A Word From Eugene Genovese On The Irrationality of Academia

“Today we face the dangerous irrationality of a self-styled postmodernism. It is more dangerous than the pretense of ethical neutrality in social science and historical scholarship because, despite all pretense, it quickly passes into nihilism. Normally, cynicism and fanaticism combat each other and represent, as it were, opposing heresies. Yet, marvelous today, they now march in lockstep. we are being told that since objectivity rests only with a God who does not exist, we should scorn it as the ideology of the oppressors.
 
 

Those who denounce objectivity as a fraud in the service of oppression are offering flagrant mendacity as a Higher Law. And since just about everyone, except non-Hispanic, heterosexual, white males, is today a victim of oppression, we are invited to present our subjectivity — our ‘feelings,’ which usually appear as hatreds — as a substitute for a non-existent truth. I make no apology for the harshness of these remarks. In accordance with the fashion of parading one’s feelings as a contribution to every discussion of every subject, I shall admit to being outraged at hearing endless whines about oppression from American intellectuals — black as well as white, female as well as male. For since they (we) rank among the top one or two percent of the world’s most privileged people, the whines, may fairly be judged as obscene. But then, I suppose, I am merely revealing my own status as an oppressor by invoking an untenable standard of statistical objectivity, when I should be demonstrating my sensitivity to the precious feeling of the insulted and injured. Unfortunately, never having met a human being who did not feel insulted and injured in this vale of tears, my capacity for compassion has been badly stunted. Atheist that I am, I learned that much from Christian teaching on original sin and human depravity, which has been confirmed by all historical experience of which I am aware, even if it is no longer in fashion in mainstream Christian churches.”

Eugene Genovese
The Southern Front; History and Politics in the Culture War

 

New World Order Monism

“The plan was this:  ‘Let us make a name’ (Gen. 11:4), or, a ‘shem’ meaning let us define ourselves, fix and establish our authority so that we are what we declare ourselves to be. Instead of being defined by the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28), man now held that he would be his own creature and creation and would define himself. If man becomes a self-definer, he, then, like a god, names or defines himself. If man becomes a self-definer, he, then, like a god, names or defines everything else. He can then define God, or define Him out of existence, supposedly.

The reason for this resolve was, ‘lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth’ (Gen. 11:4). A basic doctrine of theology is the unity of the Godhead. No god can be truly a god if he is divided within himself. Every humanistic attempt to replace God with a one-world humanistic order leads to efforts to bring all mankind under a common civil government.  This is a theological necessity: the ultimate power cannot be a divided power. Every effort is made to compel human unity in the name of the new faith.”

R. J. Rushdoony 
Genesis — p. 110

1.) When man redefine God or defines him out of existence the inevitable result is the maxim, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Man apart from God will always build community-order systems that will be define as tyrannical. Men apart from the God of the Bible — whether husbands tyrannizing wives, parents tyrannizing children, teachers tyrannizing students, magistrates tyrannizing citizenry — will always exercise their non God ordained power as usurper and tyrants. Always. It may take time to go from bad to worse but it is inevitable.

2.) The humanistic attempt to replace God with a one-world order leads not only to the efforts we are now seeing to bring all mankind under a common civil government. Such humanistic attempts also seek to bring all mankind under a commonality that includes a universal shared faith, a universal shared race/ethnicity, and a universal shared culture. A unipolar world with a unipolar government (common civil government) cannot successfully exist apart from a unipolar faith, unipolar race/ethnicity and unipolar culture. Even our “new” multiplicity of gender is in service of creating a unipolar gender where the former hard bipolar distinctions of male and female disappear.

3.) Man without God thus seeks a uniformitarian existence where all distinctions are bled out of life. Man becomes Borg. He is a cog in the humanistic globalist machine. He is a worker bee in a hive. Humanist NWO learns that resistance is futile. He will be assimilated.

4.) Since the Endarkenment we have seen this attempt at the commodification of men into a uniform product. During the French Revolution all titles distinguishing rank were lost and everybody addressed one another as “Citoyen.” The Phrygian cap worn by all Revolutionaries — male or female — was the fashion expression that communicated the uniformitarian oneness. In the Revolution of 1918 in Russia it was the universal address of “comrade” that bespoke fallen man’s self-understanding that he shared in the oneness of the humanistic godhood. In 1949 forward in the Chinese Revolution it was the Mao suit that was the fashion statement that communicated that ultimate power cannot be a divided power.

Man without God creates a social-order monism that is an attempt to create a immanent uniformitarian and humanist godhood. We are seeing it everywhere around us.

