Category: Culture

10.) You like big government

Mass immigration, the way that it is being currently allowed, will effect the balkanization of America. Once balkanization is achieved the only thing that can harmonize the disparate groups into a cohesive whole is force (think Tito’s Yugoslavia). Force is what Government does best.

9.) You’ve always wanted to be multi-lingual

8.) Well, e pluribus Unum is Spanish, after all… isn’t it?

7.) You have always thought castanets sounded cool

6.) Your children are brats and you want to disinherit them

5.) You think the bureaucrats that run prisons and are responsible for Welfare handouts aren’t busy enough.

In 1995 (14 years ago) 25% of the prisoners in federal penitentiaries were illegal immigrants. That number is even higher today. 19 years ago, we spent 16 Billion more in welfare payments to immigrants than they paid back in taxes. Anybody want to bet that those numbers haven’t decreased?

4.) You never liked the middle class anyway

Statistics suggest that one consequence of immigration is wealth transfer from labor to big capital, resulting in ever shrinking middle class, thus moving us towards a have and have not third world culture.

3.) You’re an Evangelical and you figure that people shouting for ‘Aztlan’ are OK since you liked that Narnia movie also.

(Besides, you think the Mexican flag is real pretty.)

2.) You think America should be a universal nation. To be a nation, by necessity, entails ethnic and cultural specificity. To speak of a universal nation is akin to speaking of a universal marriage or a universal family. As with marriage and family, so with the idea of nation, there must be parameters that restrict the members that comprise it in order to speak coherently concerning it.

1.) You grew up during the 60’s and you’ve kind of missed the good old fashioned protest marches.

And a few more from our resident Medical Doctor,

0. You think it will help with your sanctification for you and your children to deal with the leprosy, plague and tuberculosis they will now be exposed to in their government propaganda institution…I mean, public school.

-1. It’s exciting and exotic to have adult males in your community whose culture tells them that sex with 10-year old females is important to further their development into compliant, subservient “baby-mamas.”

-2. Everyone knows that all those poor Mexicans are coming her to do the jobs “Whitey,” won’t do…even if we end up in a hyper-inflationary depression with 25% unemployment.

-3. Isn’t it a good thing to have all those committed Roman Catholics in our communities, shining as examples of Christian piety…even if their out-of-wedlock birthrate approaches 75% and their abortion rate is equal to that of avowed atheists?

-4. We just want to join the long list of successful multi-cultural civilizations, like…ummm, well…they have to exist, right? Right?!? Hello??

Fear — Sung by Lilly Allen

I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don’t care about clever I don’t care about funny
I want loads of clothes and I want f***loads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

And I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
Cuz everyone knows that’s how you get famous
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah I’m on to a winner

[Chorus]
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

Life’s about film stars and less about mothers
It’s all about fast cars and cussing each other
But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic
and that’s what makes my life so f***ing fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And its not my fault it’s how I’m programmed to function
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah we’re on to a winner

Chorus
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything’s cool as long as I’m gettin thinner

[Chorus]
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cause I’m being taken over by fear

Dr. George Grant in one of his lectures on ancient history tells a story about a visit to a large museum he made. Dr. Grant told about the grand displays of Egypt replete with mock pyramids and tombs. He then went on to tell about the grand displays of ancient Greece and other well known cultures. Dr. Grant emphasized the power and scope of the museum displays of these mighty civilizations. Dr. Grant then went on to tell how after he had viewed these great civilizations he walked into a room where the civilization of ancient Israel was on display. Dr. Grant went on to tell how the ancient Israel display wasn’t nearly as ostentatious as the displays of the other great civilizations. Grant tells how the Israel civilization display was characterized by pottery and eating utensils and other items that comparatively speaking were nick-knacks when compared to the power displays of the ancient cultures such as Egypt and Greece.

Dr. Grant’s point out of this is that Israel didn’t build the kind of civilization as other power civilizations because Israel’s civilization was not built on the basis of slave labor nor was it primarily a centralized state such as the other civilizations. Instead Israel culture was about simple matters like community, family, food, and song. Not the kinds of things that make for grandiose museum displays.

