#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
It’s never going to work. It can’t work, anymore than communism or feminism could, because it is fundamentally at war with human nature. The idea that the English somehow discovered ideal universal rules of behavior that apply to every culture around the world was always absurd on its face.
Indeed, the idea was overtly satanic and rebellious, as it has proven to be little more than an attempt to return to Babel.
The end of the landmark 7 UP documentary series chronicling a British generation from beginning to end.
They never sought to be stars. Indeed, many would regret ever agreeing to have their entire lives chronicled by what has often been described as the ‘greatest documentary’ ever made, one which has more than stood the test of time.
Back in 1964, television cameras revealed the lives and inner thoughts of a cross section of 14 British seven-year-olds for a series called 7 Up.
The cameras would come back every seven years, creating a genuine piece of broadcasting and social history, one which will come to an end this month.
We will finally bid farewell as those cheeky children in grainy black and white now sign off in colour as pensioners in the final series 70 Up.
Along the way, they have also charted the trajectory of post-war Britain. For it is not the original cast who have changed so much as the world around them.
The result is a powerful elegy to a generation who, at times, seem entirely removed from the entitled, ill-tempered, serially complaining 21st century society we have become…
The area was all-white when the girls first appeared aged seven. By the time Bruce is teaching there in 1984, many if not most of his pupils are Asian. Today, the borough is just 24 per cent white.
At least the people who replace the British will have some record of the culture they replaced, much like the 19th century British digging up the ruins of Roman villas.
That’s what SFWA has been reduced to. The idea that Nancy Kress is a “Grand Master” of science fiction would be downright hilarious if the science-fiction reading public actually knew who she was or had read any of her books.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named Nancy Kress its 43rd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master on Friday, announced during a Fireside Chat at Worldcon in Los Angeles. Kress has six Nebulas and a pair of Hugos to her name, most for novellas on genetic engineering and biotech ethics, but she is hardly the genre-transforming type picked before the 2020s. Her most popular novella, Beggars in Spain, is simply a political argument with Ayn Rand shoehorned into a story, not offering much more than a repudiation of Rand’s ubermensch. More notable is that, by SFWA’s count, she is the eighth consecutive woman to receive the honor in a streak that runs back to Lois McMaster Bujold’s selection in 2020.
Not one man has been named since William Gibson in 2019…
I can’t believe John Scalzi still hasn’t been given an SFWA participation award yet. This is what happens when an organization lowers its standards in order to permit the third-raters to enter en masse. The third-raters eventually let in the mediocrities, the mediocrities let in the wannabes and the nonentities, and it’s not long before there are no more standards and the entire purpose of the organization has been destroyed.
And not merely by armchair military historians like me, but by the intelligence analysts who were reporting directly to the White House:
Days before going to war with Iran in February, President Trump summoned his intelligence chief to the Oval Office to ask whether a full-on assault was a good idea. Iran was at its weakest point in decades, senior aides and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him, providing Trump the rare opportunity to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and bolster his legacy as a peacemaker. The question was whether a large-scale attack would work and possibly topple the regime.
Then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined assessments from America’s intelligence apparatus. According to people familiar with the meeting, she told Trump that killing Iran’s supreme leader would likely usher in a more hard-line regime open to acquiring nuclear weapons. Tehran would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing the global energy market. And it would strike U.S. forces and partners in the Middle East, prompting questions about American resolve and reliability with allies.
Trump ordered an attack that began on Feb. 28 and urged Iranians to overthrow their government. Nearly six months later, a conflict the president promised would be over within six weeks is continuing without a clear end in sight. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps controls the country and fires on commercial ships in the strait. The regime led by Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader who succeeded his slain father, shows no signs of capitulating.
That being said, I don’t think the historical consequences of the failure were adequately foreseen by the intelligence analysts. The situation is considerably worse than The Wall Street Journal is painting it. China now knows, without even having to risk testing it for themselves, that the US Navy is a paper tiger and that the USA cannot even hope to rival its industrial power anymore. The fundamental weakness of the USA has now been exposed, and not only do its two main rivals know it, but everyone else does too.
This is why Russia is now openly threatening the UK. Russia is no longer concerned about what the US will do if it attacks a NATO ally. It’s why the Gulf states are developing alternative security arrangements, because they know that Iran is now a more important regional power than the USA. And it’s the reason for the Mecca agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey.
