The
modern written constitution is a clever device of the Devil. It obscures our pride and worship of
ourselves while encouraging those very things:
Instead of saying, ‘I am my own god; I am the only authority over
myself’, we say, ‘I honor the constitution’.
But it is the same thing to say either one, for a constitution is merely
a product of the ‘will of the people’.
This is a subtle but very effective way of killing men’s souls.
Lately,
Steve Bannon has declared ‘war’ on the Republican Establishment. How much better would it be for him and his
supporters to declare war on the whole un-hierarchical, un-Christian
constitutional order in favor of the natural, God-given order of a kingdom? Things might begin to go a little better in
the States if each region or State went its own way and enthroned its own king. Below is a good article on that theme, though
it is a little too idealistic at the end (kingdoms have interest groups as
well, but the king does not allow them to ravage the country as in the oligarchy/democracy).
One of America's most
important "Founding Fathers" once referred to his vision of the
United States of America as an "Empire of Liberty". A better
description of modern republicanism in general could be the "Empire of
Lies". Jefferson, of course, knew that his phrase in the Declaration of
Independence, that "all men are created equal" was a lie when he said
it. The struggle which prompted that phrase was based on a number of 'whoppers'
such as the colonies being over-taxed (in fact, they were hardly taxed at all)
to the claim that they could not be taxed since they had no representation in
the British government when, in fact, they wanted no such representation
because they could have been easily outvoted by the much larger population of
Britain which was also much more heavily taxed and likely none too sympathetic
with their receiving all of the benefits of British rule while shouldering
hardly any of the cost.
We have lately been
“treated” to two sides of the political spectrum in America arguing over “free
speech” when neither of them actually believe in such a thing. The left shouts
people down or resorts to violence to silence speech they disapprove of and,
while the right has not done the same (such as in regards to the protests of
the national anthem), that may well only be because they are unable to. As with
all people of all times, they refuse to tolerate anyone disparaging that which
they hold most dear. . . .
. . .
Lies are the foundation of
our modern society. Everyone knows this, it is only that few wish to seriously
address it. Everyone in probably every society knows some version of the joke
about politicians, how they pretend to tell us the truth and we pretend to
believe them. The lies are positively essential when you have a society based
on vague, ephemeral, unrealistic and unobtainable “ideals” rather than actual
reality. Equality is not a reality and no amount of legal paperwork, five-year
plans or social engineering can ever make it so. Popular sovereignty is a lie,
there are those who rule and those who are ruled and that is just as true today
as it was in the age of absolutism, the Middle Ages or ancient Rome. The
separation of church and state is a lie and an increasingly obvious one. The
official religion of every modern state is not always a traditional religion
but it is at least a pseudo-religion. Often, this too is simply a “narrative”
and that narrative will be defended with all of the zeal of the Dominicans of
the Inquisition.
. . .
Practically all of
our modern lives are based on lies. The education system is full of lies
designed to feed the narrative of our rulers, as is the news media and much of
pop culture. Our economic system is based on lies. Napoleon Bonaparte once said
that, "History is a set of lies agreed upon". Substitute the word
"currency" for "history" and this statement is just as
true. Our money has value because our government lies to us and tells that it
does, simply because they say so, and we believe them because not to would be
disastrous. So much of our economies today depend on people making bets on the
profits to be made on products that have not even been manufactured yet. We
buy, sell and trade success or loss on items no one has produced. Not all of
course, but a great deal of it is all based on nothing concrete, nothing
substantive. In other words, lies, selling a product you do not have for
imaginary money from someone else. And, it all goes on because to admit the lie
would cause the entire facade to come crashing down and leave everyone in
ruins. One of the "benefits" of globalism is that all the nations of
the world are now members of a suicide pact.
Once upon a time, all
of this was not so. In the pre-revolutionary days things were quite different.
Not that lies did not exist in those days, they certainly did, but because
before the revolutionary era there was no mass-politics, no politicians and
thus no need to resort to wide-scale deceit in order to win and hold on to
power. In the days of traditional monarchy, the system was not based on lies
but on straightforward loyalties and obligations. Monarchs were monarchs of
peoples, their peoples and their only concern was what was in the best
interests of their peoples. The King of the English, the King of the Franks,
the Emperor of the Romans etc did not have ideologies, political parties and
pressure groups tearing at them. They did not have welfare states to fund (the
Church and the guilds took care of such things), they did not have an entire
system of government based on false and absurd ideals that required an army of
propagandists working 24/7 to maintain and adjust the flow of lies. You knew
who was in charge, you knew who had power over you, you knew what your
obligations were and you knew who was responsible if things went badly.
I doubt many today
could even imagine how much more simple, direct and honest things used to be in
the days before every man, woman and child was expected to be involved in
politics. I doubt many can imagine what it was like before everyone in society
was locked in constant ideological warfare with their fellow citizens. It was
the way life was once. There were no Tories, Labourites and Liberal Democrats,
there were just Englishmen. There were no Christian Democrats, Social
Democrats, Greens and so on, just Germans, Frenchmen and so on all wanting to
make the best of their lives, to live in peace and not be plundered by the
neighbors. Your king was your king, your lord or other local authority was well
known as were his obligations. A society without politics, without political
parties, seems endlessly attractive to me. I wonder if we are becoming so
inundated with lies these days that others might start to feel the same?
Source: http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-empire-of-lies.html, opened 17 Oct. 2017
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Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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