tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post8644122226273591649..comments2023-10-14T23:56:22.016-10:00Comments on Reflecting Light: A not quite Obama-free postingRick Darbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-43609416083920522532008-06-17T16:58:00.000-10:002008-06-17T16:58:00.000-10:00Fair enough Rick, I accept your point. However, a...Fair enough Rick, I accept your point. However, as I write a ragtag band of Arab peasants is managing to defeat the mightiest military in the world, in Iraq. All you need are a few assassinations and bombings, to get the ball rolling as it were. Not that I'm advocating such a thing. My point is, it can be done. The security forces would probably break down along racial lines. I think demonstrations and race riots, descending into open street warfare, will be the order of the day. I'm fascinated by this topic, which most bloggers on the right seem to prefer to ignore. There is no way the global power elite and the Multi-Cult will relinquish power peacefully.Western Resistancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296387706328569161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-59526159716703661262008-06-17T10:10:00.000-10:002008-06-17T10:10:00.000-10:00Thank you all for taking the time to comment.Sebas...Thank you all for taking the time to comment.<BR/><BR/>Sebastian, you make a very good point. Such experience as I have had with European countries leads me to believe that under their glitzy modern veneer, and despite mostly having globalist governments, they retain a good deal of conservatism in the sense of attachment to their traditions and histories. (Britain may be the exception, the one country where cultural Marxism actually has won.)<BR/><BR/>I can't, for example, imagine France truly assimilating its North African population. France is just too French. No matter how much their politicians promote social engineering schemes, it's unlikely the indigenous French will ever accept a hybrid society.<BR/><BR/>Of course, that still leaves a difficult and dangerous situation. The best option would be to encourage North African Muslims to return to their cultural homelands, offering them financial incentives and their new countries aid to help absorb them and if possible create an economy that can sustain them.<BR/><BR/>Alan, thanks for the links to your articles. I'll check them out.<BR/><BR/>Saharians, I suppose the thought of an eventual civil war has crossed all our minds, especially when we're most depressed about how things are going. But I really, really hope it doesn't come to that. Most of us have friends and relatives on the "other side" — and exactly how would the sides be defined, anyway? Besides, if it were a war of some loose confederation of conservatives of various kinds versus liberals, who would be in the majority? Who would control the police and armed forces? The romantic idea of a band of armed citizens taking on the U.S. government+the global corporate establishment+the liberal establishment is just too much the stuff of fantasy. But a nonviolent revolution? Yes! See my postings under "American Velvet Revolution" linked on the blogroll.Rick Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-24694537738677634442008-06-17T05:06:00.000-10:002008-06-17T05:06:00.000-10:00Nice post. You have defined the two threats facin...Nice post. You have defined the two threats facing the West. I suspect that the more thoughtful among us know that we are headed for civil war. There is no other way out of this. You can feel it in your gut. We are being eaten alive by savages. We are being pushed into a corner and it is time to defend ourselves, by any means necessary. Is it not more useful, at this juncture, to put down the keyboard and learn how to operate a rifle? I'm beginning to think so. I suppose some of us are not prepared to go out without a fight.Western Resistancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296387706328569161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-24382971036380337022008-06-17T00:11:00.000-10:002008-06-17T00:11:00.000-10:00Sorry about the typos! Haste makes waste. Ok, jus...Sorry about the typos! Haste makes waste. Ok, just for the record, you must take comfort FROM the fact that you are TAKING action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-71115237559847442722008-06-17T00:08:00.000-10:002008-06-17T00:08:00.000-10:00Rick:Don't despair, take action. And take comfort ...Rick:<BR/><BR/>Don't despair, take action. And take comfort form the fact that you are takig action right now. <BR/>See the following of my essays:<BR/><BR/>"Needed: a New Conservative Apologetics," at http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0907/0907conservativeapologetics.htm<BR/><BR/>"Authority, Traditionalism and Liberalism" (At View From the Right) at http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/006997.html <BR/><BR/>And "How to Defeat Liberalism" (also at VFR) at http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/006789.html.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-19539771430383467252008-06-16T23:28:00.000-10:002008-06-16T23:28:00.000-10:00This is a wonderful little essay. I thank Lawrenc...This is a wonderful little essay. I thank Lawrence Auster for linking your site (though I remain a dog person!). I have often commented that Europe, which should never be confused for one country, may yet survive this in better form than America. Because most European nations face an on-the-ground existential threat from Muslims, there is still a much greater sense of who is who. The "failure" to integrate Muslims may be their secret weapon. Besides, there remains in many European countries a genuine populist/nationalist (non-neocon) sentiment expressed through small parties. What is happening in Europe is more the result of a top-down imposition than an organic product of the national cultures. <BR/><BR/>Here, however, assimilation is quickly leading to a new post-Western society; Americans are very open to call for greater equality - as Tocqueville predicted, in the battle between equality and freedom, Americans will always chose the former. The level of everyday vulgarity here, in mannerisms, speech, gestures, thought, evinces a profound decay of any awareness beyond 1960s hipsterism and urban black/prison culture. I fear the yoke of cultural marxism can wed itself to good-ole fashioned American egalitarianism and idealism and become part of our political lingua franca, enter the very bloodstream, in a way that is more dangerous and long-term than in Europe. Cf. the current immigration and social policies of the Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Swiss and Polish governments and imagine how long they would be tolerated here.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I enjoy your site. Thanks for the time and effort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-68423092234154779402008-06-06T16:06:00.000-10:002008-06-06T16:06:00.000-10:00We are indeed ground between millstones. Maybe the...We are indeed ground between millstones. Maybe they will grind away our stupid binging on materialism, our living off the intellectual capital of our founders, our complacency. Maybe.Rick Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-60524006811389399302008-06-06T11:21:00.000-10:002008-06-06T11:21:00.000-10:00"Two immense forces"...a couple of years ago, I vi..."Two immense forces"...a couple of years ago, I visited an old industrial facility (in upstate NY) that had been restored. One of the machines was something called an "attrition mill"...it consists of two steel disks which are driven at high speed in opposite directions and crush the grain (or other substance) between them.<BR/><BR/>It struck me then that the attrition mill was a sinister metaphor for the internal and external threats to our society.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com