Our society is melting down because the ideas that held it together have failed like an unseen glue that holds a piece of furniture together, it degrades gradually but one day it fails. On that day when you sit in that chair it will collapse and you will fall in floor, All those terms that accedemic make up like post - modern, post -Christian, post -truth, post - structralism etc say that we are living in age of deconstructionism or is that post - deconstructionism .
As one of my favorite channels says: "Dirty hands make clean money." We live in a mad world. I just discovered your channel & subscribed. Thank you for your content- I hope that we can right this ship before we repeat the mistakes of history.
That might be the case but without knowing what they are like I thought it might be a deliberate case of Strip things down to the basic requirements. Like the Sten gun in Britain and the Grease gun for the US Army. In those cases it was to get a simple and cheap tool to do the job. Just as a house is a machine for living in.
Were at one of those cycles in history where they are trying to make people hate each other for no reason. Focusing on the small stuff is a good way to keep in touch with reality. We need to get the court jester back into politics so people can see how manipulated we are by politicians and those in power.
The younger generations only need their cellphones and social media platforms... until all that's left is kids now much older still relying on thier cellphones and social media platforms.... and there isn't anyone left to actually work, produce, manufacture the basics of life. I often wonder what the world will be like in 30-40 years!
Like your videos, the amish are a interesting model. Having grown up in a amish community, i use to wonder why they made life difficult for themselves? In retrospect, i went to a private frantically religious college. In short found interesting both Protestant reformation a amish were both started in germany around the same time. Therir society seen the moral hazards of their behavior. Martn lurther posted his 90 thesis on the church. But the amish denounced the media, the banks(usery), public schools and vanity. Furthermore they teach there community skills to serve their community. They lend to their community. So, heading to another global crisis. I seen the amish the other day workin away completely un phased by our modern problems and threats. I read some devine text that said something to the effect, look at the ant and consider their ways to be wise you sluggard. A little rest, a little slumber, a little crossing your hands. And scarcity shall strike you down like a thief in the night.
I live near Amish country. They do use banks, I see them pulling up in buggies to the drive-through ATM. One thing I'll say is that the Amish do not impose their lifestyle on anyone else. They did not "dismantle" any other cultures, did not vandalize statues or monuments. They just repudiated what they felt was wrong and left. Anyone is free to do that. They did not cause any country's decline. If they choose to be plain and to have plain houses, that's their choice. Nature is also full of objective beauty and certainly they appreciate it. Leftists do not have a creative drive, all they talk about is "dismantling" stuff that exists, just because it's imperfect. And have yet to build anything that isn't hideous and murderous, in the centuries that they've had to try (if we count from Robespierre, just to be inclusive :).
If the loss of objective beauty is an ultimate sign of the end of civilization, then surely the loss of personal, subjective harmony is a necessary prerequisite. After all, the tortured starving artist is an unlikely medium of objective harmony and beauty. Indeed, is beauty a creation apart from natural law -- or is it most fundamentally a development following the humble discovery of Creation's reality?
Great video, a rambling speech - in the best sense, very stream-of-consciousness, tying the disparate parts together. Something important to keep in mind is that today's ugliness isn't the side-effect of neglecting esthetics and values, but an intentionally imposed demoralization. In architecture, one such style is literally called Brutalism, meant to assault our senses rather than elevate our spirits. Look not just to the uplifting designs of Europe's past great cathedrals (which are being burned down at an astonishing rate), but the way the most mundane structures and objects were once made beautiful. Fancy corbels and brick designs on factories. Scrollwork embossed into manhole covers, acanthus-leaf designs on lampposts. The Anamosa, Iowa State Penetentiary and London's Crossness Station sewage pumping plant were rendered with infinitely more loving attention than today's churches or schools. So, is Communism the natural end of a civilization? That oddly ties in with the Communists' own motivating view that Communism is inevitable. I will say that the fact Tsarist Russia was democratizing was itself a cause of its fall to the Bolsheviks. For all the association of ancient Greece with democracy, both Plato and Socrates realized that it would lead to despotism.
