Category: Revolution

Hegel, the Idolatry of the State,  and the Cunning of [his] ‘Reason’.

“Hegel is the ideological nexus where the Gnostic scientific dictatorships of Nazism and Communism intersect.” — Phillip and Paul Collins, The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship. “We must … worship the State as the manifestation of the Divine on Earth” —Hegel Note: contrary to Hegel’s extreme secularist nationalism and ideology, the Church in modern times… Read More Hegel, the Idolatry of the State,  and the Cunning of [his] ‘Reason’.

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“You can see God by sniffing the gas in a cotton.” — Allen Ginsberg

🎸Cf.  Paul McCartney’s friendship with Ginsberg 🎸 Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation. The phenomenon of Allen Ginsberg. by Bruce Bawer, The New Criterion On Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, 1985. “I’m so lucky to be nutty.“—Allen Ginsberg, “Bop Lyrics” (1949). The very first poem in Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems 1947-1980 [1] seems, in a way, to prophesy Ginsberg’s entire career. It… Read More “You can see God by sniffing the gas in a cotton.” — Allen Ginsberg

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Raymond E. Brown’s Mischievous Tactic: the “Scientifically Controlled Evidence”

Or how to squeeze the generally heterodox Union Theological Seminary into two Millennia of unambiguous Catholic teaching. Raymond Brown’s Wayward Turn in Biblical Theory by Msgr. George A. Kelly Ignatius Press, San Francisco, CA, January / February Note: Raymond E. Brown was professor emeritus at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York City, where he taught for 29… Read More Raymond E. Brown’s Mischievous Tactic: the “Scientifically Controlled Evidence”

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John Lennon and The Seductions of Beautiful Nothing

“Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream”—John Lennon Photo by Yoko Ono. Updated. Perhaps it is one of those curious fearful symmetries(1) that the words of John Lennon quoted above are found in the Beatles’ album titled ‘Revolver’…and that he was finally gunned down, shot multiple times in the back by a “fan”.… Read More John Lennon and The Seductions of Beautiful Nothing

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Consider Michel Foucault

Or, where the Left would take us. by Roger Kimball.The New Criterion. On The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Michel Foucault’s personal perversions involved him in private tragedy. The celebration of his intellectual perversions by academics continues to be a public scandal. The career of this “representative man” of the twentieth century really represents one of… Read More Consider Michel Foucault

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The Beat Generation… cultural catastrophe. By Roger Kimball

“We’ll get you through your children.” —Allen Ginsberg, 1958. The core of the heresy of the Free Spirit lay in the adept’s attitude towards himself: he believed that he had attained a perfection so absolute that he was incapable of sin. Disclaiming book-learning and theological subtleties, they rejoiced in direct knowledge of God- indeed, they… Read More The Beat Generation… cultural catastrophe. By Roger Kimball

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No More Traditional Priesthood, a Goal for ‘Progressives’?

Recent events among some significant numbers of so-called “Progressive” Catholics, gleefully talking about the “devolution” of Church authority in our time, especially since Francis, has reminded me several times of something I was told by an Oblate priest while I was making a personal retreat in the late 1980’s. It was at the Oblate Fathers… Read More No More Traditional Priesthood, a Goal for ‘Progressives’?

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The Riot That Tore the Democratic Party Apart: Chicago 1968.

Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on “How the New Deal Coalition Fell Apart” in the DNC Chicago riot of 1968. After a moment of goofy kidding around mimicking the “Yippies,” Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland tell the most dramatic story of this seminal event which many of us saw on our TVs, horrifying our… Read More The Riot That Tore the Democratic Party Apart: Chicago 1968.

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The Creative Destruction school of Marxist-Leninist thought.

Or, dreams come true… In No Speed Limit, author and cultural analyst Steven Shaviro writes, “In his science fiction novel Pop Apocalypse, Lee Konstantinou imagines the existence of a “Creative Destruction” school of Marxist-Leninist thought. The adherents of this school “interpret Marx’s writings as literal predictions of the future, so they consider it their mission… Read More The Creative Destruction school of Marxist-Leninist thought.

