What's Going On In Bonkers Britain?

 

Via Jules

Don't get me wrong, I love the Sceptered Isle, it's a great place but things seem to be getting pretty nutty in the UK right about now. I mean, really.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justsin Welby has resigned because he was found out covering up egregious pedo sex crimes. Oops, how many more mitred heads will roll and who will replace these establishment lib malfeasants? Good question. Then there's the laughable floppy haired Old Etonian BoJo threatening to send what's left of UKLF to Ukraine. Excuse me?

Not to be outdone, Two-Tier Kier's Labour Government has declared war on the country's farmers with a new inheritance tax that'll wipe out family farms. Own 200 acres and want to pass that on to your kids? Sure, go right ahead if your estate can soak up a 40% tax hit; sorry, kulaks, you've got to go, Net Zero ain't cheap. Word to the wise, the UK produces something like 1% of the world's carbon emissions, nobody cares.

On topic, Two-Tier waxed lyrical at COP 29 in Azerbaijan the other day, pledging the UK to 81% less CO2 emissions by the 2035. Guess what, Brit punters, that means you're gonna have to eat less meat and dairy because that produces methane which will destroy fragile Planet Gaia. Now maybe you're beginning to see where the war on farmers comes in. But that's not all.

It wasn't mental health.

It wasn't the far-right.

It wasn't racism.

It wasn't drugs.

It was Islam. Again. #Southport pic.twitter.com/G5CwLFntmJ

— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) October 29, 2024

Some of you may remember a Rwandan Moslem who wasn't a Moslem but then became a Moslem again and went knife jihad on a kiddy party a month or so ago in Northern England, prompting wholesale looting of Greggs sausage rolls, general mayhem and a Government crackdown on HATE. Yes, online HATE.

It's a real issue, all these people posting mean things on the internet, against Moslems, an apparently open border, and all of that. So, determined to put a stop to HATE, if not stabbings, Tier's Stasi have raided 100s of homes over the last week alone, to interview enemies of the State  perpetrators of HATE for Non Criminal Hate Crimes. One of them was a Telegraph journalist who made the serious error of posting a mean tweet a year ago. Less of your lip, missy.

There's way more but suffice to say, it's a generally bad idea to mess with farmers. It's like, you know, they grow all your food and stuff, and now they're threatening to go on strike and block the ports and roads because they don't want to be put out of business in favor of solar panels, windmills and industrial Ag. 

You'd think, dear readers, all two of you, that the UK was a lesser mirror of the corrupt malfeasance and shenanigans we've had to put up with in the States for far, far too long. I pray it's put right.

Salve,

LSP

You're Living In A Vacuum

We're living in a void. So says Paul Kingsworth, and he has a point. Is the dominant culture pagan, secular or even atheist? Hardly, it's nothing at all, a void or vacuum in which Christianity is taken-for-granted-rejected and thus the West itself. Call it intellectual and cultural suicide if you like, call it nihilism, call it blasphemy LARPING as lib project freedom. Anyway, here's a snapshot:

In the West today, that means that we have to live in a culture without faith. Without faith in the Christian God, obviously, but without faith in anything else either. We are not pagans because pagans, like Christians, believe in something. We believe in nothing. Most significantly, we are now even ceasing to believe in the ideas which arose to replace all religions in the age of ‘Enlightenment.’ Reason, progress, liberalism, freedom of speech, democracy, the enlightened rational individual, the scientific process as a means of determining truth: everywhere, these ‘secular’ beliefs, which were supposed to replace religion worldwide, are either under fire or have already fallen too.

Is this an atheist age, then? In one obvious sense, yes. We are perhaps the first godless culture in human history. Religious cosmologies have differed vastly across time and space, but no society has ever existed without one. Ours has tried to, for a brief, violent and explosive time. I don’t think that time has long to run. So yes, we are living in an atheist age - and yet, at the same time, that’s not quite the full picture either.

Atheism, like religion, implies some sort of confidence; some sort of actual stance. A-theism is a position. It states: there is no God, and it can state that because it has a set of alternative beliefs, usually those which emerged from the European ‘age of reason’: the ability of science to demonstrate universal truth; the objectivity of rational thought; the knowability of reality. Atheism often also refuses religion on moral grounds: religions, it is said, are archaic, irrational, unjust and oppressive. Some version of ‘humanism’ is a better and fairer fit for the modern world.

All of these are positions. They are statements of faith in the world working in a certain way, and in the way that it should work, and should be arranged. Atheism can even amount to a quasi-religious system itself. Orthodox convert Seraphim Rose, formerly a committed atheist himself, once wrote that ‘atheism, true “existential” atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.’

 Does our age believe this? Hardly. These days even Richard Dawkins publicly regrets the results of the ignorant anti-Christian fatwa he helped to lead. They say they are no atheists in foxholes; I wonder how many of them there are in post-religious societies. What happens when the dedicated rationalist realises that his destruction of religious faith has not led to the triumph of reason but to its long sleep, which is producing, now, increasingly terrible monsters? So no, this is not an atheist age either. It is not, I would say, any kind of ‘age’ at all. It has no shape. It has no centre. Nobody sits on its throne. It is, taken in the round, simply a vacuum. There is nothing here at all.

 

You can read the whole thing here, and you should. In the meanwhile, we have to ask, what will fill the vacuum nature abhors? A renewed Faith and/or Satan? At the moment it's most definitely the latter, but we know how this clash ends. Curiously enough, at the Colosseum.

God Bless,

LSP