At 72 I have ceased lifelong campaigning & detached myself from the mainstream world as much as I can. I can't take the ugliness any longer. It is ugly in every aspect - the people, the architecture, the art, the literature, the music, the politics.
I no longer wish to give it my attention because our attention, I have come to understand, strengthens the ugliness. Our attention is invariably made up of anger, fear, outrage & anxiety. In themselves ugly emotions which the Uglies in turn feed off.
In my remaining years I want to focus on beauty wherever I can find it & while it still lasts.
I cling to the hope that all will come good in the end, but not through human efforts. That much is clear. The Uglies will be the architects of their own demise. Natural law will ultimately triumph.
I empathise with you being the same age. In my youth I thought the solution to the problems of the world would come when collective consciousness changed. I naievely thought that the mechanism for this change was meditation, not intellectual ideas and political movements. Instead the 'water the root' philosophy I followed would achieve what ideas and propaganda couldn't. Sadly I've become rather disillusioned with this idea because the movement/cult I joined up with turned out not to be so magnanimous and enlightened as I had been led to expect. However I still believe/hope that Natural Law, as you say, will triumph. It's just that there are really powerful 'unNatural' forces at work, as Paul explains, that are determined to eviscerate much of humanity.
Sad but true conclusions. However 80% people remain resistent to the truths expressed here so if the themselves are unhappy with the state of the world, they should look in the mirror if they want to know who is to blame.
Gandhi said whenever I despair I remember that the way of truth and love always wins...remember it always. Tyrants confirmed and go. The universe is powered only by love. There is no other way.
I believe in the Cosmos and Natural Law; also, that I am a part of Nature and seek to live in harmony with it. I think Jesus and Stoicism are great guides on how to live life. I dislike religious absolutism, preferring the mystery of life
I am not quite so hostile to religion as Karl Marx was, with his "religion is the opium of the people" (masses), because (even organised) religion can be a force for both good and evil and I certainly miss Christian Ireland. For instance, even though, I doubt the wisdom of the State handing control over to the Catholic Church, regarding relationships and sexual education, the primary education system, the mother and baby homes, etc., today is far worse, with the Department of Education basically following the diktats of TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) and Belong To (the national LGBTQ+ youth organisation), encouraging schools to adopt their wokist ideology of, for example, explicitly talking about sexuality to both primary and secondary school children (which in the workplace would be considered sexual harassment), gender neutral toilets and the Belong To LGBTQ+ Quality Mark being given to schools, including Wilson's Hospital Multifarnham (whose teacher, Enoch Burke, is still languishing in prison for refusing to use they/them pronouns).
PS I enjoy both your and Louise Roseingrave's writings.
I'm just going to add here that in my mind a very positive and powerful response to these materialists and poor ego driven souls is to demonstrate as much as one is able the opposite - namely self-sufficiency community engagement mutual aid workshare healthy food civil disobedience non-compliance with immoral demands and generally telling them to fuck off.
James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism has the interesting idea that in order to undermine the stranglehold of the State the citizens should express their dissent in all manner of non-compliance and non-co-operation. Millions of such acts will disable the State machiney without the need of violence or confrontation.
"...the threads at which I am pulling all lead to one vast tangled knot of criminality, usury, corruption, blackmail, lying, gaslighting and murderous violence that constitutes our “modern” System..."
Omg the tv ads ! As a child my mum would say 'shut up, leave it alone' my wife can't stand it if I join her on the couch because I comment on the dishonest lying scumbaggery of EVERY ad!!!!!🧟♂️
I am in my 80s so was fortunate that, until I was 18, none of us had TVs. I do own one now but, to give my brain a rest - (I prefer to gain knowledge through reading books) - I mostly watch escapist nonsense, such as Death Valley, Brokenwood (love the New Zealand scenery), etc. Moreover, because the ads drive me crazy, I record everything so as to fast forward over them!
“ ...while green-belt Surrey “beauty spots”, to which my family made regular Sunday afternoon pilgrimages, were suddenly desecrated by the construction of the M25 London orbital motorway.” — Exactly the case for an aunt and uncle and cousins of mine who lived in Oxted. The M25 was built between where they lived (Oxted) and the Oxted Downs. Thus was a favourite hike of theirs forever blighted.
I now cannot see the Masonic aprons without also seeing the Gmail “M”.
I think we can all agree that Lord Finkelstein will never be confused with Norman.
Did you notice how the pistol could not have been pointed more directly at where you currently reside, than it is in the globe-head cartoon?
“As more and more of us tug at the threads of truth, their knot of lies and gaslighting is rapidly coming undone.” — Truth!
So well documented. Sadly too few are willing or able to see this reality and few have a moral compass that questions it. Head in the sand bum in the air as David Icke would say.
The Masses always are ignorant and want to be so. It is only the very Few who come up to conclusions and then act accordingly. Realising this, the elites had decided to give us wat they name "democracy", so that now the Masses, ignorant and guided, could easily outnumber the Few.
