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Old Barns in Latter-Day America

[“The Milner barn in Clinton County, Indiana… The barn has since been razed and the site made into open farm land.”]

– 26 January 2024 –

Janus:

All over the countryside of the United States, thousands of old wooden barns are rotting away. Many of these barns stand anachronistically on old farmsteads that now belong to non-farmers, newcomers who often have little or no real connection to the surrounding communities and who lack the means or interest to maintain the buildings. Many other old wooden barns belong to an ever-shrinking number of absentee farmers who till ever-growing acreages of the country in what increasingly amounts to industrial-agricultural oligarchy; often these old barns sit on otherwise empty lots where an old farmhouse was torn down decades ago.

Most of the people who live “out in the country” have nothing to do with commercial agriculture, or even subsistence agriculture. Townies and exurbanites mortgage old farmhouses—or newly built suburban-style houses—that sit on a few acres of land with some outbuildings that often include the old rustic barn. Most of the non-agricultural owners use these barns (if they use them at all) to store some lawn and garden equipment, like oversized garages, or to store junk and overflow from their excess consumption.

Some of these newcomers have adopted the current fad of the bourgeois homesteading family, and some merely commute, but seldom do any of these people possess the funds, the time, or the know-how to make their hobby farms work.

Giant wooden-framed barns are expensive to maintain for single families, especially for what amounts to colonizing suburbanites, and most of their barns show signs of neglect and disrepair because they simply don’t have the resources to keep them up.

At present, hundreds of old wooden barns are collapsing into ruins every year. Good people with noble hearts lament this loss, and some of them are working to restore what barns remain, especially the sites with historic interest. They gather what few resources they can scrounge from state and private donors, and they manage to help a few. I applaud their efforts; they are certainly worthwhile:

But in the grand scheme of things, with a few exceptions, in the present-day system, if nothing changes, these old barns are doomed. Most of them get scrapped, the “barn wood” sold for fake antiques and “country/rustic” boomer aesthetics; and once the boomers die off, so do their home decorating fads. A few other old barns, usually close to larger cities, get “rehabilitated” into upscale wineries, hipster resorts, and fancy wedding halls (fates worse than death?)

But most of the old barns that still stand will simply fall over and get unceremoniously removed over the next generation.

Why are there so many neglected barns, anyway? Well, the simple answer is that hardly anyone makes their living as a farmer anymore. When these barns were built, typically from 1850 to 1920, most of the families in the country were farmers. According the the US Department of Agriculture, almost almost 70% of Americans were employed in agriculture in 1840, roughly 50% in 1880, about 15% in 1950, to about 1% today. More pertinently, the absolute number of farmers peaked at 11.8 million around 1910. From that time, fewer and fewer people have farmed more and more agricultural land thanks to advances in technology and social changes that made city life more accessible.

But another part of the answer is that pole barns replaced the old wooden barns. Pole barns are cheaper in labor and materials than the old timber-frame and post-and-beam barns even while they don’t last as long. The pole barns grew in popularity in America during the 1930’s to the point where now the old-fashioned timber-frame or post-and-beam structures are mainly built by romantics who are wealthy enough to employ the few remaining tradesmen who can still build them.

Nowadays, all-metal outbuildings are also growing more popular. While pole barns use wood frames (even if the wood is covered with metal siding and roofing), metal buildings use steel beams for the building frames. These metal buildings cost more than pole barns, but they tend to last longer and require less maintenance, making them better-suited to large-scale industrial agriculture and smaller-scale ex-urbanite “lifestyles.” Can modern, metallic barns survive longer in place than their ancient timber-frame ancestors? It’s hard to say. But in the question of character, the sterile metal buildings fall far short.

In all, the old barns that we still see throughout the North American countryside today represent a time when building methods reflected a more organic, long-term mindset for both individual families and common society than the individualist, single-lifetime attitudes of today.

