With respect, I think there is Someone on our side.

https://t.iss.one/pox_populi/1723

Those familiar with Academic Agent from his show Unpopular Opinions may think of him as a funny guy. And that is true.

As editor of his previous scholarly book I can tell you that he is also a top-notch scholar who can actually write (a rarity).

You will enjoy this book. And you will learn.

NEW BOOK: https://www.imperiumpress.org/product-page/the-populist-delusion

The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America since the Nixon era, which carried him into the presidency. Seen widely as a vindication of the people over elites, his failure to bring about any meaningful change was then seen as an aberration, a departure from a natural state where the people are sovereign and their representatives govern by their consent. This is the populist delusion.

This book by Academic Agent explodes that delusion. Beginning with the Italian elite school, he shows the top-down and elite driven nature of politics by explicating one thinker per chapter: Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Schmitt, Jouvenel, Burnham, Francis, and Gottfried. The sobering picture that emerges is that the interests of the people have only ever been advanced by a tightly organized minority. Just as fire drives out fire, so an elite is only ever driven out by another elite.

The Populist Delusion is the remedy for a self-defeating folk politics that has done the people a great disservice.

https://www.imperiumpress.org/product-page/the-populist-delusion

Let me make this simple for you…

Do you really think the Lord supports the folks that are encouraging people, even children, to destroy their sexuality and mutilate their sexual organs?

Indeed, whether it be the gods or God, we are on the side of truth, beauty and goodness. The Powers That Be must push against all this to shape their ungodly, unnatural and mutant vision of 'order' on the world.

Even if we don't have institutional power on our side, we know our cause to be right. I know that doesn't help a lot as the situation appears more dire, but I hope it means something at least.

https://t.iss.one/RadicalLiberation/690

Remarkably honest passage from Neocon Robert Kagan here acknowledging the role of the US in provoking Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and the invasion of Ukraine.

He basically says, “yes, it’s all blowback. But it’s worth it.”

Thanks to Matt Taibbi: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/give-war-a-chance

“Germans have moved beyond the double standard that we complain about in this country. There is only one standard among them. Violence & terrorism are fine, providing they come from self-described antifascists.”

Paul Gottfried on Germany now… Us soon?

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/germany--harbinger-of-the-abyss/

“to entertain the prospect of Reverse Gramsci is to believe the lies that liberal democracy tells about itself (its mask) rather than its true face, which is that it is an absolute system that can brook no dissent.”

Academic Agent on broken strategies.

https://forbiddentexts.substack.com/p/assessing-the-alternatives-to-clear?s=r

I’ll be talking to Lambda about what the Right and Christians can learn from each other.

I hope you know me well enough by now to know I’m going to come at this from a fresh angle that you won’t expect. 🙃

In 1 hour!

(Part of an Easter series.)

https://youtu.be/2nF3wYl9_cc

The books I recommended in the discussion about what the Right and Christians have to learn from each other:

The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Christianity-Marginal-Religious-Centuries/dp/0060677015/

Spiritual Authority by Watchman Nee

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Authority-Watchman-Nee/dp/0935008357/

"Are we willing to commit to being a civilization for which the primary consideration with any piece of data is not whether or not it's true, but whether it helps undermine Russia?"

Caitlin Johnstone on the empire of lies.

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/how-much-are-we-prepared-to-sacrifice

Who knows if any of this is actually true. All I know is Nato and the UN have a habit of perpetuating conflicts into a (inter)national crisis, for *checks notes* humanitarian reasons.

https://t.iss.one/CIG_telegram/18537

For no particular reason, just thought I’d remind everyone of one of the stark facts of the 20th century

States will kill “their own” citizens. Sometimes in large numbers.

Might seem counter-intuitive. But it is well documented.

“And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.”
Luke 24:17

What a striking moment: Jesus coming to just two people who are walking along the road to Emmaus sad, confused & hopeless.

Easter eggs, including eggs from our quail in the middle, surrounded by shells just collected last week by our 16yo daughter from a Texas beach on the Gulf of Mexico.

Pay no attention to central banks quietly buying up gold.

Thanks to Raging Mandrill.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/france-has-repatriated-all-its-monetary-gold

Interesting post from Joel Davis I want to respond to:

Bad first sentence. What people call themselves ideologically is barely any guide to what they are.

Then it gets better. 'Post-liberal' is indeed more accurate than 'liberal'.

Then it's mixed. There was a large degree of liberalism in the 19th century. Our rulers have gone very strongly against that since at least 1914, as Joel says in other words. The current era of 'minority rights', i.e. attacking nature and normality, and the use of feigned victimhood and critical theory, i.e. Jewish-led subversion, is not liberal in any sense (other than if subversive definitions are used) and doesn't continue from it. The aggression against ordinary people is, in my understanding, a ruling class reaction against liberalism and where our rulers dreaded it would lead, i.e. them or their descendants (as particular dynasties or as a class) ceasing to rule us.

"Liberalism therefore had to be redefined in terms of disempowering this potentially tyrannical majority..." - true apart from terminological differences.

The subsequent paragraph about anti-fascism is spot on. And Joel's remark about the use of the spectre of bourgeois liberalism to divert and restrain 'conservatives' (misnamed as they don't conserve the things they value) from naturally reacting against their enemies is true. But I think this is better termed anti-fascism, anti-racism or anti-whiteism rather than liberalism or victimary liberalism, and likewise the post-war era is best described as the anti-fascist era, not that of any kind of liberalism. The continuous use of the spectre of 'fascism', i.e. anything that can inhibit the dissolution of white societies, is the current means of terrorising and controlling the herd.

My understanding of liberalism is that it emerges largely from ordinary (Western) people reacting against the schemes of rulers and leftists to force herdlike or slavish ways of life upon them. Tactically-convenient conceptions of it can be used to manipulate people, but liberalism itself is not something imposed upon us by the powerful. It's the exact opposite, a terrible threat to them. Thus I see people who see liberalism as the primary enemy as having assumed the rulers' views and interests, as is reflected in their statist prescriptions.

https://t.iss.one/joeldavisx/358

“By some estimates, control of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, changed hands 16 times between 1918 and 1921.”

Sean McMeekin on over 100 years of Ukrainians getting screwed by all sides.

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/putin--russia--and-ukraine--historical-roots-of-a-tragedy/

“The [Neocons] have no reverse gear.”

Duran on how Neocons will push for Western troops in Ukraine (and we have to count on the Pentagon(!) and EU army to hold the line against WWIII.)

https://youtu.be/POs_pvp-YJs