Conclusion.
Happy Saint George’s Day, fellow dragon slayers!
We have plenty of dragons to slay today. The borders are open. The pound and the dollar have nearly lost 100% of their value. The media actively avoid real information. The warmongers dress in sheep’s clothing. Consensus is manufactured, then called truth. Our city buildings fly the flags of foreign nations and political groups that are our sworn enemies. Police are enabling crime, bowing to and protecting criminals of the worst kind, while targeting their supposed customers for perceived thought crimes. Statues, monuments, and artwork is vandalised, and anything that isn’t toppled has the flag of Pakistan projected onto it, in celebration of the solidarity and discipline of the Muslim brotherhood. The National Health Shortage won’t do anything for you, but if your little girl accidentally kicks a football at school, they’ll sterilise her and remove her breasts faster than they can obtain a consent form from you.
Martin commented on part 1 of this article last week, asking what is the reason we are seeing so much ‘diversity’ along lines of race or ethnicity or whatever the inoffensive term for that might be these days, is?
Are we seeing this on television and advertising because of a plan to desensitize us to gradual population replacement? Are we boiling frogs, getting used to being a minority in our own indigenous homeland as part of a globalist plan to homogenise and therefore erase all national identities, thereby preparing us for one world government and communistic serfdom?
No.
Well… yes and no.
Yes, that is the explicit and publicly expressed plan of the international socialists, including those at the Unhinged Nations, the World Evildoers Forum, the Worst Health Organisation, the CCP, the Dumbocrat Party, the Nazi Security Agency, and at every level in a surprisingly vast number of mundane and banal bureaucratic organisations like local education boards, town councils, and planning committees that form the Gramscian backbone of our not-so deep state.
But as anyone who has ever tried to come up with any kind of plan, ever, in the history of the world, knows very well – A Plan is nothing more than a basis for change. As my father-in-law said to me the last time we went fishing off Charleston harbour and a nice big red got away from me – ‘I guess the fish had his own plans too’.
Or, in the immortal words of Mike Tyson: ‘Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth’.
Just because the bad guys have a plan, doesn’t mean they’ll get to do it. That is not how the world works. Even if the solipsistic tendency of human beings temporarily allows us to believe that we are completely the masters of our fate, and the captains of our soul, we must recognise that we live always on borrowed time. We may master our works, but we are not masters of the universe.
One of the biggest problems with the philosophical viewpoint of our time is excessive scientism. Not science, but scientism. A sort of general fatalism that comes from endless measurement, extrapolation & argument. It is unhealthy.
The very fact that I mentioned that the leaders of the City of London, England, Scotland, and Ireland’s political apparatus are of Asian ethnicity causes some paralysis in the modern mind. Even mentioning anything to do with ethnicity is forbidden, at a time when the simple-minded masses have been convinced that fascism simply means racism. (Funny how fascists might want to change and limit that definition, eh?)
The very fact that we are supposed to live within the supporting strength of a diverse society, but that no element of that diversity is permitted for discussion should be a bit of a giveaway.
Radical equality means that race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, criminal behaviour, gender, sex, mental capacity, skill, effort, height, beauty, physical handicap, mental disability, citizenship, immigration status, mental illness, perversion, individual choice, preference, neglect or opinion cannot and must not ever be allowed to be discussed by anyone as being a contributary factor to any ill in a person’s life, our families, at work, or in our politics or society. Unless the case is being made that some element or combination of these factors may somehow justify massive state spending to intervene on behalf of some perceived injustice. Then you can, and must, scream it from the rooftops. But only for personal gain. Never to unite people.
Diversity means that if the correct shibboleths are maintained, then all of the children, paedos, Jews, blacks and racists will just go along to get along and dwell in harmony forever. By the magic of inclusion, you see.
Diversity means never having to say you’re sorry. Unless you are the despicable type of person who actually believes in equality. For example, equality when it comes to things like treating people as individuals, and equally responsible for their own actions before the law. That’s the wrong type of equality these days.
And that’s because we no longer live in a civilisation.
Stop holding your breath, and waiting for the end times. They’ve already been and gone. We’re just living through the consequences now.
Western democracy? That ceased to exist the moment every Western nation locked their entire healthy population in their homes without a vote on the matter. A precedent that wipes the slate clean when it comes to jurisprudence based on the consent of the governed. Majority rules democracy based on debt fraud shouldn’t be what we’re aiming for anyway.
But you were never allowed to disagree really. Lockdowns were just the logical endpoint of the worst elements of our systems of governance.
