The reasons for a voluntary death
The revolt of the mothers
“Man must sacrifice his life” – interview with Dominique Venner
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Everyone who wants to control others (liberals) wants power. Knows they need and require power.
Knowing this they know to be effective they must keep power and maintain it, and often increase it and maintain it.
They keep it by controlling the law and writing the law so as to allow them to keep power.
This is the second greatest reason why a countries’ laws increase greatly. The first is because societal decay destroys individual self-control, so the control of the individual - since they are no longer desiring to govern themselves - reverts back to government, often at the pleading of its own citizens.
The old world nobility that he celebrates also couldn't find outlets for its desire to serve outside of war.
When the war finally came, it swept that class away.
Renaming the years and events of 1914-1945 as “the Thirty Year War” is neither helpful nor accurate.
Lots of interesting speculation, but without an anchor.
Europe isn’t just Moses or Homer. Europe was a combination of Athens, Greece, and Rome—but the dominant cultural influence was Christianity.
As the interviewer’s question suggests, however, Venner ignores Christianity. And his response? “Because of His claim of divinity, and His universality, Jesus is apart and on another level entirely. He himself says that His kingdom is not of this world.”
Well, yes. But that is not to say that Christianity has no impact on the culture of Europe and the West.
He is correct in pointing out that “nobility” has its positive aspects. Nobles are trained to care for their dependents: “Noblesse oblige.” That ideal is not always or even often put into practice, but then neither are most other ideals.
On the other hand, freedom is hardly an American invention. It stems ultimately from Christianity. Islam demands submission. Allah is totally arbitrary, and his followers must do whatever he says. The Jewish and Christian God is good and just, and His followers are given the gift of free will, to love and obey God or to disobey and turn away.
The decay of Europe, and also the decay of America, are owing to the same problem: the loss of Christian values as the leading cultural and social determinant.
Venner sounds like a garden-variety unwashed Sartre wannabe.
Yesterday ProgressingAmerica posted an interesting piece by H. L. Mencken from 1920, mostly about Theodore Roosevelt, but with some choice comments on Wilson (who was still President at the time).
Roosevelt: An Autopsy, by H.L. Mencken (1920)
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I meant to add you to my ping as well; you contributed to the previous Venner thread. See my post 8 about the list.
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Nah, I'll keep the tagline I have LOL!
A strong thinker here, thanks.