In those earlier days, both skilled labor and solid materials cost less and existed more commonly, while hard cash was more scarce. Nowadays, banks throw around mortgaged cash through our financialized, ponzi-scheme economic system, but solid, natural materials and skilled labor have grown rare.

Modern, industrial methods and economic outlooks have promoted the artificial, the uniform, and the temporary at the expense of the natural, the organic, and the ancient. In Europe, ancient frame-built houses and barns still commonly exist that were built centuries ago in Medieval times or even before, but Europeans still (barely) maintain a longer-term outlook than their American transplants. In America, we are struggling to maintain 100-year-old barns and houses.

A minority of “heritage” Americans are scrambling to preserve these old barns because, deep down, they yearn for connection to their lost roots and to a natural, organic order. They sense that we have lost our personal and societal connections to family and natural community, and they wish to preserve the visible traces of these precious reminders.

They face an uphill battle. They are so few!

We can only hope that the poisonous system that has dissolved natural, rooted bonds and long-term thinking will soon implode under the neglected weight of its own cheap, throw-away construction. We can hope that this dystopia will collapse before all of these old barns have themselves fallen in, and before the benefactors of these old barns have died off with them.

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What Can Even Be Said Across the Chasm?

– 19 January 2024 –

Janus:

Now and again, the people of a nation, or even a whole civilization, break into a collective fit.

The bulk of the common people, the herd, grows ripe for this madness.

Leaders arise who give words and moral shape to scratch the burning itch of this collective mood. The leaders’ ideas sharpen the horns of the feverish beasts into lances as they prepare to stampede, and the leaders themselves act as their vanguard. Some of the leaders rise from the ranks of the mad while others cynically catch the wave of the times and ride it to power. Under banners that almost don’t matter, the maddened herds, losing their senses, charge ahead. And woe to any leader who tries to slow these mad herds down or get in their way! He leads by the consent of the fiends. If he loses the wave, he will crash and burn under the hooves of the raging beasts as they launch forward across the land.

In the end, who leads whom?

Fanatics

Revolutionary fanatics reject all moderation. In their self-righteous passions, they seek to violently overthrow the old, lax, immoral order and replace that old order with their own moralist utopia. Left unopposed, this fit becomes the type of war or mission known by such names as “crusade” and “jihad” and, of course, “revolution.”

These revolutionary forces sometimes stir up their opposites, generating reactionary zealots to violently oppose them even as they share their collective madness. The energy and passions of the two sides builds into a fever pitch that tends to culminate into a particularly nasty form of war: the moralist civil war. Two stampeding herds clash together, killing and destroying, till one day their fits have finally passed.

These fits of fanaticism have played out countless times around the world. The most notorious modern examples, to various degrees of horror, are the fanatics of the various Communist revolutions, conflicts that deliberately murdered millions. Before that, we could see such dogmatic fanaticism in the American Civil War, the French Revolution, and (to some extent) in the American Revolution, just to name a few of the most commonly known fits of violent zeal and revolution in the West.

[John Brown and “Bleeding Kansas“]

In these bouts of madness, the restless fanatics drive their peoples apart, opening a chasm between the forces of revolution on one side and the dissenters of that revolution on the other. No compromise can exist between them; the fanatics won’t allow it. Everyone must either support them or oppose them. The fanatics see to that.

Any attempts to compromise with fanatics are almost always met with the destruction of the compromisers. Even when revolutionaries do try to accept compromise with those who aren’t fully onboard, the more zealous fanatics within their ranks reject that compromise and wreck it. These people are spellbound. There can be no reasoning with their madness.

In the mind of the enraged partisan, his moral enemy forfeits his own humanity because that enemy is a traitor to all that is supposedly good. In rejecting the humanity of his enemy, the partisan throws aside his own humanity and transforms himself into a cold-blooded monster. This applies to the fanatics on both sides of such a conflict.

