The supreme irony is that the great colonisers of modern times have been the Wokerati Hoards of Academe. Ironically, these people really do know how to mount a successful invasion. They have achieved a rapid colonisation of every single institution of civil society in the Western world. And all without firing a shot. They’ve not conquered the citizenry with bombs; they’ve hypnotised them with ex-cathedra incantations of pseudo-values so absurd that – only a few years ago – would have seemed like they must be just kidding. They have been groomed, at the West’s most prestigious schools and universities, to such pitch-perfect self-righteousness that it would never even occur to them that they might be imposing their ‘pseudo-values’ on a public with little realistic means of democratic resistance. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
Very true. And the other culture they admire so much (Islam) is the most murderous and colonising in history. With the woke in the institutions, they now enact ‘decolonisation’-which is replacing the literature and history of people in places that weren’t colonies, with the texts and supremacism of new arrivals. In other words their decolonisation is colonisation, only without the improvements that colonisation provided.
I don't like talking about the Middle East conflict but weren't the Israelites thrown out of the Holy Land and told they could never return? Wasn't it God who did that to them? If so, when did He say they could go back and not only take control but also throw out the people who, presumably, God chose to live there instead?
That's a comment about the historical things not about the murderers murdering at the present time. I have no comment to make about what is happening now because it has been happening pretty much all my life and I have nothing left to say that would make any difference.
Anyway, the Woke Morons currently running the Western world don't, as far as I can tell, actually know who Lenin was (or Lennon for that matter) and it's highly unlikely they have ever read anything by Marx. They mostly appear to have replaced God with Self-righteous shouting. These people are 99% university educated. They are middle-class. They have no actual experience of anything. They don't know any history. They are arrogant, stupid and frigging scary because they are the people who run things. I know a woman whose daughter went to Oxford and now runs government courses on "women's rights" to Afghans. This woman collects British Empire memorabilia. She has to put it out of sight when her daughter visits otherwise the daughter refuses to visit. It's not open to discussion! The arrogance of youth used to be something you grew out of when you realised you knew nothing! Now it is your key to a career in telling grandmothers that sucking eggs is a colonial and racist pastime!
As I understand God’s covenant with the Jews is that Israel is theirs. And the historic record is that these are indeed the people who have been their longest, most continuously, and whose relics and artefacts are buried deepest in that ground.
You just have to look at the list of other people who have conquered Jews in Israel but are now themselves gone from the world and only remembered as vanished kingdoms to see how ancient that connection is.
Re your words on the woke, that’s of course correct. It’s an ideology for middle class people who know nothing but believe they know everything.
As the secular world lurches between Social Darwinism on the one hand and egalitarianism on the other, it would do well to reconsider how Jesus addressed such ideologies and internalized them within the context of the individual human soul. The “Kingdom of God” apparently has room for both striving and meek submission, when “properly” exercised.
True, just as Jesus said both “blessed are the meek” and “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”. It all depends on context. When the behaviour is vile, the proper response is harsh. When the behaviour is repentant, the proper response is forgiveness. But you do not forgive the vile when they persist in vileness, and you do not forever punish those who truly have changed and trod a better path.
What a brilliant and witty takedown of Leftist tropes! I might get a tee shirt 😂. The Left despises merit and achievement because their arguments have neither.
I read a book about a young woman captured by Native Americans after most of her family was slaughtered. The tribe was a subsistence based miserable group that moved constantly to survive. The young woman tried to convince them to grow crops, obtain livestock and settle down. They totally rejected the idea. But who lives in this territory now? The superior culture. Thank you for providing the perfect comeback to those wooly headed ideologues who think the settlers somehow destroyed something beautiful.
PS use of the term Native Americans is used to distinguish from Asian Indians.
Thanks very much. Yes, ultimately the difference between European colonialism and current mass migration is that the first advanced civilisation and the second destroys it. Civilisation has drawbacks but is preferable to savagery.
