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Lent     --- Robert Herrick IS this a fast, to keep The larder lean? And clean From fat of veals and sheep? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish? Is it to fast an hour, Or ragg’d to go, Or show A downcast look and sour? No ;  ‘tis a fast to dole Thy sheaf of wheat, And meat, Unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from strife, From old debate And hate; To circumcise thy life. To show a heart grief-rent; To starve thy sin, Not bin; And that’s to keep thy Lent.

FROM Mike King at The Anti-New York Times:

It is as amazing as it is amusing to behold just how easily the fairer sex can be manipulated by the unseen dominant men who control the levers of culture. A century ago, after propaganda legend Edward Bernays (cough cough) linked cigarettes with “women’s rights ™,” loony ladies everywhere just had to show the boys that they too could take up the unhealthy and dirty habit. Youse gals sure showed us, didncha’ ya now!

Fast forwarding to the 1960’s, Deep State feminist icons Betty Friedan (cough cough) and Gloria Steinum (cough cough) managed to convince stay-at-home mothers that they were being “oppressed” ™ — and that true fulfillment was to be found not in home and hearth, but by working 9-5 at a “career.” How did that work out for you burnt-out workin’ gals, eh? Are youse happy sitting in traffic, slaving away at work, dealing with office politics, and coming home burnt out to your empty apartment, cat and sex toy?

And observe how year after year, the moment some limp-wristed faggot in Paris or Milan declares the new “style,” right away the more fashion-minded women will bust out their magic plastic cards to shop till they drop. As for those “ladettes” who are as lacking in modesty as they are in fashion conscious[ness], the accepted trend now is to wear skin-tight “leggings” — aka “yoga pants” as everyday wear for everything from going to the gym, to school, to a restaurant, or even to their jobs! Skin-tight leggings make a young lady (and in an increasing number of cases, an older woman) look like one part slob and, for the “hotter” ones, one-part slut. And they are totally “normalized” now.

Think about it. Would we not consider the flaunting of a plate of juicy steak and roasted potatoes in the face of a starving man to be a form of psychological abuse? Is the constant public flashing of barely concealed hips and buns in the face of a healthy man who is powerless to touch them any different? As a society, we believed understood that once. (more…)

     "BY PEOPLEHOOD or race consciousness, I do not mean an ideology in which race is seen as impermeable or as the determiner of moral values or as a substitute for fairness and humanity. Rather than expressing an ideology of race-supremacy or race-hatred, this race consciousness I speak of arises from the realization that European Americans are indeed threatened in their cultural, political, and ultimately physical existence by demographic dispossession and the ideology of anti-racism. In many cases, it is only by becoming aware of the mortal threat to their existence as a race that whites begin to become conscious of their race. Race, of course, is only one of the facets of our civilizational identity, but it is indispensable. A reawakening of racial and civilizational consciousness need not result in ideologies of race supremacy or race hatred. Rather it will restore European Americans to their rightful place, both as the heirs and representatives of America’s historic culture, and as an ethnocultural group in their own right, a people. I also suspect that far from making minorities hate whites, the assertion by whites of their peoplehood will make many minorities respect whites. Nonwhites don’t respect whites at present because whites have, in a collective sense, made themselves into nothing while still trying to protect their individual and class interests. Whites thus seem both weak and hypocritical and therefore despicable. But when whites begin to assert their own existence and…

E. MICHAEL JONES says nothing more damning of the Jews here than was said by their own prophets and leaders.

It’s okay to criticize Jews. Jeremiah did in the harshest terms. So did Moses. So did Paul. So did God.

It’s okay to criticize Jews. It’s not okay to hurt them.

Don’t let Jews tell you that you criticize them because you hate them. That’s their story, not yours. Their paranoia is not your problem. You criticize them not because you hate them, but because you love them. So did Jeremiah. So did Moses. So did Paul.

It’s okay to criticize Jews. It’s okay to refuse them submission. It’s not okay to hurt them.

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ERIC R. writes: I wanted to share these stunning choral compositions. They are Tenebrae Motets Op 72, by the English composer Edmund Rubbra. They are very accessible, with just enough modern musical language to make them stand out from the typical Baroque and Classical fare we think of during Lent and Easter. I find them incredibly beautiful. Rubbra converted to Catholicism in 1948, and you can hear his sense of the faith.  

