THE CLOWN WORLD ABSURDITY

 Upon seeing the title of this article, the reader might fall into the trap of thinking that this is yet another analysis, of which there are many, of how stupid our politicians are, of what foolish decisions they make and of how ridiculous our world has become. Such a reader, however, would be very wrong. Not that I couldn’t knock up an article or even a book in the vein of a Peter Hitchens or a Douglas Murray or any other neo-con or Aut-Righter, in which I mocked and scoffed at our contemporary society. Indeed, in the case of the two names I have mentioned, I could just as easily avoid the real issues and point to facile impersonal scapegoats like drugs and pornography. Well, drugs and pornography do not manufacture themselves. Such neo-cons and Aut Righters came up with a blanket term some seven or eight years ago, which I am happy to see is slowly falling out of usage, that of the clown world.

 

 

Typical image from the Conservative Post

 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY LI: ON PETER HITCHENS

In this video, I look at Peter Hitchens' modus operandi, and how the Hitchens Brothers interlinked to keep discourse within certain parameters.

MJOLNIR HAMMERS....CONSERVATISM

This is the inaugural edition of "Mjolnir Hammers...." As Roger Scruton died not long before the recording of this episode, we decided to hammer conservatism. We look at the historical foundations of conservatism as a rebranding of Burkean liberalism, its religious aspects grounded in Christian Protestantism and mercantilism, its primarily economic outlook as a world view, and its legacy in the present in how it has shifted the Overton Window. We explore such topics as elitism, aesthetics, the politics of decline, pessimism and respond to the the fundamental question: do conservative ideas and ideals hold any value for our people?