I had a flash of realization: None of this is real, none of this has actually happened. COVID lockdowns, Antifa and BLM riots, the Kardashians and the Met Gala, “woke’ academics and cities on fire, the Biden presidency are all part of a poorly written script for a cheap dystopian TV series, a knock-off of Philip K. Dick.
…there was a great German expressionist filmmaker whose surname is Leni—Paul Leni. He made his mark in Germany, but his finest work was done in Hollywood.
In anticipation of revising the old and writing the new chapters of JERKS and of publishing the whole of it as a little book, I am going to be posting some parts in the upcoming months.
This is a slightly revised version of an essay on two American revolutions, emphasizing the political sanity of South Carolina and the South in general.
You’ve probably read and heard a lot already about the 20th anniversary of 9/11. I wasn’t going to add to that. Until I saw the remarks of America’s worst president, George W. Bush.
In this episode Dr Fleming and Stephen follow #6 back to his flat in London, which has a new occupant that seems to be a good Samaritan. As always, things are not as they appear.
The conservative and moderate press is making a hero and martyr of Peter Boghossian, who resigned his position at Portland State in protest against Wokeness. As usual, says Thomas Fleming, they are being gulled by a poseur.
An entire nation that adopted a policy of pacifism would soon become a nation of slaves. Since the Christian religion has not yet become the exclusive preserve of fools, cowards, and idiots, it is strange how many people believe that Christ requires believers never to resist evil by force.
Even the dialectically materialist children’s books of my Soviet youth nurtured the idea of an “animal kingdom,” the realm where the lion was tsar. Presumably this autocrat ruled in consultation with his ministers, other imposing mammals like the elephant and the buffalo, and of course the principal temptation for a youthful intellect was to arrange the whole planetary zoo on the lines of the Table of Ranks introduced in 1722 by Peter the Great, whereby every citizen held a civilian rank corresponding to its military equivalent.
It seems our new Chief of Staff of all the armed forces, one Milley, has come out in favour of teaching Critical Race Theory at West Point and has endorsed other “woke” opinions and initiatives. Who is this disgrace to every person who has ever died or suffered in arms for America in the last two centuries?
