Bombast is the hip, cool “marketing” crowd’s reason for being… The sky and the stars are never enough. Hipsters and Hypesters must liven them up with excitement, spectacle, surround-sound, fast-edit cuts, and garish color illustrations. They cannot stand anything that is quiet and restrained and might therefore encourage thought, wonder, contemplation. They cannot package and market those things. They are in business to reduce the sky, the stars, the whole universe to on-screen entertainment.   

ALAN writes:

A few months ago, a conjunction of planets was visible in the night sky.  A woman I know learned about it from an Internet blurb and then looked for it after dark.  But she said afterward that she could not see it.  Of course she could not see it.  I knew she wouldn’t. That is partly because of bright city lights that make even the brighter stars hard to see. But it is also partly because “it” was not the same thing as the garish color depictions that are now common on the Internet. It was not her fault that blurbs like those are gross misrepresentations of what can be seen in the night sky.

Overblown color illustrations, photographs, and “artists’ conceptions” in books, magazines, and Internet sites have taught three generations of Americans to expect to see such things in the night sky. They are victims of a hoax and a fraud perpetrated by the entertainment and marketing rackets.

In ancient times, 1963-’67, I read magazines like The Review of Popular Astronomy and Sky and Telescope.  They were serious magazines written by and for a specialized audience: People with an interest in the night sky. That excluded most people. It still excludes most people, partly because of the dumbing down of American culture, but largely because most people at night now pursue higher interests on their big-screen like wrestling, porn, and car crashes.

With rare exceptions, photographs printed in those magazines in the 1960s were black and white. Illustrations in the form of “artists’ conceptions” were black and white, restrained, sober, and not doctored, enhanced, or overblown. All those qualities were part of a frame of mind that was being weakened quite purposely in the 1960s by agitators for Hip and Hype.

In the decades since then, people who publish magazines like those agreed to water them down with cutesy features, “fun facts”, and gaudy, overblown color photographs and “artists’ conceptions”, all of it engineered to appeal to a mass audience, no longer a specialized audience of people knowledgeable in such matters. Then, whether because they were fools or liars, they had the effrontery to deny that they were part of the dumbing down trend. The frame of mind of publishers, editors, writers, and readers was now entirely different from what it had been only a few decades earlier.

When they are primed by overblown color blurbs to expect such things in the night sky but then fail to see them, people like the woman I know may conclude that there isn’t much there to be seen. Of course that is not so. What is there in the night sky is made to seem insignificant by comparison with the garish, overdone, overblown color photographs and illustrations that are now featured on Internet sites and in cutting-edge books, magazines, TV “documentaries”, and books “for” children. It is not the night sky but Hype-about-the-night-sky that Americans now permit to determine their frame of mind and their expectations. (more…)

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IT’S interesting how rarely feminists mention the most powerful and influential woman in history.

She has been adored, prayed to, depicted in paintings and sculptures that fill museums and churches around the world; praised in exquisite hymns and some of the greatest compositions known to man; honored in countless, majestic buildings with soaring interiors that rank as some of the most beloved buildings on earth; written about in many thousands of books, including profound treatises cherished through the centuries, and held high in the hearts of untold millions ranging from peasants to kings. The woman known as the Virgin Mary’s prominent role in world affairs is undeniable.

And yet when the case for the historic oppression of women is made, she is almost never mentioned. This is odd, given that Mary, unlike the ancient goddesses who were also adored and honored in art, was a real woman who lived at a specific period in history. She was never claimed by those devoted to her to be a divinity or a product of poetic imagination.

Feminists surely ignore or downplay her because she, a woman, is arguably the single, greatest enemy of the feminist narrative of history. She is the supreme, unparalleled example of femininity. From The Influence of Mary on Modern Civilization, by Rev. John Kelly (1897):

And this ideal of a delicate, fragile, modest and retiring lady, overtopping in her grandeur the sons of men, yet retaining supereminently a woman’s heart, has done more towards banishing the barbarism, allying the brutality, softening the hardness, developing the humanity of the native disposition bequeathed to Adam’s children, than all the teachings of philosophers, and all the projects and devices of statesmen and sages. [“The Influence of Mary on Modern Civilization,” Rev. John Kelly, 1897]

Perhaps women were more than mere slaves of men before Mary, but there is no question Mary elevated them and that she played a major part in the greatest of all civilizations. While feminism says women become powerful by seeking positions of power, Mary’s example shows that women become powerful by embracing humility and submission to the Will of God. We will never know how many people were born into this world purely because of this example as she has exalted motherhood and its sacrifices. The decline of devotion to her parallels the decline of the Western birthrate.

In the remnants of chivalry today, we can find a form of deference and respect which never existed in non-Christian societies. Rev. Kelly again:

The knights indeed of mediaeval days have passed in their gleaming armour, with nodding plume and twinkling lance-head, into the shadows of the melancholy past; but that sworn courtesy to the weaker sex, that sweet simplicity of heart, in doing them honour; that self-forgetful devotion to the cause of the oppressed and the helpless, that vowed reverence and affection for Mary’s name, which reigned in their hearts and dictated all their duties and functions of honour, kindliness and true knighthood did not die with them, but fructified through the ages, the same essential spirit in other outward forms.

This was due largely to Mary’s influence. She has been a stimulus to the cultivation of virtue and perfection for both men and women:

Yes, beloved Brethren, the love of Mary, the study of Mary’s character and the imitation of her virtues, is no debasing influence, as her enemies pretend, rather it is a stimulus to every good quality that owns a root in the soil of our nature. She is the woman, who (according to the first recorded prophecy), was marked out in the designs of God to crush the serpent’s head. And in the breasts of her faithful children and votaries, her heel is upon that malignant crest, and the poisonous tongue of Satan plays vainly in his jaws.

