough to have a child she must expect that there will be no man paid well enough to support her, and that she must place her poppet into a nursery to be looked after by other poorly paid women while she goes out to work.
Drudgery and degradation within the Patriarchy is the liberation offered to girls within the education system. And as for men - they're something to do with STDs aren't they?

Wednesday 4 December 2013

English Education - A Matter Of Control

One of the major problems for any child wishing to be educated is the modern obsession with the idols of Equality and Fairness. Caring and Sharing are pretty dangerous idols too. All these concepts are used to debilitate the common person. The powerful ignore such concepts. They make sure their own children are equipped with the tools to ensure 'success' in the hierarchy of political and economic life.
In effect, Equality and Fairness are ways of telling the powerless, 'Don't get above your station!' The purpose is divide and rule. It tells us to look at our fellow peasants and to resent their achievement. There must be no more top of the class or bottom of the class, no more recognition of achievement, only recognition of effort and improvement. The objective  gold star for coming top is replaced by the subjective smiley face of Teacher. Discipline is replaced by management, learning by control.
In the post war years, up until the late Seventies, autonomous working class organisations, the Trades Unions, had claimed a role in the political process. Working class life was vibrant. Ordinary people sat at the top table. We had never had it so good.
But the Imperative of Power does not allow such a situation to last for long. The young Managers coming out of the red brick universities with their social science degrees, had new weapons to unleash on ordinary people; Equality, Diversity, Fairness and Care.
In the schools the masses were to be treated the same. They were all little savages, tainted with the original sin of powerlessness, and they were to be proselytised, civilised, and made sick.
It was not fair if a girl did not behave like a boy, or a boy like a girl. Being a working class boy was in itself something of a crime, especially if he was of indigenous stock.
Ignorance was peddled. Nothing could be expected from these inferiors who would only become electricians, plumbers, cooks and cleaners. They were damned by their background, supposedly ill or 'disadvantaged'.
Once upon a time education had been a route to material and financial betterment for the working class. They might go to grammar school, and if they were more practically inclined there were apprenticeships and night schools. Where once he learnt so that he might earn enough to support a family, now the working class boy is damned, dumbed down and drugged up.
As long as the young have to bow to the false gods of Equality and Fairness, English education will continue to decline. The young will continue to be under-achieving and self -pitying.
School instills patterns of docility and consumerism, the glass ceiling of Fairness.
Our masters have to decide what they want - either education is a matter of learning or it is a matter of control.

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Anti-Intellectualism

Reports say that while people in other countries are becoming better educated, standards in England are declining. This comes as no surprise. There are a number of social and political factors behind this decline. But not least is the prejudice against the intellectual. Before you say this is not the case, in Rome there is an Irish pub. It is called the Scholars Lounge and the Irish bar staff wear T-shirts bearing the image of Joyce, Beckett, Wilde, Kavanagh and Shaw. Is there an English pub somewhere that honours England's writers?
Sneering at the well-read is nothing new. Even back in the 1960s and 1970s reading was a suspect activity, unless of course you were reading for titillation and excitement. Nothing that might exercise the mind, if you please, nothing that might challenge your preconceptions.
You were allowed to better your income but not your mind.
When you go abroad you find that all sorts of common people have a love of the written word. From Africa to Ireland, from Arabia to India, poets are revered, thinkers valued, questions asked, answers sought.
But not here. Perhaps there is a lucky side effect here. When someone breaks through the prejudice against independent thought, they cast off all restraint. With an attitude of 'no-one likes us, we don't care' the English intellectual is free to fly.
Who is it that is considered an intellectual in this dumbed down society? I would say, anyone who reads a book for instruction, opinion, or the beauty of the language, anyone who does not take their opinions or their values off the peg from newspapers, radio or television, someone who questions and works things out for themselves.
I know a man who likes to tell people he is an 'ordinary man', that he is 'uneducated', even though he has a university degree. Yes, he loves football, he tells us, and he gets his information from the idol in the corner of the living room.
Of course, he is normal - one more cretin in a farmyard of mental slovenliness.

Monday 2 December 2013

Pantheon

One of my least favourite places in Rome is the Pantheon. I am always uncomfortable when the statues of Caesar are placed in a church, and sure enough here in the Pantheon we find the tomb of Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a united Italy, the 'Father of the Nation'.
Much better are the nations who value not conquerers but poets. In the Lisbon version of the Pantheon the Portuguese honour Almeida Garrett, Teofilo Braga and the fado singer Amalia Rodriguez as well as three presidents of the republic. Most impressive is the inclusion of the political dissident Humberto Delgado, who was murdered by the State.
In Galicia, in Spain, pride of place goes to the poet Rosalia de Castro.
In Westminster Abbey, the poets only have a corner.
The Irish are at their best when they forget to blame the English and celebrate the many great writers who have enriched the language that conquered their own.
Who are the great Italians I ask myself? Certainly not kings and politicians. Perhaps Giovanni Agnelli, Enrico Caruso, Mastroianni, Pavese and Pasolini, men who have enriched  modern Italy, and the whole world.

