The champions on the right side of current cultural arguments – which is to say, right-thinking, not Right-wing – offer little solace for those who follow them, or, more broadly, society at large (being depressed, pearl-clutching Cassandras, and/or Eeyores to a man it seems).
Their general, misjudged presumption – and cause of their huffing, tutting despondency – appears to be that all is lost, that the joke of anaemic wokism is actually an unstoppable force (guffaw), that enlightenment has had the plug pulled on it, etc., etc. and all that lies before us is a world of thoughtless, irrational conformism (in bed with sexual grotesquery) – all of which is myopic hogwash.
The fact of the matter is that the cultural war has already been won by those on the side of healthy common sense – day naturally following darkness – and the only questions that need answering is: How long until this benightedness ends, sense dawns and our leaders see clearly? And: What shape will society take, once today’s silliness has, like all childish phases, faded away?
But how will this come to pass, I hear you ask. When will it end? Who can say? Zealous ideologies tend to end in different ways – though all are authors of their own downfall.
It’s apparent that narcissistic bleeding hearts, in assisting fictitious victims at society’s expense, and promoting an anti-western, anti-conservative, anti-Judeo-Christian agenda, are sawing off the branch they sit upon. It is these weak creatures who need Western values to survive, who need effective policing to defend them, who need the tolerance of depravity and political protections that, in many respects, are antithetical to the immigrants they welcome, and the foreign cultures they abet. Insulated from reality by the nanny state, these activists forget that the system which protects them needs to be paid for and run by the sensible, competent people who they slight, spite, deny and undermine.
Worse yet, by constantly attacking the values of the majority (interfering with families, rewriting history, policing speech and killing ambition – by way of suffocating red tape), while reducing people’s standard of living (through the taxes needed for green-wheezes and dysfunctional government) they are prodding a bear that, if they keep it up, will one day awaken (and see bleeding hearts as meat to feast on).
Likewise, doomsday cults always peter out as their judgement days come and go with nothing happening. The public tire of them, or their followers grow bored and move on to a new threat to distract them from their personal inadequacies and existential dread.
Anyway, to buttress this optimism, let’s look to the past. As with concrete, so with social psychoses – viz they have a shelf life – be it Covidianism, the rule of Savonarola, or the Soviet Union (which was always going to lose the cold war – all the West had to do, a la Kissinger, was ensure an apocalypse was avoided while letting nature run its course). And so it goes with wokism. And climate apocalypticism. And the next dumb cult that follows.
No, cry the Private Frazers. The kids are being brainwashed by their teachers and professors and, just as the Eastern bloc countries indoctrinated children into communist thinking, a social cohort is being created that will forever have blind allegiance to the rainbow flag!
One needs only to travel to Eastern Europe today to see how effective said brainwashing was.
In short, though the surface of a river may freeze over, it thaws with time – and all the while the water is flowing beneath the ice.
To conclude, reformation of the western political system is long, long overdue – was overdue in fact by the 1990s – and however regrettable the corruption and ineptitude of our current political masters is, it is to be welcomed because it is hastening its inevitable demise.
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“Huffing, tutting despondency”
Er, sorry mate, get lost. No-one here is “huffing” or “tutting” and while we may at times seem or even feel “despondent” I am sure everyone here is doing whatever they can to turn things around, each in our own small way. I am angry, not despondent. You can sneer all you want, but I don’t see much cause for optimism. Every empire and civilisation has fallen and been reborn/morphed. I think things will improve, but not before they have got a lot worse – that for me is the lesson of history.
If the “culture war” is about to be won by the “right” side, why is the author of this piece writing under what appears to be a pseudonym?
I seem to have triggered a few people. Anyone care to say why?
Can’t understand those downticks; your general point seems reasonable. I like this writer’s image of the superficially frozen river – but I think it’s quite likely that the river is or will soon be frozen through and through. Previous totalitarianisms collapsed due to overreach and overexpansion; today, The Tech means the world is much smaller and can be controlled so much more easily. I sense the coming of a 100% unchallengeable global prison. Hopefully I’m wrong.
Oh, and “needs to be paid for and run by the sensible, competent people whom they slight, spite, deny and undermine” – not “who”.
Thanks. I agree with your points – big and scary difference now is technology plus ability to generate some degree of material wealth (cf China) to keep people “content”.
Downticks either because I was too pessimistic or told the author to get lost – a statement by which I stand because I found the piece patronising.
Why do we have to remain in thrall to the USA to the degree we presently are? The American empire started to rot away after the end of the cold war for want of a unifying purpose. I don’t see this as a bad thing, rather as an opportunity for a European renaissance.
I’d rather England remained mainly “in thrall” to England.
With regards to the USA and continental Europe, I regard us all as cousins and as part of an extended “European civilisation” that also includes Aus, Canada and NZ – but all of those places seem to be going off the rails, much like England is. There I go, getting despondent…
The final outcome of the Greeks being the Greeks to the Romans of Rome was century-long Ottoman overlordship and no recovery afterwards¹. A UK (plus CANAUSNZ) as sort-of an oversized deckchair on the USS Titanic will certainly sink together with it. But that’s still an opportunity of a renaissance for the Anglosphere f***ed up continental Europe.
