“The modern family w/ its labor capacity auctioned off to the highest bidder, has more in common w/ ancient slavery than it does the household. You can be married. You can even have children. But you are owned by a master. Sure, your master treats you well, and your wife’s master treats her well. You receive lavish amenities. You have a nice McMansion in a safe cul-de-sac away from crime. You might even get to own a BMW or a brand new F-150. You get to enjoy plentiful food and drink. You get to wear stylish clothing. Your respective masters give you free time every so often to take your children (who are raised by strangers while you serve your masters) to places like Disney World. You might be able to choose to leave one master for another. But you will always have a master.
We don’t think of this existence as slavish because we equate slavery with utter destitution and barbaric, torturous abuse. But in the ancient world, that was not universally the case. Some slaves were indeed worked to death in the mines. Others lived decent, full lives tending to fields and herds. And others lived comfortable lives in the households of nobles. But one thing was certain — slaves did not have their own households. We think that modern life is not the life of the slave because of comparative luxury, but the structure of modern life is almost same. In fact ancient slaves w/ wives and children had something much closer to a true household than modern men today, especially the intentionally childfree.”
Rev. Andrew Isker
Boniface Option — p. 94-95
This is quite excellent and it doesn’t even include the thought that slavery is a guaranteed reality given the debt that most moderns have embraced. Scripture teaches that the debtor is the slave to the creditor and with the incredible credit card debt that Americans are weighed down with it is just as simple fact that we are a slave people.
However, we love it so. We love being slaves and the we here applies just as much to “Christians” as to non Christians.
The impact of all this slavery is we are a people who are afraid to speak the truth. Slaves dare not step up to the microphone and say anything against those who hold the keys to his chains. For this reason the one place where we might well expect the truth to be spoken instead has gone silent. The clergy in America belong to the slave class and so they go out of their way to kiss their master’s tush. As such the truth that Slavemerica needs to hear goes unspoken.
In point of fact with the rise of the heretical R2K the clergy are now trained to be able to wear their chains comfortably while at the same time extolling the ability to spend their whole careers in pulpits quite without telling God’s people that they can and should be free of their chains as well.
It is all quite disgusting and discouraging.
“You must stop thinking of yourself as a mere individual but rather as a member of a hierarchy with duties and responsibilities to his people. The world that existed before Trashworld, the world Christendom existed within, had a word for men like this; Nobles.”
Rev. Andrew Isker
Boniface Option — p. 104
All this friction that exists between Christian Boomers and Christian Zers ought not to be. If Christianity is premised upon the truth of “harmony of interests” than each generation should be seeking the best of the other. The Boomers as the older and wiser should be seeking to come along side and help the successive generations all they can. The younger generations, when they find wisdom among the Boomers should treat them with respect and honor. (This would mean losing the “OK Boomer sobriquet).
We need to understand we are the body of Christ with every part seeking to help every other part.
We will rise or fall together.
“You must teach your children to love the things you love and to hate the things you hate. You must overcome your aversion to hate. If you cannot bring yourself to hate a malignant world built upon child sacrifice and crowned with genital mutilation, you are not going to make it, nor will your children. Hatred of such things is something you MUST pass down to your children, and your must raise them among others who understand the same.”
Rev. Andrew Isker
Boniface Option — pg. 113
Look, the problem now for generations has been that our loves and hates have not been passionate enough as combined with the reality that we have not taught our children why we love and hate as we do. Instead we have emphasized the necessity to “be nice” and the consequence to this has been the reality that 2-3 generations of God’s covenant seed have walked away from Biblical Christianity. We have not taught our children how to think. We have not taught them what we believe and why we believe it and what we don’t believe and why we don’t believe it and the result is that we have lost too many of our children because they have decided that their loves and their hates will be other than ours. This is our fault because we didn’t detail out for them a particular world and life view. We gave them the gruel of “love Jesus,” without telling them precisely who Jesus is that they were supposed to love. Many generations didn’t train their children this way because they themselves refused to do the hard work of becoming epistemologically self-conscious. And that in turn is the fault of the Church. The clergy failed to sound the tocsin. The clergy failed to raise the cry of the character and nature of God, of the beauty of our undoubted catholic Christian faith, of the idea of honoring the fearful and majestic Kingship of our Liege Lord Christ.
We have lost our children because we didn’t instruct them to share our passions. We have contributed to Trashworld because we didn’t train up warriors and shield-maidens for the Kingdom of God.
And now God’s house is left largely bare. The warrior spirit has melted away. The willingness of our Christian men to fight the good fight has evaporated and the willingness of our women folk to tell their men to “come home with your shield or upon your shield” is absent.
Where are the warriors? Where are they who will teach their children to be warriors for the Kingdom? Where are men and women who will love God enough to manfully hate the enemies of God. Where are the men and women who will give up all to train up a generation who themselves have only one desire and that is the desire to slay the dragon?
Oh God raise up such a generation once again please and do it that thy name may once again be honored.
This modern slave system originates directly from Thomas Hobbes and his “Leviathan.” Hobbes (who seems to have been something of an autist, having no regard for decent manners or diplomacy) taught bluntly that all citizens, or all subjects of the omnipotent Leviathan-state, should be considered as de facto slaves; they would be allowed to have physical safety and material plenty (and that was all that mattered to Hobbes, him being a brazenly anti-spiritual materialist), but the sovereign would make all the important decisions affecting their lives on their behalf.
And as Gary North observed:
http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/pdf/unholy_spirits.pdf
“The humanists have been tied to top-down rationalism politically since at least Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651). The French Enlightenment simply transferred Hobbes’ vision of the king’s sovereign central power to the democratic State’s sovereign central power. The French Revolution was the result of this vision. So was the Russian Revolution.”
Thomas Hobbes was a “dirty old man” – he wrote his main works in a ripe old age, especially by 17th century standards. He was also a physical coward, and thus avoidance of violent death was the most important thing in his life, and thus he naturally thought up a slavish ideology, since only contempt of death can enable people to avoid slavery.
Thus Hobbes was like the original “Boomer” – an elderly gutless wonder laying down pernicious laws for younger generations.
He was also like a representation of Anglo-Saxon folk soul at its ugliest; you know, the stereotype of coldly calculating, utilitarian shopkeeper, whose narrow soul had no space for either devout spirituality or noble heroism. I mentioned earlier the tendency of White thinkers for “soul-crushing rationalism”: Hobbes was a perfect example of that.
A modern conservative thinker evaluates Hobbes’ ideological legacy:
https://books.google.fi/books?id=INcgAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=fi&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q&f=false
“Aside from this psychological lacuna of the hidden tyrant, the Hobbesian social contract is a bloodless, rootless mechanism, with no connection to history, tradition, or patriotism – a despotic algorithm for internal peace that can be imposed anywhere, or indeed, everywhere, a precursor of Kojeve’s universal homogeneous state. In the European aesthetic consciousness, it becomes the nightmare of the faceless, omnipresent bureaucratic state of Kafka’s The Castle, or to use Weber’s bleak phrase for modern life, “technicians without vision” ruling over “voluptuaries without heart.” This pedigree proceeds straight down to Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, in which Alcibiadean ambition can find no outlet in a dreary welfare state dystopia except base criminality, and whose psyche must be rejigged in the correct Hobbesian direction through torture, behavior modification, and regular visits from a social worker.
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In this sense, Stalin was one of history’s most consistent Hobbesians. He used terror in a relentless campaign to re-create human nature as empty integers interchangeable with one another, stripped of ambition, living in enforced harmony.”