Into Darkness When the victim isn’t blameless

Of the making of books there is no end; but seldom can there have been so appalling a spur to writing—or at least to dictating—a book as that felt by Tina Nash. She would never have sullied a page had her boyfriend Shane Jenkin not beaten and strangled her to unconsciousness and then gouged out her eyes with his bare hands, leaving her blinded for life. It was a crime that eclipsed all others in Britain that year (2011) in sheer malignity.

The victim’s book, Out of the Darkness, is a classic of a kind. Though her narrative was ghostwritten, Tina Nash was clearly allowed to speak in her own voice: that of an uneducated but not unintelligent member of the British underclass. Nash expresses herself unguardedly and artlessly, as if unaware of what she reveals to the reader about her way of thinking and the subculture in which she has lived her life. It is precisely because of this unself-consciousness that her book is so instructive: it should be required reading for those who believe that degradation in modern society is simply a matter of insufficient money.

Lust is a nearly universal human experience; what is new is the complete loss of awareness of its status as a cardinal sin and of the disastrous consequences likely to follow when it becomes the principal guide of action.

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Teaching our children these basic counter-cultural natural facts of life is the most appropriate way to protect our future generations. Do not lose judgment.

Recently my son, who has been dating a wonderful young woman, who has been integrated into our family, and he in hers, was able to end the dating, by talking to her about how he could not be her reason for happiness. That she had to find her own inner strength to be a full partner in their relationship. She was not homeschooled and has taken on a lot of the negative messages of the culture about value and other. My son was able to parse that for her and hold her to a higher standard. I hope she is able to manage change this, not necessary for their relationship but for her future.

"...I don't want the power they wield, so have no interest in "taking" anything from them...."

This power is the ability to control and live your own life and nothing more, which is a freedom that is being whittled away daily.

On a national scale it would be termed "self determination". If we truly had self determination the openspigot of illegals would cease immediately because Americans overwhelmingly oppose a porous, uncontrolled border.

However, the elites DO want a porous, uncontrolled border.

That is the "power" I reference, and you ought to have an interest in it, if only for future generations of Americans. Apathy kills.

“The belief is that we are too far gone, and only a complete collapse can allow us to wrench power from the entrenched elites and thus bring about a new era of personal freedom.”

This was the premise in the 1950’s Sci Fi fiction author Isaac Asimov’s trilogy “The Foundation, The Foundation and the Empire, and The Second Foundation”

It was one of Newt Gingrich’s favorite books.

-- That is the "power" I reference, and you ought to have an interest in it, if only for future generations of Americans. Apathy kills. --

My mistake in shortage of precision. Sorry for creating confusion. The power the elites have, that I am not interesting in "taking," (more precisely, I'm interesting in having it removed from them, but not in using it) is the power to regulate otherwise responsible people's activities.

By their words and deeds, the political class has demonstrated its intention to fundamentally transform the country. Forty or so years ago, when this became pretty clear to me, I asked my good friend who has studied political science if what I had read (generally about US buy-in to one-world government) was true, or just a ginned-up story/scam. He said it was in line with what was taught in poli-sci as the inevitable track of modern political/power systems.

As for future generations of "Americans," I'm sure people will be living this land for as long as it is habitable. But the political ideals embodied in the US Constitution, THAT has been effectively dead for most of my lifetime. Fedzilla is probably a hundred-fold its constitutional size and effect, its institutions are dishonest and corrupt, and it has every intention of becoming even larger. Not to say that state and local governments are upstanding either.

I am not indifferent or apathetic about this. Just tired. My kids have a pretty good handle on my point of view, and while they don't trust "the man," they, being adults, are free to go their own ways. Meanwhile, until or unless there is massive disobedience of the law (think Gandhi), the powers that be will always, always, always prevail.

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