Oscar Wilde - Sonnet On The Massacre Of Christians In Bulgaria

These days the British Government is actively supporting those who are massacring Christians of Syria. Although, as yet, our Government does not directly arm the mercenaries and fanatics who have invaded Syria, it does so indirectly through friendly dictatorships. The British Government and its allies have created a surrogate guerrilla army that moves around Western Asia, Southern Europe and North Africa promoting NATO objectives. One can only wonder when they will be used in England  - that is, if they have not been used already.

'Christ, does thou live indeed? or are thy bones
Still straitened in their rock-hewn sepulchre?
And was thy Rising only dreamed by Her
Whose love of thee for all her sin atones?
For here the air is horrid with men's groans,
The priests who call upon thy name are slain,
Dost thou not hear the bitter wail of pain
From those whose children lie upon the stones?
Come down, O Son of God! incestuous gloom
Curtains the land, and through the starless night
Over thy Cross a crescent moon I see!
If thou in very truth didst burst the tomb
Come Down, O Son of Man! and show thy might,
Lest Mahomet be crowned instead of Thee!'

Of Pastors And Popes

John Ball writes:
The Roman Church intends to declare that a recent Pope is a 'saint'. They wish to 'venerate' one of their chief bureaucrats, a man who spent his life sucking up to those in authority, whether in Communist Poland, or in the American dominated West, all the while sucking out the autonomy of ordinary people.
Back in the fourteenth century the official church in England was the Roman Church. At the top of the Roman Church was their Pope, and after him were cardinals, archbishops, bishops, archdeacons and priests.
The Roman Church was a pyramid of power.
At the bottom of this pyramid was the poor peasant, who watched and paid.
At the time of the Reformation the Church in England dispensed with the Pope, but managed to keep hold of its bishops. No bishop, no king, said the voice of Authority.
In the Roman Church people are told to call the priest 'Father', but God is my Father, not some heretical slave to the false god of power.
Once the Bible was available for everyone to read, many people wanted to taste the freedom of living in Christ.
They knew, as we Lollards knew before them, that when Adam delved and Eve span there were no gentlemen.
Groups of Dissenters or Nonconformists grew up not just in the towns but in the countryside too.
These independent congregations were usually served by a minister.
A minister is someone who ministers to, that is serves, both the congregation and God.
A minister does not go before the congregation, he is a humble servant. Ministers were sharply different to the Church of England vicars, with their fancy dress vestments and their enormous vicarages and their servants, little gods within their parishes.
Today, most of the Dissenting congregations have withered and died. Only small clusters of the faithful survive.
The growth in the Protestant Churches is in the dynamic Charismatic Consumer Christian sector.
These churches don't have ministers; they have pastors.
But a pastor is a shepherd. Some jumped up performer is not my shepherd. The Lord is my Shepherd!
The people want shepherds to follow, and the pastors want to be leaders. The pastors want followship, but Christians need fellowship.
From an early age people are detained in day prisons called school. There they learn obedience and passivity. In their work they think it natural to be servants.
It never occurs to them to be free, so drenched in slave mentality are they. And so the pastor becomes a boss, a mini Pope.

J. A. Hobson - Imperialism

J.A. Hobson published Imperialism in 1902. In his view, the late nineteenth century phenomenon of Imperialism was caused by many factors, such as special interest groups, the class and power structures of Western society, a deficit of democracy and so on.
It was a classic book over a hundred years ago and is well worth a read now.
Here are some quotes;

'War and commercial tariffs are the crudest and  most wasteful forms of national struggle, testing the lowest forms of national fitness. Let international government put down wars and establish Free Trade, the truly vital struggles of national expression will begin. As in the case of individuals, so now of nations, the competition will be keener upon the higher levels; nations having ceased to compete with guns and tariffs will compete with feelings and ideas.'

