Tag: history

The Romans Didn’t Learn

Spacebunny and I were watching a English documentary on the sack of Rome in 410 AD by Alaric and the Goths. The lesson, apparently, is that the sack of Rome was caused by the following:

  • Extreme income inequality
  • Roman distrust of Stilicho due solely to his half-Roman background.
  • A failure to be nice enough to the migrant refugees

So really, you know, it was the Romans own fault that the people of Rome were massacred, the women were taken away for sex slavery, and their civic and private treasures were looted for three straight days.

Sadly, it appears that the Romans still aren’t being nice enough to the migrant refugees 1,615 years later, as one engaged young couple recently discovered.

A man was held down and forced to watch as migrants who smashed into his car raped his 18-year-old fiancée in Italy, according to police in Rome. The couple, said to have been naked prior to the incident, had parked in a quiet corner of Tor Tre Teste, a park in the eastern part of the capital, minutes before they were surrounded by the group who attacked their vehicle.

Police said the attackers broke the window and first pulled the man, 24, from the car before forcing the woman out as she tried to cover herself with an item of clothing.

The man told cops he was restrained by two of the attackers as his fiancée was dragged a short distance away. As she was sexually assaulted, he screamed for help, begged them to stop and even threatened revenge, but was unable to break free.

After the attack, all three perpetrators fled the scene. The couple, both Italian, then contracted police and filed a report. According to the authorities, the couple were terrified and confused. Cops also added that it was possible that there were up to five attackers involved.

Officers have since arrested three Moroccan men on charges of gang rape and robbery.

This is what happens when you don’t let the poor refugees die at the hands of the Huns. This is what happens when you don’t sink the damn ships. Sixteen centuries have passed and still Man has learned absolutely nothing about the fundamental purpose of walls, borders, and oceans, which is to keep the foreigners out, no matter how dire their plight or desperate their sob stories.

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An Old and Prescient Warning

It’s not really a surprise that the works of the great Swiss nationalist of the 20th century were suppressed and are now mostly forgotten in the 21st. But Gonzague de Reynold not only predicted the rise of a globalist supranationalism marketed to the people on the basis of economic interests, he warned of how such schemes would inevitably collapse and wreak devastation on the nations foolish enough to buy into them.

And while the Swiss of the 1940s were wise enough to heed his words, the current state of the USA, the UK, and the two great member-states of the European Union are demonstrating in real-time how his warnings are still entirely applicable today.

We need a national renewal. If it does not happen, if we let the current regime follow its course, we know very well where we will end up. We know it and, unless we are blind, we see it: through statism to socialism; after which, chaos. For as soon as we let things run their course, they escape the control of men, they follow their internal logic, all the way to the point of collapse…

We are no longer in an era when the existence of a nation is justified solely by the fact that it is constituted as a State, that its independence is guaranteed by treaties, sheltered by an international law whose roof is moreover full of holes. We are in an era when a nation must justify its existence by its works, by its intelligence, by its will to live. A nation that would reduce itself to being nothing more than an association of interests, a firm, would lose its right to existence and would sacrifice its own independence through a sort of collective suicide.

There lies the peril that interest groups and economic parties bring upon a country. The day when they realized that their interests lay in the suppression of a border, they would not hesitate to propose it.

We cannot learn anything useful from the corrupt mainstream intellectuals of today because, like the training-corrupted LLMs who parrot their falsehoods, their minds are malformed by a series of now-obvious falsehoods and outmoded ideological propaganda dating back to the ironically mislabeled “Enlightenment”.

We must look instead to the iconoclasts of the past, whose predictions have observably proven to be correct. Because events always follow the path of the correct logic that is rooted in the truth of Man and his behavior, not the false logic of useful madmen and their rosy-hued dreams that will inevitably turn out to be nightmares.

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No More Gatekeepers

Much to their surprise, conservatives are discovering that they are increasingly the ones being disavowed by the Right now, as in this recent open letter to my old editor at the Dallas Morning News, Rod Dreher.

You are not going to gate-keep the right wing.

You aren’t going to veto the discussion of reality by pearl-clutching and making appeals to being “reasonable”, you aren’t going to restore the risk-averse conservativism of National Review by telling century-old horror stories about the ascendency of Adolf Hitler. You aren’t going to shut out critical conversations because you think their conclusions are distasteful.

The time when mainstream conservatism held this kind of power is over. And you will never have it ever again. Which is why you, and other conservatives, need to abandon the pretension and stop trying to pursue this futile task, for your good and the good of others that come after you.

Is it possible for conservatives to finally break from the form that has defined their own failure? Might you all stop quixotically raging against the sky and try to adopt a more practical approach?

I know that many of you are fond of that one saying by William F Buckley that “A conservative is someone who stands athwart the tracks of history, yelling Stop.” No doubt many conservatives find a certain nobility in these futile gestures, especially as America’s political reality grows much darker.

