Jan 18, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
I've been thinking about this for a while now and honestly, I think it's their Achilles heel. They don't understand 'normal' people. They see us as their subordinate obviously, but it's worse than that, they believe this nonsense that we're all lazy idiots who want a quiet life. They don't understand how strong the need is to build something, to work for a living, to raise a family, to have boldly autonomy. They've kept so many people impoverished for so long they believe it's the fault of the poor and that there his no desire to lead a fulfilling life. I, like most people, don't ask for much, but work and autonomy, the right to own property, to find a job I enjoy is paramount and they totally underestimate that in people. I hope it will be their downfall because hardworking people (like the Canadian truckers) will draw the line.
Jan 18, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Fantastic. I have been reading more and more of CS Lewis’s work in the last year, and he has proven quite prophetic. I hadn’t read this essay yet, so thank you for sharing.
Jan 18, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
I agree with most of this, except the idea that christianity is the root of the principles of individual freedom for society? The enlightenment was a period of breaking out of the mold of subservience to church and kings, which cs lewis, tolkien and other Catholic philosophers refuse to acknowledge. The influence of native Americans ideals of a free society and individual are also regularly ignored in the litany of concepts cited that led to the Declaration of Independence, which is far more advanced on such subjects than the magna carta could hope to be.
Jan 19, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Big fan of C S Lewis, yet this is prescient beyond imagination.
In NZ we had to suffer through the daily pronouncements from the ‘(p)odium of truth’, where our Queen, oops Leader, proclaimed that they were the only “truth” worth trusting. And yet Lewis, in true prophetic mode, writes:
“Again, the new oligarchy must more and more base its claim to plan us on its claim to knowledge. If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. This means they must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the end the politicians proper become merely the scientists’ puppets.”
Indeed mother thought she knew best. Thank God today, Jacinda Ardern resigned as Prime Minister. The question remains, will Justice be served this side of eternity?
Jan 19, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
So CS Lewis was another of those time travellers was he? He certainly saw where we were heading.
As for John Kerry...these old hubristic fools need to be reminded that they are not immortal and will surely go the way of all flesh. Davos is an echo chamber full of arrogant fools. At some point the slumbering lions will awake and shake off their chains (I hope) because they are many and the fools are few. (to paraphrase Shelley)
Jan 19, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
The lack of science and data behind these too obvious hyperbolic statements is staggering. Up until now credentialed people who know this have kept quiet but if we have learned anything from the Covid fiasco it is that if they do that they are complicit in the nefarious agenda of these self proclaimed elites saviours of the world. The medics and scientists who remained quiet or bought the koolaide on Covid are beginning to wake up and speak up. The climate equivalent must happen at the same time or the world WILL suffer a planetary catastrophe, just one that is made by the WEF crazies. I’d say the WEF have planetary sized egos and suffer from a planetary wide delusion but clearly it is bigger than that, it is “extra terrestrial”! Words fail me... What a fucking nut job!
Jan 19, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
The situation is simple. Two issues.
Protectionism vs Globalism.
Either protect the people or exploit them.
Normalcy vs Sociopathy
Kindness or Cynicism
Objectivity vs Subjectivity.
This the English Enlightenment(objectivity) vs the French(Marxism and subjectivity).
It stretches back into antiquity.
Rationalism or Irrationalism.
Stoisism vs Hedonism
Normalcy vs Narssissm
Realism vs Naivety
Combine these two, and you get the cynical exploiters, using the naive masses as a weapon against normal people.
Among other things, they weaponise their desires for unbridled hedonism which when not guarded always turn to the perverse . They dangle up carrots which can not be reached, like the ultimate cultural diverse society (meaning ethnic). Another carrot is a world without police, without armies, without parenting serting boundaries, free drugs and all other nonsense utopia.
Jan 19, 2023Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
This is awesome, and timeless.
"What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about ‘Man taking charge of his own destiny’. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others."
