Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Rationalist (10-05-2019),The Sage of Main Street (10-06-2019)
The university is an obsolete aristocratic institution, designed specifically for the benefit and amusement of Born to Rule richkids living off an allowance. The other students are NPCs. You're being misdirected to blame the flunkie professors rather than their student Masters.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
Outside the realm of dogma it's sometimes difficult to determine what the Church stands for on specific issues. It's a huge international organization and the Pope isn't a dictator although some non-Catholics seem to think he is. That said, the positions Francis has taken particularly with respect to the so called migrant crisis betray a hostility to Europe and Europeans.
Note: I agree with Alain de Benoist that "the West" has become synonymous with liberalism. I use the term much less often now.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Chris (10-05-2019)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
The Sage of Main Street (10-06-2019)
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
Here's another transition from the religious to the secular: Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?, a brief review and interview with Eugene McCarraher, author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity:
The interview follows.One would be hard-pressed to find a form of modern rationalism more extreme than capitalism. The laws of supply and demand and the commodification of goods like health and education strip away the mystery and sense of sacredness that were once a vital part of human life. Capitalism, Marx observed, tears asunder “all fixed, fast-frozen relations” and “drowns the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor…in the icy water of egotistical calculation.” It wrings out of human life every drop of awe and magic and leaves in their place a hardened world of material interests and accumulation. Or so the story goes. Eugene McCarraher’s new book, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, offers a different rendering of our modern age—one in which the mysteries and sacraments of religion were transferred to the way we perceive market forces and economic development. The new world that capitalism created, McCarraher argues, is characterized not by disenchantment but by a “migration of the holy” to the realm of production and consumption, profit and price, trade and economic tribulation. Capitalism, in other words, is the new religion, a system full of enchanted superstitions and unfounded beliefs and beholden to its own clerisy of economists and managers, its own iconography of advertising and public relations, and its own political theology—a view of history and politics that is premised on the inevitability of the capitalist system spreading across the world. McCarraher spoke with The Nation about capitalism’s past and present, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Bernie Sanders’s candidacy, and the rise of a new generation of socialists. The following has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Chris (10-07-2019)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi