The Ugliness of Modernism

One of the signs of our cultural debasement is the quality of our environment, that is, our homes, our shops, cities, streets, bridges etc...

It is not that I'm opposed to any architectural innovation at all, that would be pointless, there are always buildings that need to be cleared away for some reason or another, and to replace them with an exact replica every time would not be rational or desired.

The thing that strikes me is how ugly our environments are, there are the tower blocks, the great concrete, glass and metal lumps that are called libraries or city halls or 'community centres' or police stations and hospitals. There are the modern days slums, the almost unnaturally ugly estates on the edge of most European cities.

When one looks at pictures of European cities from pre 1914 days, one is struck by the sheer beauty of the surroundings, even the slums are better then the modern soulless pits build for the betterment of the slum dwellers, by the disciples of Le Corbusier who believed zealously in themselves. The modernists were the architectural equivalent of the Frankfurt School in the political and social spheres and had as much of an influence as the Frankfurt School, undermining decency and goodness, whilst the modernists undermined any notion of a natural or human environment.

I grew up in the country on a lane that was about two miles long, there were a few farms off the road and my house was the only one on that lane. At the far end of this lane there was a farmyard, and facing onto the lane was a whitewashed stone outhouse, on my travels I would pass this stone barn and would appreciate, even at such a young age, the ancient pedigree of this stone barn, there was something about it which spoke of permanence, but with out the insensitive arrogance that concrete projects, the stone was natural and comfortable in a way concrete could never be. A few years ago I went for a walk with the dogs and passed this farmyard, and something seemed odd about that stone barn, I had to stop and have a look, to my shock and disgust I realised that the reason there was something odd, was because the stone barn was no more, I was looking at a concrete lump that had been whitewashed!

So, that farmer has a perfectly good, solid, stone barn. For some idiot reason, he decided to pull the stone barn down, and in the very same place build a concrete barn, the same shape, the same size, if you were a county council planner, you would probably not notice the difference, which is probably the reason it was built to look exactly the same as before, but why? Why pull down a perfectly good building and replace it with something exactly the same? Why waste the money? This is the insanity of modern architecture and the ideology behind it, tare down the old, no matter how useful it is, no matter how beautiful and replace it with the new, no matter how ugly, no matter how much it costs!

Whole cities have been reduced to large open air concrete slums, Birmingham comes to mind, it used to be a beautiful city, full of handsome buildings, fruit of it's industrial wealth, even now there are still remnants of this, Bournville, where the Cadbury's factory is, is still impressive, the Botanical Gardens, Colmore Row, Victoria Square, but you must not take too wide a view when looking at these places, because horrific, monumental ugliness usually looms not far away, which is a great pity. The Prince of Wales has remarked something along the lines of 'At least the Luftwaffe only left rubble', referring to the trendy lefty modernists who were so zealous in removing old, interesting and beautiful buildings from the map.

Coventry is another formerly beautiful city that now resembles a large open air toilet, the ancient cathedral which was bombed out in the Second World War is still beautiful, and next door, is a hideous, immensely ugly lump of concrete. The modern cathedral seems to mock God by it's very existence, all hip and trendy, all ugly and meaningless! The sad thing about Coventry, is that you see the odd ancient building and see the shadow of what Coventry once was, the stone gateway here, the old pub there, the town hall, the ruined cathedral, but everywhere else, concrete, concrete, glass and steel, all big and monumentally ugly.

Even cities that have not been disfigured, or disfigured as much as others, such as London or Venice or Rome or Paris, still have their hideous suburbs, when taking the train into Venice, you pass through the Mestre, which is almost hellishly ugly, with the oil refineries and steel plants belching out steam and smoke all day long, with motorways and concrete pillars everywhere one looks, with factories and storage facilities and ugly tower blocks, ugly estates and ugly houses.

The Parisian Banlieue are worse then the Mestre, not only are they hideously ugly, they are filled with hateful unemployed Muslims who spend their time rioting and siring offspring. The suburbs of Rome are less ugly then Paris or Venice, but they are still not as beautiful as they could have been.

Instead of uglifying our cities, we should be attempting to beautify them, but I suppose that this is the point I'm trying to make. The increasing ugliness in our cities is a sign of how ugly we are becoming as people, the ugliness in our souls is mirrored in our homes and offices, in our shops and schools, everything we use and do is being consumed by ugliness. We have entered the age of ugliness and the only thing that will cure that, is a moral regeneration, a Renaissance of our souls, only then will we see great and beautiful structures built once more.

V for Vendetta?