I've been thinking about this for a while now and honestly, I think it's their Achilles heel. They don't understand 'normal' people. They see us as their subordinate obviously, but it's worse than that, they believe this nonsense that we're all lazy idiots who want a quiet life. They don't understand how strong the need is to build something, to work for a living, to raise a family, to have boldly autonomy. They've kept so many people impoverished for so long they believe it's the fault of the poor and that there his no desire to lead a fulfilling life. I, like most people, don't ask for much, but work and autonomy, the right to own property, to find a job I enjoy is paramount and they totally underestimate that in people. I hope it will be their downfall because hardworking people (like the Canadian truckers) will draw the line.
Fantastic. I have been reading more and more of CS Lewis’s work in the last year, and he has proven quite prophetic. I hadn’t read this essay yet, so thank you for sharing.
I agree with most of this, except the idea that christianity is the root of the principles of individual freedom for society? The enlightenment was a period of breaking out of the mold of subservience to church and kings, which cs lewis, tolkien and other Catholic philosophers refuse to acknowledge. The influence of native Americans ideals of a free society and individual are also regularly ignored in the litany of concepts cited that led to the Declaration of Independence, which is far more advanced on such subjects than the magna carta could hope to be.
Brilliantly insightful words from C.S. Lewis!
Big fan of C S Lewis, yet this is prescient beyond imagination.
In NZ we had to suffer through the daily pronouncements from the ‘(p)odium of truth’, where our Queen, oops Leader, proclaimed that they were the only “truth” worth trusting. And yet Lewis, in true prophetic mode, writes:
“Again, the new oligarchy must more and more base its claim to plan us on its claim to knowledge. If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. This means they must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the end the politicians proper become merely the scientists’ puppets.”
Indeed mother thought she knew best. Thank God today, Jacinda Ardern resigned as Prime Minister. The question remains, will Justice be served this side of eternity?
Lewis and Chesterton were prophets; they understood and tried to tell us.
"And on a totally unrelated note, in Davos we are being told about a “planetary” and “justice” crisis. We are facing mass extinction."
Yeah, from them.
"as many as 3 billion people will live in uninhabitable zones...
How does that work?
I do not think that word means what she thinks it means 🤔🤣
So CS Lewis was another of those time travellers was he? He certainly saw where we were heading.
As for John Kerry...these old hubristic fools need to be reminded that they are not immortal and will surely go the way of all flesh. Davos is an echo chamber full of arrogant fools. At some point the slumbering lions will awake and shake off their chains (I hope) because they are many and the fools are few. (to paraphrase Shelley)
The lack of science and data behind these too obvious hyperbolic statements is staggering. Up until now credentialed people who know this have kept quiet but if we have learned anything from the Covid fiasco it is that if they do that they are complicit in the nefarious agenda of these self proclaimed elites saviours of the world. The medics and scientists who remained quiet or bought the koolaide on Covid are beginning to wake up and speak up. The climate equivalent must happen at the same time or the world WILL suffer a planetary catastrophe, just one that is made by the WEF crazies. I’d say the WEF have planetary sized egos and suffer from a planetary wide delusion but clearly it is bigger than that, it is “extra terrestrial”! Words fail me... What a fucking nut job!
Thank you for sharing this! And there will be no bending of the knee to these lunatics I can promise you that!
Wonderful find. We just don't learn do we?
It's a "planetary and justice crisis" alright and they created it and now we are supposed to believe they are the only ones who can fix it!
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
The situation is simple. Two issues.
Protectionism vs Globalism.
Either protect the people or exploit them.
Normalcy vs Sociopathy
Kindness or Cynicism
Objectivity vs Subjectivity.
This the English Enlightenment(objectivity) vs the French(Marxism and subjectivity).
It stretches back into antiquity.
Rationalism or Irrationalism.
Stoisism vs Hedonism
Normalcy vs Narssissm
Realism vs Naivety
Combine these two, and you get the cynical exploiters, using the naive masses as a weapon against normal people.
Among other things, they weaponise their desires for unbridled hedonism which when not guarded always turn to the perverse . They dangle up carrots which can not be reached, like the ultimate cultural diverse society (meaning ethnic). Another carrot is a world without police, without armies, without parenting serting boundaries, free drugs and all other nonsense utopia.
This is awesome, and timeless.
"What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about ‘Man taking charge of his own destiny’. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others."