Meanwhile, the NFL, MLB, and globalization metrics etc keep things strung together much longer than they shouldve been otherwise... so many people clock in, clock out, and live about little jimmys peewee baseball, and little Sally's marriage with so and so, disconnected from whats been lost to those of us that have been watching... and they keep feeding the system so that it does not fail. Yet. Meanwhile, I picked up a parker hale .303 and subsequently found your channel. Cheers.
i think that citizens of rome didn't realize that rome was "falling"... i mean the "empire" truly existed to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the muslims (Constantinople was the capital of the empire).. and then some would say that it continued on with the Holy Roman Empire until 1806 when Napoleon dissolved it... but when you think about the rationale for the Holy Roman Empire's existence then you have think about the Vatican (the pope didn't want a female Greek emperor in 800 and so he made Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor instead) .. and the Vatican was burnt down and used as a horse barn by the Muslims in 846 and them taking St. Peter's bones and all the other Holy Relics to Mecca which caused the Holy Crusades...so to me, what's in your heart is the important thing... empires, buildings, and all that stuff comes and goes... just remember that God has inspired our beliefs and we need to stay true to our faith (it's God's Gift to us)
@@myparceltape1169 communism is something that can NOT work in a real world... communism requires the absence of human nature (and God instilled in us human nature and so human nature will always be part of us)... BUT there will always be tyrants in the world and this my friend is what we need to defend against... and tyrants will use every trick in the book to overcome our freedoms, tyrants will use even our own goodness against us in order to maintain their power (they will make you believe you're doing something good when it is actually something evil and bad)... power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
"Prophets of Doom" by Neema Parvini He summarizes several thinkers from the last few centuries who wrote about Human History from the cyclical view (rather than the progressive linear point of view). I think civilizational criticality is real and linear progressive history "GDP in go up and up forever" is the lie of the post-war consensus that is being revealed to us.
So you don’t think spray painting the sides of rail cars is the escalation of fine art in America I’m taking it! 😊 I know you have probably watched Francis Schaffer’s 10 part series “How then shall we live”but if you or those listening haven’t, do so-he covers many subjects but especially art as a sign post to a collapsing society-it’s available on the tube for free 👍🏻It is excellent! Enjoyed the video.
Professional athletes are modern day gladiators. Comedians are modern day jokers. Actors are just modern day theatre performers. The news media is modern day version of the fat guy with the loud voice tending on the corner road on top a box yelling “ hear ye , hear ye “!
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Our society is melting down because the ideas that held it together have failed like an unseen glue that holds a piece of furniture together, it degrades gradually but one day it fails. On that day when you sit in that chair it will collapse and you will fall in floor, All those terms that accedemic make up like post - modern, post -Christian, post -truth, post - structralism etc say that we are living in age of deconstructionism or is that post - deconstructionism .
As one of my favorite channels says: "Dirty hands make clean money." We live in a mad world. I just discovered your channel & subscribed. Thank you for your content- I hope that we can right this ship before we repeat the mistakes of history.
I think the reason the Amish do not embellish their homes is to not to show vanity or pridefulness
That might be the case but without knowing what they are like I thought it might be a deliberate case of Strip things down to the basic requirements.
Like the Sten gun in Britain and the Grease gun for the US Army.
In those cases it was to get a simple and cheap tool to do the job.
Just as a house is a machine for living in.
Were at one of those cycles in history where they are trying to make people hate each other for no reason. Focusing on the small stuff is a good way to keep in touch with reality. We need to get the court jester back into politics so people can see how manipulated we are by politicians and those in power.
Here, in the South, I have conversations exactly like this every day, with wise gentlemen.
The younger generations only need their cellphones and social media platforms... until all that's left is kids now much older still relying on thier cellphones and social media platforms.... and there isn't anyone left to actually work, produce, manufacture the basics of life. I often wonder what the world will be like in 30-40 years!
Probably more natural. Like Somalia, or Afghanistan.
Like your videos, the amish are a interesting model. Having grown up in a amish community, i use to wonder why they made life difficult for themselves? In retrospect, i went to a private frantically religious college. In short found interesting both Protestant reformation a amish were both started in germany around the same time. Therir society seen the moral hazards of their behavior. Martn lurther posted his 90 thesis on the church. But the amish denounced the media, the banks(usery), public schools and vanity. Furthermore they teach there community skills to serve their community. They lend to their community. So, heading to another global crisis. I seen the amish the other day workin away completely un phased by our modern problems and threats. I read some devine text that said something to the effect, look at the ant and consider their ways to be wise you sluggard. A little rest, a little slumber, a little crossing your hands. And scarcity shall strike you down like a thief in the night.
I live near Amish country. They do use banks, I see them pulling up in buggies to the drive-through ATM. One thing I'll say is that the Amish do not impose their lifestyle on anyone else. They did not "dismantle" any other cultures, did not vandalize statues or monuments. They just repudiated what they felt was wrong and left. Anyone is free to do that. They did not cause any country's decline. If they choose to be plain and to have plain houses, that's their choice. Nature is also full of objective beauty and certainly they appreciate it. Leftists do not have a creative drive, all they talk about is "dismantling" stuff that exists, just because it's imperfect. And have yet to build anything that isn't hideous and murderous, in the centuries that they've had to try (if we count from Robespierre, just to be inclusive :).