I have read quite a few favourable reviews about the above film and have seen references to it on various sites that I have a great deal of respect for. Thinking that V may be a film worth seeing I sat down on Friday evening to take it in.

What a waste of my time! That film makes no sense at all!

Firstly, we are expected to believe that a right-wing Christian member of the Conservative party imitated Hitler and won round huge crowds of people who elected him into power where he instituted a 'fascist' clerical dictatorship.

This government exterminates Muslims and immigrants and forces the Christian religion on everyone! Right!

The Christians all happen to be hypocrites, secret junkies, bloodthirsty murderers and paedophiles! That's original!

The most saintly people portrayed in this film are the sodomites! They are all pure of heart, decent clean people who are 'just in love', this nasty Christian fascist state drags off the sodomites to torture and kill them, (for what reason we are never told, even in the real life totalitarian states, sodomites were only dragged off if they were political subversives or if they were indiscreet about their perversions) Stephen Fry once again playing his role of intellectual morally superior homosexual, a role that is getting tiresome! I wonder why they never portray sodomites as paedophiles? Hmmmmm.

The most absurd part of the film was when people were watching the television, and proclaiming that all the news that was being told them was 'bollocks' or 'that's a lie', etc..., we all know that most people accept without doubt anything told them by their box in the corner. Perhaps a tiny number would doubt the official story, but only a tiny minority.

However the thing that struck me most was how pleasant London looked before V's revolution, everyone seemed to be well off, everyone had nice flats or houses, all with flat screen TVs, there were no minorities, the streets were clean, I presume crime was almost nonexistent, and the liberals had been run out of town or kept down. And no democracy! It's almost a perfect vision of the future! Why would anyone want to end that?

They portrayed a surveillance state, but why would you need such surveillance if there are no minorities? No minorities will imply little to no crime, and the part where they showed Natalie Portman being attacked by white men intent on gang rape is so absurd as to make this the least intelligent film Ive seen in a long time.

The premise was good, a government that becomes totalitarian and oppressive, but lets be realistic, no one would follow a conservative Christian, they would follow an atheist socialist, and where has all the loss of freedom come from over the past decade? The Labour Party. Who has recently been proclaimed a 'sort of messiah', not a Christian conservative, but the Marxist mulatto, Obama.

Never has a true conservative movement been as successful as that portrayed in V, and never will they be, due to their innate conservatism, conservatives prefer the comforts of home to the hardship of campaigns or political battles.

Perhaps Franco or Pinochet could be declared to be successful 'conservatives', but then again any victories they acheived have long ago been reversed!

So. Don't bother watching V for Vendetta if you've not already done so!

Who are we?

We are orphans, subjects of wicked men who claim they 'care' for us, we are lost, walking in the darkness, in the ruins of what was once a glorious civilisation. We are a people lost in our dreams, hoping one day, we can awake to a reality much like our dreams.

But our waking lives are a nightmare, we struggle to survive, despised by our rulers, loathed by the elite, who seek our dissolution, they sponsor a wave of human migration, the likes the world has never seen, they sponsor violence against us and ours.

We are told we are evil and wicked, we are mocked, or fathers are condemned as wicked, by those who rule us with a rod, a rod of fear, of threatened violence.

We are a people separated from our past, from our forefathers, from the glories of Europe before the great slaughter of the First World War, the suicide of the west.

We are peoples wandering, without roots, without hope, drenched in grief and mourning for this lost world. Most of us can't explain why we feel this way, most find it difficult to express our loss, our grief.

We hear this grief in our music, we sense it all around us, but cant define it.

The world has been through many terrible griefs, we have seen many terrible things, we have toiled and bled, we have fought and many have died, many of those who have died, died in vain, but nothing can compare to the fratricide unleashed in 1914.

In those terrible years we were marked, like Cain, we are cursed.

We seek a saviour, a messiah, and all to many times we have sought solace in false Messiahs, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, De Gaulle, Thatcher, Blair and now Obama, at other times we have sought saviours in 'democracy', 'human rights' and in discarding our past, our faith and morality, what fools we are, what desperation we must feel.

And yet, we still have our dreams, as weak as they are, as demoralised as we are, there is still a spark of goodness there, a point of light, a hope.

This hope is not in politics, it is not in arguing with our enemies, it is not in letter writing or pointless protests, it is not in powerless 'constitutional monarchies', it is in our souls, in our spirits, our peoples, the men of the west.