The supreme irony is that the great colonisers of modern times have been the Wokerati Hoards of Academe. Ironically, these people really do know how to mount a successful invasion. They have achieved a rapid colonisation of every single institution of civil society in the Western world. And all without firing a shot. They’ve not conquered the citizenry with bombs; they’ve hypnotised them with ex-cathedra incantations of pseudo-values so absurd that – only a few years ago – would have seemed like they must be just kidding. They have been groomed, at the West’s most prestigious schools and universities, to such pitch-perfect self-righteousness that it would never even occur to them that they might be imposing their ‘pseudo-values’ on a public with little realistic means of democratic resistance. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
Very true. And the other culture they admire so much (Islam) is the most murderous and colonising in history. With the woke in the institutions, they now enact ‘decolonisation’-which is replacing the literature and history of people in places that weren’t colonies, with the texts and supremacism of new arrivals. In other words their decolonisation is colonisation, only without the improvements that colonisation provided.
Wow!
This is absolute understanding of the past and present!
Thanks for calling out the weak!
Thanks for acknowledging the strong!
Thanks Deborah. Glad you liked it. 😀
Love it 👏🏻 💯
Thanks Bettina 😀
Jupplandia, our new Shakespeare! Bravo Daniel B- )
Thanks Barbara. 😀
Blimey! Strong words!
I don't like talking about the Middle East conflict but weren't the Israelites thrown out of the Holy Land and told they could never return? Wasn't it God who did that to them? If so, when did He say they could go back and not only take control but also throw out the people who, presumably, God chose to live there instead?
That's a comment about the historical things not about the murderers murdering at the present time. I have no comment to make about what is happening now because it has been happening pretty much all my life and I have nothing left to say that would make any difference.
Anyway, the Woke Morons currently running the Western world don't, as far as I can tell, actually know who Lenin was (or Lennon for that matter) and it's highly unlikely they have ever read anything by Marx. They mostly appear to have replaced God with Self-righteous shouting. These people are 99% university educated. They are middle-class. They have no actual experience of anything. They don't know any history. They are arrogant, stupid and frigging scary because they are the people who run things. I know a woman whose daughter went to Oxford and now runs government courses on "women's rights" to Afghans. This woman collects British Empire memorabilia. She has to put it out of sight when her daughter visits otherwise the daughter refuses to visit. It's not open to discussion! The arrogance of youth used to be something you grew out of when you realised you knew nothing! Now it is your key to a career in telling grandmothers that sucking eggs is a colonial and racist pastime!
As I understand God’s covenant with the Jews is that Israel is theirs. And the historic record is that these are indeed the people who have been their longest, most continuously, and whose relics and artefacts are buried deepest in that ground.
You just have to look at the list of other people who have conquered Jews in Israel but are now themselves gone from the world and only remembered as vanished kingdoms to see how ancient that connection is.
Re your words on the woke, that’s of course correct. It’s an ideology for middle class people who know nothing but believe they know everything.
As the secular world lurches between Social Darwinism on the one hand and egalitarianism on the other, it would do well to reconsider how Jesus addressed such ideologies and internalized them within the context of the individual human soul. The “Kingdom of God” apparently has room for both striving and meek submission, when “properly” exercised.
True, just as Jesus said both “blessed are the meek” and “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”. It all depends on context. When the behaviour is vile, the proper response is harsh. When the behaviour is repentant, the proper response is forgiveness. But you do not forgive the vile when they persist in vileness, and you do not forever punish those who truly have changed and trod a better path.
What a brilliant and witty takedown of Leftist tropes! I might get a tee shirt 😂. The Left despises merit and achievement because their arguments have neither.
I read a book about a young woman captured by Native Americans after most of her family was slaughtered. The tribe was a subsistence based miserable group that moved constantly to survive. The young woman tried to convince them to grow crops, obtain livestock and settle down. They totally rejected the idea. But who lives in this territory now? The superior culture. Thank you for providing the perfect comeback to those wooly headed ideologues who think the settlers somehow destroyed something beautiful.
PS use of the term Native Americans is used to distinguish from Asian Indians.
Thanks very much. Yes, ultimately the difference between European colonialism and current mass migration is that the first advanced civilisation and the second destroys it. Civilisation has drawbacks but is preferable to savagery.
Your writing delights me Daniel
Thanks Patricia. 😀