You can tell the quality of an ideology by the consequences of its actions. If it reflects truth, encourages honour and dignity it will show in the actions of the followers. This does not mean it will survive as an idea, for all ideas reflect the time and the problems of that time.
In our time the big idea of the elite is that we are all one, and that our nations do not matter. That your religion does not matter: you are righteous and all will be saved. I am sitting in a motel room, after flying on Emirates, which was so converged they celebrated that they had 21 ethnicities in this crew. But the announcements were in Arabic.
Spengler comments that when a tribe loses hope it enters a death spiral. Spengler is an Orthodox Jew. This observation has some evidence, from today’s fishwrap.
A baby has been executed by Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East after its Australian jihadi father tried to flee the war zone and come home.
The Australian infant, whose gender has not been confirmed, is believed to have been killed in revenge after the child’s father contacted authorities in an attempt to escape the conflict in Syria and Iraq, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Authorities would not confirm the baby’s age or how the child was killed.
Attorney-General George Brandis said the government condemned “any parent who takes their family to the conflict zone”.
“The government has consistently said going to the conflict zone puts yourself and others in danger,” he said.
More than 100 Australian terrorists are fighting overseas for terrorist organisations.
The Turnbull government has previously voiced concerns those Australian citizens would try to return home as the Islamic State loses its stronghold.
In an attempt to stop fighters from fleeing, the Islamic State is believed to control their money and takes their passports, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Security laws to prevent Australian jihads from returning home were introduced by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton in 2015 but several flaws are being reviewed.
If a society is despairing, after trying to terrorize those around them, invading them — and it does not matter if ISIS is a creature of the US state department or not here, for the ideology of the Wahabite is toxic — they will start killing their children and encourageing the death of their members. The same death spiral occurred in 1945 around Berlin, when German schoolchildren were shot if they left the front line, while the Nazi leaders fed their children poison before shooting their dogs, then themselves.
The end game for the narratives that come from the prince of lies is always despair. The one true observation Spengler made was that without hope, a nation does not produce the next generation: I applaud that he neatly demonstrated that by showing the differential rates of birth between orthodox, reform and liberal jews.
And Jeremiah says this: woe to those who lead a tribe in that direction.
1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD. 2Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD. 3Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 4I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the LORD.
5The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The LORD is our righteousness.”
7Therefore, the days are surely coming, says the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, “As the LORD lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,” 8but “As the LORD lives who brought out and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where he had driven them.” Then they shall live in their own land.
Romans 8:28-39
28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family. 30And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? 33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We are placed in Nations. I feel this strongly this morning, because Australia is not my nation: it is strange. I live in Godzone: New Zealand is a land of sheep, milk, honey and wine. All the wildlife of Australia tries to kill man. The people who are called Australian Jihadis are not Australian: they are first and second generation Muslim immigrants. The genius of Australia is a profound skepticism of all authority and a decency that means they help each other, without much question, particularly when that continent turns and bites on them, be it by bushfire or hurricane. They have had both this year.
The tragedy of Australia is that their leadership are converged twits who have decided the way to paper over the real differences between the new immigrants and the politically incorrect British (in their parlance “Anglo Celt”) Aussies is to regulate all speech, by the invidious section 18C of their race relations act, which has been weaponized so that any frank discussion of problems is banned.
After the defeat of the proposed 18C changes at 10.30pm on Thursday night, the Senate went on to determine some changes to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s procedures.
The attorney general, George Brandis, summing up the lengthy and at times combative chamber debate on 18C, declared it was “a very sad day for the country”.
“As a result of tonight, the law will continue in its current, distorted fashion,” Brandis said.
He had attempted to amend the government’s 18C proposal to make it clear that harassment could occur online and did not require people to be in each other’s presence.
The government amendment also made it clear that harassment in the revised 18C could involve a single act – a definition that troubled the One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, and the Australian Conservatives senator Cory Bernardi, who argued that the commonsense meaning of the word harassment was multiple acts.
Spengler looked for a way beyond this and considered that there could be some form of proposition nation, a nation of covenant. He saw this in the prophet, who he read in shul: he considered it applied to those great puritans who founded New England, and it could extend to all nations. In that he was wrong.
There have been many Christian nations that have been annihilated by the enemy: Most recently this has included the Christian populations of Syria, Lebanon and Northern Nigeria.
But we are called to the purpose of God, which is to bear witness. We have hope in God, that he will turn our suffering to good. And this is what Spengler missed.
The tribes we are placed in and we belong to are of this world and they are as fallen as all the people in them. There is no way we can rebuild Jerusalem in our land. Jerusalem will be rebuilt and made new and perfect, in a new earth, as John tells is in the apocalypse.
But this hope that God does all for good for those whom he loves means we have hope, and will work, and will build. Despite the feckless state of our rulers or the lies of the narrative.
There is but one hope, and it is not the proposition nation. It is God, through Christ.
Spengler was not an orthodox jew. You have left the zone known as sane some time ago. Anglos are exactly the people who have instituted what you decry – and forced it on the whole world. Why is it your own medicine tastes so bad? Perhaps try a little of that British imperial propoganda to help it go down.
David A Goldman writes as Spengler. I am referring to his books, which I suggest you read: he states he was orthodox when he wrote them.
On the other issues, you are falling into the error called nihil ad hominem, and you need to ramp up the inventiveness of your insults.
I’ve read a few of his columns, I just can’t see buying any of his books. I’ll look around for one — oh, it’s David P. Goldman, not David A.. Also ‘nihil ad hominem’ is ‘nothing against the man’, which is not an error. And referring to David P. Goldman by his pseudonym, without correcting the misdirection, is also an error – and that’s three, not counting ‘nihil ad rem’, which is the real failure of logic in your post, and which is four. Four errors. I do not think I need to ramp up the inventiveness of my insults, but to spare you a moments sympathy, and allow you to reflect on your scattershot thinking.