VIEW FROM THE RIGHT:  AN APPRECIATION AND A DISSENT

PART TWO: A DISSENT

by Alan

[Part One of this essay is available here.]

View from the Right presented a superlative counter-assault on the moral-philosophical-cultural decadence that Americans have permitted to overtake their nation.

Why did Mr. Auster oppose “Liberals”?   Because they promoted and excused that decadence.  Why did he oppose “Conservatives”?  Because they agreed to accommodate that decadence.  The differences between the two groups were entirely cosmetic, and nowhere is this more evident than in their uncritical acceptance of certain myths propounded in the name of science and medicine.

A case in point is a discussion at VFR in 2009 in which Mr. Auster and his readers addressed the matter of murder on a Greyhound bus.  It was one of a few instances in which I thought he and his readers were mistaken.  Indeed, they allowed themselves to debate the “condition” of the murderer’s “mind” or “spiritual state”, as if that had any bearing on the case.  Implicitly, they accepted the claim that it did.  It went on for 13 pages.  I thought that was 13 pages too many.  It was, I thought, a splendid example of the consequences of accepting false premises.  [“The Horror, The Horror”, VFR, March 5, 2009]

Mr. Auster wrote about the murderer:  “If he is insane, he is insane.  We all understand that you don’t try and sentence an insane man as you do an ordinary criminal…..”

“We all” did not include at least one reader:  I dissented.  I yield to no one in my defense of Mr. Auster in the many instances when he was right.  But here I parted company with him. (more…)

MARK J. PERRY writes about today’s holiday:

This week gender activists and feminist organizations like the American Association of  University Women will be promoting “Equal Pay Day” on Tuesday, April 2 and this is an update of my “Bigfoot” post from a year ago to help counteract some of questionable statistics and mythology that get recycled every year in early April about the “gender pay gap.” The annual event known as Equal Pay Day brings awareness to a completely bogus apples-to-oranges comparison of median incomes by gender. Specifically this year’s Equal Pay Day will publicize the 20% unadjusted difference in median annual earnings for women and men working full-time in 2018 (most recent data available) when absolutely nothing relevant is controlled for that would help explain that 20% raw differences in income like hours worked, marital status, number of children, education, occupation, number of years of continuous uninterrupted job experience, working conditions, work safety, workplace flexibility, family friendliness of the workplace, job security, and time spent commuting. (more…)

A FEMALE READER writes:

A lot of women (a staggering number to me) have blasted this mother and given her “parenting advice” about spending her time raising respectful men.  The mother is right on this one.

From the article in The Observer, the student-run newspaper at the University of Notre Dame:

The emergence of leggings as pants some years ago baffled me. They’re such an unforgiving garment. Last fall, they obtruded painfully on my landscape. I was at Mass at the Basilica with my family. In front of us was a group of young women, all wearing very snug-fitting leggings and all wearing short-waisted tops (so that the lower body was uncovered except for the leggings). Some of them truly looked as though the leggings had been painted on them.

A world in which women continue to be depicted as “babes” by movies, video games, music videos, etc. makes it hard on Catholic mothers to teach their sons that women are someone’s daughters and sisters. That women should be viewed first as people — and all people should be considered with respect.

I talk to my sons about Princess Leia and how Jabba the Hutt tried to steal her personhood by putting her into a slave girl outfit in which her body became the focus. (That’s the only scene in the whole franchise in which Leia appears in such a way — and it’s forced upon her.)

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VIEW FROM THE RIGHT:  AN APPRECIATION AND A DISSENT

PART ONE: AN APPRECIATION

by Alan

BRIGITTE BARDOT led me to View from the Right.  In or about 2004, I read news reports about how she was being penalized for expressing her views about the disastrous effects of immigration on her country.  I thought it absurd that she should be penalized, and I was curious to learn whether anyone else in America thought the same.  So I looked to the Internet for commentary on that matter.  One link or another led me to View from the Right.  That was how I discovered VFR and Lawrence Auster, so I have Brigitte Bardot to thank.

I was not looking for commentary by “Conservatives” because I knew how inept and spineless they had proven themselves to be in countless confrontations with the “Liberals” they pretend to oppose.

Some years earlier, Mr. Auster had become appalled by what he saw on the streets of New York City and in public places.  I had had the same visceral/esthetic reaction to similar scenes I observed in St. Louis in the same years.  His reaction to the culture-wide collapse of rules and standards nearly paralleled my own.