Lord Byron - Rome

From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:

Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!
The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,
Lone mother of dead empires! And control
In their shut breasts their petty misery.
What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see
The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way
Over the steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye!
Whose agonies are evils of day
A world is at our feet as fragile as our day.
                                -
Fantastically tangled: the green hills
Are clothed with early blossoms, through the green grass
The quick-eyed lizard rustles, and the bills
Of summer-birds sing welcome as ye pass;
Flowers fresh in hue, and many in their class,
Implore the pausing step, and with their dyes,
Dance in the soft breeze in a fairy mass;
The sweetness of the violet's deep blue eyes,
Kiss'd by the breath of heaven, seems coloured by its skies.
                                            -
A ruin - - yet what a ruin! from its mass
Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared;
Yet off the enormous skeleton ye pass,
And moved where the spoil could have appeared.
Hath it indeed been plundered, or been cleared?
Alas! developed, opens the decay,
When the colossal fabric's form is reared:
It will not bear the brightness of the day,
Which streams too much on all --years --man - have reft away.

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Gone - A - Roaming

Revolting Peasant has gone to see what the world is like outside his small village. He will be back the first week of December, God willing.

Tuesday 12 November 2013

History Is The History Of The Church

John Ball writes:
There are people who claim that history is all about class, or money, or armies, or sex or power, but, in reality, history is the history of the Church.
The greatest history book is the Old Testament. When God's people turn their back on him, and chase after false idols, disaster ensues. And so it continues to be, to this day.
In the Old Testament, the greatest history book of all, we witness the history of the world. We see God creating the world, mankind's fall from grace, the break with human sacrifice with Abraham, the debt servitude of the Egyptian people accomplished by Joseph, the rebellion of the assimilated Hebrews under Moses, the giving of the Law, the obedience to God replacing the tyranny of the kings, and later on, God's people rejecting the kingship of God, and creating a state under Saul.
The same disasters occur over and over again, right to the present day.
Sure enough, when man loses his faith in God, and puts his faith in great armies, great crimes occur. By the early twentieth century the Church had largely turned its back on the mysteries of salvation, replacing the Lamb of God with a moral teacher of man, a teacher whose purpose was not God, but man.
The Church turned its back on holy poverty and sought worldly power. She took on board the utilitarian doctrines of the atheists.
And today, as we enter another dark age of tyranny, mankind seeks to build ever more Towers of Babel, the Church sells herself to the idols of Democracy, Equality, Prosperity, Ecology, the idols of Power.
God's righteousness has been traded for fairness, the ideology of grievance and self pity. Serious trouble is just a step away.

Monday 11 November 2013

Johnny Cash Is Bigger Than Elvis

Thirty six years ago, when Elvis Presley, 'the King' died, it was hard to imagine a bigger star. His charisma, his songs and his good looks put him a different category than any other singer. Yet today, while there is acceptance of the worth of much of his music, he is something of a joke figure, with his outlandish garb and his pelvic thrust.
For a start, Elvis did not write his own songs, and was a manufactured star, promoted by the media and corporate interests in a way that was a little too obvious.
On the other hand, ten years after his death, Johnny Cash is still regarded as a major star, though back in 1977, the year of Elvis's death, Cash was very much yesterday's man. After some fine recordings in his final years and an ongoing interest in the poor and fallen, especially prisoners, an essentially Christian worldview, in spite of his divorce and drug use, his stage persona spoke of sincerity, not glamour.
Today, young people indoctrinated in Political Correctness find refreshing a music that is at times naïve, yet is exotic to modern ears as it speaks of crime, regrets, sorrow and suffering, values that rise above modern self pity and grievance taking and hedonism.
The simplicity of his music is part of Johnny Cash's charm. He is an ordinary man like you and me he tells us, a man who sees the world not as a tourist seeking pleasure wherever he may find it, but as a pilgrim waiting to be called home.

Sunday 10 November 2013

Robert Herrick - The Holy Spirit

In the hour of my distress,
When temptations me oppress,
And when I my sins confess,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When I lie within my bed,
Sick at heart and sick in head,
And with doubts discomforted,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the house doth sigh and weep,
And the world is drowned in sleep,
Yet mine eyes the watch do keep,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the artless doctor sees
No one hope but of his fees,
And his skill runs on the lees,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When his potion and his pill
Has none or little skill,
Meet for nothing but to kill, -
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the passing-bell doth toll,
And the Furies in a shoal,
Come to fright a parting soul
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the tapers now burn blue,
And the comforters are few,
And that number more than true,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the priest his last hath prayed,
And I nod to what is said
'Cause my speech is now decayed,
 Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When, God knows, I'm tossed about
Either with despair or doubt,
Yet before the glass be out,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the tempter me pursu'th,
 With the sins of my youth,
And half claims me with untruth,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the flames and hellish cries,
Fight mine ears, and fright mine eyes,
And all terrors me surprise,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the judgement is revealed,
And that opened which was sealed, -
When to thee I have appealed,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