I mention the fact that our key four leaders are ‘Asian’ for only one reason. To point out that the death of the empire’s colonial project is complete. And now, they have nothing left to complain about.
Each of these men claims political credibility for their revolutionary fervour by using their ethnicity to bring legitimate angst to their ‘I’m an oppressed victim’ outrage. When in fact, they were all privileged enough to grow up in intact 2 parent families, with a mid-range income, in a free and tolerant society. Privileged enough for each of them to rise to the highest office within their political realm.
To be fair though, Humza did briefly prove himself on the fiery battlegrounds of an O2 call centre before taking up politics. What a hero.
Your television shows are full of people of African descent because they are made in London, and those are the actual demographics of London these days. The last time I went to London, it was probably a full 20 hours before I heard a native English accent. That’s what is like these days.
If you want to see a racially homogenous England these days don’t turn on the TV, go to Yorkshire.
Most black/African people I meet in Scotland get stick because of their London New-Speak pseudo-cockney accents. Nobody hates them because of their skin colour. They hate them coz they’re English! (That’s a joke, by the way).
And we have Asian people in our parliaments not because Asian people are proportionately represented in government. In fact, in Scotland, they are massively over-represented. Particularly at the local government level.
I’ve worked in the Civil Service. There is no cushier life. Humza could have just left us alone and gone on the dole, but no. He’s won the SuperDole!
But don’t fall into the many traps that surround us, my friends.
Racism is completely evil and wrong, even when it is practised by people with brown skin. We all came from Adam and Eve. All of us. End of story.
If you are worried about your race dying out, have some more kids. It’ll stop you from spending all your money on overpriced wine and pointless Instagram-snap-focused holidays, and you’ll be a lot happier. Plus, the more you have, the more they play together, so the less you have to intervene.
If you are worried about ‘The Asians’ or the ‘Blacks’ in your neighbourhood, just shut up and go and speak to them. They’re nice, and their kids are nice. And the ones who aren’t are usually the angry teenagers & idiots in their twenties who are up to no good anyway. Just the like the white ones. No ethnicity has a monopoly on stupidity, that’s for sure. The only difference is they’re getting all upset about how unfair the world treats them over culture and skin colour, rather than their facial piercings and whatever weird kind of cosplay animal porn they’ve staked their identity on this week.
What you will find when you speak to most Scottish Muslims with half a degree of honesty this week, is that they are not a monolithic cultural block engaged in a vast conspiratorial effort to supplant and replace the Scots in their native homeland, with a new caliphate. Almost all of the first-generation migrants here have found a religious and ethnic tolerance that they never knew in their country of origin. And most of them are deeply upset with Humza Yousaf. As well they might be.
You see, our illustrious first minister’s first action in power was to publicly commit to permitting sex-selective abortion & removing all limitations on abortion up to and including the day of birth.
The man who brought back medieval blasphemy laws to persecute whatever he calls ‘Hate Speech’. The man who went totalitarian over Covid, and lied about risks to children in order to scare people into compliance, while he took his kids to harry potter world. The man who blamed sick people for using the NHS too much, as 500 people dropped dead due to a lack of ambulance capacity in the Scottish National-Socialist Health Service. The man who went for a photo-op with Ukrainian refugees in Scotland, and asked in laughing joking tones, ‘But where are all the men, hahahaha?’. The man, while serving as transport secretary, who blamed his wife when he got caught driving without car insurance. The man who ‘takes great pride in his constituencies’ shipbuilding heritage’, as his party abused the industry and destroyed its reputation with the Glen Sannox debacle.
This man is increasing the burden of the national debt for me and my children so that our – ‘higher than England (yay freedom!)’ – tax money can subsidise the killing of unborn children solely because they are female.
One wonders why bother? I mean, can’t you just change the sex after they’re born anyway?
I think that’s why they’ll allow abortion until the day of birth. Penis development often happens late in pregnancy, so you want to be nice and generous and give the little critter a good shot at being a boy before you decide to put it out of its misery.
I’m sure the 5th-wave neo-feminists will applaud this move since they’re mostly all Greenies too, so they believe in the Malthusian fallacy and the Marxist materialist value of human life as well.
But Muslims do not support this, generally. And thank God for them.
You see, despite the modernist fallacy that all religions are basically the same, Yahweh the God of Israel was no thunder god of fertility. He is the God of all creation.
My daughter grasped this concept when she was seven after the following conversation:
Me: What’s the opposite of ‘up’?
Daughter: ‘Down’
‘Good.’
We went through a few other abstract examples, ‘Left’ – ‘Right’. ‘Inside’ – ‘Outside’. ‘East’ – ‘West’. Etc.
