AntiDem

Egalitarianism runs deep in American thinking, and as soon as someone connected feminism first to business, and then to the sainted, holy, inviolate military, many were on board. And yes, you're right about freedom of speech - the people who ratified the First Amendment never saw modern mass media, much less The Cathedral. These things have rendered both freedom of speech, and democracy itself, obsolete. The (non-internet) media is cartelized - in the hands of a few, almost all of whom have exactly the same political opinions. Do we really have "freedom of speech" if 90% if the (non-internet) media all say the same things? If they forbid - entirely or nearly so - other viewpoints from being aired? Even the internet - which is a technological black swan which the mainstream media hates - is beginning to get concentrated into a few hands. For many, the internet *is* Facebook and Google/YouTube. As soon as there are gatekeepers, the gates will be kept, and we all know who will and won't be let in. There may not be Soviet-style censorship, but there doesn't really need to be: The Cathedral doesn't need to fool all of the people all of the time, and knows it - it just needs to fool enough of the people enough of the time, and with the biggest, loudest megaphone on the block and nobody there to stop them, they can.

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I am generally quite friendly to Islam. Of course, as a Christian, I obviously disagree on some theological points, but as non-Christian religions go, I probably like Islam the best. Some say: "No enemies to the right" - I say "No enemies among people of faith and traditional values". The Muslims seem to be, among all the peoples of the world, just about the best as far as resisting the disease of Modernity goes, and for that, they have my admiration. Muslims may be the enemies of Israelis, neocons, and American armchair Napoleons, but I am none of the above, and see no reason why Islam is my enemy. If it were up to me, I would join forces with them, and concentrate all firepower upon atheo-leftist Modernity.

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As for the Arab Spring, the most notable aspect of it is the utter incompetence of American foreign policy.

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I wouldn't say that I hate them. Quite the opposite, really - not all that long ago, I was one of them. And I do think they have promise. But there are a number of things they need to fundamentally get their heads out of their asses about. One of them is their bizarre attachment to Israel; and its attendant, their bizarre, obsessive, seething hatred of Islam. If nothing else, at this point, distant Muslims are so far down the list of important priorities for anyone on the American right that devoting a single second to worrying about them is pointless. Similarly, their attachment to the American Empire - we have too many problems to fix right here to worry much about the rest of the world's problems. That leads into their weird attachment to the military and police forces of a government that hates them and increasingly oppresses them. And finally, there's their attachment to democracy, and to the US Constitution, both of which are plainly failed institutions that no amount of "restoring" to some mythical incorruptible state is going to fix. Believing you can do that is more or less the belief that if you don't like how a movie ends, you can simply rewind the tape to a certain point, hit play, and maybe it will end different this time. What will more "separation of church and state" get us but more Christian bakers forced to bake gay wedding cakes? What will more "freedom of speech" get us but more Hollywood leftism? What will more democratic voting get us but more Barack Obamas? Why would we think that things would go any differently next time than they did last time? Einstein's definition of insanity at work, I think.

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Another Twitter commentator (I forget who at the moment) called mainstream conservatives "the kind of fools who would allow an entire civilization to be destroyed in the name of a constitution". So far, he's right. Mainstream conservatives need to wake the hell up, drop their outdated attachments and sentimental delusions, and start fighting for decency and order as if they actually mean it. I believe, by the way, that a very large number of them actually will, eventually, after things get bad enough. I've said before that Neo-Reaction is what mainstream conservatives lie awake at night trying to talk themselves out of believing, and someday they will find themselves unable to do so. Until then, I will continue to criticize them, to cajole them, to question what I believe they have wrong, in order to help them along the path that they must eventually travel.

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