And what have you got to replace the institutions with? Bloody revolutionaries. They just tear things apart without thinking about what gets lost or having anything better to replace things with, instead of reforming or building on what is already there. The modern West is filled with perennial teenagers who harbour these attitudes
I can understand why though. The country is in a bad place so the public response is to elect a Labour government, who hate us even more. There is no hope for the English now. The time it took me to type this another dinghy full of our replacements has arrived.
He moans about the establishment-yet he clearly adores it, and loves being interviewed every week; writing for a top newspaper; mixing with the famous; living in a nice part of London; sending his children to good schools, etc. He isn't a Stoic philosopher who has retired to the hills and dedicated himself to modest living & the reading of the classics. He's a socialite and gossiper, in the thick of it all, with a faux Stoic veneer. It's all hypocrisy and treacherous whining. I think the secret to Hitchens is that he hasn't really outgrown his Trotskyism. That was back then a way a trendy middle-class Westerner could affect a tragically hopeless cause, and since then he's found a new way of being a glamorous loser.
Hitchens believes nobody hates the establishment more than himself, so I think that's why he's surprised to learn there were many more people who would rather see the Tories lose than Labour.
Hitchens has made a very comfortable living from peddling "The end is nigh" on his sandwich board opinion pieces for a very long time....his brand of pessimism is as old as the hills. The corrosive doom mongering of an increasingly irrelevant rootless cosmopolitan has no power to negate the fact that we are still here...England lives !!
@@magouliana32 Yep. They live on reservations, with their own schools and police. The reservations are pretty grim. Full of drugs, prostitution and alcoholism. A glimpse into our own future once the caliphate of Britistan is established.
Even if he's right and even if he truly believes every word that he says in this regard...the moral thing to do is to lie. As Morgoth states, we're still here. We have children. We exist. We have to believe that they have a future. Larping it into reality is our only hope. We're not confused about what the odds of "winning"/survival are. Why marinade in it? Does he think he's clever for observing how bad things are? It's gross.
Hitchens is just a thoroughly arrogant man who liked to believe he was the lone voice of reason in the crowd. The moment he realised he wasn’t, he decided to spit bile and insult anyone who wasn’t him. The ultimate wounded egotist.
Gaels/Welsh/scotish/anglos are all my people, are all native to these islands and are our cuzzens, we share blood, history, art style, culture, soil and war. Were a family that doesnt get on but were family regardless and we need to refind that love for our peoples again
Peter is still fundamentally a materialist. He cares about things, he doesn't care about, or even seriously grasp, the reality behind the things he describes. Toby jugs and nice churches are the result of a _spiritual reality_ which this country has fled. Those things are just a past external expression of a reality which is gone. His elegy makes no mention of the Christianity he claims to believe in, he only mentions the outward forms of a dead tradition. He believes in dead things. Peter Hitchens and his conservatism are yawning sepulchres.
good. materialism is the truth and braindead reactionaries need to get over their religious larping. those monuments to lies ought to be torn down. you’re not actually saying anything substantive here, it’s all right wing drivel yearning for an objectively worse age. christianity is bad and the bricks it scattered everywhere are images of regression and cloistered tradlarp BS. seethe all you want righties, you lost
No worries, we Navajos have experienced this, we survived and will do our best to survive. You will triumph over this, you have millions of English, I just have 300,000 Navajo. Sure the UK may fall, as a people you need to survive, gather in communities and keep foreigners out of it, let it all fall and then come back and pick up the pieces.
You were allowed to survive, and given land to survive on. The people who conquered you did not pretend to be an oppressed part of your tribe whose destiny was to suppress you for their own survival.
@@shaunpatrick8345Yes but it was horrendous for lots of them,the buffalo were slaughtered to starve out the natives.Terrible destruction.Dont imagine it was all done honourably.
Hitchens was a classical commie when he was young, and now he's a rich boomer. He gives the stock answers to social problems we would expect from someone who's attempting to maintain his own audience of boomers all trying to maintain the status quo, a couple of revenue generating rental properties, and investments in the stock market.
