I ONCE met a woman who moved with her husband from the New Jersey suburbs to a house on a dirt road in the Adirondack Mountains. She said she could no longer cope with the whirlwinds of traffic back home. Here in the woods, by a rocky river, she intended to spend her last years.

Her life didn’t really conform to the American ideal, which involves lots of activity, lots of travel and lots of fun. Old age is supposed to bring youthful busyness, with dancing to pumping music in gyms, road trips and cruises to exotic places. You’re supposed to dress like you’re 16, in tank tops and yoga pants, and be up for romantic novelty with new “partners.” Toward the end of life, when the body is worn and much less attractive, one is supposed to imitate not just the energy of people decades younger, but even their sexual appeal, which only goes to making the old ridiculous and sometimes downright hideous.

This cultural phenomenon is a disaster. For one, it keeps the old from anchoring the ship of society. By devoting time and energy to correcting, directing and upholding, the old protect moral and spiritual values. There’s an evil drive behind the leveling of the generations. It helps create a society of soulless materialists easy to control. In dystopia, the young are given rights and privileges beyond their years.The young are not young and the old certainly are not old. The generations are equally superficial and hedonistic.

The importance of old age is not in having free time for pleasure and doing things one couldn’t do when one was young; it’s in preserving and embodying wisdom and reverence. In the loss of beauty, the old prove perhaps that beauty isn’t supreme. (more…)

“I AM fairly confident that the persecution which was the lot of Christianity in its earliest years was by no means because it was concerned with something purely transcendental— something that we call the world to come. Taking the merely material implications in it, I have little doubt that what was recognised and persecuted in early Christianity was the economic implications of its philosophy. Only when Christianity became, as it did, purely transcendentalist, was it felt to be fairly respectable and fairly safe.” --- Clifford Hugh Douglas  

  READ more about Clifford Hugh Douglas here.  

[Reposted from 2018]

CLIFFORD HUGH DOUGLAS (1879-1952) was one of the most important economic thinkers of modern times, and yet his plan for reform known as Social Credit (not to be confused with the Chinese system of the same name) is little known. The British engineer discovered a fundamental problem in industrialized, capitalist economies and he believed modern wars were caused by this “irritant,” which was the inability to provide enough paying jobs and income to citizens, who could thus not afford to buy the products produced. His discovery is as timely today as it was when he was alive — in fact, it is more relevant than while he was alive.

The monopoly of private bankers over the control and distribution of money ultimately strangles economies. Michael Watson explains in a review of a new book on Social Credit by Dr. M. Oliver Heydorn:

This monopoly gradually transfers more and more wealth, privilege and power into fewer and fewer hands by taking advantage of a chronic gap between consumer prices and consumer incomes. The only means for consumers to acquire additional and much needed purchasing power is to borrow money from the private banks, which these same banks also create out of nothing. The aforementioned price and income gap is a recent phenomenon and is the result of the increasing displacement of human labour by technological developments resulting in fewer jobs and thus less money in wages, salaries, and dividends being distributed to consumers. There is therefore a constant need for economic “growth” for the sake of growth to fill this gap and by any means possible. … [T]his is most often being achieved by maintaining imprudently high net immigration flows into the country to provide more consumers and also the selling off resources, production, farmland and property to foreign companies and investors to pay down bank loans and fill the credit gap.

Watson writes:

Families are torn apart by financial woes. Automation is replacing more and more jobs. Average people’s buying power just shrinks by the year and yet few people, if any, seem to know why or how all this is really happening. To further exacerbate this crisis, both parents are being forced to take on work outside the home at the expense of the children who must be placed in the care of commercial day care providers. And this pressure is further intensified by the decreasing availability of stable jobs, thus leading to the spoliation of family life and leisure and the economic and social destitution of men and women. Once upon a time about fifty years ago, a father could provide for the whole of his family with just one income, i.e., without the mother having to work outside the home.

Douglas came to his theory during World War I:

It was while he was reorganising the work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment during World War I that Douglas noticed that the weekly total costs of goods produced was greater than the sums paid to workers for wages, salaries and dividends. This seemed to contradict the theory of classic Ricardian economics, that all costs are distributed simultaneously as purchasing power. (more…)

TRUMP boasts of bringing more than half a million more Chinese students into America. Supposedly it's part of a strategic deal to help American business. Once again: Sold to the highest bidder.  