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You May Know This Man

A self-identified socialist priest, Helder Pessoa Câmara (1909 – 1999) was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for  “human rights and democracy”. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people .  But that’s only part of his lies story…(more in the video). Get the film Benedict XVI and Liberation Theology National… Read More You May Know This Man

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Mark Groubert On the Whittaker Chamber – Alger Hiss Case

“Whittaker Chambers is best known today as the veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.’s words, “the most important American defector from Communism” when he testified against members of his underground Communist cell in the 1930s. Yet Chambers did more than reject Communism: He revealed a key problem with modern liberalism. In… Read More Mark Groubert On the Whittaker Chamber – Alger Hiss Case

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Aldous Huxley, Sex, and Corporate Psychological Manipulation

It was Aldous Huxley who, very early, saw sexual decadence combining commercial interests with political manipulation in the emerging media. And he knew what that would mean for a culture. “Aldous Huxley in his 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World depicts a culture in which pleasure is compulsory and engineered to eliminate intellectual challenge and to… Read More Aldous Huxley, Sex, and Corporate Psychological Manipulation

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How Modern Art Took a Dump on Christian Western Civilization

Or, there are many ways to resent and persecute that which is hated. Originally Titled: Modern Art. The Goldsmith Company Lecture David StarkeyGoldsmith Lecture2017 The Inquiring Mind writes “Starkey is in great form in this lecture where he excoriates conceptual art “For the inaugural Goldsmiths’ Company lecture, Dr. David Starkey spoke on the subject of… Read More How Modern Art Took a Dump on Christian Western Civilization

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The Lord’s Prayer, Freedom, and the Spiritual Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel waves to crowds in Prague, shortly before becoming Czech president in December 1989. Kamila Valenta writes in America, “I was 17 years old when I heard the Lord’s Prayer spoken in public for the first time. It was in November 1989 during the Velvet Revolution, which brought freedom to Communist Czechoslovakia. The crowd… Read More The Lord’s Prayer, Freedom, and the Spiritual Vaclav Havel

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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on False Compassion

Never more timely. Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979).  A formidable scholar, prolific author, and Catholic University professor for 23 years, Archbishop Sheen was also a pioneer of the new evangelization. A charismatic radio and television personality and a zealous preacher of the Gospel, his whole-hearted embrace of modern means of communication gave him access… Read More Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on False Compassion

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Fake and Dangerous “Social Justice”

“Karl Marx was intent on fomenting war between economic classes; Cultural Marxists have expanded the scope of his target to races, genders, and religious Christians. Identity Politics, or Cultural Marxism, has been the core curriculum of American public and private schools for several generations now. “To distance themselves from the Communist atrocities they made possible,… Read More Fake and Dangerous “Social Justice”

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Brain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates testing mind-controlled computing on humans

Musk isn’t the only tech billionaire wagering on the eventual transition of BCI from radical science experiment to flourishing medical business. In December, Synchron announced a $75 million financing round that included funding from the investment firms of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. More… Madman Elon’s new brain chips “may bend your mind in strange and troubling ways” Ya Think?… Read More Brain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates testing mind-controlled computing on humans

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What’s been happening?

Linking antiwar, anti racism and abortion. Opinion. Bill Ayers and His Media Groupies by Cliff Kincaid.  And brought up to date— especially regarding “the Catholic movement” and the abortion connection— in a Spotify podcast below (August 2022). Bill Ayers’ claim that the Weather Underground bombed property, not people, in order to protest the Vietnam War, is two lies… Read More What’s been happening?

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Elon Musk? What’s Everybody So Happy About?

He purchased Twitter, the largest “Public Square” in the entire world. And coterminous with it . Elon Musk is also making implants to link the brain with computers and Smartphones — and very much more. There will be “many applications” in time for all, he insists. Spiritual Derangement, Specious Rationalizations, toying with improving the Imago… Read More Elon Musk? What’s Everybody So Happy About?

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“Democracies Will Change Their Nature”

“…democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. “Democracy and freedom will be the theme of… Read More “Democracies Will Change Their Nature”

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