[Chad C. Mulligan]

Dan'l nails it as usual. "Multicultural" nations are especially susceptible, due to racial disparities. America is of course the most multicultural of all, thanks to unlimited immigration and of course the legacy of slavery, which is kept festering for fun and profit by the likes of Cornell West and Ibrahim X Kendi, to name two of the most current practitioners of the race hustle business.

Not to leave out the inevitable "......conspiracy theorists [who] have already arrived to explain that the whole thing was clearly done by the government because how else could it have missed the Hamas attack." I'm sure we have already seen such apopheniacs here on FR, and will see more.

[ifinnegan]

Good article. Describes the reason for many posts people put up here too.

[DoodleBob]

The thing about reality is that it's ugly. Like a patient dying in an ICU or like the smell of a dead animal in a slaughterhouse, it's a reality we don't like to confront. And we've built elaborate systems to keep us from confronting it. A big enough attack, a massive spectacle, can cut through all the layers of imaginary things coating our brains and our eyes.

I posted a sort of follow-up article yesterday on the former CFO who basically lost everything after uploading a video of him verbally abusing a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru attendant. . It was a big story in 2015, and this “where is he now” story got 79 replies.

However, a few FReepers didn’t believe that any of it happened. “ is any news or other evidence to back up this guy’s story, or is all of it, or most of it - as to what happened to him - just his unverified claims.” I tried posting stories and testimonials, but some people were ADAMANT that this was fantasy.

This is where we are in 2023. There are yuge numbers of folks - on BOTH sides of the aisle - who are CERTAIN that either Trump is a Russian asset or that Soros and the WEF control America blah blah blah.

Now, to be fair, over time there have been a LOT of ”conspiracies” that proved to be truths. Furthermore, the MSM have done a splendid job of aiding and abetting the Lie Factory in the CDC, White House, and other puddles of mud. Thus I understand the conditioning that’s been perpetrated and the resulting fears of the unseen.

But I also believe, as Daniel puts it, we've built elaborate systems to keep us from confronting our own faults and failures. I didn’t get that job because I’m not a diversity hire…that guy’s home is bigger than mine because he’s a globalist…nobody likes me because they’re all liberals…and so on. The energy wasted on Russia-Ukraine food fights could prolly help Trump get re-elected, but they’d require real work and real effort - it’s funner to type bravely from Mom’s basement that Ukraine or Russia is this or that.

Again, there is a big difference between discernment and rationalization. No everyone questioning a story is a tin-foil hatter. But I will say, for the past few days the clarity of focus has been refreshing. Alas, with Daniel I suspect it’ll be gone soon.

[Gene Eric]

Islam is a war plan 14 centuries young.

Contrary to the notion that Islam fostered a momentary alliance with the Rats, it instead illuminated their egregious character.

[MtnClimber]

Daniel Greenfield ping

[RoosterRedux]

If a person faces the grit and blood of reality 24-7, he goes mad (or becomes so hard he is barely human).

But if he avoids reality by living in a fantasy world of easy distractions, he goes soft (and insanely so...like the Woke).

The magic it seems is to stay completely in touch with reality so as to not lose touch with it, but take regular breaks (just temporary breaks, not a divorce) so as to reinvigorate one's spirit.

There's a reason why wisdom in America was rural. Farms and the small towns near them are closest to the harshest daily reality of life.

And there's a reason that cities and universities are the most divorced from reality (and liberal). They are, collectively not individually, the most distant from the harsh realities of daily life.

As human society becomes more distant from kind of reality that is metaphorically represented by farms, we had better figure out how to stay in touch with reality. Otherwise, we will continue down the easy path of decadent and hedonistic avoidance to our extinction.

[JesusIsLord]

What ought to be an empowering and invigorating experience never gels into anything because we are dysfunctional, because we live in delusional fantasy worlds, and because the idea that there is an outside enemy worse than our internecine hatreds appears impossible and unreal.

The reference to "we" in this posters statement is too broad. It would better read, "a majority of Americans". The point is that not all Americans are blind but a great number are. The attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in American declaring war on Japan. 9/11 should have resulted in American declaring the followers of Islam terrorists and a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia and every other Islamic nation. We've had fools like George W. Bush and Obama who failed to declare war on our enemies. Today, Islam, the CCP and invasion on the Southern border are America's foremost enemies. We have a feckless government with their globalist and corporate supporters who fail to treat our obvious enemies as enemies. If 9/11 failed to wake us up, what will? A nuclear strike? I don't think even a nuclear strike would change the ignorance we see in our government and nation.

[texas booster]

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

But the familiar reasserts itself. Unity breaks apart. We start blaming each other and arguing over the right response. And we discover that we are much more comfortable fighting each other than Islam.

In Israel, it's beginning to happen already just as it did in America.

A week ago, Israelis on the left were seriously asserting that Netanyahu was planning to make himself king. And then suddenly a shocking and horrifying reality arrived. Will Israelis pull together? They have for the moment. But the usual political players are maneuvering for advantage. The families of the hostages are threatening to shake the government. There's grousing about inadequate preparation. And the conspiracy theorists have already arrived to explain that the whole thing was clearly done by the government because how else could it have missed the Hamas attack. (This shortly after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur during which the government missed a much larger invasion.)

All of this is normal. But normalcy is exactly the problem.

An excellent article, voicing the thoughts that we all have. Please read and share. Reprinted in full here ... Thank you, Chad.

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Daniel Greenfield's website: The Sultan Knish blog

[texas booster]

Unfortunately the peoples of the world have become weak, crazed, deadened, maddened and, like the former citizens of Byzantium, determined to keep fighting each other to the last minute while the Islamic hordes advance.

I am in the middle of reading Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization and that is the exact situation that I am currently covering in the book.

And I am not even out of the AD500 period, and instead of Islamic hordes, they are both making deals with, and fighting, the Vandals.

The human condition, indeed.

[xp38]

I find it interesting that the rave that bore the brunt of the attack was set up where it was. I’m curious as to what if any thinkingt led to that site being chosen. Not holding my breath we’ll ever hear an honest recounting or if any of the organizers are still alive. Yes there was an enormous intelligence failure as well and again not sure we’ll ever hear the truth about that either at least from those directly involved.

[Jan_Sobieski]

The world is an evil dangerous place because unregenerate men are evil and dangerous. We cannot and should not interject ourselves in every fight around the world. However we can secure our own country and borders. We have done neither.

Leftists nihilists within are sympathetic with our enemies because they desire the same goal: overthrow the system (culture, values, ethics, beliefs) Sodomites pursue our children to destruction the same as Islamic terrorists. There is less blood but the end result is similar. How do you unify with Leftist nihilists whose goal is similar to our enemies?

[bitt]

[rlmorel]

The only way to fight Islamic terrorism is to leave a dysfunctional normalcy behind and rediscover what it means to be a nation WORLD fighting for its survival against enemies whose evil is utterly unmitigated…”

Like the world did against piracy in the 18th Century.