I’m a fan of the Gates of Vienna blog, which focuses on all of the various threats to Western Civilization from a rational traditionalist point of view. It’s authors are well-read, conservative, pithy and wickedly politically incorrect in a calculative manner: They’re my kind of people.
A frequent contributor there, a Scandinavian blogger by the name of Fjordman, used to maintain his own blog but gave it up and now makes his presence known as prolific commenter in other blogs and by contributing longer essays to other blogs that hold his interest and share his concerns for the West’s cultural legacy.
I’m particularly fond of his sardonism:
Gates of Vienna: The Rise of Glossocracy
In the 19th century, Britain was threatened with subjugation by Napoleon. The British people rose to the occasion and defeated the threat. In the 20th century, Britain was threatened with subjugation by Adolf Hitler. The British people rose to the occasion and defeated the threat. In the 21st century, Britain was threatened with subjugation by the combined forces of Islamic Jihad and a pan-European superstate. The British people didn’t notice the threat, as they were too busy watching semi-naked people do obscene things on TV. I bet even George Orwell didn’t see that one coming, but maybe Huxley did.
In The Rise of Glossocracy, which is a reference to leadership that rules by controlling and changing to its advantage shared societal agreements about the meanings of words: Definitions. I’ve never read in one single essay so much lucid exposition on the history of current threats to Western traditions that includes spot-on synopses where Marxist/Leftist ideals have been successfully inserted in the minds of the masses. Fjordman’s missive takes successful head-shots at the totalitarianism masked by feminism, political correctness, diversity, tolerance, Islamism, multiculturalism and other mind tools commonly used to gag those of us who know the history of the West is not evil as it is being promulgated to our children by government schools and mainstream media.
If you, my dear conservative compatriot, are concerned about what is being done to the foundations of Western nations and cultures. If you reflexively recoil in horror at the absurdities being imposed upon us by Leftists who protest too loudly their supposedly innocent intentions, then I strongly suggest you read the linked piece. And while you’re at it, bookmark the Gates of Vienna so you can return regularly.
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