The Chasm

The cattle press and the cattle snort. They glare with wide, crazy eyes as bull leaders feel out the static in the still, electrified air, waiting for the moment to strike. The dark clouds of war loom heavy in the backdrop.

The beasts roll forward, first in a trot. The rabbits and the birds flee before them. Men may run, and families may hide, but for those stuck in the land, where can they shelter that the distemper won’t touch? The brutes are unstoppable, with “justice” and “right” and “destiny” on their side. “Join us or die!”

Who can stand indifferent at the sight of the rising dust?

And across the plain, another herd trots, bellowing with the same heat but under different-colored banners. With no-man’s land caught in between.

Between the two sides, the cowards and the peacemakers, and the “level-headed” idealists, stumble before the raging beasts, waving their skinny arms in alarm. They weep for tolerance and compromise, but no one can stand these do-gooders anymore. These people had fed and sheltered the revolutionaries all along, scolding and moralizing to everyone for years, even as they kept the revolutionaries penned up for everyone’s safety and “rights” while these pansies undermined the no-nonsense leaders who would have stomped out the madness early. Fingers wagging for years, now pleading: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all!”

Under countless pounding hooves, the earth rumbles and the ground cracks apart, slashing open the earth, a jagged crack splitting into a black chasm. The opposing herds surge forward, calling to the cowards and peacemakers: “Lead, follow, or get out of the way!” Unwilling to lead or follow, the schoolmarms and nannies attempt to stay out of the way, only to tumble down the hole and vanish, unsung and justly so, often literally dead.

In a moralist civil war, there is no standing in the middle. Pick a side or fall into the hole.

Some people, maybe even most of them, have little interest in joining the stampede. They haven’t yet fallen into the fit of madness that spreads everywhere. The fits and fanatics perplex and frighten them. Such people may have their sympathies, but they only want to live out their lives. In most times people have the luxury to do this. Usually “there are times of peace,” but sometimes “there are times of war.” In the rising dust and storm, the regular people caught in the madness will have to make a choice. Most end up choosing the path of least resistance.

What Can Even Be Said Across the Chasm?

“Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.” Luke 12:52-53

Right now, the earth is cracking open before us, between various sides. It’s still possible to ignore these cracks, but not for long. Who of us, in the past few years, hasn’t seen friends and family split and cracked apart over the madness raging everywhere?

Right now, we can still speak to those standing on the other side, however difficult. We can still try to reach them before they are trapped on the revolutionary side.

But what does the father say to the son as the world breaks apart? What does the mother say to her daughter standing wayward on the other side?

Unless they have completely lost their minds and frozen their hearts, parents love their split-off children, as the separated children love their separated parents. Can’t something be said between these families while time still allows?

With love, we can still speak. With love, we can still reach out. The chance to change the path of these loved ones may be minuscule, but with God’s help, the efforts aren’t in vain, even if we fail.

What do we say?

We can tell them we love them.

We can truly listen, with love, to whatever they have to say, even if it reeks of sickness and insanity.

We can show them, with love, that they are lost, and we can share the way out. Even if they reject it.

We can point out, with love, their poor health, and we can share the way to the richness of life as God intended. Even if they can’t seem to comprehend it.

Maybe none of these efforts will seem to matter, but the efforts aren’t a waste if that chasm hasn’t opened too wide. If love exists on both sides, then maybe these words will stay alive in hearts long separated.

But beware! As the crack opens wider, so does mutual incomprehension increase on both sides. As the pit gapes open, the collective madness grows more intense, hardening people’s hearts, warping their minds, and confounding their tongues. Once the madness sets into a person’s mind and takes over, the newly blinded fanatic will throw even his own mother into the pit if he can’t pull her across to his side! Once these people are spellbound, there can be no reasoning with their madness!

And beware on our own side! Because the infection of raging zeal grows there, too. We can be blinded with zeal, too. A father may find, as he succumbs to the fit of his own raging herd, that he’s flung his own son into the pit rather than see him join his enemy. He becomes a murderer of his own flesh and blood, forfeiting his own humanity!

Instead of rage and madness, if our words of love fall into the chasm, lost and rejected, we must say goodbye with sadness in our hearts and never cease to pray for these loved ones trapped beyond an abyss.

We did what we could, and God must handle the rest.

[“Recognition, North and South,” an 1865 painting by Constant Mayer, portraying a Confederate soldier recognizing his fallen Union younger brother on the battlefield.]

Love in War

In times of fanatic war, sometimes even a man who has kept his head must fight and kill to defend himself and his people (which is very different from egotistic murder.)

Even in war, we are to love our enemies as ourselves. Even as we must slay our enemies on the battlefield who would leap across the divide to destroy us, let us keep our heads and preserve our hearts to love these enemies and show them as much mercy as we can while defending what is ours.

When we know that our own loved ones fight for the enemy, we pray doubly hard for them. If we hear of their wounds, we mourn for their pain and pray for their healing and salvation. If they don’t survive, we pray for their souls for as long as we live.

What else can Christians responsibly do?

At some point, years later, the fit passes and the madness is spent. The rabid fanatics are mostly dead. The storm breaks up, the stampede trails off, and God willing, the cattle return to their graze and the divide begins to fill in. The reign of terror is broken.

And then one day, for those who survive the spell, a kind of reconciliation might begin. Families can attempt to heal, or they at least move on in relative peace.

May the Lord give us that chance!

“Be kinder than necessary because everyone is fighting their war or battle and suffering losses. Live simply, love generously, care deeply for the needs of your neighbour, speak softly… And leave the rest to the Lord. It is not faith, nor dogmatics, nor mysticism, nor ascetism, nor fasting, nor long prayers, but love that makes one a true Christian. Everything becomes pointless without this fundamental thing – love for our neighbour.” – St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky)

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A Limp Army of Foreign Mercenaries and Feminists for the Flaccid Occupying Regime

– 12 January 2024 –

Janus:

The Leftist military site Military.com has spent the last several years pumping up military diversity and female/tranny accommodation and the purging of Trump supporters from the ranks, among other forms of DEI nonsense. Now they shift to grave concerns that fewer whites are enlisting in the Army these days amid flagging recruitment overall. They wrote a long, hand-wringing article about it.

Via Military.com:

The Army‘s recruiting of white soldiers has dropped significantly in the last half decade, according to internal data reviewed by Military.com, a decline that accounts for much of the service’s historic recruitment slump that has become the subject of increasing concern for Army leadership and Capitol Hill.

The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to war planners, except it coincides with an overall shortfall of about 10,000 recruits for the Army in 2023 as the service missed its target of 65,000 new soldiers. That deficit is straining the force as it has ramped up its presence in the Pacific and Europe: A smaller Army is taking on a larger mission and training workload than during the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — leading to soldiers being away from home now more than ever.

A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023, with a 6% dip from 2022 to 2023 being the most significant drop. No other demographic group has seen such a precipitous decline, though there have been ups and downs from year to year.

In 2018, 56.4% of new recruits were categorized as white. In 2023, that number had fallen to 44%. During that same five-year period, Black recruits have gone from 20% to 24% of the pool, and Hispanic recruits have risen from 17% to 24%, with both groups seeing largely flat recruiting totals but increasing as a percentage of incoming soldiers as white recruiting has fallen.

The rate at which white recruitment has fallen far outpaces nationwide demographic shifts, data experts and Army officials interviewed by Military.com noted. They don’t see a single cause to the recruiting problem, but pointed to a confluence of issues for Army recruiting, including partisan scrutiny of the service, a growing obesity epidemic and an underfunded public education system.

[Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and friends]

What Do They Mean by “White”?