Saturday 9 November 2013

The Attributes Of God - Immanence

John Ball writes:
A lot of religious groups see God as only transcendent, that is outside of the material world. In Islam, for example, Allah has a messenger, but he stays strictly outside the field of play. Dualist religions, which view the world and the body as evil, have solely transcendent gods.
But in the Christian faith God is Incarnate. There is nothing inherently evil about creation. It is only sin, the misuse of creation, that is evil.
It is not prosperity, or well-being, or love, or sexual activity that is inherently wrong, nor friendship, nor games, nor work that are bad, but it is the misuse of the things that are inherently good that is bad.
Creation is so good that God so loved the world that he sent his only Son to suffer and die on the cross in order to reconcile his creation and mankind (made in his image) to himself. God himself to on the condition of a human being, with all its suffering and temptations. Yet you can often hear atheists say that Christianity is against the body, against the physical world. This is far from the truth. We are to be resurrected in the body. God is only against the abuse of the body. God does not hate the world like the Cathars of old or the Buddhists of today. He does not waste his energies condemning and punishing as do the Moslems or the Politically Correct.
God is the Living God. He is the God of life affirmation. Without God in their world, the heathens can only rage, can only hate life and give free rein to their lust for death.

Friday 8 November 2013

Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society

'Even the producers of body counts kill only bodies. By making men abdicate responsibility for their own growth, school leads many to a kind of spiritual suicide.'

'Health, education, personal mobility, welfare, or psychological healing are defined as the result of services or 'treatments.'

'Rich and poor alike depend on schools and hospitals which guide their lives, form their world view, and define for them what is legitimate and what is not.'

'During the sixties institutions born in different decades since the French Revolution simultaneously reached old age; public school systems founded in the time of Jefferson or of Atatürk, along with others started after World War II, all became bureaucratic, self-justifying and manipulative. The same thing happened to systems of social security, to labour unions, major churches and diplomacies, the care of the aged, and the disposal of the dead.
Today, for instance, the school system of Columbia, Britain, the USSR, and the US resemble each other more closely than US schools of the late 1890s resembled either today's schools or those of  their contemporaries in Russia. Today all schools are obligatory, open-ended, and competitive. The same convergence in institutional style affects health care, merchandising, personnel administration, and political life. All these institutional processes tend to pile up at the manipulative end of the spectrum.'

Thursday 7 November 2013

State Feminism And A Lack Of Love

Mary Malone writes:
Over the years  I have taken on the occasional part time job, working in a friend's flower shop, doing small academic projects, but most of my activity has been within the private sphere. I often visit elderly aunts and help run a mum's 'n' tots group and take care of my husband and children.
All these years my husband has gone out and earned the money, which is very good of him, really.
In my opinion career women are fools, many of whom have serious issues. They are bitter resentful creatures in self-denial.
At work the rules which men play by are unsuited to women. At work men are playing. The competition between them is a game. Even warfare is often a game to them.
In the domestic sphere a woman needs to dominate, so while she serves her family she is is respected by them, and they learn to serve her too. The qualities that a woman requires at home can make her bossy and unreasonable in the work place. Her earnestness makes any competitiveness psychotic.
Nearly half graduate women are childless. Small wonder, for which man is genuinely interested in his wife's office work? After their own work, men just want to grab a bite to eat and go out to play, getting out from under our feet. When they return, bright eyed and  bushy tailed they are in a good mood to serve their women.
A career, a domesticated husband who cooks and cleans? No thanks. There's no love in equality, just masturbation.
Give me a real man who let's me be a real woman, who gives me a home, my children and lots of love.

Obedient Children

There were some protests on Bonfire Night in London by people who do not like the cuts to welfare and so-called 'austerity'. As far as I could see these supposed radicals were not much interested in liberty, so perhaps it was appropriate that many should wear a mask depicting a man who tried to inflict a Catholic dictatorship on England.
For four hundred years the English have remembered the 5th November with thanks, being glad not to live under a tyranny, like the countries of Europe. Of course now we are increasingly ruled by Europe, our law and our liberties have been sold by our Quisling rulers, and the meaning of Bonfire Night is quietly forgotten.
For centuries the English were the most dynamic and inventive people in Europe, unencumbered by the dead hand of Catholic hierarchy. Unlike many Europeans they were not vicious self indulgent children, but responsible, autonomous adults.
Englishmen were free.
These days we see the effects of hierarchical living, at school, at work, in the nursing home, in the ever increasing childishness of our young people. Not so long ago people in their late teens and early twenties were setting up homes and having children. This seemed perfectly natural.
But these days young people flee from adulthood. So degraded, so indoctrinated have they become by years of repetition and passivity and conformity, that they believe that adulthood is a burden, that what they want is an endless alcohol and drug fueled play time.
In traditional society it was thought that a person was capable of making moral decisions at the age of 7. The next stages of maturity were 14 and 21.
But in modern commodity society, where everyone has a boss, where everything has a price and no value, people of any age take few independent decisions. As long as they follow the regulations and obey their 'superiors' they believe that all will be well. There is no need for the Ten Commandments. Any moral law is seen as an imposition, an unwelcome intrusion into their childish self-indulgence. At school ethical teaching no longer is a matter of such things as honesty, courage, endurance, loyalty, but of modern manners, racism, sexism, wearing a condom.
 The commitment to a husband or a wife, the responsibility of looking after a child, both physically and spiritually is beyond these big children. They want to play games, go-karting, skiing, cycling, dancing, focused on themselves, helped along by copious amounts of drugs and alcohol to help them blur the disturbing awareness of their vacuous beings.
Modern people, they're just not serious.

