Posted on 06/08/2015 7:39:17 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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.
A great book - explains it ALL:
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
by Theodore Dalrymple
I have read it and sometimes live it in my work
Dalmrymple nails it.
We’re circling the bowl at this point.
I have a family, and it scares me that everything I do to prepare is probably not sufficient to insulate them from this.
Question to FReepers: Some folks say that with the accelerating and inevitable decay of our society we should, at this point, seek to further the process so we can start the rebuilding process all the sooner.
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.
Thoughts?
While I understand this sentiment, and would normally agree with it, it won't work. There are other, much more powerful, forces at work here that will seize the power that these people are talking about. It will not be pretty.
The good news is that I have read the end of the book, and I have heard of some intermediate steps, and the good guys win.
This is what a society based on the immediate gratification of every base appetite looks like. Some people think the adoption of this lifestyle is race-specific, but that’s a deceptive correlation.
What specific actions might you take to accelerate the decline of society? Can you think of any such actions that wouldn't be totally stupid?
That is related to the idea of cycles, where as a people we could see our mistakes and self adjust over a period of a couple of decades, but we aren’t a people, and there are no cycles anymore.
Endless mass immigration supplies the left with millions of new voters, fresh to their ideas and methods, every year that conservatism or Christianity wins over a few hundred thousand converts to our side, the left counters that growth with immigration, we can’t catch up.
People say “what happened to my Americans, when did they start voting like this?” Well they didn’t, they still vote pretty much like they did in the past, but the democrats brought in a replacement population, that overwhelms their vote, and which makes getting any cultural footing, or a Christian revival going, impossible.
Very true and can be seen both in this British article and in certain areas of the US. White areas are just as susecptble to this sort of thinking. Disabilty isn’t termed “white welfare” for nothin’
sadly, not surprising.
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I'm guessing that his plans involve employing a powerful microwave emitter to vaporize the water supply and thus make a fear-inducing hallucinogenic drug airborne so as to cause mass hysteria and violence.
Regards,
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.
"The wages of sin are death" is something we need to understand not only as a statement of spiritual, but material consequences as well.
Nor is the misunderstanding unique to the Western tradition. Altogether too many people believe that the Law of Karma is about some supernatural retribution. It isn't: it's a statement that good actions improve the world, and bad actions have bad consequences.
Sometime around 500 BC Heraclitus observed that "character is destiny." The constant habit of sin and the negative reinforcement of the bad side of her character is as much responsible for this poor woman's fate as the random stranger who repeatedly brutalized her. He could have been literally anyone from Britain's [or America's] criminal underclass, and was nothing more [in her side of the story] than the executioner's noose.
If all the remaining believing Christians and Jews were to pick an issue we could agree on and all go on a walkout until that issue was resolved in our favor, that might be a statement that the powers that be would listen to.
For example, those that own businesses would shutter them, and those that have salaried jobs would stop working until the congress and state legislatures pass a religious liberty amendment. Normally amendments take years to work through the process, but if 10-20% of the working population absents itself from the marketplace all at once, then we might get some action.
What I'm suggesting sounds radical. Many people who would like to join in would bow out for financial reasons or fears of losing their businesses or losing their jobs and never being employed again.
My take is that everything is now based on money. No amount of picketing or protesting or letter-writing is going to move our country back in the right direction. The only thing that the elites seem to care about is the bottom line. If a huge portion of the working population goes on strike, that might put some fear into them.
If we as a group are not willing to do something like this, then I fear that we are ultimately all on our own. Each family will need to fend for itself with the help of friends, fellow churchgoers, etc. The end game will be small enclaves of like believers trying to isolate themselves as much as possible from the culture while still trying to maintain a way of life, i.e. something like what the Amish are doing.
I fear that those enclaves will not only be bitter at the culture that has abandoned them, but at all the other enclaves that don't believe as they do. They will believe the other enclaves were just as much at fault as the culture itself. Basically the various Protestant enclaves and Catholic enclaves will spend as much time criticizing each other as they do the culture at large. There will be little or no inter-enclave interaction or support.
If we don't all stick together and act in a way that causes the elites to take notice, then we might as well start looking for property in remote parts of West Virginia, West Texas, or the Nevada desert.
Going Galt. Not paying into the system, or even being a part of the system.
For me it is only theoretical; I must work to feed my family and pay my bills.
“Dropping out of the system” is a lot more complicated than it sounds. However, you could default on your student loans, if you have any, like this author: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3297877/posts
He observes that, if everyone did it, significant disruption of “the system” would occur, and I’m sure this is true.
Either I saw that movie, or my teenagers told me about it.
I think it's wrong to accelerate or actively further the process of social decay. The only power the elites have is the power we cede to them. I don't want the power they wield, so have no interest in "taking" anything from them. Lords of the Flies, they are.
We are considering this. Tennessee or Arkansas maybe. My wife pointed out that there are bad folks out in the country also; they are merely more spread out.
One of my meta goals is to surround my family with morally upright people in a physical sense. Any thoughts on finding an area peopled with mostly good folks?
Examples: We took a road trip to AR and saw lots of churches. We use that as a metric of morality.
Sadly, we also saw the effects of the influx of illegal Mexicans that Tyson hired when they fired all the Americans awhile back. We use that as a metric for crime.
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