So, according to the Army’s numbers, only 44% of new recruits are “categorized as white.” It’s difficult to parse from the article, but officially the DoD lumps several other races into the “white” category. For instance, Hispanics tend to get classified as white unless they identify as black or American Indian. The DoD does account separately for Hispanic status, but this doesn’t affect the tallies for race. Additionally, those with Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) racial backgrounds are classified as white. Even South Asians can often get lumped in as white. To further muddy these figures, the DoD also doesn’t recognize the multi-racial category, so the multiracial recruits must choose one race or another.

Does that figure of 44% white represent these oddball classifications, or do they keep separate racial books for marketing purposes? There’s no way to tell for certain, but it makes the most sense that the DoD isn’t keeping separate books for the racial classification of recruits, though the article did specifically account for a relative rise in Hispanic recruitment. Are the Hispanics just subtracted from the white total? It’s difficult to tell.

In any case, if it’s true that some brown Hispanics, Muslims, Hindus, and multiracials are lumped in with that 44% figure, then we are looking at something close to only 35-40% of new recruits being fully white European-descended Americans.

And of that roughly one-third to 40% of recruits, how many of these are women? The writers of the Military.com article even wonder about this, but even they obtain no answer from the Army. Overall, female recruitment has run, in recent years, about 20% of the total. Applying that twenty percent, we are looking at new recruits in the Army comprising only about 32% white men.

And how many of these remaining white men are homosexuals or transsexuals or non-binary, etc.?

[In theory, any one of these people might be classified as “white” by the DoD.]

Mystified

In any case, the Army and Military.com claim to be mystified by this rather sudden drop.

‘”What we’re seeing is a reflection of society; what we know less of is what is driving all of these things,” one Army official told Military.com. “There is no widely accepted cause.”‘

They blame the opioid epidemic, the flagging male workforce/college enrollment, obesity, and even the public education system. They even blame the South for being disproportionately affected by these phenomena.

And then, of course, they mention the “partisan” political environment:

Another Army official pointed to partisan attacks from conservative lawmakers and media, which has an overwhelmingly white audience. Those groups have used the military as a partisan cudgel against the Biden administration, lambasting the services for being “woke,” or so preoccupied with liberal values that they have abandoned their warfighting priorities. In most cases, those attacks have zeroed in on the services being more inclusive for women, service members from racial minority groups and LGBTQ+ troops.

“No, the young applicants don’t care about this stuff. But the older people in their life do who have a lot of influence … parents, coaches, pastors,” one Army official told Military.com. “There’s a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded. Now, you can say you don’t want to join, for whatever reason, or bad-mouth the service without any cultural guilt associated for the first time in those areas.”

The Army has made a few passing attempts to court those cultural influencers in hopes they might be more willing to recommend service to young Americans. This includes a high-profile oath of enlistment ceremony on “Fox and Friends,” an oped in The Wall Street Journal from service secretaries pitching service, and a return to a nostalgic recruiting slogan while heavily investing in advertising on cable television.

Often, those “woke” critiques include few specifics. Right-wing pundits and lawmakers have routinely blasted the Army for a 2022 recruiting ad, titled “The Calling,” featuring a real-life soldier who has two mothers and participated in Pride events. The Army, in producing ads like that one, has seen data showing that LGBTQ+ rights are considered a major priority among Gen Z, the demographic that the service needs to court to build its ranks.

The service has since distanced itself from that ad.

“I don’t know the genesis of it. Or why they. … ‘The Calling’ was before me,” Agnes Schaefer, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, told lawmakers in December, referencing the ad when pressed on the reasoning for it.

[Military recruitment cartoon “The Calling,” featuring a girl and her two brave, heroic mothers.]

Leftist Blindness

These people are so stupid.

The Leftist mindframe is so much a part of the air for these people that they simply can’t see past it. How could anyone but lunatics and criminals reject diversity and equality and tolerance, after all? What is the white male’s problem? We have a war to fight for the Jews, after all!

