“When a world disintegrates, nothing more quickly becomes contemptible than its dead values, nothing more dead than its fallen gods, and more offensively fetid than its old necessities. This will be no less true of the values of a dying age.”
Intellectual Schizophrenia; Culture, Crisis, & Education — pg. 112
We are seeing the fulfillment of this prophetic insight of RJR coming to pass before our very eyes. On this very day as the world we once lived in continues to disintegrate we see contempt for its now-dead values on display in the removal of one of the largest Confederate statues in America in Richmond, Virginia. The current Governor, Ralph Northam had he lived in 1861 would have been hung as a Traitor for his recent comment about Virginia’s insurrection in 1861. No Virginian living at that time would have ever considered their legal secession over the North’s violation of the Constitution in demanding Troops be raised in order to invade the South to be “insurrection.” The fact that Northam could have such a tin ear to his own Fathers demonstrates that the God of the antebellum South is now dead. Somehow it seems ironically appropriate that the man who as Governor is shot-gunning this statue removal of Gen. Robert E. Lee is a man whose last name has the prefix “North” in it.
Ours is a dying age. The old heroes are being changed out for a criminal class of heroes. Out with Christians Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and in with the porn star George Floyd and the whoremonger Martin Luther King. I looked at some old photos lately of the 1968 world series and again realized I am living in a dying age. In those photos nearly all the women were wearing dresses and nearly all the men were wearing ties and suit jackets with a hat to boot. Today, even in Church, it is slobbery all the way down. The old necessities are obviously considered fetid.
It is not easy to have lived in two ages. I am old enough to have spent most of my life in the age where Church meant wearing a suit and tie, where I never ever saw either of my grandmothers wear anything but a dress, where the clergy had enough gravitas that it was natural to automatically respect them. Now I live in an age where all the former necessities have gone into eclipse and where everything from manners, to language, to education to common courtesy for one’s elders is now passe and where women are much more likely to be wearing tatts as opposed to wearing dresses, and where the clergy has earned every bit of scorn poured upon it.
I think I have a small understanding of what it must have been like for the Czar’s court to have lived through the Russian Revolution in terms of the differences between “before and after.” A small understanding of what it must have been like for the former Plantation owners to have lived through the North’s rape of the land in terms of the differences between “before and after.” A small understanding of what it must have been like to have lived in Rome before the Goths and to have lived in Rome after the Goths. It is the world turned upside down. It is, as Van Til used to remark, “disintegration downward into the void.”
Those Bastards!!
You write: “I think I have a small understanding of what it must have been like for the Czar’s court to have lived through the Russian Revolution in terms of the differences between “before and after.”
Pyotr Krasnov was one who can fill you in first hand. I recommend his book “From Double Eagle to Red Flag”.
Lots of work to be done; none of it will be pleasant, but all is going precisely according to His plan.
An encouraging quote from another man that saw the “before and after”, Jefferson Davis—“Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.”
Deo Vindice
Mr. Davis also said “never be humble to the haughty, or haughty to the humble”. We are in great need of preachers who teach the whole council of God.