Updated. I think it is critical to notice when the trees seem to be advancing against the Christian Worldview, and who has been charged with leading the assault. The aim has been to tear apart the Christian world and its traditional moral values from the beginning, and to substitute a “Rules Based” “Liberal” Order in… Read More The Pied Pipers of the ‘Liberal World Order’. Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell.
If we meet a Muslim who is hungry we must try to feed him, if he is homeless, we must try to find him shelter; if a Muslim we know is emotionally or physically hurting, we must seek to tend to his wounds as a brother in Adam. Immigration Many of us in the West… Read More Islam and Our Grandchildren
You really should read this. It’s The … Easiest thing in the world to get in. But try to get out. They have made it practically the only game in town. It could be deployed as an astonishing educational resource, for research and reference, minus so much that is obviously harmful to the body, soul… Read More Corralled Into The Digital Panopticon. Being Farmed.
“The entire world exists only in order to be televised,” Steven Shaviro writes in “Connected: what it means to live in the network society“. “Today, we are inclined to see nearly everything in terms of connections and networks. The network is the computer, we like to say. We think that intelligence is a distributed, networked… Read More Regulating the Connections Regulating Us
Tech Moguls, Financial Elites and the Danger of Oligarchy. “What Marxism got right is this: Social classes exist; some of the time, they have some common interests that conflict with the interests of other classes; and class inequality can, if allowed to grow too extreme, become a major social problem. Conservatives once widely recognized at least the… Read More What Marxism Got Right
America… “not in any sense Christian” “….she licensed every form of lust with laws to cleanse the stain of scandal she has spread.” — Dante, The Inferno, canto V, 57. Every four years, truths in America can change from one thing to another, even as the center – left’s quest to be the global hegemon… Read More America and Seductive False ‘Liberty’.
Now X tells me it is “one or more” instances of warnings and consequent Shadow banning against this website. Christians should take notice. If they do this to a website proclaiming Christ which has been limited in reach to begin with, what might they do to a far more influential site? Other platforms are also… Read More “One or More”: Shadow Banning “impacting reach”
‘X has blocked a Catholic Critique article linking to an essay about Jesus as miracle worker. The warning was placed over the essay (see below) requiring any who would not turn back to press a special button on the obstacle. And while the brief piece does lightly criticize “strident empiricists,” and those prejudiced against the… Read More ‘X’ Blocks Catholic Critique Article linking to Jesus’ Saving Deeds.
The duplicitous Left wants to speak daily in the language of venom and lies, distorting and contaminating truths in any which way it can, all year long; but when we, the Center-Right, come dropping ordnance on their deceit, intellectually decapitating their leadership, and exploding their myths with facts, they cry to ‘X’ Daddy and tell… Read More Leftist Hypocrisy on ‘X’
NYT. The billionaire Peter Thiel is unimpressed with our pace of innovation. In this episode, he critiques artificial intelligence, longevity science and space travel — and warns that our lack of progress could lead to catastrophic outcomes, including the emergence of the Antichrist. Does Thiel understand the theological significance of the Man of Perdition to… Read More Peter Thiel Talks With Ross Douthat.
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”- –G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, (1874 – 1936) Utopia literally means “nowhere’. But the quest for Utopian-like… Read More Futurism and Accelerationism
Steve Bannon to the NYTs Ross Douthat: on the seriousness of Technofeudalism Technofeudalism refers to a new economic system dominated by Big Tech, where data replaces traditional capital as the primary resource of power and profit. Proponents argue that modern capitalists no longer prioritize reinvesting in productivity or innovation. Instead, they create monopolistic platforms that extract… Read More Pardon the Language and Write This Down
The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now “The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist,… Read More The Persistence of the Ideological Totalitarian Lie
From Killer Drones to Robotaxis, Sci-Fi Dreams Are Coming to Life. The world is on fire, and that’s giving some of the richest men the audacity of hope. Hope that their billions, brains and brashness can usher in a new world filled with robot cars, killer drones and solar power. In other words: hard tech. These sci-fi dreams—made popular by… Read More Eschatological Anxieties. Robotics “could lead to humanoid robots outnumbering people” — Musk.