¹ After the first world war, Greece made an attempt to reconquer the traditonally Greek Asia Minor – by that time still sporting a large Greek population – but they got soundly beaten by the Turks while the Entente powers were watching from the sidelines. Afterwards, the latter engineered the first ethnic cleansing since ancient times by forcing most Turks living in the Balkan countries and all Greeks living in Asia Minor to move into their designated, new reservations, ie, present day Greece and Turkey.
I have no common allegiance with people from Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Portugal, Latvia or any of those 27 countries. I want to be part of the Anglosphere. The UK and USA have the same language, culture and religion. We were allies in two wars, and without them we would firstly have been over run by Nazi’s And if we follow the EU’s lead we will be over run with the barbarian hordes from the Middle East and the whole continent will be Islamified. Needless to say I voted to leave the EU and it’s absurd mandates and regulations
But how will this reformation happen? It seems impossibly unlikely that the ballot box could ever deliver anything beyond more of the same – look no further than the sham US ‘election’ in 2020. Google, Facebook and the legacy media control what is truth; even blatant lies are repeated often enough for them to be accepted by popular opinion. And Western civilisation is almost entirely dependent on the financial trickery of massive debt and QE to keep things plodding along.
The re-wiring of the current political and economic system – which as you say is perhaps inevitable at some point – will have extreme consequences for everyone.
We are winning.
We the unstabbed were 100% right about the Rona scamdemic.
We are 100% right about the Climate Con.
We are 100% right about non-science, fake data, fake news, and endless propaganda.
We are 100% right that the King is a moron.
We are 100% right that men are men and that real biology and chromosomes exist.
We are 100% right that governments are bought by criminal industries including the military, pharma and Klimaat.
We are 100% right that Christianity built this country and dragged it into the modern era along with every other state in the ‘West’ – the rump of Christendom that was not consumed by Muhammad’s early iron age inspired cult.
We are right that we are right.
We will win because if we don’t the entire corpus of civilisation dissolves.
We will win because many of us have faith, hope and rationality.
Being right isn’t winning. Holding the levers of power is, winning.
Those who are demonstrably wrong are winning because they have power and control.
If those who are right want to win, they need to get hold of the levers of power.
PS: ‘this Country’ had its foundations laid by Pagans whose values, morals, laws, endeavours, courage, pre-dated it being a Christian dominated society.
Christianity hijacked or grafted itself onto existing Pagan allegories, superstitions, rituals, beliefs, festivals – and slaughtered quite a few non-believers along the way.
Judeo-christian culture is an invention of the late 20th century. The Christian culture of Europe used to be very much anti-jewry. And the Jewish culture equally anti-christian, just from an underdog position. Granted, Christianity is rooted in Jewish religious teachings. But so is Islam. If there’s a judeo-christian culture, a judeo-islamic culture must exist for the exact same reasons.
If you – as you likely do – really meant to say We’re allied with Israel and I think we really ought to – a perfectly valid standpoint – why not just say so without the attempt of retroactive identity-fixing?
Jews have historically tended to ally with Muslims against Christians, just as today Jewish Israel is allied with Muslim Azerbaijan against Christian Armenia.
I’m so glad that someone has said this. It is Christian values that built western culture.
The ‘Judeo’ part refers to the Old Testament at least surely?
‘Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy
The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers’
The ‘Judeo’ part refers to the Old Testament at least surely?
This doesn’t make much sense because said judeo-christian culture is usually thought of as natural antagonist of Islam. But Islam shares parts of both the new and the old testament and hence, belongs to the same cultural sphere.
Indeed, hence Abraham Accords. What we don’t share with Islam is the ‘kill all the ‘Saturday People’ and after that the ‘Sunday People” part. An essential difference really.
This part doesn’t exist. Both Jews and Christians are supposed to go to paradise eventually, just to a lesser paradise than that designated for proper Muslims, and before this has happened, they are to be tolerated because they both adhere to so-called religions of the book. Minus occasional outbursts of violent religious intolerance, Christian and Jews have lived peacefully as subject of the Ottoman empire (and the caliphates preceding it) for over a thousand years.
The state of Israel is sleeping in an somewhat uncomfortable bed of its own and pretty recent making (translation of a German idom/ proverb) and the Western countries allied to it share some of these ‘pleasantries’.
I have studied Islamic scriptures to some extent and have never come across the idea that Jews and Christians will go to another, lesser, paradise rather than the fire like all infidels.
Please give your sources.
Hmmm. I think there’s a huge fly in the ointment of this article. It seems to ignore the steady march towards the NWO/Agenda 2030/Great Reset as if it is only now that we should attempt a major tinkering with the political system and then everything might be OK. I don’t see it that way. The gradual deterioration of the political system is part of the plan because it doesn’t have a place in the new world that is being created. Elections? How long have we laboured under the illusion that they changed anything? You only have to write to your MP and express your concerns with any number of ghastly new policies/laws to find out they ignore you and send back their newspeak answers that diminish your concerns as irrelevant. I’ve realised it’s pointless. I may as well be writing to a robot, maybe I am. Courts? They seem to only work in favour of corporations. Are juries still a thing or did they die during Covid? Privacy? Haha. Freedom? Ho ho ho. The boot that is going to be stamping on our faces forever is being polished.