Id recommend to read some Oswald Spengler, Ernst Junger and Curtis Yarvin
You have a good take on the situation.
If the loss of objective beauty is an ultimate sign of the end of civilization, then surely the loss of personal, subjective harmony is a necessary prerequisite. After all, the tortured starving artist is an unlikely medium of objective harmony and beauty.
Indeed, is beauty a creation apart from natural law -- or is it most fundamentally a development following the humble discovery of Creation's reality?
Great video, a rambling speech - in the best sense, very stream-of-consciousness, tying the disparate parts together.
Something important to keep in mind is that today's ugliness isn't the side-effect of neglecting esthetics and values, but an intentionally imposed demoralization. In architecture, one such style is literally called Brutalism, meant to assault our senses rather than elevate our spirits.
Look not just to the uplifting designs of Europe's past great cathedrals (which are being burned down at an astonishing rate), but the way the most mundane structures and objects were once made beautiful. Fancy corbels and brick designs on factories. Scrollwork embossed into manhole covers, acanthus-leaf designs on lampposts. The Anamosa, Iowa State Penetentiary and London's Crossness Station sewage pumping plant were rendered with infinitely more loving attention than today's churches or schools.
So, is Communism the natural end of a civilization? That oddly ties in with the Communists' own motivating view that Communism is inevitable. I will say that the fact Tsarist Russia was democratizing was itself a cause of its fall to the Bolsheviks. For all the association of ancient Greece with democracy, both Plato and Socrates realized that it would lead to despotism.
Good video
Meanwhile, the NFL, MLB, and globalization metrics etc keep things strung together much longer than they shouldve been otherwise... so many people clock in, clock out, and live about little jimmys peewee baseball, and little Sally's marriage with so and so, disconnected from whats been lost to those of us that have been watching... and they keep feeding the system so that it does not fail. Yet.
Meanwhile, I picked up a parker hale .303 and subsequently found your channel. Cheers.
i think that citizens of rome didn't realize that rome was "falling"... i mean the "empire" truly existed to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the muslims (Constantinople was the capital of the empire).. and then some would say that it continued on with the Holy Roman Empire until 1806 when Napoleon dissolved it... but when you think about the rationale for the Holy Roman Empire's existence then you have think about the Vatican (the pope didn't want a female Greek emperor in 800 and so he made Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor instead) .. and the Vatican was burnt down and used as a horse barn by the Muslims in 846 and them taking St. Peter's bones and all the other Holy Relics to Mecca which caused the Holy Crusades...so to me, what's in your heart is the important thing... empires, buildings, and all that stuff comes and goes... just remember that God has inspired our beliefs and we need to stay true to our faith (it's God's Gift to us)
I think that Communism has come and then gone in Stalin's time.
But other people may have a different definition.
@@myparceltape1169 communism is something that can NOT work in a real world... communism requires the absence of human nature (and God instilled in us human nature and so human nature will always be part of us)... BUT there will always be tyrants in the world and this my friend is what we need to defend against... and tyrants will use every trick in the book to overcome our freedoms, tyrants will use even our own goodness against us in order to maintain their power (they will make you believe you're doing something good when it is actually something evil and bad)... power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
"Prophets of Doom" by Neema Parvini
He summarizes several thinkers from the last few centuries who wrote about Human History from the cyclical view (rather than the progressive linear point of view). I think civilizational criticality is real and linear progressive history "GDP in go up and up forever" is the lie of the post-war consensus that is being revealed to us.
So you don’t think spray painting the sides of rail cars is the escalation of fine art in America I’m taking it! 😊 I know you have probably watched Francis Schaffer’s 10 part series “How then shall we live”but if you or those listening haven’t, do so-he covers many subjects but especially art as a sign post to a collapsing society-it’s available on the tube for free 👍🏻It is excellent! Enjoyed the video.
I haven't seen that but I'll be sure to check it out.
I think you will need to re visit the. Subject again
I'm not worried one little bit. Jesus Christ warned us of things to come, stay close to Him and He'll take care of you period
Professional athletes are modern day gladiators.
Comedians are modern day jokers.
Actors are just modern day theatre performers.
The news media is modern day version of the fat guy with the loud voice tending on the corner road on top a box yelling “ hear ye , hear ye “!
The only thing real in life is your reloading table 🫡