Psychopathia Americana

Posted on June 15, 2021 by leslie

Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion, by John Martin, credit Wikipedia

Psychopathia Americana

By Ilana Mercer

There is this New York City psychiatrist. Her name is Dr Aruna Khilanani. In a lecture to the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center, no less, she likened whites to “demented, violent predators who think that they are saints or superheroes.” She then let the septic tank that is her mind overflow. Said Dr. Khilanani:

I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a fucking favor. (Time stamp: 7:17)

For her murderous fantasies against the pigmentally deficient, Dr. Khilanani should have been criminally profiled by the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. This primitive reptilian brain might be a danger to the community waiting to happen. Instead, morality has been inverted. Rather than being hobbled by her deviant views, Dr. Khilanani has been approved and elevated at every step of her privileged romp through America’s institutions. Someone in authority invited her to give a talk to the nation’s top university, Yale, an intellectual shithole, really. Someone high-up approved of, even liked, the topic of this woman’s address, which was, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.” Continue reading →

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Alien versus Predator

Posted on June 13, 2021 by leslie

Alien versus Predator

by Ilana Mercer

For the purpose of making your way adaptively and smartly in a society that is systemically anti-white, you need to understand what distinguishes Critical Race Theory from Marxism and quit the socialism/Marxism theoretical escapism, for once and for all.

Get this into your head: for conflict in society, Marxism fingers social class; critical race theory saddles whites. You, if you are white!

More on this do-or-die distinction in my latest YouTube video, “Distinguish Critical Race Theory From Marxism: Your Life Depends On It!”

https://youtu.be/zSCMuqvQ7Mc

David Vance and I further flesh out the Marxism vs. Critical Race Theory vexation in our weekly, Wednesday chat.

Whatever conservatives think of Marxism—and this writer follows the antiwar, anti-state, free market Austrian School of economics—Marxism in the origin is serious political economy; an intellectual treatise with gravitas. Critical Race Theory is a priori gibberish.

Scrap that: befitting the boors who originated CRT anti-whitism—the theory is based on reasoning backwards: if B then A; if white then … complete that sentence with all manner of evil that comes to mind.

We also discuss uni-party politics, the futility of it, and the war on MAGA folks, all 74 million of us. And, prompted by David, I might have thrown in a quip about plagiarism made way back, in a witty joust between Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler—two giants of the West your kids should know, but don’t, because of critical race rot. Continue reading →

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Hi Ho, Silver! Away!

Posted on June 5, 2021 by leslie

The Lone Ranger and Silver, 1956, credit Wikipedia

Hi Ho, Silver! Away!

Bill Hartley on late divorce

Predictably, Bill and Melinda Gates’ separation has attracted a great deal of attention: the eye watering size of their personal fortune made sure of that. Prompted by this the BBC4 Today programme interviewed a divorce lawyer. She explained that the demographic of her casework has altered. These days it’s mostly people like the Gates, in their sixties, who are seeing her about divorce. The statistics support what she had to say. As long ago as 2009, whilst divorce in other age groups was falling by 11% per annum, there was a rise of 4% among the over sixties and the trend appears to be continuing.

The lawyer went on to cite various reasons for this trend; couples ‘grow apart’, mortgages have been paid off and pensions assured etc. Anyone with divorce in mind can find a great deal of ‘advice’ available online. Interestingly the source tends to be lawyers themselves and who can blame them? Obviously this is a growing market and they want a share. Looking beyond, even the media isn’t impartial when it comes to the post divorce experience. A recent edition of The Times featured a fifty something woman, looking somewhat younger than her years, talking up the benefits of single life. Naturally it suits some people but there was little mention of the drawbacks. Continue reading →

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Tolkien’s Defence of Christendom

Posted on June 2, 2021 by leslie

Edward Burne-Jones, The Beguiling of Merlin, credit Wikipedia

Tolkien’s Defence of Christendom

by Mark Wegierski

[This essay is based on a presentation co-authored with Wojciech Szymanski, M.A., which was read at the Fantastic Literature Conference 2016 (Religious Topics in Fantastic Literature) at the University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland), September 19-20, 2016.]