Wilson on R. J. Rushdoony … Wilson as Wm. F. Buckley

“The basic argument of the book is that Christian Reconstructionism isn’t dead. It has been renewed. It has been simplified. A lot of the rough edges have been removed. A lot of the really controversial claims of the first generation have been either downplayed or denied and as Doug Wilson put it in an interview I did with him; ‘What is being so successful now in North Idaho is not so much Christian Reconstruction 2.0 but Christian Reconstruction 0.5.'”

Gathered from Canon Calls Interview with Crawford Gribben
Author — Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America; Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest

Canon Calls: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest / Crawford Gribben on Apple Podcasts

This makes a point that I’ve been screaming about for some time. Wilson, in his usual attempted clever fashion, admits that he is not advancing Rushdoony. Wilson admits that he has watered down Rushdoony and sanded off the supposed rough edges so as to make Christian Reconstruction more palatable.

But more palatable to whom? What other answer can there be to that but to say that Wilson has made it more palatable to the left. Those on the right side of the left who would never have embraced Rushdoony have been gathered in by Wilson’s watered down version. If Wilson is Rushdoony 0.5 it means he is closer to Mitt Romney than he is to Rush.

The way that I’ve tried to say this in the past is that Wilson is not on the right but rather Wilson is on the right side of the Left.

By reducing the potency of Christian Reconstructionism to 0.5 Wilson is offering up an unstable product. The only way Reconstructionism’s potency could be cut is by denying the anti-thesis and by adding elements foreign to the original expression.

If Wilson is successful in his Rushdoony 0.5 pursuit he will have done for the Christian church what William F. Buckley did for the conservative movement. Wilson, like Buckley, will have successfully locked out that expression of Christianity that the Church most desperately needs in order to foment Reformation. Just as Buckley tamed conservatism by his work of being the gatekeeper of what he thought constituted safe conservatism so Wilson is taming the Church by his work of being gatekeeper of what he thinks is safe Christianity.

Is Alienism Christianity or is Alienism Marxism?

There is a movement afoot in some “Christian” quarters to suggest that the Postmillenialism requires us to see that God builds His Kingdom by the elimination of ethnic and national distinctions. Personally, I see such “thinking” as a kind of Baptized Cultural Marxism, since it is likewise the goal of the Cultural Marxists to eliminate the idea of distinct ethnicity and / or national identity. This can be seen by examining just a few of the words from the Cultural Marxists and their ideological forebears,

“Princes and nations will disappear without violence from the earth, the human race will become one family and the world the abode of reasonable men.”

-Adam Weishaupt, quoted in Paul Johnson, Intellectuals (London: Orion Books Limited, 1993), p. 32.

Capitalism developed the ever more inhuman polarization of the sexes. The cult of making distinctions, which serves only for oppression, is now being swept away by awareness of resemblance and identity.

M. Walser
Uber die neusten Stimmungen im Westen
In: Kursbuch, Bd. 20, 1970, S. 19-41.

”What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities?

The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and hereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property.”

~ Frederick Engels in “The Principles of Communism”, 1847

“The equality of races and nations is one of the most important elements of the moral strength and might of the Soviet state. Soviet anthropology develops the one correct concept, that all the races of mankind are biologically equal. The genuinely materialist conception of the origin of man and of races serves the struggle against racism, against all idealist, mystic conceptions of man, his past, present and future.”

—Mikhail Nesturkh, Soviet anthropologist, 1959
“The Origin of Man” (Moscow)Mikhail Nesturkh, Soviet anthropologist, 1959:

This from Igor Shafareivich’s “Socialist Phenomenon”

“But with almost perverse consistency, most of the projections of Marxism have been proven incorrect. A better percentage of correct predictions could probably have by making random guesses…. we limit ourselves to three (examples) in order to underscore the typical and in most cases fundamental nature of the errors: the truth proved to be not merely different but in fact the opposite to that which had been predicted.

a.) The national question:

‘National differences and antagonistic interests among various peoples are already vanishing more and more and more thanks to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the corresponding conditions of life. The supremacy of the proletariat will accelerate the disappearances of differences.’”

However, the Biblical view of race, ethnicity, and national identity is far different than what is offered by the Cultural Marxists and those Alienist “Christians” who are trying to Baptize the elimination of ethnic markers by embracing the Marxist anthropology “that the genuinely materialist conception of the origin of man and of races is that all the races of mankind are biologically equal.” And of course, in the Marxist world and life view “biologically equal” means mere component parts that can be used interchangeably in the great machine culture that Marxists always turn society into.

“Biologically equal,” for these people means that there is no God ordained differences between the families of men.

In the quotes below we see a different vision than that given by the Alienists in our midst.