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Christianity, Responsiblity and Growing Up

John Ball writes:
The Atheist worships the belly. Equality, envy and digestion is his creed. His morality is his appetite and his self-loathing. He respects no law but the law of power.
The Christian, though, knows the Law of God. The law of the Atheist is based solely on power, but the law of the Godly is based on authority, and that law is the Law of God, the Law of Love.
The Christian needs judgement and discernment when applying the Law of God. The Law is not a set of regulations requiring passive obedience, but a set of principles that need to be worked out in every day situations.
A Christian knows only one King, and that is God. A Christian is responsible to God alone and does not bow in craven obedience before the image of Caesar, the idol of Power.
In taking on the responsibility required by the Law of God, a Christian attains full adulthood. He is fully alive.
But the Atheist, the servant of idols, can never be more than a child, and a vicious one at that, one who wants to play her own game on her terms and who feels a grievance when things are not just how she wants them.
Christianity is rejected by most modern people in this country, and so is growing up. Autonomous action is replaced by blind obedience to Power. And Power demands that there is nothing above it, no Eternal God, no principles, no Law, no meaning beyond brute animal existence. The servants of Power are a bovine herd, easily guided by the stick and a barking dog. Snouts to the ground they think of nothing more than the belly, nothing more than what they want, and when they do not get their own way, well, they stomp their feet and cry.

Schools Of Degradation

In other times youngsters learnt the skills necessary for an autonomous existence in a largely self-regulating society. But in a society where power has replaced authority, where vertical structures have replaced horizontal structures, where obedience is prized more than initiative, young people are sent to school - where they learn passivity and boredom, where they are prevented from practicing skills that may save them from a future of wage labour, tired consumption and debt.
The aim of school is not to educate the child, but to degrade the child.
Before the times of universal compulsory education young people would sometimes attend school for a specific reason, to learn law, theology or medicine, for example. They would attend school for a short while, learn what they had to learn and move on.
But with the nationalisation of schools came conscription and indoctrination - first as cannon fodder for the factories and the trenches, obedient serfs of the State and the Nation - and latterly as consumers, wasting their power on trifles, reinforcing the hierarchy of the military bureaucratic gang.
Now children and young adults spend many years in the pursuit of qualifications of supposed learning, only to discover, after twenty years they know nothing, and are only fit for mind numbing repetitive labour.
Most essential skills are learnt at home, or independently at specialist colleges. Even reading is taught mainly in the home. If your parents do not teach you, there is a good chance that you will grow up to be functionally illiterate.
 How many farmers, plumbers, builders, plasterers, mechanics, electricians, cooks, roofers, nurses, joiners and so on have schools ever produced? None is the answer.
All school has ever produced is passive obedient plodders, dispirited and degraded, their energy sapped by enforced monotony, and being herded together hours on end with others,  deprived of the solitude necessary for creativity.
They are trained to buy and to consume, to obey, to perform relentless, repetitive tasks, to deny their humanity, to bow the knee before power.

Sunday 3 November 2013

Anne, Countess Of Winchilsea - A Wish For Her Retreat

Give me there (since Heaven has shown
It was not good to be alone)
A partner suited to my mind,
Solitary, pleased and kind;
Who, partially, may something see
Preferred to all the world in me;
Slighting, by my humble side,
Fame and Splendour, Wealth and Pride.
When but two the Earth possessed,
'Twas then happiest days, and best;
They by business, nor by wars,
They by no domestic cares,
From each other ever were drawn,
But in some grove, or flowery lawn,
Spent the swiftly flying time,
Spent their own and Nature's prime,
In love; that only passion given
To perfect Man, whilst friends with Heaven.

Saturday 2 November 2013

The Attributes Of God - Holiness

John Ball writes:
When we talk about the third person of the Trinity we talk about the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. By using this name we declare God to be holy. We are saying that his actions are perfect, and that they are also morally good.
How can the perfect holy God create a world and a people that seem to be flawed, full of disaster, destruction and death?
Throughout the ages Dualists such as the Zoroastrians and the Cathars have declared the physical world to be the work of the Devil, or of some Demiurge, a lesser god. For them only the spiritual world is good, created by the supreme god.
The Christian faith denies this life denial. We declare the physical world to be good, and that the resurrection is physical, that the body will be resurrected in the life to come, and that Jesus Christ reconciled the material and the physical, being wholly man and wholly God.
Food, drink, physical love, physical beauty - creation is good if done right.
Dualist religions, those that separate the material and the physical, are ultimately little more than death cults. For them the answer for sin is obliteration.
But Christianity sees life as good. God is the Living God. There is sin, but God is not the author of sin. That privilege goes to man. Man is made in the image of God, and it is his nature to reach for the privileges of God. Man's selfishness and pride in trying to usurp the power of God is both his glory and his sin, the image trying to supersede the reality. It is the vanity of the creature that has brought sin into the world.
Man has brought sin into the world and it is from the slavery of sin that man needs redemption.
Then man can know the great love of God, and his salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, so that God may be given glory for all eternity.

