"There is no longer a West ..."

"The word "West" used to have a meaning. It described common goals and values, the dignity of democracy and justice over tyranny and despotism. Now it seems to be a thing of the past. There is no longer a West ..."

Once upon a time in the West

Race riot in Milwaukee

Back in a simpler time we called them "race riots." Not sure what we call them now; "unruly youths," I suppose. Our language has become riddled with cowardice.

"Witnesses' accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night."


Witnesses describe mobs, some people claim racially-charged attacks

What the slave wants

“The true desire of the slave is not freedom, but rather that he and his slave master exchange places.” - Franz Fanon

Where have these guys BEEN all my life???

By all the gods, this shook me to my roots. This should be it, the last song ever, the one you play as you sit in your favorite chair with a smoldering Cuban in one hand and a whiskey in the other hand ... waiting for the medicine to take its final hold.


Blood Axis, Vortex

Language, culture, and thought

Language not only shapes culture, it shapes thought. The Irish thought differently before they were forced to learn English. Native Americans thought differently before they had the "Injun" beat out of them by reservation-school teachers. There is a unity between a people and their culture, their language, and their thoughts. Things only break apart and come undone when people are forced to live as isolated, alienated atoms inside this rootless, pointless, cosmopolitan monstrosity we call "modernity."

Centrifugal

The European Abstraction is breaking down. Centrifugal forces that have existed for millenia will pull it apart into many small, natural political/ethnic groupings. Think Yugoslavia, but on a continental scale. This is not necessarily a bad thing.

Were the Eurosceptics right?

This is what the collapse looks like -- June 1 2011

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/1424/city_of_ruins/