IT IS essential when resisting the Kalergi Plan and the deliberate submerging of the American soul and nation through multicultural immigration to refuse all resentment toward the people from around the world who are taking advantage of this plan and have come to this country for personal gain.

To take just one example, when one sees Asians from India buying up American motels and gas stations with the help of loans from the “American” government — loans that are denied white Americans, it is essential to direct one’s anger and energy toward the right place and not toward those who are merely following the imperatives of self-preservation and the temptations toward greed that are placed in their path. (more…)

THE Contemplative Observer has must-read commentary on the highly-significant meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska on August 15th: (more…)

KATHY G. writes:

One of my favorite books when I homeschooled my children, was a large, charming one-hundred-year-old book, titled The Handbook of Nature Study, by Anna Botsford Comstock. In fact, I enjoyed it far more than my children did! (more…)

“THE MESSAGE of Hollywood is the total significance of sexual love as an end in itself—the erotic without consequences. The sexual love of two grains of sand, two rootless individuals, not the primeval sexual love looking to the continuity of Life, the family of many children. One child is permitted, as being a more complicated toy than a dog, perhaps even two, one boy and one girl—but the family of many children is a subject for humor to this decadent outlook. (more…)

PENNY writes:

I wanted to thank you for publishing Alan’s “The Night Sky in a World of Hype” and Alan for sharing it. His mentioning of Leslie Peltier piqued my interest so much that I ordered his autobiography Starlight Nights through my library’s borrowing system. I have been enjoying it immensely. He’s truly writing about a different time and way of living. There are bits of it that remind me of when I was little (almost 50 years ago): how people sat outdoors after dinner and enjoyed the breeze and the scent of the lilac bushes or talked about how the garden was growing. That doesn’t seem to happen so much any more. When my neighbors are outside, they’re in the pool on their smartphones, not just sitting and looking. I suppose that goes with the modern ethos – you can’t just sit; you have to be doing something to justify it.

Though I’m not an outdoor person much anymore, I’ve spent the summer immersed in nature essays and books. I’ve gone camping and trout fishing with John S. Burroughs and read about strawberries he remembered. (more…)

“SUCH as I love, I rebuke and chastise.”

— St. John, Rev. 3-19 (more…)

"TODAY ... we see the true emblem of purity, better than snow or ice, however spotless; for we see a human heart, warm with the warmest human love, throbbing and yearning as with the love of all hearts in one, and yet, nay by very reason of its vehement love, the home and emblem of purity--the most loving of the loving, and the purest of the pure." --- Rev. Arthur Ryan, 1877  

ONE often finds when Jewish people react to public criticism that they instantly claim they are being exposed to “Jew hatred” or “hateful” statements. This reaction — this use of the word ‘hate’ — is used by the powerful Anti-Defamation League all the time and thus is taught and reinforced by Jewish leaders.

This word “hate,” I maintain, is a rhetorical weapon. You might even say it is a case of projection and at times represents not hatred of Jews, but hatred by Jews.

Let’s unpack it for a moment.

To criticize someone is not necessarily to hate him. If my neighbor were to pull up with a dump truck and deposit a load of gravel at the end of my driveway, I would be very angry and would definitely criticize his conduct. But would that mean that I hated my neighbor? (more…)

WE heard a sudden, ear-splitting yell. I couldn’t make out the exact words, but it sounded like, “No, I won’t!”

Then the source of the noise, a little, tousle-haired boy, about five years old, a look of complete and unashamed defiance on his face, threw himself to the ground. He began twisting and writhing on his back, clutching what looked like a small toy in one of his hands.

Two men, both tall and thin, dressed in fashionable, tight shorts, stood over him. They were, it seems, pretending to be his parents. (more…)

  Credit

WHAT other people would create an organization (the ADL) solely to defend a man unanimously convicted by a jury of murdering and raping a young girl — and then turn this organization into a multi-million dollar instrument of domestic terror?

Even today, 110 years after Leo Frank’s death by hanging, the Anti-Defamation League with all its big bucks and arsenal of stomach-turning sophistries cannot deny that Frank, who was lynched by a mob infuriated by the failure to carry out his sentence, was unanimously convicted by a trial jury, by a grand jury and by a coroner’s jury and that the Southern “racists” on those juries all refused to convict the black man Frank’s attorneys framed without evidence for the murder of  the Irish factory worker, Mary Phagan. (more…)

YUVAL Noah Harari warns the people they may become useless.

The typical Jewish leader is without empathy, at least for non-Jews. (more…)

"A SAINT is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly."                      --- St. Bernard