With reference to cultural and scientific nationalism, Hobson says;
'Outside conquests of personal genius, the broad streams of national influence and achievement which might have fertilized the wide plains of the intellectual world have been confined within their narrow national channels. Nationalism, as a restrictive and exclusive force, fostering political and industrial enmities and keeping down the competition of nationalities and races to the low level of military strife, has everywhere checked the free intercourse requisite for the higher kinds of competition, the struggle of languages, literatures, scientific theories, religious, political and social institutions, and all the arts and crafts which are the highest and most important expressions of national as of individual life.'

As for China:
'The only important fact upon which there is universal agreement is that the Chinese are of all the 'lower races' most adaptable for the purposes of industrial exploitation, yielding the largest surplus product of labour in proportion  to their cost of keep...... (China) seems so enormous and so expansible  as to open up the possibility of raising the whole white populations of the West to the position of 'independent gentlemen,' living, as do the small white settlements in India or South Africa, upon the manual toil of laborious inferiors......Such an experiment may revolutionize the methods of Imperialism; the pressure of working-class movements in politics and industry in the West can be met by a flood of Chinese goods, so as to keep down wages and compel industry, or, where the power of the imperialist oligarchy is well set, by menaces of yellow workmen or yellow mercenary troops......... all the main arterial industries would have disappeared, the staple foods and manufactures flowing in as tribute from Asia and Africa.......subordinating all movements of domestic reform to the need of maintaining the Empire, and checkmating the forces of democracy by a skilful use of a highly centralised bureaucracy and army.'

Still Chained

Mary Malone writes:
Many societies recognize that Woman has a greater sex drive than Man, seeking pleasure where he can only seek relief, wishing to express her creativity with the birth of children and the nurturing of the young.
Consequently, in the past, a girl would be married off young and given a husband to provide for her.
Boys, being peripheral to the life of the group, have always been allowed to play out for a bit longer.
But, in the twentieth century, the century of rape, the erotic nature of Woman was denied.
The notion that 'good' girls don't do it, still prevalent in Moslem societies, was alive and well here in England too.
A woman was judged by her sexual activity.
Girls were allowed to think about romance, but not sex.
Man, not Woman, became the active sex partner, his aim being to 'conquer' the woman, one way or another. And if she defied this imprisonment of semi-frigidity, she was deemed worthless.
All this has changed in recent years.
The invention of reliable contraception has released the sexual activity of women. It has enabled Woman to take her place as a sexual consumer, and as a drone within the bureaucratic hierarchy. It has been a factor in the breakdown of the family and the collapse of social solidarity.
Contraception has released women from the worst consequences of living in a Patriarchal society, but it has not changed the nature of that Patriarchal society.
Woman is still chained, she is still denied.
She has been assimilated into Patriarchy, her nature denigrated, made to ape mere men, her value still defined by patriarchal values.
Only by a return to ancient matriarchal values can women free themselves, for freedom is not some nebulous patriarchal idea about career choices, threesomes and piercings, but freedom is about a woman  being who she is.  