Me: ‘Now what’s the opposite of this cup’?
Daughter: ‘Uh, No Cup’?
‘Right! Very good’. ‘This table’? – ‘No table’. ‘The Chair?’ – ‘No Chair’?
Me: ‘Yes. Excellent. Now what’s the opposite of life, the universe and everything’?
Daughter: ‘Nothing’.
Me: ‘Right. Nothingness. Total nothingness. What would that be like?
Daughter: ‘I don’t know’
Me: ‘Right. It’s insane to contemplate. You can’t even imagine it right? But I know you’ve heard of the Big Bang, right? So everyone knows or believes that the Universe came into being out of nothing. And so, it’s a mystery no matter what you believe, because we exist. So we can’t ever know or understand what it was like before existence. But something changed from non-existence, to existence. And that’s part of what we understand about God.
Daughter: ‘Wait, so, is God just our word for that?’
Me: ‘No, not ‘just’, but yes, part of it. That’s how we can understand whatever he is, but we can never know. It’s so impossible for us to imagine that from our position, but we can try to understand Him from what we see around us. Does that make sense?
She seems happy enough with that conception for the time being.
Something I’ve learned from Orthodox Christians, and the (slightly irritating delivery but worth it for the outstanding scholarly content) Lord of Spirits podcast, is that the conception of a monotheistic god in the ancient Hebrew bible is slightly different to the modernist protestant conception that we have today. These Orthodox priests make a detailed and compelling argument that the Bible in fact does not refute the existence of any other Gods. It simply relegates them to an insignificant status when compared with Yahweh, the creator God, who made them all.
A subtle but important difference, meaning that there is not only ‘one God to worship’. But that there is only one God worthy of worship. And that God is the spirit of all creation.
Now, if the Greenies and the Scottish National Socialist Party want to kill their own babies, and worship the opposite of creation, they can do that. They will bring about hell on earth in doing so if that is their will.
All I ask is to live in a society where I am not compelled to pay for or subsidise such evil.
I want to live my life paying attention to the Good, the True and the Beautiful. I don’t want my government to force my hands into the bloody communal cauldron.
I think on that front, Jews, Muslims and Christians are united against the materialists and the heathens.
Now don’t talk to me about rape, incest and cousin marriage. We sorted that out long ago, and yes, I’d go full Old Testament on that. But 99% of abortions are done by people for financial or lifestyle reasons these days. Usually followed by an immediate guilt-trip pregnancy in atonement.
But culture is important.
The fact that flags of foreign nations fly on our streets and that our leaders of foreign descent display the total moral relativism of our current society – and not that of their cultural origins – shows that our society has dissolved.
There is no centre.
The dissolution is complete, and we are living in a grey sludge of a culture. And yes, if we’re not careful, our spineless amorphous cultural relativism will be easy pickings for a strong ideological capture. Radical political Islam, Eco-Communism, and Technocracy are serious contenders vying for just that honour as we speak.
When the New Atheists, Dawkins, Hitchens & co were tearing down our cultural foundations, they did it in pride. They tore down our house and built no replacement because their pride led them to believe that all truth and virtue are self-evident.
They thought that a sensible post 9-11 strategy was to bomb the hell out of the middle east while inviting everyone we just bombed to come and live with us on state welfare. Their pride thought that post-enlightenment atheism was so obviously the answer to all the world’s ills, that radical jihadists would just move here, instantly see the error of their ways and give up on God and terrorism as a matter of course.
But if you really want to save your culture, you’d better start learning about it. Whether you believe in it or not, start reading the operating manual for your soul, and learning the stories of the heroes and saints who built the thing you love that you are losing.
It’s never too late.
I believe that we should navigate life in the same way that we navigate ships. By frequently cross-checking our absolute position against our relative position. E.g. comparing our location on the earth in latitude and longitude, to the distance from relative hazards and wrecks, or understanding how an aspect of ourselves we present from that position communicates threat or intent to opposing traffic.
You don’t want to get lost in excessive relativism. And you don’t want to get lost in excessive absolutism.
By understanding that while every element of our voyage is temporary, we see we can only proceed by reference to things which appear to be permanent from our position. And by being aware that invisible forces, like current, flow, tide, regulatory uncertainty, piracy, and wind, are always present, and are never fully within your control.
There are always uncharted depths.
The feeling of strength you get when you temporarily overcome all of these elements, and successfully bring the ship in, can only be achieved by knowing and accepting that if you are going adrift, it is you that is wrong. There is no use arguing with the tide or complaining that that rock shouldn’t be there.
