There is an old comment from the 1930s which starts “First they came for the Jews”. Well, the Jews have left. The SJW are just past peak power, and in the US they have hubris, and want to remove the old ways of doing things.

The goal, the long term goal, is to criminalize any outward signs of orthodox Christian beliefs. Anything that is an orthodox Christian belief will be targeted if it conflicts with modernist sensibilities. Nothing is sacred, and nothing is safe. In fact, it won’t stop there. Christians may well be affirmatively required in some circumstances to express views that conflict with core tenets of the Faith.

I called this particular post “Enforcing Silence” because silencing Christians is the main goal. But even silence may not be enough for some. Those who refuse to parrot acceptable slogans might will find themselves under suspicion. Christians who hold to orthodox beliefs will find it increasingly difficult, as time passes, to work within the general confines of society. Their silence will not be overlooked.

Ultimately, I suspect that those who hold to orthodoxy will have to isolate themselves from greater society. Think the Amish. While it may not be enforced at the point of a gun, it will be the only way to be safe from the intrusions of the State. Of course, this might well only work for a time. The Amish have been tolerated for some time, and those who join them in isolated Christian communities might be tolerated as well. But modernists (and especially SJWs) are relentless and totalitarian. There is a very good chance that they would turn their eyes upon those communities given enough time, and without other, more pressing distractions. The real question is whether the system will last that long.

There are reasons to subvert what is orthodox, what is natural, what is beautiful, what is true and what is right. It is because democracy and the idea that we are all equal in all things is not natural, it is not true, and calling the untruth right does not make it natural. It is a utopia, bought to earth, and enforced by both bribery and the sword.

Unnatural authority is not necessarily bad, per se, but because it is unnatural, it has higher bar to clear when it comes to legitimacy and it is more likely to be dysfunctional. Legitimacy flows from God and from the people; it is not the will of the people, but the people ruled by an authority must recognize the legitimacy of an authority. Natural authority by default confers legitimacy: children do not question the right of the father to rule them until these child naturally grows to an age to rule themselves, and even then, children still accept their father’s advice and guidance. The biggest threat to natural authority is the abuse or neglect by the authority. In cases where a natural authority is abusing or neglecting his duties, legitimacy breaks down and the ruled will rebel to be replaced by either anarchy or a new legitimate authority.

Unnatural authority does not automatically confer legitimacy. Legitimacy comes through either earned merit or persuasion. Intellectual leaders and recognized experts generally gain their legitimacy as authorities in their domains through the demonstration of knowledge and skill related to their specific domains. Business leaders and the rich earn their authority through performance in the free market. Democratic leaders gain their legitimacy through persuasion, using the methods propaganda and bribery, hence the omnipresent state and state instruments in any democracy constantly trumping the virtues of democracy and providing bread and circuses. The main problem with unnatural authority is that it is much easier to persuade than it is to earn. A bribe or a piece of propaganda is easier than decades of labour excelling at an area of expertise. So, unnatural authorities will tend to drift towards manipulation over merit to obtain legitimacy.

As humans, we self organize. We fall for each other, in lust or love, and without contraception in most heterosexual relationships that leads to families. Motherhood is a full-time job: the husband has to work sufficiently to provide for not merely himself but children. Husbands form bands: wife form networks. Knowledge is transmitted both by formal precept and law and informally by apprenticeship and mentoring. Families form communities, often driven by ties of blood. In the wilderness, you cannot stand alone: you need more than one couple in the homestead, and more than one homestead in the village. The most competent and experienced (which in extreme situations, often is the same thing) people lead.

It takes wealth to be dysfunctional, to not need to work 12 hour days to ensure there is sufficient food and fuel for winter. To forget that winter is coming. To assume that the church or lord of the manor will provide if the crops fail, so we survive. It takes great wealth to decide to systematically remove earnings from the productive and have a non productive caste in addition to the inevitable caste of soldiers and civil servants any state spawns. And great wealth is not the usual state for humanity.

The elite, who have an ideology that all will be equal and all will be damned (for they cannot allow God to save one if he chooses not to save all), cannot bear Christ. Nor anything that may point to Christ. Aristotle and Plato cannot be taught. Logic cannot be taught. And those philosophers of Christendom, from Augustine to Milton, must not be read. Their books must be locked up. The language they used must be removed from our vocabulary. Even the Tao, or the Buddha, or the Hindu scholars must be kept silent, for they seek truth, and discuss beauty, and those things may draw someone to the divine, and thus a traitor make.

And if that truly is our state, let our speech be sedition, and our acts traitorous. For we must obey the eternal, and all tyrants are ephemeral.