Friday 1 November 2013

Ivan Illich - Confused Outcomes

'Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better the results; or escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military power for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.'

'Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This monopoly is at the root of the modernisation of poverty.

Thursday 31 October 2013

Modern Men Don't Do Sacrifice

From 'Men and Matriarchy', Mary Malone writes,
Christianity is at heart a matriarchal ideology. Christ is represented in Scripture as the 'bridegroom', his Church as the 'bride'. The bridegroom lays down his life to save the bride. In so doing, his sacrificial love gives value to his life.
Until the rise of military bureaucratic states in the eighteenth century, all men viewed their role as to serve and protect women. Then, with men 'educated' in schools and conscripted into the army, loyalty to the bureaucratic motherland superceded loyalty to women, at least for the overseer class. The law of the Liberal status relegated women to a role of legal inferiors.
Until that time, when hierarchy spread out from the elite surrounding the monarchy and the established Church into many areas of daily existence, Christianity had made absolute sense to men.
Men could worship Christ as Lord, because they knew that their destiny was one of sacrificial love too.
If men avoid Christ these days it is nothing to do with the Church. In an age of self-indulgence, gratification, of bosses and conformity, how can self-obsesssed modern man understand the sacrifice of Jesus, or that of their own forefathers for that matter?

Whatever Happened To The Age Of Leisure?

Forty or fifty years ago people believed that Progress could not be stopped. So long as we did not destroy ourselves in a nuclear war,a rosy future of material well-being and leisure lay just around the corner. And indeed, as necessities such as food and clothing  are so cheap, why is it that we do not dedicate our time to flower arranging and maj-jong, or whatever takes our fancy?
Here in the year 2013 we are busier than ever, earning the money to buy our leisure, as our independent activities are increasingly turned into commodities.
In the United Kingdom more people than ever are in paid work. Women have been dragged out of the home, their infants either aborted or abandoned in day nurseries, and millions of immigrants have been brought in to provide cheap labour.
The treadmill turns ever faster.
Nearly all these newly created jobs are in the service industries, either in unnecessary bureaucracy, or in finance, or in servicing some need, real or imagined.
The economy just has to keep growing, because money is power. More aid work means more taxation, which means more taxation, which means more hierarchy, which means more centralised power.
A strong economy does not make us any better off than before, or better off than people in other countries. Our quality of life may be better or worse than others, depending on a number of factors, such as security, a clean environment, a vibrant society, which have nothing to do with the economy.
We have to keep working so our masters keep their power. When they tell us that 'we' are one of the biggest economies in the world, what they mean is that they are one of he world's most powerful bureaucracies, whose reach extends into every corner of the globe, and every detail of our lives.

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Equality, Envy And Digestion

In 1872 Dostoyevsky published his novel, 'The Devils', in which he summed up the ideology of the Progressives of his time as, 'equality, envy and.........digestion.' These Progressives were Socialists, Liberals, Utilitarians and Nihilists, whose dogmas are the orthodoxy of today, to which self-styled Christians, proud of their ignorance, ever glad to conform to earthly masters, are glad to adhere to.
Yet, to a conservative Christian like Dostoyevsky, Liberalism and Socialism both denied God. They were pure Atheism. The Atheists lacked God, and therefore lacked love. They only worshipped 'equality, envy and......digestion.'
Like many of our modern Christians, the Atheists were Utilitarians. They were servants of the belly, and for them, all values must bow before the belly, all freedom must be crushed in its cause.
These Utilitarians were Progressives, for the belly has no past, no poetry, no myths.
All must be erased in order to worship the belly.
All must be erased because Progressives are Nihilists, the lovers of nothing. Ultimately, those who love equality, envy and digestion, love death more than we love life.
In their Nihilism they want everyone to be the same, to be equal. Anyone who achieves a little individuality is hated and envied in equal measure. No mountains nor valleys are permitted.
Anyone whose concerns rise above his digestion must be expelled, or given a pill. Such is the modern world. By such teachings are the priests of Baal known.

Democracy Unchecked

The Majority is the concept that legitimizes democratic rule. In turn Democracy legitimizes hierarchic rule.
Very few voters really care about the government so long as they are free to go about their business unhindered by hoodlums, foreign invasion or the government itself.
At the moment there is Democratic confusion in England. The institutions of Parliament were designed to keep the monarchy in check, but have now been transformed into the instruments of Democratic rule.
Now that Democracy has replaced Monarchy it is unchecked. The last remaining defence, English Common Law, is fast being replaced by regulations and European Law. Case law, handed down through the generations, an expression of English civilisation and values, is being replaced by rules issued from on high.
Far from allowing people to go about their business unhindered, the government and the police now tell people what they can say. The schools, instead of teaching, propagandize the young, corrupt and degrade them, weaken them with self-pity and grievance. Christianity is ghettoized. If a Christian should oppose Atheist practice they are sacked, persecuted and made unemployable.
At the same time corruption is institutionalised. Theft by the authorities is all around us, whether it be the large salaries the bureaucrats award each other, the financial and expenses scams, the low interest rates and the promotion of indebtedness in order to transfer wealth from the poor to the powerful.
Democracy rules, and there appears to be no way of putting matters right.