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is widely regarded as the archetypal author of fantasy in the modern period, or what is called “high fantasy”. Some have said that Tolkien both inaugurated and closed out the high fantasy subgenre, since anything that follows him is bound to appear derivative. Over the years, there has been a wide-ranging debate on whether Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (originally published in three volumes in 1954-55) are “pagan” or “Christian” in spirit. The presence of the Elves and other fantastically imagined races, as well as the veneration of nature, are said to make these works more “pagan” – rather than rooted in Christian monotheism.

In real life, however, Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic. There have been a number of works tracing Tolkien’s Catholic inspiration for the so-called Middle Earth legendarium, or the Arda Mythos as it is sometimes called. Notable among these works is Craig Bernthal’s Tolkien’s Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth (Second Spring Books, 2014). Given the psychological matrix of devout Catholicism from which Tolkien’s works sprang, it would hardly be surprising if his creative endeavours did not carry at least a tinge of Christian underpinnings. Continue reading →

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The Elephant in the Room

Posted on May 29, 2021 by leslie

BLM, credit Wikipedia

The Elephant in the Room

by Ilana Mercer

Prior to being shot in the head this week in a melee at a wild party, Sasha Johnson, of the British chapter of Black Lives Matter, had big plans for whites. Johnson had been “calling for a ‘racial offenders register’ that would see those guilty of ‘microaggressions’ banned from living in multicultural communities and prevented from working in certain industries.” “If you live in a majority-colored neighborhood you shouldn’t reside there because you’re a risk to those people – just like if a sex offender lived next to a school he would be a risk to those children,” she fulminated.

Johnson’s call for a “racial offenders register” for whites is a perfectly pragmatic application of the Critical Race Theory (CRT). And while this theory was made-in-America—it has, like many a destructive American creed, been energetically exported around the world. British agitators are certainly improving upon the plans hatched for whites by their brothers-in-arms stateside. To wit, Johnson once pinned a tweet to her profile which read, “The white man will not be our equal, but our slave. History is changing. No justice, no peace #BLM.” Believe Johnson and her ilk, for they are dead serious—and deadly.

Stateside, there have been attempts to outlaw the CRT poison percolating throughout American schools. Tennessee has led the way. Other states have introduced measures to ban or curb anti-white propagandizing by the nation’s eager pedagogues. Alas, the intellectual means of production remain firmly under the control of progressives. As part of the lucrative “racial-industrial-complex” (a Jack Kerwick coinage), CRT enjoys muscular advocates. Its adversaries, however, are weak and flaccid.

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ENDNOTES, June 2021

Posted on May 29, 2021 by leslie

Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter, Scheherazade, credit Wikipedia

ENDNOTES, June 2021

In this edition: French song, from Chandos Records; RPO plays English music on BBC Radio 3, reviewed by STUART MILLSON

A sensuous musical delight from the balmy rural byways of France this time, courtesy of Chandos Records: an album entitled, Chère Nuit, in which the soprano, Louise Alder, joins pianist Joseph Middleton for an enchanting sequence of music from ‘La Belle Époque’.  The title of the collection – Chère Nuit – is taken from an 1897 song of the same name by Alfred Bachelet (1864-1944) – a subtle craftsman of music, but not a well-known figure. This five-minute piece, marked Molto tranquillo, evokes a dreamy, yet intense nocturnal atmosphere. More frivolous contributions come in the form of Satie’s Je te veux (again, a work dating from 1897); a fin de siècle version, perhaps, of Edith Piaf’s Je ne regrette rien. Satie sets the words of poet, Henry Pacory:

‘I have no regrets
And I have but one desire:
To live close to you, so close,
For the rest of my life,
… That your body may be mine
And that all my flesh be yours.’

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Virgil’s Aeneid

Posted on May 28, 2021 by leslie

Virgil Reading from the Aeneid, painting by Ingres, credit Wikipedia

Virgil’s Aeneid

G.B. Conte (ed.), Publius Vergilius Maro: AENEIS, Editio altera, De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. IX-LI; 1-384, reviewed by Darrell Sutton

It is always a happy occasion when a critical text of a classical author is released. Much more opportune is the event when G.B. Conte places in the reader’s hands an original text that is accompanied by an expansive apparatus, one that makes it easier for students to form their own judgments. The first edition was reviewed at length. The changes made in this edition are for the better. This review is concerned rather with whether Aeneus’  adventures are set forth shrewdly in the unclouded horizons of a newly revised and edited text.

