Stewart has to be one of the most bizarre people in existence. I read this travel book about crossing Afghanistan last year on a whim and it’s a study in the doublethink these people can do.
He is a pretty honest writer half the time and talks about how awful the Afghans are and calls them out for their bad behaviors and inhospitableness (amongst other things) only to seemingly forget every criticism he’s made and observed at the end to try and lamely defend them.
He’s certainly an odd creature, very difficult to grasp. I’m ashamed to admit I used to fall for his pretenses of just being “sensible and realistic” in my more liberal days. But it becomes daily more clear that he exists solely as containment, to ensure that right-wing energy goes nowhere.
I would suggest that the "elite" have been in a negative managed decline mindset since the mid 1960s, hence the unholy and deceitful rush to get us to join the EEC.
I think I would agree with that. I’ve been enjoying Dominic Sandbrooks book series on Britain in the 70s and it’s clear the decline of this country is not a terribly recent phenomenon; it’s just accelerating, and is therefore more noticable.
Agreed. Dan from the Lotus Eaters calls it the ‘double tap’ - i.e., you can never assume the zombie is dead, you have to shoot it once more in the head to be sure.
121 seats for the Tories is a great result for them considering how hated they are at the moment. Unfortunately their typical “we’re better than Labour at least!” propaganda resonated with the boomers, as usual. We’ll see what 2029 has in store for us.
Let’s leave all qualitative analysis of the election result and the current state of Britain at the door for a minute. The wets are completely fucking wrong. They’re in full blown cope mode right now. They WISH that the Tories had haemorrhaged votes to Labour and the Lib Dems because that would support their world view. That isn’t what happened. The Tory vote collapsed. Those 2019 voters didn’t move to the Labour or Lib Dems in significant numbers.
The fact that Stewart was contemplating voting GREEN proves this. Blue leftists would rather a mental left-wing party succeed than their party take any kind of concrete steps BACK to the right-wing and reclaim that area of politics.
Peter Hitchens, enemy? A rational powerhouse who voluntarily submits himself to God, despite all his rational powers resisting? You think he is not useful in saving your nation? I am so very glad my English great-grandfather emigrated to Canada, then walked south to Dakota territory. I would, at this point, bet against a peaceful England in 20 years time.
Seriously, you’re going to grouse at the neo-Christian? Makes no sense.
I specifically said “in purely Schmittian terms”, if you don’t know the difference you should learn it. He’s done great work over the decades but the doomerism he spreads is thoroughly unhelpful to the cause of national renewal.
Well, doomerism if perfectly suited to making people realize that they are sinners in the hands of an angry God, whose only hope is to throw themselves on His mercy by confessing, repenting, then obeying Him.
Don’t take my rebuke too hard. I just see those trying to solely “think” their way out of cultural decline as trusting too much on those thoughts, to an idolatrous degree. There’s a reason we have “awakenings” in America - people are much less dependent on the top-down solutions offered by “thinking” men, and therefore more open to internal, spiritual renewal as a starting - and ending - point.
Sorry - just don’t feel like looking up Schmittian.
I agree with the substance of your comment, people should be looking to Christ and looking after their spirituality; but conversely, efforts to renew the nation and its tradition and culture would actually go a long way to saving souls.
With modern British culture being what it is, there is no cultural space for religion at the moment. But over time that space could be recovered, if people begin to once more value tradition, the transcendent etc. So I think we should be looking at it from both sides.
I agree that the Tories moving to the left would actually be good for us, as they would become increasingly irrelevant among a host of other parties who are, frankly, better at being leftists.
However, with Reform being the only viable, somewhat conservative party, they will be singled out for branding as extreme, far-right etc. without any other right-wing presence. It’s a difficult situation really, but across the country, millions and opening their eyes finally, and Starmer’s Labour should continue that process.
Stewart has to be one of the most bizarre people in existence. I read this travel book about crossing Afghanistan last year on a whim and it’s a study in the doublethink these people can do.