Two years ago, I would have said you were right about the NWO/2030/Great Reset. Now I’m not so sure. This isn’t one gigantic plan from one gigantic evil empire, but rather lots of overlapping plans for lots of different groups.
George Carlin used to talk about ‘where interests align’, and I get that but the thing is that many of this mis-mash of plans and plans are contradictory, and don’t go beyond first order thinking. We should stop imagining that these ideas are well thought out and co-ordinated, and inevitable. They aren’t. And while the evil that is trying to impose them on us is an irresistible force in many ways, it isn’t a unified force, and it isn’t without opposition locally and internationally.
For starters, 70% of the globe cares not one jot for Nett Zero. The idea that the entire World is feverishly working to its end, is phoney. The Chinese push it because it weakens us and strengthens them, but the oil producers don’t want their fossil fuel gravy train to end, as seen by the comments at COP28. The fractures are baked in, and the breadth of the interests that ‘align’ aren’t half as big as they seem.
For us in the UK it just happens to have coincided with the two major parties both becoming zombie, and the handing over of the running of the country to quango’s. It will be ugly for quite a time, and the UK may not survive in its traditional form, but then it has changed every few hundred years a into something constitutionally different, and our ancestors rode out the ripples of these decisions and came back stronger. Do not doubt the ability of the average citizen to cope and make the best of fluid political and social situations. Twice in a hundred years this nation survived all out war. Write us off at your peril.
I envy your optimism, Neil. There is one big plan though called Agenda 21 or 2030. It has been decades in the making, in one form or another, and the progress is more a drip-drip with a gradual tightening of the screw. One thing is clear, to me at least, they – the globalists – see the world as overpopulated and all the resources being consumed hence they must solve these problems by a cull. We are seeing the beginning of the cull and that is certainly not an uncoordinated action but a highly coordinated one. The pandemic allowed them to see how many people would comply with ridiculous rules: the vast majority doingdid. Six people in a garden, two metre distancing, masking up when standing up, unable to go for walks, play areas out of bounds, granny dying alone in a care home – none of that was scientific, it’s why THEY broke the rules, they knew it was ridiculous. So, they already know that if they do it again, most will fall into line. They are slowly playing us and the idea to make it look like overlapping interests doesn’t ring true to me. They know what they are doing.
Thats where I was, but the more I see, the more I think they have a bunch of ideas looking for problems, that they over-played their hand with Covid, and they wont get anything like the same percentage of compliance. Yes, they know what they are doing, but its so poorly thought out and relies on vast sums of money to implement (enough to bankrupt the whole of the West, and the US Fed is closer than ever to the edge thanks to the Covid splurge and the inflation that came from it). Eventually, it will meet reality, and then theres only one winner. I’ve no doubt that they will cause havoc for maybe a generation, but it isn’t sustainable long term.
As for too many people, the smart play would have been something fatal, say a new strain of Zika, across Africa, not giving the West a cold. I totally disagree with the whole de-population argument. The only famines are the ones caused and maintained by politicians for their ends. This is the first generation in all human history where poor people have been fat. Even as late as the early 20th century, poor people were thin and starved to death, often in large numbers from failed crops, climatic events and the like. We produce ample food for everyone of the 8bn of us.
There are challenges in pollution and use of resources, but have you noticed how its always far worse ‘somewhere else’ like the great floating islands of plastic in the Pacific that no-one seems to be able to find, or bullshit politicians standing at lecturns in knee deep water… The last thing that gives me hope is this. Name one Government project, or Pan-European project, or Global Project that has delivered its planned outcome, on time, in budget.. These chumps couldn’t run a bath, never mind world domination.
Wholly agree Aethelred. Excellent post
Thanks, HP!
Correct in every way.
History shows, wars are only ever won with bullets.
No, wars are won with money, the side with the greatest treasure (and hence ability to keep fighting) wins. Plenty of blood spilled up to that point but it’s an iron law of modern warfare. Once USA entered WW2 the outcome was certain. Wehrmacht didn’t run out of bullets just as the Stone Age didn’t run out of stones.
https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publications/how-the-war-was-won-air-sea-power-and-allied-victory-in-world-war
“Prodding the bear”—–Yep good analogy. But is the bear just currently hibernating?
Looking around at the population who make up this figurative bear I think it is not hibernating but in a persistent vegetative state.
funny——–Except all of us on here ofcourse.
Is this you, Dad?
Certainly not I have nieces and nephews and if you think you ca win this battle then you are like those Japs in WW2 on Pacific islands who stayed at their posts for years afterwards. But it isn’t a real war. There is a real war and you could win that if you are interested. Seems like you prefer illusion. Sadly reality intrudes despite your wishes.
How the F did Donald EU Tusk get back in Polands government !?? Already a coup of all things normal is happening !
One word, abortion. It’s the one issue that western women will constantly vote for above all others and religious conservatives will die on that hill. So both, in countries like Poland and the USA, will let a huge statist government takeover because of lack of compromise on that one issue.