We are weak, many of us still believe vainly in 'democracy', but if we can get past this, just a small minority can change things, how many men were involved in instigating the French Revolution? Or the Russian Revolution? Not many, a few thousand at most, they led, they seized power from weakened governments, they did not campaign for election, they took power, not that I like the Jacobins or Bolsheviks in any way, I despise them and their works. But we must take lessons from their exploits, if we are ever to be serious, we need to discard our antique and unthinking belief in 'democracy' or voting or trying to convince the majority, the majority will always just go along with the way things are, we must think the unthinkable!

We are a lost people, a rudderless sham of a civilisation, if we don't do something serious soon, even that shadow of what we once were will be gone.

It's time for a counterrevolution.

The Days Have gone Down in the West!

'Where is the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain,
like wind in the meadow.
The days have gone down in the West
behind the hills into shadow.
How did it come to this?'

- King Theoden, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

I sometimes think that the 'west' that is so often invoked by various people has long since passed, the 'west' that we have now is a husk of it's former self, a parody of what the 'west' once was.

The nobility, the charity, the decency of our forefathers is gone, the selfishness and nihilism of the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks and capitalists has drained us most of our morality and vitality.

We seem entranced by trash, the trash of television and celebrity, the trash and lies of 'free love', the deception of 'get rich quick', the lies of relativism.

'The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.' What are we left with? Licence, promiscuity, a love of death, a toleration of lies, a rejection of God, a contempt of our past, of our forefathers and their decency.

'How did it come to this?' The concept of revolution, of progress and a disposal of the past.

No people, no race, no one can live completely cut off from who they are, no one, no people, no race can pretend that they popped into being with nothing behind them. We seem content with the lies told us, we seem happy with our lot.

I don't feign to know all things, I know myself too well for that, I see my weaknesses vividly, I see the procrastination, the unholy, the impure, I l know my imperfections and the few strengths. I don't condemn my fellow westerners, my fellow Christian brothers, I lament their weaknesses, I mourn their uncaring regard for their peoples, I wish that they could be stronger.

I read a comment on a blog, I can't remember which, the gist of which of which, was that we we(white westerners) were like the Elves in the Lord of the Rings, that we had lived in this world, had molded it to our desires, had created such beauty, yet, through our avarice and folly had lost this world, just when we had everything in our power, and that we were now condemned to a slow by inexorable decline, to be overtaken by other, newer races, who would inherit that which we had created and cultivated.

I don't know how exact this is, but is does seem apt!

I hope that we can find ourselves again, I hope we can recover from the guilt of total war, genocide and slavery, I hope, that we can be who we once were, I hope!

Jean Gambell dies!

I remember reading about a poor woman Jean Gambell, who was falsely accused of theft of half a Crown when she was 15 years of age in 1937. She was arrested, sectioned for some reason and then she disappeared into the system.

The Half Crown was latter found, so no crime was actually committed!

Yet, Jean remained in custody.

She was kept in Lunatic asylums and Orwellian named 'care homes' until someone realised she was not mad and in fact had been telling the truth all the years she had been kept incarcerated by the 'caring state'!

Well, one month after she was released, after being robbed of her life, she has died!

I bet the 'care system' is wiping its brow, and sighing with relief, they don't have to apportion blame or give out any 'compo' now the old bat is dead! Such good timing!

Those lying, thieving scumbags!

'She was sectioned under the 1890 Lunacy Act and even though the money was later found, she has been moved from mental institution to mental institution. More recently, she went into a care home and has been lost to her family, who thought she was dead.'

This poor girl had her entire life taken from her! All because of a mistake, or perhaps petty malice that got out of control?

Ah yes, remember this the next time someone tells you, 'there should be a law to prevent such and such' or 'the government should so something about such and such', remember this and tell them that this is what happens when the government does something, it does this because it does not care, it does this because, it is run by weak people who make mistakes, it is like this because the types of people who work for government agencies are usually lazy, incompetent or both.

"I couldn't believe it. I suddenly realised that my sister was still alive. I rang the care home straight away and they confirmed that our sister was there." He and his brother Alan, who had last seen their sister as small children when she was allowed to visit home with two wardens as guards, travelled to the Macclesfield home.

They were told by staff that their 85-year-old sister was deaf, could only communicate in writing and was very unlikely to remember them.

"A little old lady on walking sticks came in," said Alan. "She looked at us and cried out: 'Alan...David'. Then she put her arms around us. It was very emotional.

"I am sure that what has kept her going all these years was the challenge of proving to the authorities that she had a family. The trouble was, nobody would listen to her."