Sunday 27 October 2013

Adelaide Anne Procter - Judge Not

Judge not the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.

The look, the air, that frets thy sight,
May be a token that below
The soul has closed in deadly fight
With some infernal fiery foe,
Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace
And cast thee shuddering on the face!

The fall thou darest to despise, -
May be the angel's slackened hand
Has suffered it, that he may rise
And take a firmer, surer stand;
Or, trusting less to earthly things,
May henceforth learn to use his wings.

And judge not lost; but wait and see,
With hopeful pity, not disdain,
The depth of the abyss may be
The measure of the height of pain
And love and glory may raise
This soul to God in after days!

Saturday 26 October 2013

The Attributes Of God - Graciousness

John Ball writes:
God is gracious. He fills the world with his grace.
Grace is God's unmerited, unearned love and favour towards undeserving, selfish mankind.
Though we deserve the worst because we are such dreadful creatures, never in a million years being able to approach God's perfection, yet, fortunately for us, being totally kind and loving, total graciousness is one of God's attributes.
Though we deserve to live for eternity without God, in our own private hell, he sent our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ to pay for our sin.
I would call that very gracious indeed, especially since Jesus is God's only begotten Son.
God's grace is ever present in our lives, touching even those who do not believe. Even the worst heathen can enjoy love and beauty, the joy of creativity, fellowship with others, food, drink and shelter.
God's graciousness is overflowing. It is God's nature to give. It is God's nature to love. God is gracious to all his creatures, to all mankind, and particularly to us, his people, who believe in Him, who know his love, who are called to love Him forever.

Friday 25 October 2013

Alexis De Tocqueville - Enslaved Souls And Centralization

'........but such is the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics: there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved. The sovereign can no longer say, "You are free to think differently from me, and to retain your life, your property, and all you possess; but if such be your determination, you are henceforth an alien amongst your people. You may retain your civil rights, but they will be useless to you, for you will never be chosen by your fellow citizens if you solicit their suffrages, and they will effect to scorn you if you solicit their esteem. You will remain amongst men, but you will be deprived of the rights of mankind. Your fellow creatures will shun you like an impure being, and those who are most persuaded of your innocence will abandon you too, lest they should be shunned in their turn.'

'Not only is a democratic people led by its own taste to centralize its government, but the passions of all the men by whom it is governed constantly urge it in the same direction. It may be easily foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labour unceasingly to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers themselves.'

Thursday 24 October 2013

State Feminism And Mealtimes

Before women were dragged into the world of waged work, families used to sit down together to eat meals. There was no snacking allowed between meals. The meals had a semi sacred nature. Depending upon which country you were in, thanks was given either before or after the meal.
Eating food was not simply a matter of appetite and digestion, but was one of the great ceremonies of life.
The most sacred rite of the Christian church is eating and drinking together.
It was the women who prepared the food. It was they who served the food they had prepared. Before women worked as repetitive drones for some manager somewhere, their place of work was the home, looking after their man and the children which, God willing, they raised together.
Consequently, reflecting the reality of civilised life, girls were educated accordingly, taught by their mothers to sew and mend, to heal and to grow vegetables, to cook and to look after children. This work was not a burden. It was what it meant to be a woman. It was the nature of woman to want such things. It was a man's duty to ensure that a woman had the wherewithal to fulfil her destiny as a woman. It was man who served woman.
Careers, so called equality, might make sense to rich women who had servants - other women - to cook for them, but for ordinary folk the division of labour, and its corresponding trust and mutual support between man and woman, was the essence of living.
We often wonder how old folk stay together for so many years while younger people get divorced. It was mutual service that glued them together. But in today's world of snacks and salaries, there is not really much point is sticking together.
At school the boys learnt the technical skills of the industrial age and the girls learnt domestic science.
Their future lives were to be happy lives, filled with children, grandchildren, a home, and the breaking of bread together as a family.
But the rich women with servant women must have their way, and young girls dreams must be shattered.
The hearth is where the woman reigns supreme, its food and its warmth the centre of human life.

