Laying The Ghosts of Southern Nationalism
This is an uncut version, minus adlibs, of a talk given at a program given by the Abbeville Institute in Columbus, Georgia, February 20-23, 2025. It has been hastily revised and corrections are welomed.
This is an uncut version, minus adlibs, of a talk given at a program given by the Abbeville Institute in Columbus, Georgia, February 20-23, 2025. It has been hastily revised and corrections are welomed.
The other day I noticed that I had unlearned to hold a pen. The instrument of my profession, which once seemed an anatomically correct extension of my hand, is now an awkward, unwieldy, alien object.
In this lesson, we are introduced to the imperfect tense in the active voice.
The worst ethical mistake made by Enlightenment “intellectuals” was their embrace of the abstraction of global citizenship. We big-brained apes are slow learners, and it takes most of us a long time to acknowledge the humanity of strangers.
I continue to be amused by how out of touch Democrats are on DOGE, Musk and all the cuts being made. The Dems love “waste, fraud and abuse,” as the phrase has it.
Many of our older relatives have imbibed a secular context of lies and false paradigms and there is little that can be done to pull them out of the matrix so late in the game.
Remember that we have learned two types of adjectives, the first being words with masculine singular in -o and feminine singular in -a, and the second being words ending in -e in both masculine and feminine singular and -i in the plural.
Eccentric Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho argued that if we accept the idea that something fraudulent cannot be distinguished from the original, what really happens is that we are granting the Devil a power he does not possess.
As I indicated in the previous lessons, in feminine nouns, which originally ended in long A, that A becomes H in Attic Greek except when preceded by ε, ι, ρ. This only affects the singular forms.
This essay, published 35 years ago, completed the process by which we were expelled from the conservative movement and expunged from history.