I do wonder if his Position wasn't totally self serving , perhaps he decided he He couldn't bring his mail on Sunday audience into a anti tory position
@@RichardPhillips1066 I do like him, and his brother was great despite not really being missed by anybody after his passing. Both hold stodgy ideological views that might have been compelling to some seeking comfort in not peering too deeply into the abyss, but both appear to deliberately miss the mark on the current zeitgeist, and seemingly, for self-serving reasons.
@@kachmi he's just a faded old Tory, who hates radicals IMHO, he's no ally , He's only interesting because he's well spoken , intelligent and honest about Britain's decline.. and refused to go along with David cameroon's change of the party
I'm sure someone will show this to Hitchens, and he'll say words to the effect of "you're not on my level" because as we all know he's had a column in the Mail on Sunday for over 2 decades now because he's really smart and doesn't answer to anyone.
I try to imagine whoever still invests himself into MSM media. For me it is impossible to even watch 5 seconds of it without predicting the narrative arc in its totality. It is dismaying.
I miss the old English countryside, church congregations, politeness etc as much as the next man. But isn't it telling this is what Hitchens focus is, and not extinction level birth rates of natives, the biggest losses of civil liberties in history, hard working young people unable to buy a house, eye watering taxes. Ultimately the boomers have experienced such little of the downsides for the last 14 years that I think you can say they're not living in the same country as the rest of us. Like Hitchens, they'd rather just hold off the collapse for as long as they're around, then leave future generations to pay the bill and try and pick up the pieces.
Hitchens describing Reform as 'nationalist' is rather close to the way the party is described by the far left media. 'We need to reduce mass migration numbers because it's putting pressure on public services and making house prices go up' is about the most milquetoast reasoning for cutting migration they could find.
Using nationalist as a pejorative term reveals his middle class bias. He wants us to think that means ethno nationalism as opposed to the civic version which would be called healthy in just about any other country.
If Reform ever gains power, it would boil down to a free market Thatcherite economic program with a union flag stuck on it. What terrifies the establishment, is the public sentiment which is driving it. Nationalism.
A classic example of why small c conservativeism has failed the West. Its strange, he must of burned out his revolutionary energy in the 70s when he was a Trotskyite.
Hitchens is proof of the smallness of the 'small-c'. For one instance, consider his anti-weed silliness: preparations of all these things not prohibited were over-the-counter medications prior to emergency restriction to protect morale (possibly unwarranted) in 1916, due to fears conscripts, and only conscripts, might go off the rails on leave. We *know*, as a matter of historical record, both that a healthy polity does not need these prohibitions, and that an unhealthy one is not saved by any amount of them. The same goes for his desire to nationalise the railways: we know they were at their best before 'rationalisation' into the Big Four (also post-WWI); those alive at the time attested to it. The Beeching cuts saw track that men - ours - *died* to lay dynamited, and it was *only* possible after 'nationalisation'. It used to be a semi-famous quip that 'the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history', but this too seems to have been forgotten. Now to be sure, legalisation or privatisation is likely to be disastrous. But that is because the polity is unhealthy, and the government alienated. And Hitchens surely knows what Aristotle had to say about 'revolution within the form' when "one thing takes the place of another, so that the ancient laws will remain, while the power will be in the hands of those who have brought about revolution". *We* need a revolution, and if it must be 'within the form', of forms foreign to us, so be it.
@@evolassunglasses4673 like most of his generation, he "rebelled". That is, he allowed himself to be manipulated by the juice into upturning a well established and ordered society.
Their live is so much better than ours, they won't give it up not even to blubbering for the Tories and acknowledging the need to protect the public by fighting the Russians! Liar!
What I don’t get about Hitchens endorsing the tories, apart from the controlled opposition issue, is that he acknowledges that the tories are blairite, just like labour, so either way, you get blairism.
He is not only endorsing the Tories, but every party that is not Labour, except for Reform (because "they are Right-wing Nationalist radicals"). His fear is that Starmer is the next step of Blairism, while the Tories and the rest of the established parties are just old Blairism. He is telling people to vote what he views as the lesser of two evils, while calling the slightest hint of caring for your own people literally worse than Blairism. The hypocrisy is astonishing when you hear his reasoning for the existence of a certain state in the Middle-East, which he has ethnic ties to through his mothers side of the family.