The Law Is Applied To Some But Not Others

The Director of Public Prosecutions has declared to the Vichy press that in certain cases he would not apply the 2010 Bribery Act. Dozens of journalists from newspapers that are read by working people have been arrested for paying for their information. Journalists from the managerial newspapers, it seems, are exempt, as their revelations are 'in the public interest'.
'In the public interest' is the phrase used to protect the interests of the powerful, of the vested interests of the bureaucracy.
The regulating of the press has come about since the Telegraph revealed the expenses scandal where nearly all the Members of Parliament  were routinely falsifying their expenses, something that would have you or I sacked on the spot for sure, and most likely arrested.
The same sort of stealing is routine in the civil service and in all government bodies. Yet it is not 'in the public interest' to prosecute.
The police has been politicised, so now they consider the race  and religion and the influence of an alleged victim before pursuing enquiries. With no ethos of public service, they will do nothing if they can. Their aim is not to apply the law but to keep the population quiescent.
For many years it was not 'in the public interest' to prosecute the Moslem rape gangs because it did not fit in with the official Narrative that immigrants are good and the indigenous working class is bad. So powerless young girls were drugged and raped by hundreds, if not thousands of Moslems, few of whom were ever brought to justice, with the connivence of the police and the social services.
In the meantime, aging celebrities from the free working class decade, the 1970s, are being put on trial, the police trawling for evidence, as the bureaucracy rewrites the Narrative of the past.
Ironically, while they are arresting journalists for paying for stories, the police are paying for accusations through criminal compensation schemes.
I met Jimmy Savile once and..................£££££

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Ideologies Of The Slave Society

A number of times I have read commentators  who remarked that Islam is not suited to twenty-first century society. It demands submission, is often enforced with savage violence, and produces only stagnant servile societies.
At the same time the Politically Correct media such as the Guardian and the BBC never tire of singing Islam's praises.
And in the past twenty years the richest 1% have gone from owning 8% of England's wealth to 20%.
Over the last five hundred years Protestantism has been the ideology of the independent middle class - merchants, industrialists, adventurers - and much of the working class too. The freedom to work out one's own salvation, the trust in God as a loving Father, a trait shared with that other dynamic religion, Judaism, has led to England and its offshoots being the most successful and bloody minded society in history.
But today the state and the large corporations dominate the economy. Few people create wealth any more. Money is skimmed off and replaced with debt. A vigorous independent middle class no longer exists. The so-called middle class are state functionaries or corporate middle managers.
Regulation has replaced law, servility has replaced liberty. Political Correctness and Islam are two sides of the same ideology of micro managed regulatory society. Both say, 'do what we say, say what we say, think what we say, otherwise you will be punished.'
Overseers and slaves are required.
The future lies in Arabia, where Islam is used to keep the people submissive, while the powerful enjoy the fruits of their wealth.
These are unproductive, dead societies, which only show a half life when persecuting Christians and Jews, those who love freedom.

The House Of Patronage

Whenever you read or hear about such and such a member of the House of Lords you can be sure they are causing trouble, or sitting on a committee, in some way justifying the position of their snouts deep in the trough.
Their Lordships are at once the pinnacle and a microcosm of a society dedicated to working the system.
The important thing to becoming a Lord is to be well connected, to be able to sit on endles committees for endless hours, and to be greedy. You can rise through the system without ever being elected by peasantry. Elections are just so distasteful.
It is much easier to be a friend of a friend of a friend.
The House of Lords is just part of a network of corruption that is stifling this country.
It needs to be reformed. The political parties talk about reform, but it will never come to pass. It is a convenient place to reward your friends, a golden opportunity to bypass the electorate.
The House of Lords could easily be turned into a revising chamber like the American Senate. Two senators could be chosen from each county.
Finance bills would still have to originate from the Commons, so its primacy would not be undermined.
Such a solution is unlikely to come to pass in a country where the boot is on the bureaucracy's. Committee and quangos, rules and regulations plague the land, all leeching off the poor peasant.

Sunday 20 October 2013

Anne, Countess Of Winchilsea - The Soldier's Death

Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum,
March in a slow procession from afar,
Ye silent, ye dejected men of war!
Be still the hautboys, and the route be dumb!
Display no more, in vain, the lofty banner;
For see! where on the bier before you lies
The pale, the fall'n, the untimely sacrifice
To your mistaken shrine, to your false idol Honour.

Saturday 19 October 2013

The Attributes of God - Eternity

John Ball writes:
In the French copy of the Bible that I read now and again, the Lord is usually called the Eternal. I don't know if this is a more accurate or a less accurate translation of the original Hebrew than the more usual 'the Lord', but it certainly distinguishes God from his earthly creation.
Everything here is finite. It has a beginning, a middle and an end.
But God is eternal.
God declares to Moses that his name is 'I am' or 'I am that I am'.
Jesus declares, 'Before Abraham was I Am.'
For us, prisoners of time and space, eternity is a concept that is hard to grasp. Perhaps only when we contemplate the unceasing sea or the distant sky to we get an idea.
Within God are all things. His eternity is not an eternal rest. He is the Living God.
Human language struggles to convey this quality of eternity, something we cannot know.
The Gospel according to John states, 'In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.'
As near as possible, for our limited understanding, the Evangelist describes God's living Eternity.

Friday 18 October 2013

Alexis De Tocqueville - Barriers

'I do not say that tyrannical abuses frequently occur in America at the present day, but I maintain that no sure barrier is established against them, and that the causes which mitigate the government are to be found in the circumstances and the manners of the country more than in its laws.'