What I found at VFR—not all at once but over a span of weeks—was exactly the kind of thoughtful commentary and discussion I had hoped to find.  Several times each week I would read VFR.  For me, the important part of VFR was “the politically incorrect Right” part.  I knew I had found a kinsman. (more…)

  Ave Maria Gratia Plena By Oscar Wilde Was this His coming! I had hoped to see A scene of wondrous glory, as was told Of some great God who in a rain of gold Broke open bars and fell on Danaë , Or a dread vision as when Semele, Sickening for love and unappeased desire, Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly. With such glad dreams I sought this holy place And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand Before this supreme mystery of Love: Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face, An angel with a lily in his hand And over both the white wings of a dove. READ more on Lady Day here.

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HOW MANY of the yellow vest protestors in France have studied the Social Credit system, or even heard of it? Probably very few.

This is sad because Social Credit offers a solution to the economic woes motivating the yellow vest uprising. Find out more about Social Credit here.

Oliver Heydorn sums it up:

Social Credit refers to the philosophical, economic, political, and historical ideas of the brilliant Anglo-Scottish engineer, Major Clifford Hugh Douglas (1879-1952).

As far as the sphere of economics is concerned, Douglas identified what is wrong with the industrial economy and also explained what needs to be done in order to fix it.

The core problem is that there is never enough money to buy what we produce. There is a gap between the prices of consumer goods and services and people’s incomes.

This gap is caused by many factors. Profits, including profits derived from interest payments, is only one of them. Savings and the re-investment of savings are two others. The most important cause, however, has to do with how real capital (i.e., machines and equipment) builds up costs at a faster rate than it distributes incomes to workers.

The economy must compensate for this recurring gap between prices and incomes. Since most of the money supply is created out of nothing by the banks, the present financial system fills the gap by relying on governments, firms, and consumers to borrow additional money into existence so that the level of consumer buying power can be increased. (more…)

ALAN writes:

People who lived in the Missouri Ozarks 85 years ago were poor in material possessions, but they were not poor otherwise. They had a wealth of moral fiber, common sense, imagination, self-discipline, sense of responsibility, respect for neighbors, and gratitude for simple pleasures.

Imogene Snider was one of them.  She was the youngest of eight sisters. More than fifty years afterward, she wrote about growing up on their family farm deep in the Ozarks in the 1930s.  Reading the memories of such people helps to keep things in perspective. They are an antidote to the unspeakable excess of the modern world.

Awash in that excess, modern Americans take for granted such things as water, electricity, supermarkets, insulated homes, push-button heating and cooling, instant entertainment, and dozens of flavors of ice cream available on a moment’s whim.

Keep all of that in mind as you read these few portions of her lengthy reminiscences:

            “The parlor was a special room…used when we had family gatherings and on holidays…  We kept our best pieces of furniture in the parlor…  There was also a piano…  We entertained our friends by playing the piano.  Music was a great part of life at our house….  Seven of the eight girls in our family learned to play the piano…  I spent many lonely hours at the piano for it was a great source of recreation and entertainment for me in the days when we had so little diversion or entertainment…

            “The winter nights were long and very lonely, and we had little for entertainment.  We strained our eyes reading by the yellow glow of the smoky kerosene lamp, and our reading material was very limited. We were not allowed to play cards, so sometimes we played dominoes…

            “Sometimes we borrowed a lawn mower, and I pushed it by hand a mile or so down the road, mowed the lawn, then pushed it back down the road home…

On decoration days in May and June, they would go to local cemeteries to decorate graves: (more…)

WHAT Trumpers are experiencing right now is the “Tell-Tale Heart” “groan moment.” In Poe’s story, this occurs when the incipient victim is forced to face his dire reality. It’s the moment when he has to come to terms with his worst fear: Presently I heard a slight groan…. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself—“It is nothing but the wind in the chimney—it is only a mouse crossing the floor,” or “It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp.” Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain. For two years now, Trump loyalists have been trying to convince themselves that every lost opportunity, every defeat, has been part of some grand plan. “We’re not losing; Trump is merely luring his foes into a trap.” The dude’s got less than two years to spring that trap. Maybe it’s finally time, no? Or maybe there never was a trap, and what we’re seeing now is a necessary split between the people who believed in the man because they supported the agenda, and those who believed in the man because they were looking to follow a “god emperor.” -- David Cole

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