The Old Bastard Returns.....Again

by Joe Siano

Your faithful correspondent was conceived via an illicit union of a 24-year-old homeless veteran and a teenage high school dropout.  “Dad” bolted.  His child was born in a charity hospital for “girls in trouble”.

Hence, he's a “bastard”.

 This went down some 67 years ago.  Thus, he is also old.

The OB returns from two years of blogging retirement because he has something to share.

Much has gone down during TOB’s long ride on Earth.

• Ike’s Military Industrial Complex speech
• The New Frontier
• MLK’s “Dream”
• Flower Power & The Summer of Love
  
• Morning in America
• The New World Order
• The little black dress
• 911 & “Mission Accomplished”
• MAGA
• BLM, Me-Too, and the Age of Woke 

Change is constant, "Some Forever, not for better".

Tom Woods holds that no matter who you vote for, you always get John McCain – a tax-gobbling, war-mongering globalist.  We may be going in circles, but the spiral is downward.

What’s to be done?  Let me suggest prayer.

Seriously.

In The Drama of Atheist Humanism*, Henri de Lubac surveys three toxic philosophies that poisoned the twentieth century and plague the world to this day.  Lubac explores these ideas through the lens of three nineteenth-century tentpole philosophers: Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

The kernel of Marxism is dialectical materialism, a Godless proposition that envisions history as an epic of ongoing class struggles.  Marx’s God is the tool of cynical oppressors.

In Marx' day the struggle was economic, between capital (the bourgeoisie) and labor (the proletariat).  Marxist economics failed miserably in countries large and

small, killing millions. Undeterred, the Marxists of the Frankfort School retooled the program to make it about countless of every day “oppressions” – men over women, whites versus blacks, straights versus gays, cis versus trans, and so on and so forth.  Woke Neo-Marxism infects workplaces, ruins careers, stifles free expression, and makes casual conversation awkward – sometimes even dangerous.

Nietzsche had nothing but contempt for the Christian virtues of humility, charity, for love of the poor weak, and downtrodden.   His worldview is that the superior man, the Übermensch, exists to dominate, if not to bury the meek who pollute the human gene pool.  Humanity will never blossom to its full potential as long as it tolerates these parasites.

Nietzsche provided the philosophical underpinnings for Nazism and every White Supremacist movement since.  He justified social Darwinism for tyrants who in their assent to glory, crush the powerless underfoot.

Comte is the father of positivism, the teaching that the only truth is that which can be empirically / scientifically verified.  For positivists belief in ineffable God is not only foolish, but also dangerous and counterproductive.  

Positivists exalt scientists and “experts” as the doyens of demonstrable

truth.   Their ideal world is governed by the technocrats in Brussels, Beijing, and DC that locked the world down during COVID.  They populate the cult of scientism. As early as 1941, James Burnham warned of this in The Managerial Revolution.

This philosophical troika were more than non-believing atheists. They are anti-theists, actively denouncing belief in a deity as an impediment to human flourishing.  Their philosophies are quasi-religions promising heaven on earth.  Each of these secular faiths mandates a governing elite that treats its followers as cannon fodder to progress while holding opponents in contempt.

Concurrent with these goings-on, Pope Leo XIII had a Job-like vision of Jesus conferring with Satan. 

In this vision, Christ gave Satan license to put His Church to the test. This vision convinced Pope Leo that the threats to humanity were demonic.  The antitheist philosophical climate in Europe supported his contention.  This vision inspired him to compose the Prayer to St. Michael, which was prayed following every Traditional low Mass.

Much of the Western world is swallowing a rancid cocktail of these three poisons – served up by the global elite in the arts, media, academia, and corporate executive suites.

My readers are likely to be active in the fight for liberty.  Activism is great.  Do not quit nor get discouraged.  However, I advise you to enlist the warrior angel to your cause.

It can’t hurt. It might even help.

 

 

 

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