How many people have pensions? How many people have their savings in pension funds? How many people own stocks or government bonds? How many people have put their money in investment funds or life insurance policies? How many people have their savings in some bank account? Perhaps two or three billion people! The lives of these 3 billion people are managed, controlled, and planned by 0.02% of humanity. Complete control over savings, investments, pension funds, and the stock and bond markets gives this 0.02% of humanity almost total power and control over humanity, because money is solidified human energy. They are very few, it's true; but they have a very powerful ally: human fear and stupidity.
Paul, I now think it likely that the burning of Notre Dame in Paris was also orchestrated by the demonic "elite" as part of their sick philosophy of satanic symbolism and as a signal for the beginning of the killings.
In 2017, when I attended Left Forum in New York City, panels on the dangers of "sex-affirming" surgeries for children and panels on alternative interpretations of 9/11 were banned. A talk on 9/11 was given in a nearby building, not part of the Forum. People protesting surgeries held banners and spoke about not being selected by the Forum.
Amen. Please God it is finished - I mean the blight on all lives that has been the way-too-long era of judeo-supremacism.
It is more than likely that the reason that - like the rest of his family - King Charles is aligned with the globalist WEF agenda because they have interbred with its Rothschild sponsors. Researchers have pointed to the likely impregnation of Queen Victoria by (the supposedly dead) Nathan Rothschild during her long period of mourning and seclusion after Prince Albert's death.
The picture of Rothschild berating Charles therefore tells a story about the twin Rothschild -Windsor dynasty and the picture leaves us in no doubt as to who exactly wears the trousers in the relationship.
Moreover the Rothschilds seem to have convinced the Royals that they are direct descendants of King David.
There are also pictures of the Royals and Rothschilds out hunting - you cannot tell them apart!
Sadly, all very true.
At 72 I have ceased lifelong campaigning & detached myself from the mainstream world as much as I can. I can't take the ugliness any longer. It is ugly in every aspect - the people, the architecture, the art, the literature, the music, the politics.
I no longer wish to give it my attention because our attention, I have come to understand, strengthens the ugliness. Our attention is invariably made up of anger, fear, outrage & anxiety. In themselves ugly emotions which the Uglies in turn feed off.
In my remaining years I want to focus on beauty wherever I can find it & while it still lasts.
I cling to the hope that all will come good in the end, but not through human efforts. That much is clear. The Uglies will be the architects of their own demise. Natural law will ultimately triumph.
I empathise with you being the same age. In my youth I thought the solution to the problems of the world would come when collective consciousness changed. I naievely thought that the mechanism for this change was meditation, not intellectual ideas and political movements. Instead the 'water the root' philosophy I followed would achieve what ideas and propaganda couldn't. Sadly I've become rather disillusioned with this idea because the movement/cult I joined up with turned out not to be so magnanimous and enlightened as I had been led to expect. However I still believe/hope that Natural Law, as you say, will triumph. It's just that there are really powerful 'unNatural' forces at work, as Paul explains, that are determined to eviscerate much of humanity.
The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof. Not Charlie’s or Soros or Baal Gates or Finks or Netanyahus etc yaady yaady.
💯 - as Dostoyevsky said "Beauty will save the world" and I will leave you with these gentle words by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843):
O all
You friendly
And faithful gods
I wish you could know
How my soul has loved you...
Trees were my teachers
Melodious trees
And I learned to love
Among flowers
I grew up in the arms of the gods
Sad but true conclusions. However 80% people remain resistent to the truths expressed here so if the themselves are unhappy with the state of the world, they should look in the mirror if they want to know who is to blame.
Gandhi said whenever I despair I remember that the way of truth and love always wins...remember it always. Tyrants confirmed and go. The universe is powered only by love. There is no other way.
Not "nature's" but God's Law, He who made heaven and earth.
I believe in the Cosmos and Natural Law; also, that I am a part of Nature and seek to live in harmony with it. I think Jesus and Stoicism are great guides on how to live life. I dislike religious absolutism, preferring the mystery of life
Isn't nature God in physical form?
It one of the gifts he has given us, and a testimony to his existence. But God is more than just nature.
I am not quite so hostile to religion as Karl Marx was, with his "religion is the opium of the people" (masses), because (even organised) religion can be a force for both good and evil and I certainly miss Christian Ireland. For instance, even though, I doubt the wisdom of the State handing control over to the Catholic Church, regarding relationships and sexual education, the primary education system, the mother and baby homes, etc., today is far worse, with the Department of Education basically following the diktats of TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) and Belong To (the national LGBTQ+ youth organisation), encouraging schools to adopt their wokist ideology of, for example, explicitly talking about sexuality to both primary and secondary school children (which in the workplace would be considered sexual harassment), gender neutral toilets and the Belong To LGBTQ+ Quality Mark being given to schools, including Wilson's Hospital Multifarnham (whose teacher, Enoch Burke, is still languishing in prison for refusing to use they/them pronouns).
PS I enjoy both your and Louise Roseingrave's writings.
I recommend you read @tuambabies. It's very useful in discussing these issues.