Gay Marriage Is Both Conservative and Homophobic

David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has been much mocked for his comments that he supports the introduction of gay marriage because he is a Conservative. His words are met with incredulity both by conservatives and progressives, yet in this instance he is  both quite correct and quite sincere.
As a conservative, Cameron wishes to integrate and assimilate potentially oppositional groups into the hierarchy.
Originally, people began to identify themselves as homosexual as part of the post war opposition to the identification of masculinity with violence and militarism. Political homosexuality was supposed to be gentler than the hierarchy's portrayal of a real man as being some jerk in a uniform spending his days killing foreigners, and spending his nights conquering some woman with his mighty weapon.
Homosexuality, in those days, was a lifestyle choice. Political homosexuality was an act of freedom, an act of rebellion against the catastrophic patriarchy of the war economies.
Of course, Authority does not like opposition, and all morality is relative. So long as the groups expressing a particular morality are subservient to Authority and its Narrative, then everything is just ducky.
Hence, nowadays, in order to advance assimilation, Vichy Gays insist that we  see homosexuality as a biological predetermined imperative. To express the contrary view, that homosexuality is a cultural phenomenon, is to risk being damned as a bigot.
We must pretend that some people are born 'gay' or face the consequences of professional and possibly legal punishment.
By 'normalizing' homosexuality, one more act of opposition is tamed and assimilated.
Like all state-approved liberations the spirit of the original movement is destroyed by integration.
Instead of being an alternative lifestyle, homosexuals become supporters of the hierarchy, the very patriarchal structures they once opposed. By mimicking straight people with the parody of marriage they insult gays and straights alike.
The Gay Movement becomes so altered that it is destroyed. Through being co-opted by Authority, what was free becomes regulated, the poacher becomes the gamekeeper, the oppressed becomes the oppressor, the rebel becomes the policeman. Free speech and freedom of conscience are subverted.
Assimilation is part of the imperative of power; what cannot be destroyed is subverted and integrated.
Gay marriage is indeed Conservative, and homophobic too.

White Australia

My little Revoltette is currently in Australia, and she comments that the Australians are 'casually' racist. In her opinion, we are less racist here in England, which shows, if nothing else, that we Poms have better manners than our colonial cousins.
According to the Narrative one of the chief sins of Australian racism was the White Australia policy, yet this policy was not so black and white as it may seem.
Australia was always a more working class society than England. Most European emigrants were people who were tired of living under the jack boot of bureaucrats with titles.
Being strongly working class also meant being strongly unionised.
At the end of the nineteenth centuries, mine owners and plantation owners were importing cheap Chinese and Polynesian labour to undercut the European workers' wages. Indeed, the Polynesian workers were virtual slaves, many of them having been kidnapped and transported to the Australian mainland.
The White Australia policy was instigated by unionised labour and designed to protect both Australian and foreign workers from exploitation.
Of course, racial profiling is rather a blunt instrument, and as Asian economies developed in a European fashion after World War II, a points based immigration policy was introduced in 1973. This was much more civilized and sensible.
When uncontrolled immigration is encouraged by Authority, it is inevitably to the detriment of the native working class. The Third World and Eastern European influx into England, instigated by New Labour at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and continued by the ConDem government, has inevitably led to a massive decrease in working class wages and a worsening of working conditions. 
Immigrant labour is cheap labour. It always has been and it always will be. Immigration is simply a weapon by the managerial classes to keep the servant classes in order. Wages are kept low, unemployment is kept high, and the power structures of hierarchy remain in place.

Lifestyle Choices

Europeans like to congratulate themselves on how society has progressed to the point where we all have great lifestyle choices. We are all kids in the candy shop now. We can do anything, consume what we want, shack up with whoever we want in our few square yards of privacy, oh yah!
At the motorway service station the other day, several bus loads of Asian people pulled up. 
I wondered if they were Muslims, and indeed there was one woman dressed in a tent, so they probably were, but the rest of the women were dressed in the most gorgeous clothes. They all seemed relaxed, smiling and talking to each other.
It reminded me of the times I worked in the East End of London some years ago. The Bengali women would dress like queens, everyone of them. They must be much loved and valued by their men folk, I used to think.
Today, I am told, they are made to cover up by men, bullies with dirty minds.
So it was nice to see these ladies, relaxed and smiling, bedecked in their finery, and most striking of all, surrounded by children.
How lovely it was to see all those children, here in our moribund society of lifestyle choices!
The English are free to be anything at all, but they are not free to be themselves.
But our Asian friends are free to have families as nature intended, the men to love their women and the women to love their men, and the fruit of their love being the happy playful children.
I turned to see the English - drab, fat, frumpy and functional, off to consume just a little bit more.
Yes, England has been invaded by foreigners. It is hardly England at all in some places.
But whose fault is that?
It is our fault.
We have turned our back on life, and chosen the path of egotism and death.
Yes, we are being replaced - replaced by more vigorous and vital races.