This evening I attended a theatrical version of “Sound of Music” which reminded me of Dr. Grant’s lectures. “Sound of Music” is a musical that has as a backdrop 1938 Austrian culture trying to maintain its simple civilization against the giant Fascist totalitarian culture of Germany. In this way the musical is very Christian. The songs reflect a particular culture and are about love of family, love of music, and love of country. The songs and dances, though not all original to Austria, are in praise of a culture that doesn’t want to be swallowed whole by a “great civilization.”

The christian themes that proclaim the love found in the simplicity of community, family, food, and drink are likewise found in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. The success of great wars and movements against totalitarian regimes is waged, at least in part, so that simple people can continue to love eating mushrooms, drinking beer, spending time with family, and being indulgent to children.

The christian themes of love for what is nearby in family, community and church are also put on display in Wendell Berry’s Port William novels. In Jayber Crow the story is told of what it means to live in community. In one of the most tender scenes that I’ve ever read in any novel Berry puts Jayber Crow in a local church where he has a vision of the church community over the years so that one gets the sense that even though many of these people lived and died before others they were all one community and belonged to one another because they belonged to that Church.

In all of these the love is for local in defiance of love for the spectacular and grandiose. In all of these the love is for the familiar in contrast to love for wide-scale fame. In all of these there is a turning of the back on mass appeal in order to embrace what is known and has been known for generations.

This desire for the simple, the separate, and the known is a Christian theme it would be good to return to once again.

During the month of March, I enjoy watching the NCAA Basketball tournament. This year I have the added incentive of rooting for Michigan State which is a scant 30 minute drive from where I live. So, for the past couple weeks I’ve watched a number of tournament games that have involved hundreds of NCAA college Basketball players. Now, during the tournament games the cameras will sometimes focus on those in attendance. Maybe the camera will pan a coach’s wife during a particularly dramatic point of the game. Maybe the camera will locate a celebrity in attendance.

I must admit though that one thing that is driving me mad with curiosity is why the cameras keep panning the parents of Oklahoma Stars Blake and Taylor Griffin. With the exception of once seeing the cameras pan the father of UNC star Tyler Hansbrough the only parents I’ve seen the cameras focus on are the parents of the Griffin brothers of Oklahoma. The cameras have been on these parents so often during Oklahoma games I’ve begun to think that the Griffins were starring in some kind of bizarre reality Television show.

Now, naturally, I’ve found myself asking why the cameras have focused so much on the Griffins. I mean, after all, if there are 10 guys on each team that is potentially twenty set of parents that cameras could pan. But lets reduce the pool by 16 sets of parents and suggest that the cameras are only interested in showing family members of star players and coaches. That would reduce it to a far more manageable handful of people that the cameras might pan. Still, even by those reduced numbers the Griffin parents are getting far far more face time on camera proportionally then any other family members. Indeed, one begins to wonder if all their camera time is designed.

So why do the Griffins get all this camera time? Are they the only family members in attendance supporting their star basketball player sons? Is it because they are more telegenic then other people? Or is it because CBS is subtly communicating that inter-racial marriages are something to be esteemed and aspired to?

“The people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts. Wouldn’t it be easier to dissolve the people and elect another in their place?”

Bertold Brecht
German Communist Poet / Playwright

The politicians and bureaucrats of the American state, at almost every level are criminal guilty of the crime of cultural-cide. The policies they are pursuing are tantamount to seeking to dissolve the people and their culture while electing another in their place. Americans are being dissolved by illegal immigration. Americans are being dissolved by multiculturalism. Americans are being dissolved by planned financial ruin. Americans are being dissolved by the death cult of abortion. Americans are being dissolved by a educational system that has spent decades preparing Americans for dissolution.

In Barack Obama we are being led by a man who is a stranger and an alien to all things Americans. Even if Obama is legally President he should be characterized as a “accidental American.” He is a man who had a mother who hated her own people. He had a Father who was a Tomcat who spread his seed over more than one continent. For a substantive period of his life he was raised by a Step-Father in Indonesia. Obama is the perfect character to dissolve America because he doesn’t belong to America.