'In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion. Within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent if he ever step beyond them. Not that he is exposed to the terrors of an auto-da -fe, but he is tormented by the slights and persecutions of daily obloquy. His political career is closed forever, since he has offended the only authority which is able to promote his success. Every sort of compensation , even that of celebrity, is refused to him. Before he published his opinion he imagined that he held them in common with many others: but no sooner has he declared them openly than he is loudly censured by his overbearing opponents, whilst those who think without having courage to speak, like him, abandon him in silence. He yields at length, oppressed by the daily efforts he has been making, and he subsides into silence, as if he was tormented by remorse for having spoken the truth.'

Thursday 17 October 2013

State Feminism And The Changing Definition Of Equality

The basic premise of State Feminism is that men oppress women - that is all men oppress all women. Men's treatment of women is unfair. When my grandmother stopped paid work upon marriage at the age of 23, she was being oppressed by her husband who continued to work five and a half days a week till the day he died.
Equality has come to mean sameness, and everything becomes a matter for grievance.
But, in the past, equality meant something different. It meant that we were all equal before the law of the land. Yet, oddly enough, State Feminist laws such as the Equality Act in England (or the dreadful Law of Gender Violence in Spain) actively discriminate against a portion of the population, namely men.
Even on their own terms the proponents of modern day 'Equality' are profoundly unequal. They simply want state appointed grievance groups to take up positions in management, lording it over their less than equal underlings amongst the peasantry.
It is impossible to have equality in a hierarchy.
By nature a hierarchy is unequal. The best one can hope for is equality before the law.
The ideology of 'Equality' is a manoeuvre by ruling groups to divide and rule the populace. It pits man against woman, woman against man, and a whole host of victim groups against the indigenous population and against each other.
A house divided falls.
Traditional English thought ran along lines of individuality, responsibility and independence. But now we are categorised, self pitying and servile.
In the past all the English, whether rich or poor, counted themselves as free. And this freedom, more important than wealth, was based on equality before the law.
In those days nobody expected to be equal in the modern sense. Boys could be boys and girls could be girls, free to be the individuals who they were, to rise or to fall, to sleep or to achieve, to respect and to be respected.

Wednesday 16 October 2013

The Thin Veil Of Tyranny

Parliamentary democracy is the nominal assent of the governed to be governed. It is the thin veil of decency that covers the naked power of hierarchy.
There are two basic forms of societal organization: one is autonomous horizontal power, the other is hierarchical vertical power. Sadly, these days there is scarcely anyone left on the planet who understands that most people, for most of history, have lived in autonomous cooperative communities. So deeply entrenched are the habits of passivity and obedience, so brainwashed by schools and uniforms, people believe that blind obedience to authority is the natural lot of mankind. So lost to communal law are they, that the only crime, the only sin they know is to disobey hierarchical authority.
At one time, in autonomous society, the basis of authority was the family and the village elders, male and female.The young and inexperienced would submit to the wisdom and knowledge of their elders.
But in a modern democracy, in tyranny of hierarchy, the family and the elders have no authority.
As a capitalist society, authority is accumulated and centralised. Having being expropriated from the poor, their power is reallocated, flowing downwards through the pyramid of power.
This reallocated power is not based on consent and cooperation, but on reward and punishment.
State authority is founded on violence. The authority of the family and the elders is expropriated at gun point.
Standing behind every caring state functionary there is a policeman, an executioner.
 The atomised individual is left isolated, unable to relate to those around them, with no human point of reference, dependent on vertical power.
Instead of a free society, Democracy uses regulations that micro manage the actions of every individual. We never leave school.
Those who live in the underworld of the tyranny of Democracy have no concept of autonomy. They blame themselves for their unhappiness. They take their pills and every few years they obediently assent to more of the same.

Tuesday 15 October 2013

Democratic Authority Against Family Authority

Why should a schoolchild obey their teacher? What authority does a teacher have? Where does a teacher's authority come from?
Indeed, why should any of us obey Authority at all? Why should we obey the countless government regulations?
The answer of course is Democracy.
Democracy takes it for granted that we live in a hierarchy, that we are to be governed from on high. Our sovereignty has been surrendered. We must only choose who we are to obey.
Having dispensed with God and the King, Democracy is the ideology with which the hierarchy justifies its authoritarian domination of every aspect of our lives.
So a schoolchild must obey their teacher because the Democratic State says they must obey.
Once upon a time, it was said, a teacher acted 'in loco parentis', in the place of the parents, with the authority of the parents.
However, in a Democracy the teacher's authority comes from the State, not from the parents.
Parents are allowed to look after 'their' children on sufferance. The servants of the State can remove the children if they wish, in a secret court, for its own purposes, because Democratic Authority trumps the moribund authority of the Family.
Children and parents, subjects of the Crown, must obey.
A child may well wonder why they should obey some semi-educated over qualified teacher. They are too young to know that they live in a Democracy. They assume that their parents, the people who love, nurture, provide and educate them, who provide the structure to their innocent lives, are the people with authority, but they would be wrong.
 In a Democracy parents are merely babysitters - babysitters for Big Mother.