I used to know Italy very well, back decades ago, what a wonderful country. But then a pathology set in and they stopped having children, and then began letting migrants in instead. This issue is not just a Western pathology, Japan and Korea, and now China too (although with its once child laws) and to me means people are just not taught of the duty to family and country. It is sad. My Generation, Boomers, got it in our heads that life was for one’s self. That chasing our interests was the primary importance. We have become old artists with pets now, as a generation.
The disconnect between being part of society fully was lost. In old fashioned morality it was seen as the duty of good people to leave something in the world when they passed, and leaving good children behind to keep the society working was seen as the primary one. As we age it is utterly selfish to get our pensions, live off society with out producing for it – this was the function of children. The circle. Society raised you, you then worked at producing goods, and then your children produce and you can be idle for your old age, as their child will when they finish their working life, and so society works, a circle, and is healthy.
Yes ten thousand times to this. As someone sympathetic to the claims of right wing Liberalism – capital L, free market, patriotic – it has taken me some time to realise the superior wisdom of the Conservatives, but it is coming home to me with increasing force. Life lived purely for individual fulfilment too easily becomes, through the unwisdom of the isolated ego, a quest for immediate gratification which sacrifices society, and with society the really profound and durable joys of being human. This delusion survived partly because we let the socialist idiots define “society” as the bossy, hostile state when in fact it is the living culture of the ethnic community, to which we more willingly contribute and for which we are prepared to lay down our lives. The self is nothing without a context and the real context is ethno-cultural. “Class” is not the division but the articulation of society and the left’s moronic attempt to make it the lodestar of identity was just the first step into the abyss of petty resentment which is now engulfing us.
More and more people becoming “citizens of nowhere” is a tragedy.
The wealthy can afford some compensations, but must surely “rot from the inside” also.
Last edited 2 years ago by Ian Barton
David Simpson
2 years ago
The real problem is money – we have monetised everything, and the family and the bedrock of society, have become a) unaffordable and b) by comparison with all the other things I could be doing – holidays, stuff, entertainment – less immediately attractive. That’s not socialism, or capitalism, it’s just making money a substitute for everything truly worth living for. We know the price of everything, and the value of nothing
Christopher Barclay
2 years ago
Draghi is the ruler imposed by the imperial EU on its colony Italy. Opposition to Draghi is opposition to the imperial power and a cry for freedom.
I used to know Italy very well, back decades ago, what a wonderful country. But then a pathology set in and they stopped having children, and then began letting migrants in instead. This issue is not just a Western pathology, Japan and Korea, and now China too (although with its once child laws) and to me means people are just not taught of the duty to family and country. It is sad. My Generation, Boomers, got it in our heads that life was for one’s self. That chasing our interests was the primary importance. We have become old artists with pets now, as a generation.
The disconnect between being part of society fully was lost. In old fashioned morality it was seen as the duty of good people to leave something in the world when they passed, and leaving good children behind to keep the society working was seen as the primary one. As we age it is utterly selfish to get our pensions, live off society with out producing for it – this was the function of children. The circle. Society raised you, you then worked at producing goods, and then your children produce and you can be idle for your old age, as their child will when they finish their working life, and so society works, a circle, and is healthy.
Yes ten thousand times to this. As someone sympathetic to the claims of right wing Liberalism – capital L, free market, patriotic – it has taken me some time to realise the superior wisdom of the Conservatives, but it is coming home to me with increasing force. Life lived purely for individual fulfilment too easily becomes, through the unwisdom of the isolated ego, a quest for immediate gratification which sacrifices society, and with society the really profound and durable joys of being human. This delusion survived partly because we let the socialist idiots define “society” as the bossy, hostile state when in fact it is the living culture of the ethnic community, to which we more willingly contribute and for which we are prepared to lay down our lives. The self is nothing without a context and the real context is ethno-cultural. “Class” is not the division but the articulation of society and the left’s moronic attempt to make it the lodestar of identity was just the first step into the abyss of petty resentment which is now engulfing us.
More and more people becoming “citizens of nowhere” is a tragedy.
The wealthy can afford some compensations, but must surely “rot from the inside” also.
The real problem is money – we have monetised everything, and the family and the bedrock of society, have become a) unaffordable and b) by comparison with all the other things I could be doing – holidays, stuff, entertainment – less immediately attractive. That’s not socialism, or capitalism, it’s just making money a substitute for everything truly worth living for. We know the price of everything, and the value of nothing
Draghi is the ruler imposed by the imperial EU on its colony Italy. Opposition to Draghi is opposition to the imperial power and a cry for freedom.