The Pax Americana is over. And rightly or wrongly, mostly wrongly since he wasn’t responsible for all of the historical factors, Trump will get the historical blame for it since it happened both on his watch and as a direct result of his actions.
Even the neocons are now openly admitting the complete catastrophe of their 30-year “bomb Iran” campaign, as Robert Kagan’s new article in The Atlantic demonstrates:
For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it. The region was dominated by a hostile American superpower, a nuclear-armed and militarily superior Israel, and significant local actors—Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates—that were strategically and economically aligned with the United States. Today finds Iran in entirely new circumstances. It has gone head-to-head with the superpower and Israel, withstood a pounding from their most advanced weapons, and more than survived. As a result, Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. The dominant power in the region going forward will be Iran, not the U.S. or Israel. Neighboring countries are already making their adjustments to this new reality. More distant powers will too. For years, the world has been dealing with an Iran constrained. It will now discover what Iran unleashed looks like.
Even those pulling the strings of the Short Fat Trump now understand that Asia is a bridge too far for the US military to even pretend it can contest, and it appears they’re now conceding the region to China.
Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I hâve instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
It’s only a matter of time before US troops are withdrawn from South Korea and Japan. Which is a good thing, since the fate of South Korea and its dying population has demonstrated that as bad as communism and Jutism may be, and they are very, very bad, Western liberal values and feminism are even worse for a nation.
The USA now has a single-issue foreign policy.
Civilization literally lives when you give men more money and dies when you give women more money. Literally. That’s the Natural Law. And it is screaming at us.
A recent study found that giving men a pay raise led them to have more children, while giving women a pay raise led them to have fewer children.
I’ve long said that feminism is the only political philosophy that is materially worse than communism, socialism, and national socialism. It’s essentially the political philosophy that pairs with satanic theology, and it’s not an accident that feminism has led to mass child murder, the construction of transgenderism, and if Clown World survives long enough, even worse.
The good news is that history very clearly teaches that once Clown World reaches a certain point, it gets wiped out so comprehensively that it takes centuries to recover.
The militaries of the West are not even remotely ready to fight WWIII:
A top military official has claimed that Nato is more than a decade behind Russia’s military capabilities, months after a British brigade was wiped out by a Ukrainian unit in war games. Last year, the UK took part in a war simulation in Estonia involving more than 16,000 troops from 12 Nato countries but were ‘destroyed’ by Ukrainian troops in a ‘horrible’ defeat.
The embarrassing loss came only months before Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief warned that it will take more than a decade for Nato to catch up to half of Russia’s military capabilities. Valerii Zaluzhny, considered to be one of the most trusted public figures in Ukraine, has said Nato was still behaving as if future conflicts would be similar to the Second World War.
Kyiv’s ambassador to Britain reportedly said: ‘Most likely, Nato will remain in the same form as it is, and will spend 12 years, like Ukraine, transitioning to standards that need to be achieved in order to reach at least half of the level of the Russian Federation.’ The former general added that Ukrainian forces were superior to armies in Nato, who were still working to ‘doctrines’ set up in the 1940s, according to The Times.
It’s not possible. The Western fake democracies have degenerated under six decades of liberalism, feminism, and immigration, so their capacity to even make the necessary decisions to begin catching up is nonexistent.
It’s not an exaggeration to contemplate the possibility that 5GW marks the effective end of the West’s centuries of dominance.
The entire European governing elite is desperate to redirect the very understandable popular fury generated by their misrule at Russia. They’ve clearly observed how Zelensky has managed to cancel elections and cling to power by sacrificing millions of Ukrainian men who would otherwise have driven him and his regime from power:
The Finnish elite wants a war with Russia in order to use it to evade responsibility for their failures in the country’s politics, Ano Turtiainen, a former member of the Finnish parliament and founder of the Power Belongs to the People party, told RIA Novosti.
“Everything related to EU, by entering into NATO, – all this was done illegally, bypassing the constitution… Now the Finnish elite is afraid that they will have to answer for all this, and therefore they even want war (with Russia – ed.) in order to avoid responsibility with its help,” said Turtiainen, who moved to Russia.