It is there. It’s up to you not to hit it.
Often, the greatest navigational obstacle is your pride. That’s the attitude that says ‘I’ll be fine’, and brings the complacency that is the morning star, preceding all incidents.
The cardinal sin of pride sounds like an ominous thing. Today, I am thinking of it as the mistaken identities of cause and effect. The failure to accept the invisible.
And further to my expedition in Whitby, and recent excursion to the Lochgoin Covenanters Museum, I now see the roots of the ‘transaction-ism’ in our culture as derived from the spirit of Anglian King Oswiu’s decision to choose the authority of Rome, over other authorities.
From the English Heritage Guidebook for Whitby Abbey:
‘…until [664] Celtic missionaries had been predominant in Northumbria. However, missionaries from Rome were arriving…Bishop Coleman of Lindisfarne led the Celtic side [of the debate over which tradition had the right to calculate the important date of Easter, while the Roman side was led by Wilfrid, a monk of Whitby who …later became Bishop of York. The two sides disputed, claiming authority from the Apostle John and from St Peter respectively. Wilfred pointed out that Rome owed its authority to St Peter and that the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven had been given to him. King Oswiu …asked if St Columba, the founder of the Celtic Church in Scotland and northern England had similar authority, and Colman admitted he did not. Oswiu concluded: Peter is the guardian of the gates of Heaven, and I will not contradict him. I shall obey his commands in everything… otherwise, when I come to the gates of Heaven, there may be no one to open them, because he who holds the keys has turned away’.
Can you see the fatal flaw?
You see the thing about Yahweh the God of Israel, the highest of the high, the incomprehensible, unknowable source of everything is that He doesn’t work that way. Unlike Pagan Gods, who are contained in idols, and manipulated and bargained with by sacrifice and magic, He cannot be coerced or controlled.
He is.
Yahweh, the God of Israel, is not the only God who exists, but is the only God worth worshipping.
He is the only God who will reject your sacrifice. He does not need it.
Now, isn’t that terrifying?
I can imagine the conversations between Scottish pagans and Saint Columba beginning along similar lines as the conversation I had with my daughter.
‘See you, big man, see your God. Rubbish. My God made your God. And he made everything. And he doesn’t care if you cut the hearts out of babies and throw down the side of a pyramid, or burn some heather and cut my throat before you chuck me into a peat bog. He made reality, and he isn’t going to change it just for you, Jimmy. And you can’t kill Him either. He even came to earth and became a human coz he does whatever he wants. And he lived a life, and let himself be martyred, just to prove a point. What has Odin the rapist ever done that was as good an example as that?’
I’m willing to bet most Pagans converted out of genuine relief to be freed from endless cycles of human sacrifice, scapegoating, and the authoritarianism of an illiterate society with no memory.
We need to understand that human sacrifice and authoritarian tyranny are human nature, and that is what we are heading back to if we don’t take charge of our culture.
In twenty years in the maritime industry, I’ve learned that the argument from authority should be used infrequently, and only as an urgent last resort. Otherwise, it breeds resentment, improper hierarchies, and a raft of other problems. But it’s a constant internal battle, and there is no neutral ground.
Jesus did not present a cartoon bargain. He said ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand’.
Hands symbolise work and action, which as Christ showed, speak louder than words.
Everything our leaders do, and everything we do, is full of meaning. Our actions reveal our hearts and our intentions.
When resentful third-generation Asian teens drive around Glasgow, in £80k Mercedes, when they have no job, and scream and shout at me in traffic, they are showing me their contempt. As well as their contempt for the law of the land. When Glasgow City Council flies the Palestinian flag from city chambers and verbally abuses American business interests away from the city, they are telling me exactly how they feel about me and my Jewish-American wife, and our prospects in a free market. When Humza and the Greenies want our children dead for any reason, and are willing to bankrupt the country to fund it, he tells us exactly how he feels about creation, and his place in it.
I see it as fundamentally true that action is communication, and that transformative change begins with the recognition of what is not right.
I know from life experience that God will reject our sacrifices if they are insufficient or incorrect. As ships dashed on the rocks, the empty graves of sailors remind us, reality is undeniable and will not bend to our fantasies. You may think Yahweh or creation is cruel, but He simply is. And we will pay the price for failing to respect His reality.
That is a story that can unite, in truth.
I think most atheist materialists would at least accept the poetic interpretation of that proposition.
So what of pride, and what of fear?
I think one major way that we go wrong is we often fear the short-term and the social, more than we fear the long-term and the real.