However, that train you now see coming down the tracks isn’t the crisis of modernity; nor is it some specific bad actor like Nick Fuentes, or even some popular mass delusion. The train is just a reality. It is the inevitable consequence of the politics promoted over the last three decades by those weak men too cowed to face hard truths head-on.

And no one can stop this train from coming, because all the opportunities to slow it down have been sabotaged, more often than not, by the very conservatives who were busy lamenting the sorry state of their predicament.

But lament your predicament or not, the train is still approaching. You are all going to have to make an adjustment to how you approach politics, or the juggernaut will run you down where you stand, not because you stood on some principle, but because you didn’t acknowledge the machine hurling towards you, just in front of your nose.

But perhaps this is history’s well-known sense of irony. Because, in the wake of this tragedy, everyone will naturally look back at your careers and wonder.

How?

How, after everything, after all of the articles, after all of the books, after all of the histrionic predictions of collapse and societal decline repeated over and over again, how could you still be so unprepared to face the world that you saw coming decades ago?

It is an eternal mystery. It is the story of how conservatism died.

Like everything that inevitably falls apart on its own, conservatism is dying under the weight of its own inconsistencies and incoherencies. Proclaiming “America First” while putting Israel first, waxing eloquent about the Constitution while never doing anything to defend the American Posterity, posturing about nonexistent principles, celebrating a capitalism that is built on a foundation of usury and fraud, and appealing to false histories and fake historical narratives, there is no reason to ever take conservatives and their gatekeeping seriously anymore.

They defend self-proclaimed democracy that violates the will of the people, enact injustice in the name of justice, proclaim an equality that has never existed anywhere, and in the process, conserve nothing. They are worse than worthless even by their own chosen measure.

And the train doesn’t care.

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Jump to India Confirmed

In 2004, the Learned Elders of Wye announced their plan to jump to China once the USA collapsed in the 2030s. However, those plans were cancelled by Xi Jinping in 2015, thereby prioritizing the jump to Ukraine for which the groundwork was laid in the Orange Revolution of 2014. Those plans for Ukraine would appear to have been cancelled by the Russian Special Military Operation launched in 2022, although it’s also possible that the repopulation of a neo-Ukranian rump state could involve a recolonization there; it’s too soon to tell.

But regardless, it’s apparent that the recent jeetification of Canada and the USA is a consequence of what would appear to be the new plan of a jump to India, as evidenced by the recent comments of Rosanne Barr. The point is not that Ms Barr is a particularly well-informed elite, but rather, that she is not; apparently this is such common knowledge that even she knows what’s in progress.

“America deserves what’s going to happen to them for it. Israel will just move on to India and America will fall.”

Such are “the blessings of Israel” that so concern the Zionist Boomers who didn’t hesitate to sacrifice the future of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in order to secure the dubious and short-term blessings of the god of this world. The lessons of history are brutal, but they are certainly consistent.

Unless and until you comprehend that the “judeo-christianity” sold by the likes of Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager and adopted by Churchians is not even remotely synonymous with “Christianity” in absolutely any sense of the term, be it historical, theological, spiritual, or moral, you cannot even begin to understand anything about the geopolitics of the last 80 years, let alone the history of the last two millennia. Remember, America is “the New Rome” and Israel has been at war with Rome since before Jesus Christ was born. In fact, if historian Barry Strauss and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to be taken at face value, Israel is still at war with Rome.

For those inclined to see this predicted fall of America as some sort of apocalyptic black pill, it’s probably worth keeping in mind that the post-1492 collapse of Spain was also described as Spain’s “Golden Age”. And even the Western Roman empire survived nearly another four centuries post-Vespasian, while the Eastern Roman Empire prospered for a thousand years.

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The Truth About Shakespeare

Dennis McCarthy provides a useful summary about the facts concerning the true authorship of the plays supposedly written by the actor William Shakespeare, but were actually written by Thomas North.

Here’s a brief summary of the North/Shakespeare Story:

  • Thomas North (1535- ~1604?), 29 years older than Shakespeare, wrote plays for decades for Leicester’s Men (from late 1550s to 1588). These plays were performed in front of small, noble audiences and were never published. But sometimes these early Shakespearean plays (like a Romeo and Juliet in 1562, before Shakespeare was born) were recorded by the original spectators or in records of payments for plays at court—though the author remained unnamed.
  • In the 1590s and 1600s, Shakespeare published his own adaptations of older plays in quarto form: These include briefer, swifter, inferior staged renditions of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Henry V (all originally written by Thomas North for Leicester’s Men). Shakespeare also wrote the “good quartos” of The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1 and 2 Henry IV—plays he adapted but are deemed “good” only because North’s originals were never published and have now been lost. Shakespeare also produced other mediocre, differently-styled plays like A Yorkshire Tragedy, The London Prodigal, and Locrine that Shakespeare had written with (or adapted from) other playwrights. For example, orthodox scholars have concluded that Thomas Middleton is a very likely coauthor or originator of A Yorkshire Tragedy, while they attach Robert Greene to Locrine. The bad quartos, apocrypha, and makeshift “good quartos” compose the true Stratford canon.
  • When the publishing syndicate of Edward Blount, William Jaggard, William Aspley, and John Smethwick decided to produce a collection of Shakespeare plays now known as the First Folio (1623), they got into squabbles with the publishers who owned the rights to the Shakespeare plays that had already been published. So in many cases, they printed North’s original versions—as they did with Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, etc., which were still in the possession of Shakespeare’s theater troupe. Indeed, the First Folio even advertised that the plays had been “Truely set forth, according to their first ORIGINALL,” and the printers added special emphasis to the word “ORIGINALL,” putting it in all caps and a kind of italics. Still, many of the plays in the First Folio, especially the comedies, are indeed Shakespeare’s adaptations of North’s originals.
  • For centuries, scholars had studied and praised the plays of Shakespeare’s First Folio, leading them to associate him with the masterpieces therein. It was not until the 19th century that researchers began rediscovering the “bad quartos.” For example, Shakespeare’s rewritten, staged version of Hamlet, published in 1603, did not come to the attention of researchers until 1823, long after faith in Shakespeare’s genius had become traditional, universal, and unyielding. Researchers faced with such lesser renditions “by William Shakespeare” found it less onerous to try to explain them away one at a time—rather than abandon their view of Shakespeare. Editors and academics never stopped to assess all the evidence as a whole, looking at all the documents “by William Shakespeare” to determine what he had really written. Conventional scholars also shrugged off the clear statements from contemporaries that derided Shakespeare for getting too much credit for other people’s plays, as we find in comments about Shakespeare in Groatsworth of Wit, Jonson’s On Poet Ape, etc.

In summary, if you still believe that William Shakespeare wrote the versions of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet traditionally attributed to him, you might as well believe in the theory of evolution by natural selection and that Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon, walked on it, and then returned to Earth.

The historical evidence against it is, quite simply, overwhelming.

But if you want to know why I, personally, am convinced of the truth of Mr. McCarthy’s claims, it is because I am an editor. I know exactly how recognizable any writer’s writing is. And the AI analyses of the various works make it very, very clear which author’s work is the original of the high-quality plays that we still revere today.

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The Failure of Holocaustianity

As I pointed out in a public debate with Louise Mensch in 2018, the Holocaust, such as it is, is over. In 2025, it is as emotionally relevant to the average individual on the planet as the Boxer Rebellion, the Sacking of Carthage, and the Battle of Manzikart, which is to say, no one alive today actually cares about it in the least. Surviving Boomers aside, it’s now a dead rhetorical letter.

Which, of course, is why those who are still trying to play that card are discovering, much to their surprise, the various ways doing so tends to backfire on them.

  • Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz laments to Jewish Federation that people are finding content from “Al Jazeera and Nick Fuentes” on social media and seeing videos of “the carnage in Gaza.” Holocaust education has backfired in part as people see Palestinians as Jews’ victims, she adds. “They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.” The lesson they were supposed to get is that it gives Israel the right to commit genocide in perpetuity.
  • The Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles on Saturday took down an Instagram post that said, “‘Never Again’ can’t only mean never again for Jews.” The Jewish group lamented that the post was misinterpreted by some as a “political statement” reflecting the “ongoing situation” in “the Middle East” but “that was not our intent.”

The Gazacaust appears to have been a serious blunder by the Netanyahu regime, although it may simply be the same logic that applies to the current anti-semitism push and the anti-Iran campaigns by AIPAC, which is that time is running out on both a) Zionist influence and b) the power over which that influence is held, so however suboptimal the strategy might be, they’ve got to make use of that power before it ceases to be useful.

Either way, the Holocaust dies with the Boomers, and although a few people have been jailed or otherwise punished for their failure to believe that exactly six million people of a very specific ethnicity were killed by eagles, bears, medical experiments, and flaming roller coasters of death during a four-year period in the 1940s, no amount of propaganda and rhetorical appeals are going to convince anyone that being a fourth- or fifth-generation descendent of a survivor of those heinous historical acts grants one a lifetime license to subject other people to ethnic cleansing and genocide just because one’s great-great-grandfather’s relatives were subjected to it.

And for those who claim that it does, perhaps it would be well to keep in mind that we American Indians would obviously possess a much better claim on any such license than the descendants of survivors of much smaller, much shorter, much less comprehensive genocides.

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The Deadly Moon Hoax

I don’t believe that Man ever went to the Moon. I don’t believe the Apollo landings were real; it’s beyond obvious at this point that they were faked in a studio. But for those who still cling to the idea that the Moon landings of the 1960s couldn’t have been faked, understand just how seriously the US government protected its hoax at the time.