“Now the predicates of the covenant are applied in Isa. 19 to the Gentiles of the future, — “Egypt my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, mine inheritance,” Egypt, the people of “Jehovah of hosts,” (Isa. 19:25) is therefore also expected to live up to the covenant obligations, implied for Jehovah’s people. And Assyria comes under similar obligations and privileges. These nations are representative of the great Gentile world, to which the covenant privileges will therefore be extended.”

Martin J. Wyngaarden, The Future of the Kingdom in Prophecy and Fulfillment: A Study of the Scope of “Spiritualization” in Scripture (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2011), p. 94.

“More than a dozen excellent commentaries could be mentioned that all interpret Israel as thus inclusive of Jew and Gentile, in this verse, — the Gentile adherents thus being merged with the covenant people of Israel, though each nationality remains distinct.”

“This abiding distinction of the nationalities is also clearly implied by Isaiah. For, though Israel is frequently called Jehovah’s People, the work of his hands, his inheritance, yet these three epithets severally are applied not only to Israel, but also to Assyria and to Egypt: “Blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, mine inheritance (Isaiah 19:25.)”

Thus the highest description of Jehovah’s covenant people is applied to Egypt, — “my people,” — showing that the Gentiles will share the covenant blessings, not less than Israel. Yet the several nationalities are here kept distinct, even when Gentiles share, in the covenant blessing, on a level of equality with Israel. Egypt, Assyria and Israel are not nationally merged. And the same principles, that nationalities are not obliterated, by membership in the covenant, applies, of course, also in the New Testament dispensation.”

Wyngaarden, pp. 101-102.

What the Alienist Christians are missing in their lurch towards amalgamation is that they are in bed with some strange bedfellows. Here is another person they with whom they are sleeping,

“National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism.”

Papa Joe Stalin

Hostility towards the validity of national and ethnic identity tend to rise at various times when it is useful to those in power or as part of political strategy. Such was the straitjacket imposed on thought by Soviet socialism that nationality was understood as “a social construct” that could easily be de-constructed. As Solzhenitsyn observes in his frank way:

“Before the camps, I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn’t be noticed—nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps one learns: if you belong to a successful nation you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity—too bad for you.”

Many of the Christian Alienists are living in Solzhenitsyn’s pre-camp reality. Like the pre-Gulag Solzhenitsyn the Alienist Christians, invoking Christianity as their proof, have embraced universal humanity. They do not yet realize that what they are invoking in their advocacy of the erosion of nations for the sake of Christ, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “will sooner lead to the entropy of the soul… not the unification of humanity.”

The Eternals — A Review

It is pretty common knowledge even upon its release that the newest entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “The Eternals,” is full on WOKE. This review will reveal just how badly WOKE it is.

There are 10 Eternals in the film. Two Caucasian men. Two Caucasian women and six non-Caucasians.  The Eternals are each a type of Demi-god who are created to serve the purposes of Arishem, who is a Celestial and godlike character.  Interestingly enough the prefix “Ari,” etymologically means gatherer or best. Just as interesting the suffic “shem” is the father of a particular tribe in Biblical lore. So, placed together Arishem, the god featured in the film, “The Eternals,” means literally, “The best Shem.”

Arishem is a kind of god but he is a god who can’t seem to control his creation. First, he created a group of creatures that was supposed to protect human life by devouring creatures that devoured humans. However, these “Deviants” got out of Arishem’s control. It is the same with the Eternals. Arishem creates the Eternals but the main plot of the film is that the Eternals (except for Ikaris and Sprite) decide to revolt against the purpose for which they were created by Arishem. It seems Arishem is not a sovereign Celestial as his created beings violate their reason for being as falling from the hand of Arishem. This is a story where the creatures rise up to frustrate their creator’s will and they are to be saluted for doing so. Sound familiar?

The theme of “free will” is toyed with a great deal in this film as it is constantly examined whether the Eternals should submit to (by their perception) the irrational will of their creator (Arishem) or whether they should follow their own “free will” by doing what they perceive to be the best. Phostos (an Eternal we will consider below) is a sodomite, who in the film has  a line, “I would not change a thing about who I am. I don’t exist for Arishem. I exist for my family.” Clearly the Eternal Phostos has decided to exercise his will against Arishem’s will. In the end the viewer is convinced that it was wise of the Eternals to not follow the will of their creator. The creature must create his own purpose and meaning independent of his creator in order to frustrate the evil purposes of Arishem. This is underscored by the line,

“Every time innocent lives have been sacrificed for the greater good (Arishem’s plan) it turns out to be a mistake. We have to stop (Arishem’s) Emergents.”