Environmental Socialist Naomi Klein says Elon Musk and some “fascist” Maga friends have “given up on this world” and given in to a secular “Apocalyptic Fever”. In consequence they are using this planet, she says, to extract from this world fossil fuels, critical minerals, water…”anything that can be used for energy and money with a… Read More Artificial World? “End Time Fascism?” Third Temple?
A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley. JULIA MÉTRAUX, Mother Jones. “Elon Musk’s calls for a so-called “efficient” US government—including wanting to end the already endangered right to work from home, a disability accommodation for many—are less surprising when you view him as a techno-eugenicist. The eugenicists of the early 20th… Read More Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech
Who or What is Preparing to Take Over After Donald Trump? Courtesy, The New Republic | Photo NY Times. Top. | July 22, 2024 | Opinion. Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society. In 2008, a software… Read More Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno – Authoritarian Ideas. [Opinion].
The imaginative evolutionary narrative of history that takes us back to the moral jungle. Elon Musk’s version of MAGA. Also, Musk’s DOGE Holds First Hearing on Government Waste. Opens everyone’s books (good) except his own (not good). This weekend, a MAGA influencer, Ashley St. Clair, 26, alleged on X that: ‘Five months ago I welcomed… Read More Elon Musk’s 13 Babies. Monogamy in Crisis.
… the campaigners trying to legalise class-A drugs – a network stretching to the top of the US government….Timothy Leary remembers Aldous Huxley saying, “We must spread the word… The obstacle to this evolution, Timothy, is the Bible.” Many proponents suggest that drugs can help us evolve to a more perfected state – what Stamets… Read More Inside the Psychedelic Elite
We’re not in Kansas anymore. And now Elon Musk is in greater proximity to power than ever before. Musk’s Neuralink is far, far beyond inventing mere medical devices to help the physically handicapped which very few of us would object to. SH. Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge | The Conversation. Neuralink – which is “developing… Read More Elon’s Plans for Us
Romano Guardini on “The End of the Modern World“. “This frightful destruction did not drop down from heaven; in truth it rose up out of hell!” —Romano Guardini. Mark Malvasi writes, “…absorbed by technology, [Romano] Guardini anticipated the emergence of a new type of human being that was defined by regimentation and conformity. This “man… Read More Disappearing Into the Collective
Elon’s hoarding? “I was wondering……Where are all the Elon Musk cancer centers?Where are all the Elon Musk hospital wings?Where are all the Elon Musk food banks?Where are all the Elon Muskeducational grants & scholarships?What disease eradication effortsdoes Elon Musk support?How does Elon Musk use his vastwealth to help eradicate poverty?How does Elon Musk use his… Read More Ebenezer Elon?
Samuel T. Francis+ wrote, “… [M]odernism denies or ignores God and concentrates on secular knowledge and action. Human knowledge then can be only empirical; moral statements can be only relative or factual, there being a dichotomy between fact and value; and human action cannot be modeled on transcendent or spiritual gods that either do not… Read More Modernism & ‘Science’s’ One-way Street.
On February 26, 1950, a couple of years before I was born, Leonard Bernstein premiered his second symphony, The Age of Anxiety, in New York City. It was based on W. H. Auden’s 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning poem which had used the metaphor to describe the spiritual, psychological, and political milieu after World War II.… Read More The Age of Anxiety
…and all of human civilization —-from inevitable mass extinction events through his eventual self-sustaining multi-planetary space outposts, first on Mars, beginning (if all goes well) in approximately two years, and then from much farther outposts ‘out there’ in space over time. For the first time, Musk says, in the Earth’s approximately 4 & 1/2 billion… Read More Not to Worry, Positivist Elon Musk Will Save Us
+ Where they would take us. Ingenious in ephemeral things and foolish in Eternal things. By Msgr. Charles Pope. We live in times of great ingenuity. We have a lot of clever smarts. We have been to the moon and back. Our computers never cease to amaze, as we make them smaller and more powerful.… Read More Technological Giants, Moral Psychopaths
From the December 2024 New Oxford Review symposium Catholics and Political Life. 1. It is hard for me to understand how a nation can be an experiment. Such a notion presupposes that the United States is not actually a nation but an idea, something that underlies our many attempts, from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush,… Read More Thomas Storck on the American Experiment
Makes one wonder what his post-Trump plans will be. “Musk’s posts on X have received a total of 133 billion views since July, data analysis by The Washington Post shows. That’s 15 times Trump’s audience in the same period —- and more than 16 times the combined reach of all accounts belonging to members of… Read More Musk Outranks Trump & Congress in Views on X By Orders of Magnitude
Provocateur extraordinaire By Stephen Hand, editor, Catholic Critique. The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent states: “This guilt [for the death of Christ] seems more enormous in us than in the Jews, since according to the testimony of the same Apostle: ‘If they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory’;… Read More Towards A Critique of E. Michael Jones
MAGA’s war within over Internationalist Elon Musks very long range business self-serving —and plan to internationalise Tesla / Space X work force. Elon Musk’s Influence: From Boardrooms to Ballot Boxes | Vantage with Palki Sharma. And Is Elon Betraying MAGA over importing tech workers? Elon Musk isn’t just revolutionising technology — he’s reshaping global politics.… Read More Is Brain-chipper Elon Musk the New Global George Soros?