The sentiment that Oswiu conveyed was the ‘What’s in it for me?!’, pagan bargain. The natural and familiar instinct that we all have, but warlords and kings might have more of, is the fear of being ineffective. It comes from the inner knowledge of our human weaknesses and limitations. The grasp for control in a safety-ist panic, in a world that we do not control.
The theme of ‘belief’ over ‘good works’ that played out in the reformation & the counter-reformation seems to be present in our modernist approach to politics as well. Every political manifesto touts a hypothetical social contract with the same zeal as a doorstep Jehovah’s Witness, or street corner evangelist when they bring up their little sales pitch of ‘what Jesus can do for you’!
The propositional nature of the political bargain shows the prideful conceit of the modern age.
And please note that I am being very careful not to blame ‘rich people’, or proclaim poverty as a virtue in this discussion. Both rich and poor are feeding the same fantasy. Much of the ESG, corporate-welfare, and the pharma/military-industrial complex regulatory capture is best understood as just ‘Superdole 2.0’.
The idea is that if you vote for the right person, confiscate enough wealth, or pass one more regulation, a sanctified political person will usher in utopia for you, if you only believe hard enough, vote well enough, and affirm the hopey-change-changey-hope enough, and clap loud enough, and venerate or scapegoat the right members of the in-group/out-group.
The government can solve racism, change the weather 100 years from now, keep you safe, raise your children for you, take care of your parents for you, tell you the right things to think, books to read, what food, thoughts and online communications are prohibited or not. Etc.
My problem with many current conspiracy theories (which are usually just the news about 3 years in advance these days) is not that they are untrue in any level of detail or understanding of intent or equivalency. My problem with them is that much of the way these theories are discussed online affirms the premise that the prideful pagan politicians, technocrats, and their familiars are actually controlling or causing everything that they are doing.
Much of our current discourse asks the same incorrect question that our self-appointed overlords ask when they use taxpayers’ own money to override the consent of the people in every way imaginable. That is, ‘What’s in this for me’?
I think living in a militarised, traumatised, post-industrial, inflation-riven world adds a kind of cortisol-induced urgency that encourages the pagan instinct. It’s hard to focus on the eternal when every effort you make to improve your life is instantly eviscerated in a puffy cloud of hopelessness. Might as well invest in some face-tattoos and liver disease. They’ll last longer than anything else you can spend your pocket money on. Right?
The nihilist fears that his life is meaningless and tries to outflank fate with a checkmate toward self-destruction. The speed of suicide varies on a scale that ranges from couch-potato to Kurt Cobain. But the instinct is the same. The alcoholic fears sobering up. The atheist fears being thought a fool.
The sailor fears failure in his duty, in relation to his trade, his owner and his shipmates.
The children of Abraham fear the aggregation of all their failings having a permanent effect in the world, and being judged not only for eternity but as eternity itself.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the permanent result of our actions here on Earth. We can either be in alignment with the spirit of creation, or against it. And He will decide how far we fall short, not us. Our good deeds last forever, in impermanent form, but as the currents and winds that our children will have to sail on.
It is not a fairground ride that can be purchased by bargaining with a man in a funny hat in Rome, or a beardy cartoon God on a cloud, or a greasy politician in Washington.
My friend asked me a while ago, if I thought my wife is going to Hell because she is a Jew.
I think the more I look at Orthodox Christianity, ancient history, Islam and Judaism, the more I see what binds and connects us. So my answer to him now is simply that such things are not for me to judge. But I do see that many faith groups who believe in the conceit that they are in charge here on earth, do seem to bring about their own kind of hell on earth.
So how do I know that Christianity is the real religion over all others?
It is the only story I know of that tells us the truth. You are a sinner. You have already failed. Nothing you can do will make you perfect, or not a sinner. You can never control creation, nor make it owe you any favours. You will not bring about paradise.
That is the only story I can see that is an antidote to pride.
I know that to be true about myself, and therefore I know that no politician or Whitby Abbey monk can promise me otherwise since none of us has the authority of the unknowable spirit that made all of this out of nothing.
A politician may be able to put you and me in debt against our will, but he can never put creation or God into his debt. The truth of God must be definitional, in this way. And the definition of earthly authority must know its limits in this definition.
The Covenanters knew that. King Oswiu didn’t.
Discovering that kind of acceptance has taken 37 years. I finally understand why Muslims use the word ‘submit’.
Yes, the world is upside down. It needs to change. Our governments need to change. Our societies need to change. the church needs to change. I need to change, and so do you.
Don’t let your pride be the thing that stops you.
Go slay a dragon!
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