Why Beauty Matters (2009) (58:59)
by Roger Scruton
https://rumble.com/v2l23os-why-beauty-matters-by-roger-scruton-2009.html
I'm just going to add here that in my mind a very positive and powerful response to these materialists and poor ego driven souls is to demonstrate as much as one is able the opposite - namely self-sufficiency community engagement mutual aid workshare healthy food civil disobedience non-compliance with immoral demands and generally telling them to fuck off.
James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism has the interesting idea that in order to undermine the stranglehold of the State the citizens should express their dissent in all manner of non-compliance and non-co-operation. Millions of such acts will disable the State machiney without the need of violence or confrontation.
Yes, throwing millions of spanners into the works.
As esc recently wrote 'leakage' and 'delay delay delay'. Any invisible act of self reliance or money bypass drains their surveillance energy.
Yes and it doesn’t have to be complicated.
1) use cash
2) turn your smart phone off
💯
Immensely valuable. Thank you 🙏
"...the threads at which I am pulling all lead to one vast tangled knot of criminality, usury, corruption, blackmail, lying, gaslighting and murderous violence that constitutes our “modern” System..."
Paul’s article😎
Quote from ? 🙏
Omg the tv ads ! As a child my mum would say 'shut up, leave it alone' my wife can't stand it if I join her on the couch because I comment on the dishonest lying scumbaggery of EVERY ad!!!!!🧟♂️
Watching TV these days equals throwing away every intellectual and moral guidance you ever had for yourself.
I am in my 80s so was fortunate that, until I was 18, none of us had TVs. I do own one now but, to give my brain a rest - (I prefer to gain knowledge through reading books) - I mostly watch escapist nonsense, such as Death Valley, Brokenwood (love the New Zealand scenery), etc. Moreover, because the ads drive me crazy, I record everything so as to fast forward over them!
I use it to give my brain a rest as well. The ads are completely degrading and insulting.
What a journey! Thanks for sharing it and writing such consistently valuable articles.
Cheers
Putting it all together … nice!
“ ...while green-belt Surrey “beauty spots”, to which my family made regular Sunday afternoon pilgrimages, were suddenly desecrated by the construction of the M25 London orbital motorway.” — Exactly the case for an aunt and uncle and cousins of mine who lived in Oxted. The M25 was built between where they lived (Oxted) and the Oxted Downs. Thus was a favourite hike of theirs forever blighted.
I now cannot see the Masonic aprons without also seeing the Gmail “M”.
I think we can all agree that Lord Finkelstein will never be confused with Norman.
Did you notice how the pistol could not have been pointed more directly at where you currently reside, than it is in the globe-head cartoon?
“As more and more of us tug at the threads of truth, their knot of lies and gaslighting is rapidly coming undone.” — Truth!
Yes, it's definitely pointing at south-east France. Yikes!!
We are certainly at a crisis point.
So well documented. Sadly too few are willing or able to see this reality and few have a moral compass that questions it. Head in the sand bum in the air as David Icke would say.
The Masses always are ignorant and want to be so. It is only the very Few who come up to conclusions and then act accordingly. Realising this, the elites had decided to give us wat they name "democracy", so that now the Masses, ignorant and guided, could easily outnumber the Few.
Deletes. Not elites.
Dissidence = Oxygen. So fortunate I found this blog.
Ps: The West ( existing / surviving it) is why many of us have moved / will move to developing nations. . Nowhere is perfect. But this is terminal.
How many people have pensions? How many people have their savings in pension funds? How many people own stocks or government bonds? How many people have put their money in investment funds or life insurance policies? How many people have their savings in some bank account? Perhaps two or three billion people! The lives of these 3 billion people are managed, controlled, and planned by 0.02% of humanity. Complete control over savings, investments, pension funds, and the stock and bond markets gives this 0.02% of humanity almost total power and control over humanity, because money is solidified human energy. They are very few, it's true; but they have a very powerful ally: human fear and stupidity.
This is all so sick.
Paul, I now think it likely that the burning of Notre Dame in Paris was also orchestrated by the demonic "elite" as part of their sick philosophy of satanic symbolism and as a signal for the beginning of the killings.
Yes, I agree. It is very possible.
In 2017, when I attended Left Forum in New York City, panels on the dangers of "sex-affirming" surgeries for children and panels on alternative interpretations of 9/11 were banned. A talk on 9/11 was given in a nearby building, not part of the Forum. People protesting surgeries held banners and spoke about not being selected by the Forum.
Amen. Please God it is finished - I mean the blight on all lives that has been the way-too-long era of judeo-supremacism.
It is more than likely that the reason that - like the rest of his family - King Charles is aligned with the globalist WEF agenda because they have interbred with its Rothschild sponsors. Researchers have pointed to the likely impregnation of Queen Victoria by (the supposedly dead) Nathan Rothschild during her long period of mourning and seclusion after Prince Albert's death.
The picture of Rothschild berating Charles therefore tells a story about the twin Rothschild -Windsor dynasty and the picture leaves us in no doubt as to who exactly wears the trousers in the relationship.
Moreover the Rothschilds seem to have convinced the Royals that they are direct descendants of King David.
There are also pictures of the Royals and Rothschilds out hunting - you cannot tell them apart!
This is a very valuable and informative narrative. I wish more people would wake up to the truth.
An excellent piece!