Pope Pius XII similarly wrote in his allocution, Woman in the Modern World, of September 1941:

If life reveals to what depths of vice and degradation women can at times descend, Mary shows to what heights she can climb, in and through Christ, even to ascending above all other creatures. What civilization, what religion has ever raised to such heights the ideal of womanhood, or exalted it to such perfection? Modern humanism, laicism, Marxist propaganda .. non-Christian cults, have nothing to offer which can even be compared with this vision .. so glorious and so humble, so transcendent and [yet] so easily accessible.

May she be honored and adored throughout the world.

May the prayer of the Mother of God assist thy people, O Lord; though we know her to have passed out of this world, may we experience her intercession for us with thee in the glory of heaven. Through the same Lord, &c.

— Secret, Mass of the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, St. Andrew’s Missal

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FROM Is Christianity Bankrupt? by Adrien Arcand (1954):

… Take the word “democracy”, which in human society (on both sides of the Iron Curtain) has become the supreme imperative and has replaced all divine authority with one and the same propaganda. What does this global password, this all-powerful verbum, mean? Anything, as long as it is against the True, the Just and the Beautiful.

In Russia, “democracy” justifies the slavery of twenty million men in concentration camps, the destruction of religion, the family, the right to property. In Palestine, it beatifies the most virulent and savage racism. In France, it glorifies disunity and instability. In England, it confirms the abandonment and abdication of an historical role called “vital, capital” not a decade ago. In China, it sanctions usurpation, tyranny and despotism. In America, it canonizes plutocracy, socialism, miscegenation, degradation of morals. When a monarch eats a hot dog at the White House, that is proclaimed “democratic.” (more…)

"TO tell the truth nowadays is a privilege that is quite expensive and a sport that carries many risks. But those who consent to pay the price and take the risks, however great and hard they may be, receive in return a 'commodity' that has true value: real freedom and the peace it confers." --- Adrien Arcand, Is Christianity Bankrupt?, 1954  

,b "HEAVENLY beacon, with thy gentle shining enlighten our darkness. May we, like thee, by purity of heart, by uprightness of thought, by simplicity of gaze, fix upon ourselves the divine ray, which flickers in a wavering soul, is dimmed by our waywardness, is interrupted or put out by a double life divided between God and the world." --- Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year, "Feast of St. Clare, August 12"  

"[E]TERNAL Wisdom shows us that the fruit of salvation, though it may seem to proceed from the word and from action, springs first from silent contemplation." -- Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year, "Feast of St. Clare, August 12"  

“WE’RE seeing a threat of a potentially very dangerous Martial Law situation taking shape here, where the Trump administration is deploying military personnel to the streets of D.C., and at the same time conditioning the public to see it as a positive thing, so that it can be implemented permanently in other cities as well. The pretext for this move was the staged attack on Edward Coristine. As we have seen numerous times before, they use fake events to install the changes they need to further the JWO agenda. MAGAtards will continue to cheer it on and offer up the most obtuse excuses to ineptly defend a genocidal pedophile who is ushering in a digital hellscape. Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is Orwellian doublethink, a nod to tyranny cloaked in freedom’s name.” Source (more…)

“ARE you hated, denigrated, jaded, and calumniated?
Did they kick you out for speaking truth?
Did it make it worse to give them proof?

“Pariah, white martyr, no one said it would be fun.
Pariah, white martyr, get back up you’ve got God’s race to run.
So don’t clamor for glamour.
There’s no need for greed.
Your reward is in the next life if you stay this steed.
The cross in this life earns you that eternity.
So don’t despair; just cast your cares upon He who created thee.
Pariah, white martyr. (more…)

"A GREAT interview with Ole Dammegard on staged fake events - very much worth watching. He covers numerous hoaxes including Charlottesville, Nice, Fake school shootings, and European 'terror' attacks." Charlottesville: https://gab.com/Lateralus1/posts/112407467385414266 Patriot Front: https://gab.com/Lateralus1/posts/112486159002710588 Nice: https://gab.com/Lateralus1/posts/110764547549145771 Source  

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"This Weekend at Costco in Frisco, TX: The Indian takeover in full view. Hardly any Americans in sight. "The Indian population exploded 4,510% in Frisco over the last 20 years, surging from 2.5% to nearly one-third of the city. "H-1B betrayal robs our people of jobs, wipes out our heritage, and erases our communities. America's harsh new reality: The Great Replacement unfolding." ---- Royal Pheasant  

'FROM day 1, I knew the Trump 'assassination' was fake as hell. It’s all so over-the-top cartoonish. His supporters are so retarded they should be eligible for handicapped parking spaces." --- Toxic Male Housekeeper  

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FROM P. Marlowe at Gab:

JEWS LOVE KILLING GOYIMS (what Jews call us non-Jews) using mass starvation killing. They did it in Commie Russia all the time. Stalin’s top dog henchman, Lazar Kaganovich, is estimated to have killed 7 million, mostly Ukrainians, in the early 1930s in what is called the “Holodomor.” While White Americans are tirelessly brainwashed about Hitler and the Nazis 24/7, legitimate historians call Kaganovich the 20th Century’s biggest mass genocide killer — that is, if they feel brave enough to say so since the guy was Jewish.

Look, if you get shot in the head, you’re dead, right? Well, you’re just as dead if you starve to death. Might take a few extra weeks but you’re still dead.

That’s why Jews love starvation as a mass murder tactic. It’s cheap and we all know Jews are cheap as crap. Plus, there’s an element of nature involved, allowing many ways of hiding it from all the idiots out there. (more…)