Of the two Caucasian men in the Eternals (Ikaris & Druig) Ikaris is the strongest of the Eternals and like all white men everywhere ends up being the treasonous bastard villain who has to be defeated by the combined efforts of the rest of the Eternals. Ikaris ends up committing suicide when his plot to foil the rest of the Eternals in saving planet earth fails. He also is guilty of breaking the heart of one of the non-Caucasian Eternals who he married (polyglot marriage). He is portrayed in the end as selfish.

Druig (the other white Eternal) ends up being cast as someone who doesn’t play nice with the rest of the Eternals. He splits from them and spends his time in a isolated rain forest where he controls the minds of the natives to do his bidding.

The two white females are “Sprite,” and “Thena.” Sprite ends up joining with Ikaris and goes all traitorous burying a knife through the body of the non-Caucasian Eternals hero — Sersi — in an attempt to foil saving earth. She is later forgiven and brought back into the Eternals fold. The other white woman (Thena) is a demigod Amazon type woman. She is cast like Athena in ancient mythology as a goddess of war. However this Thena is afflicted by the equivalent of PMS and she goes nuts trying to kill sundry Eternals. She kills the #2 villain in the film thus doing what no other male Eternal had been able to do.

Of the non-Caucasians the females Ajak is the initial leader. She has the super-hero gift of healing and serves as a kind of motherly spiritual leader for the Eternals. She provides a bridge between Arishem (the God) and the Eternals (the Demigods). She is eventually treacherously murdered by the white male Ikaris because she won’t go along with him in obeying Arishem in destroying all human life so that new life can come forward.

Sersi, the next non-Caucasian female then becomes the nominal leader of the Eternals. Sersi is a gentle soul that has empathy for humans though she carried a torch for thousands of years for no good Ikaris who broke her heart. At the end of the film this women discovers she has powers that she never realized that she had. She single-handedly stops the destruction of planet earth. Her downfall seems though to be for white men as her new love interest is also a white male. In future films that white male will also probably do Sersi wrong. You know how white men are that way.

The next non-Caucasian female Eternal is Makkari. Makkari is played by a deaf actress thus giving the film more WOKE points. Makkari has super human speed. Her main role in this film is that she ends up roughing up the white male Ikaris pretty good as he is trying to stop the earth from being saved.

Of the non-Caucasian males, Phostos is the genius who invents all kinds of things to advance civilization and then to help the Eternals defeat the Celestials.  There is a kissing scene where he plants a passionate kiss on his non-Caucasian significant other sodomite. The film culturally appropriates normal family life thus suggesting that two sodomites can raise a little boy just like Ward and June Cleaver raised the Beaver.

Gilgamesh is another non-Caucasian male Eternal. He has the gift of strength. The actor pursued the role in order to be an inspiration to the younger generation as the first Korean superhero. He ends up being killed in battle defending the white female Eternal Thena who was going through one of her PMS crazy moments.

Kingo is an Indian (from India) Eternal. He is a star in Bollywood. He, along with his non-Eternal valet provides the comic relief in the film.

The film is not flattering toward the white Eternals while at the same time lifting up the non-Caucasian Eternals as being virtuous characters without fault.

Another attack on white people is seen in the scene where the 16th century Conquistadors are ravaging the Aztecs Tenochtitlan, pillaging, and murdering the poor innocent Aztecs. There is nothing in the film to suggest that the Aztecs were a demonic possessed, drug-addled, tribe who made routine the sacrifice of countless numbers of their neighboring tribes. Nope, it is just the evil white Europeans.

It is interesting that this film pursues the same plot in term of looming disaster as the plot in the Avengers “Infinity Wars.” In both plots there is the danger of the extinguishing of either a majority of humans (Avengers) or in “The Eternals” the extinguishing of all humanity so that new life can come forth. What is it about this Malthusian population reduction theme? Word is the next film will pursue this same theme by some villain releasing a virus from a secret lab causing untold death on planet earth from both the virus and the vaccine developed from Tony Stark labs.

In both films mentioned in the paragraph above the idea is that by pursuing chaos (widespread destruction) order will arise. This is called the “return to chaos” theory and is exemplified by evolution theory in the real world.

Turning to some incidental observations;

1.) The city of Babylon is portrayed as bliss
2.) One marriage and one funeral both accompanied by Hindu prayers
3.) Hints of the Occult in the “Tree of vision,” and the idea of becoming one
4.) Twisted theme of importance of franken-family
5.) Most hilarious dialogue;

Sersi — “I wonder if I did the right thing”
Kingo — “But you followed your heart. We all did”