The military and their minions at Military.com can’t even see how their antics look to those outside of their Leftist death cult.

Only last month, Military.com published an article decrying “extremism” in the military: “Dozens of Troops Suspected of Advocating Overthrow of US Government, New Pentagon Extremism Report Says.” Military.com regularly churns out such articles.

[White “extremists” include those who recognize the 2020 election theft. The present regime hates them!]

The article makes no mention of how the military’s anti-“extremism” efforts could impact white recruitment. After the January 6 protests against 2020’s election theft, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a 24-hour stand-down order to root out and intimidate “extremists” in the ranks who refuse to believe that the election wasn’t stolen and to silence or ferret out any other whites or Christians or patriots who uphold supposedly right-wing viewpoints.

The military and their PR lackeys constantly promote transgenderism and homosexuality and feminism and non-white diversity in the military while they constantly denigrate regular white men as extremists and insurrectionists for supporting Donald Trump and their historic nation. Then they wonder where all the white men have gone!

The military erased all long-established honors to the Southern Confederacy, changing the names of ships and well-known bases like Fort Hood, and now they blame the South’s especially marked drop in white recruitment on Southern obesity and opioids? Southern obesity and drug abuse have existed far longer than merely the past few years!

This shouldn’t be a difficult situation to understand. What particular changes have happened since 2021 to account for a sudden drop in military recruitment of white men?

Fighting “Extremists”

First, as mentioned, the military has glorified freaks and non-whites, especially since the appointment of Joe Biden as president, while they have demonized whites who actually revere their nation, its constitution, and Donald Trump (who supposedly stands for those ideals.) While it’s not especially true of the officer corps, the rank and file white men of the military have tended to enlist from red states and/or rural areas, and most of these young men uphold relatively conservative or right-wing views.

From the entire population pool of military-age white men, a huge percentage of them suffer from the spiritual rot of Latter-day America. They are fat. They use drugs. They don’t work. They identify as gender-queer. They are grown babies collecting Funko pops. While these various disorders fall into a spectrum of intensities, probably two-thirds of young, white men are ruined by some combination of these traits.

Such ruined people don’t particularly want to even get off their asses to prepare dinner. They especially don’t want to enlist in the military, even if they could pass the ever-dropping requirements. These are the worthless Gen Z freaks that consider “LGBTQ+ rights” to be such “a major priority.” This is the Gen Z majority that the military is wasting its efforts trying to attract!

Out the pool of able-bodied, responsible white men—the people who have consistently formed the backbone of the military—the bulk of them absolutely detest their government that imposes feminism, demographic collapse, and LGBT garbage on them while it officially rejects everything that they and their families stand for, and have been willing to fight for: God, the nation and its constitution, and healthy families. To the Latter-Day American military, such decent men are extremists!

[Intimidating white soldiers.]

Especially since 2021, the military explicitly celebrates the most worthless dregs and invaders as the foundation of New America, people who generally don’t want to serve in the military. And just as explicitly, the military denounces American heritage as bigoted and outdated, alienating the very people they have traditionally relied upon but whom they can’t trust to serve them and their interests.

Covid and Post-Covid

Second, since 2021, the military has aggressively pushed the experimental Covid “vaccine” to the point where they dishonorably discharged soldiers and sailors for refusing to take it. This policy didn’t sit well with a lot of rural white men, not that the policy-makers have any understanding of rural whites. There is now a trust issue.

Additionally, there is a post-Covid malaise that the system seems to have trouble grappling with.

For almost a year, and in some places much longer, the system barraged the populace with psychological warfare in the form of Covid propaganda. Some people resisted and some people completely fell for it, but nobody remained unscathed by lockdowns and divisions in families and high-pressure Covid-shot bullying.

The lockdowns socially isolated people for months. On top of that, whether people wanted to or not, the government paid millions of laid-off workers to not work, many of them receiving higher paychecks than they earned in their previous low-paying jobs. And they paid these checks for a year and a half under the CARES Act.

