There was at one point a magnanimity in defeat as revealed by the words of Henry Cabot Lodge, but that has changed. This was most visible with the destruction, obliteration really, of the Arlington Confederate cemetery memorial taken down and then -- against promises to a purchaser -- melted down. The New York Times published a particularly "snarky" celebratory piece on the activist who was primarily responsible for refighting a 19th century civil war in the 21st. Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb argued in favor of its preservation in the Wall Street Journal to no published effect. Perhaps because I was born, as were my parents and grandparents, in Kentucky; a state, per Lincoln's orders, quickly restrained from joining the South after brief internal battles. But as the late Senator Lodge spoke, Blue and Grey reunited in defending country until this very moment. In World War II Marines would tuck a small "Stars and Bars" into their jackets before entering the wood-chipper of island-hopping warfare in the Pacific. On the eve of the 2003 Iraq war, 40 percent of regular Army solders were from the South, men and women, black and white. This wasn't "forgive and forget," but forgive so we won't forget.

Excellent essay by Richard Weaver. Good read!

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Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., could have said this about immigration in 2025 as he did in 1891 when it was legally almost unrestricted as it is now factually unrestricted through porous borders (until Trump's resurgence).

Cheers from Boston

I love this place despite the deterioration of its politics.

Advice not taken, so now we have unabashed hostile populations living isolated lives on the taxpayer's dime in anti-American enclaves located in the US heartland.

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Very good - but America doesn't follow this at all. In fact America is a country where the media or the voice of society, being privately controlled, can promote total immigration. Such a way of running a country leads to its ruin. The answers must lie further back in its founding, or mis-founding. It was not founded on the principles of the Europeans, but through some errors or perhaps utopian zealotry.

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their answer to his counter-question was loud and clear

Thank you so much for posting these short clips. There is truly nothing new under the sun, the problems we face today are the same as men have faced in history. When modern 'enlightened' men deride and ignore history's great thinkers as 'backwards reactionaries', they refuse to learn from them and quickly repeat the mistakes of the past.

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Immigration from outside of Europe was a mistake, even from within it from non-Europeans.

Oligarchs importing cheap labor for their benefit and against the rest of the citizenry, a long standing issue.

Man cannot live on rice alone

the more things change the more they stay the same, huh? also these secret societies at the beginning generated out of repressive governments are starting to sound like the path to the future for Western communities and families.

Excellent essay by Donald Davidson. Thank you for sharing and reading.

McCarthy was the greatest. IS the greatest. RIP

5:41 and on is what I came here for. Don't know why but this passage always stuck with me. Man comes to them like a pariah but unbeknownst to all of them it was the Devil himself.

It would be great if you gave us the year of original publication before reading - otherwise Thank you very much.

Mearsheimer portrayed as Machiavelli, but not thinking in a very Machiavellian way.

"Saints and drunkards are never whigs." Quite.

Brilliant.

That economic bit has always struck me as fascinating and foreshadows modern rural and southern "back to the land" initiatives. Pop movements like F.I.R.E. but more aptly: the opossum-living lifestyle (after the popular book). Finding ways to escape the modern "free-labor" paradigm has been a life study for me. Agrarianism is more than an irrelevant academic point, but a way of strategic micro-seccession and may rescue many a hapless millennial (or zoomer) from suicidal myopia.

Good job, Mr. Bagby

Remnant of the puritanical ethos

A reading of Mencken's hitpiece 'Professor Veblen' would be stupendous

America has about 50 military bases and garrisons in Europe alone. We can forget the idea that a European WEF is trying to control the world. America controls the world, and every country it controls sees its people die. WEF is probably some half-assed attempt by Europeans to not die so quickly.

So much happening in the world, at least we're keeping busy.

Emphasis on ‘the rules’ will not go away, and world opinion, especially of wealthy countries, will still matter, even though there is no clear monopole that could ostensibly enforce such rules. Brics will continue to call us nazis, neoliberals, etc, and we will call them nazis and communists .

I was utterly shocked to hear about the lifestyle of Schofield.

Thanks, Mr. Bagby. Now I can pronounce “Srda”.

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Thank you Bagby. American thanks you for your service 🇺🇸

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Perfectly Sensible

Two other pillars of America are much more important - but people never talk about them. Perhaps it is because of total cowardice. They are that life is about dollars, and everything is reduced to dollars, and that billionairing is part of a living society rather than outright crime and plundering, and that rich American people are noble rather than cunning thieves who demand the destruction of the organic nation which runs on different principles. The second is Protestantism that has jetissoned two thousand years of rituals, and necessarily compensates for this with Utopian Zeal - which brings with it many psychopathic universalist ideas. The entire founding of America is incorrect. Look at Trump, legal migration to the moon and more billionaires. America is not part of the Western Civilization or any Civilization. It does not understand, and nobody can stop it from its forthcoming destiny.

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Correction he didn’t say “The Jewish” he said the Jews, sadly you lack the courage and boldness of Charles Lindbergh and have been socially engineered to self censor

Thank you for reading this. I believe the speech was September 11, 1941 though.

9:38 racist orientalist westoid applying his sh1tty idea of "race" to arabs, arabs don't think like westoids, I'm honestly astonished that you recorded this absolute garbage of a video and said "yeah this is good I'll post it to my KZbin channel". What a fلckاng ret4ard.

Thank you sir.

Another banger, Mr. Bagby! Thank you much.

Nice. Don’t forget that many Maryland regiments fought as part of the Confederate States Army. Fun fact: the United States Army authorizes its 175th Infantry Regiment (formerly the 5th Maryland Regiment) to carry the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia (commonly recognized as the “Confederate flag “) on parade.

Hapiness and unhapiness are sisters, twins even, and they either grow together or stay small together. -nitzsche

Weaver never gets old.

Wow! Psuedo-intellectual academia has no clue that we've been genetically modified - for purposes of exploitation and control - by that behemoth arcane group called, well, the Controllers. How else would you explain the 85% compliant, subservient, dumbed down sheep, when Nature supposedly strives for perfection? It's a no brainer, academic sycophants.

the only collective discipline the modern liberal is allowed is the strict prohibition of discipline or ‘intolerance’ a la Popper.