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Entry: Gag Order Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/gag_order#30000 Post contents: San Fernando Curt wrote, "Uhh… Look… Down here in the states, we are captivated by the idea that public orthodoxies of our political society must be tempered and tested in the open square of vigorous debate." A bit idealistic, don't you think ? Captivated is a good word, though, since society is literally held captive by this menacing idea, starving to death and being abused, yet enamoured with the lying, thuggish idea like a bad case of Stockholm's syndrome. Men are fickle, mediocre, imperfect, and faulty. They are selfish and, always discontented with what they have, love only what they have not. Man does not know what he wants, always pursuing what is perceived to be to his immediate advantage but ultimately deleterious to his health, his spirit, and his station in life. He wants what he does not want. He does not want what he actually should want. Man wants to want, to paraphrase the Count. He wrote, correctly, "In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum." People complain of the despotism of princes; they should really complain of the despotism of man. As long as men are afflicted by the effects of original sin, until the eschaton comes down from with the Heavens and the heavenly host in the wake of a red-robed royal Jesus Christ saddled gloriously upon a white steed, grand ideas will struggle to maintain currency. The Truth is disadvantaged by man's will not to hear it. He is benighted by the custody of the eyes, the custody of the flesh, and the pride of life, and in many of his actions he is terribly evil. The Truth is spread but by the grace of God, the imperceptible designs the Holy Ghost, and in spite of man's sinfulness. The inability of the leaders of the rebellion of the American colonies to realise this mysterious Truth about man's condition is partially to blame for our current problems. They set man free, through the first amendment and the emphasis on free thought and discussion, from the saving bonds of Authority and the ministers of God on earth who punish the wicked. They denied Original Sin, introduced a Jacobin theory of human rights, abandoned all the customs and conventions of their fathers that acted as the sinews of society, shirked tradition, and betrayed the legacy of the human race. So long as we have men attempting to build society upon abstract sophistries and naïve utopian theories, we shall have a preponderance of mediocre, insane, and stupid ideas dominating us. In order to advance socially, most will pay homage to the madness. Eventually, this edifice built against nature will unravel, for nature abhors a vacuum and can be a cold mistress when ignored. And then man will start afresh in the manner of his fathers, rebuilding the glories of a civilisation abandoned by arrogant philsophers a few centuries before. [quote]Good ideas last; weak ones don’t. It’s just that simple.[/quote] Good ideas are forgotten because they make men sacrifice quick delights to cultivate long-term manly virtues. If one has enough money to indulge, he will willingly spoil himself in debauched, bacchanalian, frivolous, pathetic stupidity. Weak ideas are fashionable because they allow people to do as they please and still sleep at night. Good ideas cannot die but must be renewed every so often by the burning zeal of a few great men with the conviction to stop great events from turning into great tragedies. [quote]Any regime that must rely on repression to sustain itself has relinguished all legitimacy to rule.[/quote] Society is like a baroque garden and its beauty is the maintenance of the common good and social peace, which is order. Over time, it matures into a lush vista so long as all things are kept in proportion and everything is in its proper place. When a weed sprouts, it must be uprooted. If an unwelcome flower invades the wrong spot, it must either be co-opted into some clever organic development or it must be destroyed. As long as men are not angels, that is simply how things will be. No amount of injurious babble from sophists and calculators will be able to erase Original Sin, for the Cross remains constant while the world turns. Sent at: 2008 12 01