Hitches needs to complete the following sentence. Culture, including Hitchens beloved institutions, is downstream from... Hitchens really has a disdain for the people. That is the root of his black pilling. I agree with him to a point but I refuse to say there is no hope or possibility for change.
Institutions can be thought of as tanks. Hitchens rightly knows that tanks defeat infantry 99% of the time. Yet his pro tank policy is not just anti-infantry it's anti-human
100% I think it's telling that Hitchens bemoans the fact that "nobody was interested" when he 'tried' to make a difference, when all the while Bowden was toiling away, giving far better insight into our predicament. I refuse to believe that the likes of Hitchens were unaware of him.
This island and its inhabitants were here long before the institutions. Most of these institutions were not wanted, formed or implemented by the original inhabitants.
The Toby jug analogy I liked because it exposes how flimsy our institutions have become. The plastic tumbler will crinkle and spill its contents if held too tight. The jug remains firm no matter how tightly held, unless dropped. Sadly the jug was dropped long ago, and all tht remains is the flimsy replacement. If we have any hope at all of surviving it is to reject the crumbling old walls and start all over again really. How far we go back depends on the Choice of our people of course.
I’m sick of Englishmen who mourn the end of quaint little churches, but who would laugh in your face if you suggested they rent a pew. Use it or lose it.
You have the unique ability to highlight things that are not necessarily in full view, but appear glaringly obvious when you shine your insightful analysis on it. The Peter Hitchens conundrum being another example. Keep it up Morgorth!
@@evolassunglasses4673 Classical liberalism is to Anglos what Islam is to Arabs. For Anglos they think being liberal is supposed to be their identity since they created it (liberalism) and a majority of their people are liberals and have been for several centuries now. Seriously, in real life how many Anglo people do you know who fully reject classical liberalism ?
A legendary video as always Morgoth, nice to have seen you on the Lotus Eaters. Like most Boomers Hitchens clings to the WW2 mythos and yearns for a return to it and the country that existed post WW 2 , unaware that by clinging to the institutions he has already seceded the ground to the Blairites who thoroughly control those institutions. Hitchens' conservatism seems like an an appeal to authority, one which rests on nostalgia and the tradition of institutions; to me that seems weak, cowardly, it fails to understand the nature of these British Isles, we're more than a set of institutions, we are a people who have inhabited these isles for an unbroken thousand years. You can see that loathing of nationalism and populism from Hitchens, because it stems from the people not the institutions, I think he sees a certain vulgarity in the raw nature of populism, un-sanitised and un-tempered by his institutions, I think he's bitter because he was a man of the institutions, of the cathedral, and he is no longer part of that; his cathedral was destroyed but he still yearns to be part of it.
@georgealexandermansfield5825 I don't think it's fair to say he clings to the ww2 mythos - he has written a book which goes a long way to undermining it.
@frawDgnicnaD I'd like to think so, but his actions prove otherwise. I think he's too invested in the institutions, even if he thinks WW2 was a mistake, to accept that they're corrupt and have allowed men to further their own ambitions at the expense of the nation and its people. He can't seem to accept that fact, there's also an element of elitism to his objections. Hence, he rail's against vulgure populism. In essence, he's found himself on the wrong side of the power structure but yearns to be part of it once more.
Institutions matter. I definitely prefer good institutions to bad ones. But you can’t abstract them from people. When Belgium granted Congo independence in 1960, they gave it a detailed constitution: a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature consisting of a National Assembly and a Senate; an elected President and a Prime Minister answerable to parliament; an independent judiciary, and so on. As soon as the Belgians left, the constitution began to collapse. By 1965 the country was a military dictatorship under Mobuto.
I agree with all this. As an Englishman who's been an expat most of my life--not because I jumped ship but because I went where work led me--I'm considering returning, partly because I love and miss the country, and partly because I wonder if I could still serve it in some way. But at 69, maybe not? By the way, I'm plebian too, so I hope you won't take it amiss if I point out that The Fighting Temeraire is a magnificent painting by Turner, I think at the Tate.
I started going to Church not because of politics but because I couldn't stand being angry anymore. