FROM The Contemplative Observer:

Our generation of today bears little to no resemblance with earlier generations. It is safe to assume that these ancestors of ours would turn in their graves (possibly they do), could they see what has happened to their countries – to a world, a culture, a civilisation, that they had helped build.

This author, born in the first half of the 1960s, still has experienced, mostly as a child and youth, the final years of an entirely different world (which the revolution of the late sixties and seventies did away with). Everybody of his age, or older, has. So, let’s take a look back on how things were then, and what things are like now.

What first comes to mind is the authority parents, relatives, teachers and even neighbours had over children. One simply didn’t object; or protest; or address adults (let alone complete strangers) on a first-name basis (or even try to argue with them or school them). It was called respect, and obedience, and decent conduct – all of which have been subsumed by the Left under their deadly label of “poisonous pedadgogy”, the real poison properly so called having been their own widely advertised (and widely accepted) “anti-authoritarian education” (the term nicely echoing Frankfurt School member Theodor Adorno’s 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality). (more…)

  MAN IS created to praise, reverence and serve God our Lord, and by this means save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. Hence, man is to make use of them in as far as they help him in the attainment of his end, and he must rid himself of them in as far as they prove a hindrance to him. Therefore, we must make ourselves indifferent to all created things, as far as we are allowed free choice and are not under any prohibition. Consequently, as far as we are concerned, we should not prefer health to sickness, riches to poverty, honor to dishonor, a long life to a short life. The same holds for all other things. Our one desire and choice should be what is more conducive to the end for which we are created. --- St. Ignatius of Loyola  

BUT if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.  --- 1 Timothy 5:8  

WHITES already are discriminated against in jobs at national and state parks. But other changes are in the offing. Camping, hiking, fishing, rock climbing --- these activities all exhibit "systemic racism." ABC News reports on "The Great White Outdoors" and how "people of color" do not visit national parks in large numbers, not because they don't like visiting national parks, but because ..... there are too many whites there. The fact that whites have set aside so much land, made it accessible to the public and financially sustained it for decades does not ease the burden of guilt. Perhaps we need George Floyd on Mount Rushmore and every black person should receive a free, all-expenses paid trip to Yosemite. But even then ... whites would be guilty for having cared about something other than themselves.  

  COVID fear-mongering by the government and media has turned a significant minority into psychopaths.  

ALAN writes:

Dear Grandma,

Many years have gone by since we last spoke. I remember that you were always there at home every day of my life; well, at least until I got to be seven years old, when you went away through no choice of your own.

I remember that my mother asked our good friend Betty to look after me for several hours on that day in 1957. You and Grandpa are pictured in a photograph from 1945 that I keep on my bookshelves, and I have often talked to you there.

I know that in the 1930s-‘40s, you and my mother enjoyed listening to Kay Kyser’s radio program and that its theme song was “Thinking of You”.  So tonight I am thinking of you, Grandma.

I miss you terribly and I miss any chance to express to you the gratitude that seven-year-old boys are too young to understand.

Any number of things prompt me to remember you, from Christmas photographs to flowers in the back yard, from the unbearable heat of summer days to the night in 1956 when we watched television news reports about the sinking of the Andrea Doria.  The Homer Laughlin “Tulips in a Basket” chinaware in the cabinet across the room from me reminds me of you and how you chose to use that china only on special occasions.

One evening in 1994 I happened by chance to hear the 1920 song “Love Nest”. Its melody reminded me instantly of the comfort I felt when you sat there with me on nights in the 1950s and we enjoyed the comedy of George and Gracie on “The Burns and Allen Show” on black-and-white TV, for which “Love Nest” was the theme song.

And this offers me a chance to show you an example of how stupid modern Americans have become:  You would consider it the nuttiest idea you ever heard—which it is—but modern Americans believe that boys can become girls and men can become women.  By contrast, consider the following lines from the Burns and Allen radio show of Jan. 17, 1946.  George and Gracie are talking about orchestra leader Meredith Willson and a women’s club called the Beverly Hills Uplift Society. (more…)

AN IMPORTANT piece at The Anti-New York Times looks at how corporate CEO's have been forced to participate in a Communist-style Revolution: It explains why so many companies allowed themselves to be “shaken down” by the “anti-capitalist” Marxists of Black Lives Matter. You see, it wasn’t actually a small group of Black lesbian street activists who forced Corporate America to promote BLM on their company websites while collectively pledging an estimated $1.6 Billion dollars to the Reds. No sir. It was the Vanguard-BlackRock-State Street Investment Mafia that did that! Wow, this makes a lot of sense out of recent events.  

ANOTHER report showing that CV-19 has mysteriously not been as contagious in America's prisons as it is alleged to be at large.