Virgil needs no introduction. The Aeneid is one of the great treasures of Western civilization. Herein the adventures of Aeneas are wonderfully told. Departing from Troy, he faces one obstacle after another before arriving in Italy. His enemies are gods and men. The poem’s originality is well known to readers of its Latin text. Conte knows Aeneas and his worlds.

In the Ad Lectorem (MMXIX) section, Conte reminds the reader of C.G. Heyne’s (1729-1812) remarks about the difficulty of Virgil’s texts (difficile est Virgilium…). Therefore a sound-minded guide is needed. We concur. He also says that errors were gradually introduced into the texts; but that not all of what has been transmitted is corrupted. He has respect for certain previous critics. Richard Bentley (1662-1742) and Emil Baehrens (1848-1888) provided emendations and are to be remembered. Continue reading →

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Reign Check

Posted on May 24, 2021 by leslie

Landscape in Scotland, by Gustave Doré

Reign Check

by Stuart Millson

The Scottish National Party won a majority of seats at May’s Holyrood elections, but Scots remain divided over the future of their country. There is a chance now to restore the fortunes of the United Kingdom with a new vision for Britain.

On the eve of May’s elections to the Scottish Parliament, the headline-writers for the Scottish edition of The Sun excelled themselves. With the SNP predicting a surge in its support – and with the former First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, leading his own breakaway party (Salmond predicting a “super-majority” for secessionists at Holyrood), hubris was very much in the air, north of the border. The rainy Caledonian skies did nothing to dim the enthusiasm of the SNP’s seemingly unassailable leader, Nicola Sturgeon, who was photographed – with her SNP-branded umbrella – on the streets of Glasgow, greeting supporters. Yet, for the wits at The Sun, it was time for – a reign check: an opportunity for voters to think again about a ruling party in Scotland which, during the Holyrood enquiry into the recent and complicated Alex Salmond enquiry, did not entirely give the impression of complete openness; an opportunity to show the SNP inner circle and party faithful that, perhaps, not everybody in the country shared their single-minded desire to break away from the United Kingdom, in favour of “independence in Europe”. Continue reading →

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The Writer’s First Commandment

Posted on May 24, 2021 by leslie

The Writer’s First Commandment

by Ilana Mercer

“The proper aim of education [was] to make virtue habitual.”— Leonard Roy Frank, my friend & editor of Random House Webster’s Quotationary

In his 2004 foreword to my book Broad Sides, Peter Brimelow, the man who penned everything there is to say about America’s immigration disaster in 1996, wrote this:

“… somewhat to my surprise, it is actually quite rare for this most emotionally intense of columnists to draw on … personal experiences. What seems to motivate Ilana, ultimately, is ideas.”

In this tradition, on February 6, 2017, I wrote a column titled, “Are Liberals Turned-On By Turning The Other (Gluteus Maximus) Cheek?” In it, I expressed the kind of—dare I say?—outsized idea that has animated my writing for 21 years. To quote:

“The pale, liberal patriarchy is a pioneer in forever scrutinizing itself for signs of racism and deficits in empathy toward The Other, while readily accusing others like it of the same. It’s as though liberal men derive homo-erotic pleasure from bowing-and-scraping to assailants and ceding to racial claims-making.”

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The Emergence of Media: Humanity’s Endgame?

Posted on May 21, 2021 by leslie

Paul Klee, Senecio, credit Wikipedia

The Emergence of Media: Humanity’s Endgame?

by Mark Wegierski

This writing is as an attempt — building on the insights of figures as intellectually diverse as Marshall McLuhan, the lesser-known media theorist Harold A. Innis, Canadian philosopher George Parkin Grant, Noam Chomsky, and Camille Paglia — to develop a “unified field theory” of the relations between media and society.

The effect on society of the emergence of electronic mass media (and their immediate precursors such as cinema) has been profoundly underestimated by most thinkers, or interpreted in trivial terms. One initial observation is that there are considerable differences between the mass media before the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium, and afterwards. The real birth of the Internet was in 1995, with the creation of the first websites which could be accessed by everyone who had a computer with an Internet connection. With ever-faster connections and ever-faster microcomputers (personal computers) the Internet spawned all kinds of new media developments that had never really been possible before, or had been prefigured only in some kind of fragmentary form. Thus, to look at the impact of the earlier media (mainly cinema, television, and the VCR) and then to try to examine the multifarious impacts of the post-1995 Internet, are largely separate questions. Continue reading →

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