In the aftermath of this social disaster, the people are ruined. So many people are socially broken after being locked in their domiciles with nothing but Netflix and social media all day. They can’t cope with normal human interactions. They suffer from what amounts to PTSD, and the younger people are more greatly affected because their lives were considerably less established.

On top of that, so many peoples’ work ethic is largely destroyed. You can’t pay people to not work for two years and expect them to come back to full productivity. Most of these these people are probably ruined for life. Many of these broken people have begrudgingly returned to the workforce, but their performance and attendance are minimal. Other people have to pick up their slack, and increasingly the high performers are spread thin and burnt out. They bitterly resent these slackers, and they hate their employers who foster this situation.

Probably the people suffering the most from this malaise are Leftist-types. Yet everyone was affected. For the type of young, white men who would join the military ranks, the system not only harmed them and failed them, it has given them no incentive to sacrifice and serve for it. In fact, the system gives these men every incentive to oppose it along with everything it stands for.

Conclusion

The last major institution that fell to the American Leftists was the military. As with every other institution the Leftists have ruined, their new leaders pretend to represent the entirety of the country and to uphold the institution’s previous functions. In the case of the military, that function is to militarily defend the interests of the country and its people.

These days, the interests of the United States government amount to the interests of the Jewish and Satanic elites, interests that harm the majority of white, non-Leftist Americans, particularly in the rural Midwestern and Southern areas from which the military has drawn the greatest support.

Even as the system pretends to uphold the Constitution, the Republic, and the “people of the United States,” their grinning mask continues to slip. As the regime begins to teeter, they want to launch one last war of American hegemony, and they depend on the white men to fight that war. In fact, they want to kill as many young white men as possible. So they pump out a new marketing campaign to persuade these kids to fight and die for the illusion of the old red-white-and-blue.

And the white men aren’t falling for it.

Let this regime’s precious diversity fight its wars! Let their foreign and homosexual mercenaries die for their hallowed “democracy” and for Israel!

Capable white men have other plans for their lives these days. And it is for these new lives that these men would rather fight!

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Building Hope Inside a Hopeless Hellhole

– 5 January 2024 –

C. F. van Niekerk:

The present-day world is a hopeless hellhole.

If that seems un-Christian to say, then let me enunciate: there is no lasting hope to be found in the people and things of this present-day world, none whatsoever!

Further, I will add: any true hope that especially today’s world can manage to throw our way is merely the thin hope of a single, lousy, tainted meal, soon scarfed up, with only the queasiness of indigestion and bad breath to serve as its reminder.

If that observation sounds grim, then you haven’t been paying attention to the world around you.

It’s war out there!

There have existed times and places, in what used to be called Christiandom, where a God-fearing man could afford to take for granted the goodness and reliability of his family and neighbors and friends. There have existed good Christian kings and peaceful Christian nations—though certainly less than perfect—in which we could delude ourselves that we could find hope in our fellow men and in the bounties of this earth, having the luxury of almost forgetting our Lord all the way from our childhood until a distant death surrounded by our sturdy children and grandchildren. Christians had the luxury in those days to ride the collective coat-tails of their peoples who were generally united in our Lord.

But those days are not ours, my friend! We live in dystopia! We live in enemy-occupied territory, and the enemy is wielding tools against us the likes of which humanity hasn’t seen since the days of Noah!

We live in a bleak world where Christian churches are seduced into universalist niceness and worldly entertainment, the nations are seduced into ethnic nihilism and liberal totalitarianism; families are seduced into broken atomization and war between the sexes; individuals are seduced into debt and doubt and self-mutilation. Meanwhile the oligarchs convert all those debt payments into omnipresent infrastructure to monitor and enslave everyone to a centralizing machine with the help of media and pharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence, exploiting every button and lever in the human mind through tricks of every kind, and not shy to employ brute force when needed.