He noted that relations with Russia need to be restored, but after that it is necessary to take responsibility for failures in Finnish politics, and this is the most important problem of modern Finland. Turtiainen was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 2019 to 2023. In 2021, he was expelled from the True Finns party and founded the Power Belongs to the People party, which advocated maintaining relations with Russia and against Finland’s entry into NATO. At the end of 2025, the politician and his wife moved to the Russian Federation and received refugee status.
Accountability for their actions is always the number one fear of people in positions of influence, power, and authority once the consequences of their terrible policies can no longer be denied. And almost everywhere but China and Russia, it is clear that the principles and policies that everyone once believed were a) inevitable and b) eternal have proven to be complete and utter failures in every society that adopted them.
Which is why we’re going to see everything from wars to aliens to apocalypses to climate change catastrophes to democratic dictatorships in desperate attempts to avoid accountability. And yet, history teaches that the reckoning will arrive eventually, no matter what the elites do. Clown World is doomed and every single elite clown knows it.
From the recently translated and published GERONA by Benito Pérez Galdós.
Political passion, my friends! I know no baser or more contemptible sentiment than this, which drives men to hate their own countrymen with greater fury than the foreign invader. I was appalled to witness the outrages committed against some and the savage invasion of the houses of others. And we may be thankful they escaped with their lives from the hands of that idle, shrieking mob! In a word, the whole affair was among the most degrading things I have seen in my life, and if the Junta Central was worth little, the men who in Seville and afterward in Cádiz gnawed, like restless and parasitic reptiles, at its foundations, do not occupy, for all their bustling and all the various postures they assumed, any visible place in history.
Their smallness makes them vanish in the long perspectives of the past, and their echoless names awaken neither admiration nor rancour. They belong to that common herd which, common as it is, has shaped the destinies of the country from the first revolution to the present day: people without an ideal, who would be lost in the crowd like raindrops in the ocean, if the deplorable political neutrality of those Spaniards who are honest, decent, informed, and patriotic, and who are the majority, did not allow them to act in public life, treating the country as an object of exclusive property given them for their amusement.
The end of empire is always marked by national enervation. We tend to blame television, or video games, or social media, but the truth is that this torpor that permits those Galdós describes as restless and parasitic reptiles to gnaw at the societal foundations as they rule over the placid NPCs has always been a phenomenon of late-stage empire.
A Swiss journalist travels to Kiev to take the measure of the popularity of the regime that rules the remnants of Ukraine, and what he finds there is not really encouraging for anyone.
There are countless radio and television stations, but they all present a single point of view. All opposition stations in Ukraine have been shut down. Even a completely harmless discussion about the causes of the conflict can lead to criminal prosecution and actual prison sentences. Some journalists have managed to flee and are now operating from outside Ukraine. But they have only very limited influence on the people inside the country; I explained the reasons for this earlier.
The same applies to political organizations. They all conform to the prevailing opinion. In the Rada, the parliament, there are various parties, but only one political direction. There is no political force capable of considering all sides of the conflict and serving as a guide for the citizens of Ukraine.
Many readers will ask: How much support does the Ukrainian leadership have among the population?
None of the people I spoke with expressed open support for the Ukrainian leadership. For some, given their specific living circumstances, this can certainly be seen as an expression of personal resistance. Others simply want to hang in there and be left in peace. Still others, who openly supported the government just one or two years ago, are now conspicuously reluctant to make such statements. What they all have in common is a longing for a normal life, without war.
Based on what I was able to gather during my few days there, the regime does not enjoy broad support. It is perceived as a small group of criminals who, with the help of the West, have a firm grip on the structures of power, know how to exploit them brutally, and base everything else on that.
Unfortunately, this leaves Russia with no choice but to end this conflict on the battlefield by military means—a conflict that should never have started in the first place.
The problem, of course, is that the leadership isn’t Ukrainian. The regime is foreign, and is observably less interested in the wellbeing of the Ukrainian people than the Russian leadership is.
This is why empire is a short-sighted endeavor and why permitting foreigners to join the national elite is always a stupid and fatal mistake for a nation. Foreign rulers always come to view the nations over which they rule as tools to be utilized as they please, and will never hesitate to destroy the people if they happen see their destruction as being in their own interest.