This is such a sad story, what wickedness was done to this poor girl, they took away her life, they took away the potential for her to have children, they took away her grandchildren and her husband, they took away her chance of having a home, a family and love, they stole what is most precious, her freedom, and now no compensation can repay her for this great evil done to her.

It makes no difference that this was an unintentional evil, it makes no difference if there were people who worked around her that were nice, thoughtful and friendly, it makes no difference if people really believed they were doing the best they could for her, in the end, they are as guilty as the most ruthless kidnappers, thieves or murderers.

'She spent years, lost in a maze of institutions and care homes, trying to convince people in authority that she had a family. But nobody would believe her.'

They took this girl away from her friends and family, her father and mother died not knowing her fate, she not knowing theirs.

Such wickedness!

I just hope she can now rest in peace, the government and it's 'care system', can no longer torment her!

Telegraph

Times

BBC

American puppy killers!

It is odd, is it not, that after possibly hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths in Iraq, after massacres of civilians by United States Marines and soldiers, after torture of dusky looking men in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other undisclosed places around the world. After showering cities, farms and villages with some of the most potent of modern weaponry, after allowing Islamists to terrorise the Christians of the Middle East into flight or hiding, Americans are finally becoming outraged with their Armed Forces, not for any of the above, no, they are outraged that a young American in uniform apparently killed a puppy!

Does anyone else see something profoundly strange, indeed, perverse about the above?

Yes, it was not nice what they did, I thought 'the poor thing' when I watched it, but it is not a man or a child or a woman, it is a dog! A puppy, it is not human!

It seems that Americans have their morals all inverted, they come across as self righteous, born again Christians, yet, their nation has spawned most of the ills of the modern world! From the Gay rights agenda to feminism, from the largest porn industry in the world, to a wreckless disregard for the lives of non - Americans.

And yet, when a puppy is killed, they see nothing odd, nothing strange with venting fury on this soldier who betrayed a nastiness inherent in most Americans, a nastiness that they see nothing wrong with when Arabs or Afghans or 'Gooks' are on the receiving end!

If this is what is upsetting modern Americans, then they are in for a shock, this sort of arrogance and blinded self righteousness will not go unpunished for very much longer.

The video is here,

Carpe Diem

Seize the day, live as if this is your last day alive! Carpe Diem!

This was something I used to think, it was something I have uttered inanely whilst drunk! It is the attitude of the Universities, the press, our whole culture! Carpe Diem!

It was only a few days ago when I pondered the meaning of this, 'live for the day', what can it mean? For those who have faith it can mean something quite different from the unbeliever, for this world, it means have sex when you want, with whom you want, whenever you want. It means eat, eat and eat until you turn into a 20 stone blob of living lard! It means swear and curse those who get in your way or who irritate you, it means never forgive, never forget, it means lie if it gets you what you want, it means deceive, cheat and betray if this suits you!

If people really 'lived for the day', what would it look like?

Like some of our city centres on a Saturday night! If one truly lived for the day and you had no faith it would mean one would rape a woman that took one's fancy, it would mean steal instead of work, it would mean murder those whom you hate, it would mean betray those one loved, it would mean chaos, it would look like hell!

The truth is most people don't really believe Carpe Diem, decent people work! Why work? Not for amusement, people work so they can pay their bills, buy a house, support their family and enjoy their lives. Most people remain faithful to their spouse most of the time, why? Love.

Criminals are the people who most closely follow this 'live for the day' lark, and with out God, more do so all the time.

A better phrase would be 'live for tomorrow', for this is what we should be aiming for, we should be bettering ourselves, investing in our families, friends and neighbours. We know from scripture that God hates theft, almost as much as he hates murder, we also know he loves righteousness, but what is righteousness? It is not an absence of theft and murder, it is something positive, it is a litany of good actions that build up to make us who we are, humility in little actions every day, decency toward others, generosity, kindness, faith.

It seems to me that we become who we are; this happens over time, good people are those who do lots of little seemingly irrelevant good things over time, bad people are those who do lots of bad things over time. Selfishness seems to be the root of this and Carpe Diem if taken seriously implies selfishness on a grand scale.

There are of course times when we are presented with an opportunity, which would be foolish to turn down, but this is not the same as self absorbed attitude that we should 'live for the day', this is just part of the wider attitude in the degraded society of ours, that we owe no allegiance to anyone or anything, that we should endulge every desire and damn the consequences.

Sin has consequences, so too does righteousness, we deserve most of the good or bad things that come our way, they are as a result of earlier deeds, its karma!

So forget about Carpe Diem, think Carpe Crastinum!