And who is this seducer, ultimately? The Master of Lies, served by his minions within that whole monstrosity that we allowed him to build all around us. While we argued over stuffed-shirt politicians, while we watched commercials for useless stuff on TV, as we over-stuffed our fat faces with Stovetop Stuffing, while plopped on our oversized asses in our overstuffed chairs, Satan spun like a patient spider.

Increasingly we must struggle just to try to live a Christian life out there, just to live out the very basics! Our great-grandfathers in the Faith having lived upon meat, we can barely manage to keep down our skimmed milk.

And how much less of a meal can our poor children handle!

For those of us during these times who earnestly try to live for the Way of our Lord, for objective Truth, and for the goodness of Life: life amounts to war.

For those who keep pressing our weary arms to row against this overflowing stream of filth and death: life amounts to war.

For those who desperately try to keep our heads together in these times of deception and manipulation seemingly everywhere we turn: life amounts to constant war.

And for those of us with children, we who strive our weary utmost to shield our little ones from the machine that would seduce these innocents to their deaths, and who try so hard to build up the Christian faith in these youths so they can carry on our swords long after we fall: life amounts to grinding, thankless war.

So many Christian parents are like dopey flocks of clipped-wing chickens squawking in perplexment as we see our little yellow chicks scarfed down, one-by-one, down the gulping throats of weasels and hawks and snakes leaping out from every bush. Were these helpless babes born merely to serve as a snack for the enemy? And why did we insist on feeding these little hatchlings a diet of McNuggets and KFC? Were we too lazy even to mix water into milk?

This time and this place amounts to a hopeless hellhole.

We cannot rely on our friends nor our families nor our local churches nor especially our governments, and most especially we can’t even rely on ourselves!

And instead of getting any easier, the times of relief and recharge seem only to grow shorter and less peaceful.

Just as King David cried out as his enemies chased him for years from one hideout to the next, so must we remnant Christians of today continually cry out! We who persist in determination against our personal gauntlets must endure every attack and privation to the very soul-slashed end.

Harrowed King David beseeched the Lord, again and again, psalm after psalm: “Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.”

In psalm after psalm, David cried unto the Lord for mercy even as he acknowledged his own brokenness: “…neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.“

It is war out there. Our enemies are bold and hungry, and they multiply at our expense.

They won’t rest in war, so we can’t rest.

And the fight is beyond our own strength. We must lean on our brothers and sisters who share the fight, even while we know they are bleeding, too. And sometimes the man on our left will flee from the battle while the man on our right deserts to the enemy camp. We mustn’t put our hope and faith in even our closest and most trustworthy brothers in arms, even as we lean on them by necessity. War is an ugly, bitter business.

So we must keep our eyes and our hearts and our hungers pointed always, always to the Lord! Through every battle and then through every little lull in this war: to the Lord, always! Unwavering towards the Lord!

We can only rely on anything at all in this earth if it is through the strength and assurance of our Lord Jesus Christ. For every blessing that comes our way, it’s important to remember the true source of that blessing.

As He consistently presented Himself across the Ages of the Church, as His true saints consistently upheld Him, and as the Holy Scriptures consistently proclaimed, we must stand steadfast in the ancient Faith of our Lord to the very end!

We can only find hope in Him. We actively hope, not passively, by practicing the Faith established by our Lord Jesus Christ. And in His hope, we can then find peace in the midst of war, rest in the midst of chaos, and strength in the midst of cowards. But even then the fight is often a tough, bitter, lonely one.

Yet fight we must. And we in Christ are never alone.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not;
and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not,
and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
For in thee, O Lord, do I hope:
thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me:
when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
For I am ready to halt,
and my sorrow is continually before me.
For I will declare mine iniquity;
I will be sorry for my sin.
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong:
and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
because I follow the thing that good is.

Forsake me not, O Lord:
O my God, be not far from me.
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
— Psalm 38:13-22

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