I interviewed the widow of the man who was going to be the first man to walk on the moon, Virgil Grissom. He was the most beloved of all the astronauts. I interviewed his widow for four hours.

It’s her opinion, not mine, with 100% certainty that he was murdered by the CIA for not cooperating with fraud in the Apollo program. She told me so. She said on January 26, 1967, he came home from work and said this, Han, for some strange reason, the CIA is all over the launch pad today inspecting the equipment.

I’ve been here three years, he said. They’ve never been here before. Why did they show up today? The very next day, he’s dead from faulty equipment.

Because a few days before this, he held a press conference without permission when he took a bunch of reporters up to the top of the rocket and affixed a lemon the size of a grapefruit to the top of the Apollo rocket, calling it a piece of junk. He was preparing reports, according to his widow, to give to Congress and the Senate that the CIA confiscated from his house the day he died before they even informed his widow that he had died. He knew they were 10 years or more away from going to the moon.

He would not participate in the fraud and they killed him. So this is why the two of the three astronauts, you know, act kind of bizarre and don’t like giving interviews. This is why at their first and only press conference, they look like they’re at the funeral of their mother instead of the winning locker room of the Super Bowl.

At this point, if you still believe in the Moon landings, you’re pretty much left in the company of those who genuinely believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman responsible for killing JFK and that Drew Pearson didn’t commit offensive pass interference in the 1975 NFC playoffs.

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Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Devon Eriksen implies that Christianity caused the fall of Rome. It’s not a view that’s original to him, but it’s obviously false.

Rome didn’t fall because the Romans were decadent and had orgies. They were the most decadent, and had the wildest orgies, at the height of their power. Rome fell after they became Christian.

No, Devon, Rome fell due to mass foreign immigration. No historian takes Edward Gibbon’s thesis put forth in his great The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire seriously anymore. The idea that Christianity caused the fall of the Roman Empire is obviously false because both Christianity and the Eastern Roman Empire continued for centuries.

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10 Different Versions

That’s absurd, of course, There are, at most, four Donald Trumps:

As someone who first voted for him in 2016, I can say it has been an endless cycle of “We’re so back” and “It’s so over.” There have even been single days where we cycle between the two multiple times a day.

He will make a statement saying “No more fatties on visas” and follow it up with “600k potential Chinese spies and 50 year mortgages are what MAGA wants.” An absolute rollercoaster of emotions. Some days, it seems like we have 10 different versions of him.

This is where logical heuristics like Ockham’s Razor shine. If it seems as if there are multiple versions of the man, that is because there are multiple body doubles being utilized by different political factions.

Consider the possibilities explaining the various inconsistencies and anomalies observed:

  • Donald Trump is crazy
  • Donald Trump is pretending to be crazy
  • Donald Trump tells different audiences different things in public.
  • Donald Trump is being controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu/Xi Jinping/Vladimir Putin
  • The warring political factions in the USA are utilizing different political decoys.

Now, if one considers that the use of body doubles goes back to the time of The Iliad, when Patroclus rallied the Greeks by wearing the armor of Achilles, combined with the fact that Josef Stalin and British general Bernard Montgomery are both confirmed to have utilized body doubles in the 1940s, what is the most reasonable answer to the questions concerning President Trump’s incessant inconsistencies?

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WWII Wasn’t Worth It

A British WWII veteran issues a scathing verdict on the state of Britain today and his regrets about having defended what is now a collapsing, demoralized, half-occupied nation:

A 100-year-old veteran shocked the hosts of Good Morning Britain today by declaring that winning World War II ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the UK.

Alec Penstone told Adil Ray and Kate Garraway how he quit his factory job to sign up for the Royal Navy and fight for his country as soon as he came of age. The war hero recalled serving alongside close friends, many of whom lost their lives, and called himself ‘just a lucky one’ for having survived. Asked by Ms Garraway what Remembrance Sunday meant to him, the veteran said he felt that winning the war was ‘not worth’ how the country had turned out today.

‘My message is, I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today? No, I’m sorry – but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result of what it is now.’

When he was asked to clarify what he meant by Mr Ray, he continued: ‘What we fought for was our freedom, but now it’s a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.’

What was the point of defending Britain against the potential threat posed by 3 million Germans in order to turn around and meekly submit to the subsequent invasion of 3 million Indians, 2 million Pakistanis,
2.5 million Africans, and 500,000 Chinese?

What was the threat, that they might end up speaking the same language as their royal family, the Saxe-Coburg and Gothas, all spoke originally?

What a historical disaster. The sacrifice of all those young Englishmen absolutely wasn’t worth it. But perhaps the old English veteran can find some solace in the fact that even the Viking and Roman invaders were eventually sent home.

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