Critics have been punished on X. “Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s support for H1B visas triggers full-blown MAGA meltdown over the Christmas holiday – Laura Loomer penalized for opposing Musk on X – and more.” Importing workers at the expense of American workers? Did Elon Musk use Maga for strictly global hegemonic business purposes? [Strong… Read More Musk, Bannon, and the Corporatocracy
See also The Drama of Atheist Humanism Ignatius Press Fulton J. Sheen: “The Roots of Democracy and Peace. The word “crisis” in Greek means judgment. A crisis in history is therefore a “verdict of history” upon the way any given civilization has lived and thought, married and unmarried, bought and sold, prayed and cursed. That… Read More Democracy. Philosophies At War. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
First Things Magazine. The last few weeks have offered some encouragement for the pro-life cause. Florida, South Dakota, and Nebraska rejected pro-abortion ballot measures, the first such victories since Dobbs v. Jackson—a watershed moment worth celebrating. Moreover, Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat, after essentially running on abortion, offers considerable hope for pro-life politics. Yet despite this, the… Read More The Most Dangerous Moment For the U.S. Pro-Life Movement
“Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers… for many, of whom I have often told you and tell you now in tears, walk as enemies of the Cross of Christ. Their end is destruction.—Phil. 3: 2, 17-19. The fact is that discussions about biohacking is happening everywhere. Sometimes it is to innocently… Read More Biohacking. Transhumanism Made Flesh.
MARK ANTONIO WRIGHT November 6, 2024 7:11 AM The 2024 election will be discussed from a million angles. In the days and weeks ahead, the knives will come out in the ranks of the losers. Post-mortems will be written, and the arguments will be fought out over what could have been different or which strategies should have been tried.… Read More The Most Remarkable Political Comeback in American History
Technology, being neutral in itself, can be used for good or evil. But with the development of the Atomic Bomb near the end of WWII and the proliferation and spread of all subsequent weapons of mass destruction, human kind entered a new phase of evil.+ Today additional technological advances, including total surveillance grids, appear more than… Read More The Dark Technological Grid Blanketing the Heavens and the Earth
+ Kissinger’s final warning and the Antichristic: “Prepare now for ‘superhuman’ people to control Earth…Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie’s bracing message, warning that AI tools have already started outpacing human capabilities so people might need to consider biologically engineering themselves to ensure they are not rendered… Read More Mad Elon Wants to “Wire Your Evolving Brain to the Internet”
… giving the once most beautiful state over to the Cartels. Imagine sleeping up in your bedroom when suddenly you hear noise downstairs. Looking out your window you see your home is being emptied of the things you worked so hard for. Nobody in the media ever mentions it, but Kamala Harris helped turn the… Read More How Kamala Harris turned Southern California into a Nightmare
+ Kissinger’s final warning and the Antichristic: “Prepare now for ‘superhuman’ people to control Earth…Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie’s bracing message, warning that AI tools have already started outpacing human capabilities so people might need to consider biologically engineering themselves to ensure they are not rendered… Read More Closer to Midnight? The Signs and Wonders of Elon Musk.
“Sexual expression, whether visual or written,” he speciously says, “can be a legitimate form of artistic expression,” proving he’s no better or more conservative than the rest of them, despite how giddy with pride he makes many conservatives feel, especially those who wrap their egoism in blockbuster podcasts touting American Patriotism and righteousness. Even Catholic… Read More Elon Musk’s X Deploys American “Liberty” for More Sex
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