Gradually, Then Suddenly

In a response to our recent post on the entropic influence of the political Left, commenter ‘Epicaric’ wrote:

It is my impression … that these forces have accelerated of late, shedding its once linear progression for a pace far more geometric in nature.

This is entirely ‘lawful’, and is exactly what we should expect. All of the erosive forces at work here — demographic displacement by poorly assimilated immigrants, low birthrates among cognitive elites, multiculturalism, galloping secularism, centralization of Federal power at the expense of local government, anti-traditionalism, hedonistic apathy, instutionalized disparagement of America’s history, mission, cultural heritage, and mythos, and behind it all the universal acid of radical doubt that is the “poison pill” of the Enlightenment itself — all of these things attack and corrode the horizontal ligatures of American civil society, leaving behind only an atomized population with no binding affinities save their vertical dependence upon a Federal leviathan that is, increasingly, the source of all guidance and blessings.

What this means is that as these forces do their work, they weaken at every point our society’s structural integrity — even as the disintegrative influences, particularly the destructive action of demographic replacement, intensify. It follows naturally, then, that the pace of decay accelerates.

In passing, we should note also that this horizontal ‘unbinding’ was, a century ago, the precursor of Fascism. The ancient symbol of the Fasces, from which the movement took its name, is a bundle of wooden rods, individually weak, but lashed together with an external binding. It is the perfect symbol for a society that has lost its organic, endogenous coherence, and so must be united by an artificial and external power.

18 Comments

  1. “Gradually, then suddenly”, all roads lead the Leftist Vandals to the gates of Rome (i.e., Western Civilization), viz.

    Physics Road: Destruction via the Second Law of Thermodynamics;

    Sociopolitical Road: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles [Kindle Edition] Thomas Sowell (Author);

    Socioreligious Road: Differences Between Left and Right.

    It don’t look good for Western Civilization, yo.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 11:21 am | Permalink
  2. “Gradually, Then Sudddenly”

    Something about this post’s title makes me think of very large breasts.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 12:57 pm | Permalink
  3. Could it be the triple “d” in “Sudddenly”, Kevin?

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
  4. Indddeed. So sumptuous.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 1:45 pm | Permalink
  5. Malcolm says

    Oops.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 2:41 pm | Permalink
  6. Latest nail in the coffin:

    Marie Harf promoted to senior advisor, will focus on negotiations with Iran

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 3:26 pm | Permalink
  7. JK says

    Well Henry, as many nails as there already are we ain’t gonna have to waste any shells getting our ship of state deep sixed.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 3:51 pm | Permalink
  8. Whitewall says

    Well, she Harfed her way up. The State Dept. just couldn’t keep a talent like her I guess.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 4:18 pm | Permalink
  9. Actually, Robert, Harf is being promoted to senior advisor for strategic communications to Secretary of State John Kerry, where she will “continue her work leading on the Iran negotiations communications strategy.”

    As she “Harfs her way up” the seniority staircase, this here senior barfs his way down to the bathroom …

    Break me a f*cking give.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 5:51 pm | Permalink
  10. JK says

    Excuse me Henry.

    Pray tell, what does negotiations communications strategy mean (more or less) exactly? Harfing Farsi or, Farsifying the Harf?

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 6:20 pm | Permalink
  11. Whitewall says

    Henry….omg, you’re right! I guess we need to find a way to tell JK that “negotiations communications strategy” actually means having James Taylor ready to travel with his guitar at a moments notice. I suspect JK will begin throwing things.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 6:49 pm | Permalink
  12. From Maverick Philosopher:

    The Left’s Hatred of Conservative Talk Radio

    I leave you with a quotation from David Horowitz, Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey (Spence, 2003), p. 273, emphasis added:

    “The image of the right that the left has concocted — authoritarian, reactionary, bigoted, mean-spirited — is an absurd caricature that has no relation to modern conservatism or to the reality of the people I have come to know in my decade-long movement along the political spectrum — or to the way I see myself. Except for a lunatic fringe, American conservatism is not about “blood and soil” nostalgia or conspiracy paranoia, which figure so largely in imaginations that call themselves “liberal,” but are anything but. Modern American conservatism is a reform movement that seeks to reinvent free markets and limited government and to restore somewhat traditional values. Philosophically, conservatism is more accurately seen as a species of liberalism itself — and would be more often described in this way were it not for the hegemony the left exerts in the political culture and its appropriation of the term “liberal” to obscure its radical agenda.”

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 6:59 pm | Permalink
  13. “I suspect JK will begin throwing things.”

    More likely, Robert, JK will be “hurling” rather than “throwing”.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
  14. “Harfing Farsi or, Farsifying the Harf?”

    My guess, JK, it’s farking horseshit.

    Posted May 27, 2015 at 7:18 pm | Permalink
  15. JK says

    May you Henry … of course you being circumspect may not be allowed so

    Whitewall Hearken and shout (maybe a couple of times)

    Fark the Harf. Edge her and, like saying (loudly of course) Remember the Alamo !!! Remember the Alamo !!!

    But like I’m Jeremiading, Bear my admonitions in strut to keep the clean heart.

    Say to yourselves You Pure of Heart:

    “Jeremiad! Jihad I get but, not another of them counterfeit Viagras?”

    Posted May 28, 2015 at 3:47 am | Permalink
  16. Whitewall says

    Henry, David Horowitz has always been a good insight into the “liberal mind”. On another blog….yes sorry, there are others so don’t tell..a frequent commenter from Down Under tells us that the Conservatives there never allowed the Left to get away with using “liberal” as their own. A mistake we in the US made years ago.

    Posted May 28, 2015 at 5:59 am | Permalink
  17. Malcolm says

    Henry, in re your Horowitz quote — I’ll give ’em ‘reactionary’, at least in my case.

    Posted May 28, 2015 at 10:27 am | Permalink
  18. Reaction to the excesses of the Left is a good thing, Malcolm.

    Posted May 28, 2015 at 2:48 pm | Permalink

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