He is a pretty honest writer half the time and talks about how awful the Afghans are and calls them out for their bad behaviors and inhospitableness (amongst other things) only to seemingly forget every criticism he’s made and observed at the end to try and lamely defend them.
Really quite the remarkable feat.
He’s certainly an odd creature, very difficult to grasp. I’m ashamed to admit I used to fall for his pretenses of just being “sensible and realistic” in my more liberal days. But it becomes daily more clear that he exists solely as containment, to ensure that right-wing energy goes nowhere.
I would suggest that the "elite" have been in a negative managed decline mindset since the mid 1960s, hence the unholy and deceitful rush to get us to join the EEC.
I think I would agree with that. I’ve been enjoying Dominic Sandbrooks book series on Britain in the 70s and it’s clear the decline of this country is not a terribly recent phenomenon; it’s just accelerating, and is therefore more noticable.
Very good. I'm worried that we didn't secure the "Coup de Grace" against the Tories that would actually keep them down and out.
Agreed. Dan from the Lotus Eaters calls it the ‘double tap’ - i.e., you can never assume the zombie is dead, you have to shoot it once more in the head to be sure.
121 seats for the Tories is a great result for them considering how hated they are at the moment. Unfortunately their typical “we’re better than Labour at least!” propaganda resonated with the boomers, as usual. We’ll see what 2029 has in store for us.
Let’s leave all qualitative analysis of the election result and the current state of Britain at the door for a minute. The wets are completely fucking wrong. They’re in full blown cope mode right now. They WISH that the Tories had haemorrhaged votes to Labour and the Lib Dems because that would support their world view. That isn’t what happened. The Tory vote collapsed. Those 2019 voters didn’t move to the Labour or Lib Dems in significant numbers.
The fact that Stewart was contemplating voting GREEN proves this. Blue leftists would rather a mental left-wing party succeed than their party take any kind of concrete steps BACK to the right-wing and reclaim that area of politics.
Also little commented upon is Stewart's almost Tolkienesque ugliness. Strange little man.
If his physiognomy is anything to go by, I’d wager that man has some skeletons in his closet.
Peter Hitchens, enemy? A rational powerhouse who voluntarily submits himself to God, despite all his rational powers resisting? You think he is not useful in saving your nation? I am so very glad my English great-grandfather emigrated to Canada, then walked south to Dakota territory. I would, at this point, bet against a peaceful England in 20 years time.
Seriously, you’re going to grouse at the neo-Christian? Makes no sense.
I specifically said “in purely Schmittian terms”, if you don’t know the difference you should learn it. He’s done great work over the decades but the doomerism he spreads is thoroughly unhelpful to the cause of national renewal.
Well, doomerism if perfectly suited to making people realize that they are sinners in the hands of an angry God, whose only hope is to throw themselves on His mercy by confessing, repenting, then obeying Him.
Don’t take my rebuke too hard. I just see those trying to solely “think” their way out of cultural decline as trusting too much on those thoughts, to an idolatrous degree. There’s a reason we have “awakenings” in America - people are much less dependent on the top-down solutions offered by “thinking” men, and therefore more open to internal, spiritual renewal as a starting - and ending - point.
Sorry - just don’t feel like looking up Schmittian.
I agree with the substance of your comment, people should be looking to Christ and looking after their spirituality; but conversely, efforts to renew the nation and its tradition and culture would actually go a long way to saving souls.
With modern British culture being what it is, there is no cultural space for religion at the moment. But over time that space could be recovered, if people begin to once more value tradition, the transcendent etc. So I think we should be looking at it from both sides.
I agree that the Tories moving to the left would actually be good for us, as they would become increasingly irrelevant among a host of other parties who are, frankly, better at being leftists.
However, with Reform being the only viable, somewhat conservative party, they will be singled out for branding as extreme, far-right etc. without any other right-wing presence. It’s a difficult situation really, but across the country, millions and opening their eyes finally, and Starmer’s Labour should continue that process.
Parallel institutions must be built. More media presence, think-tanks and so on.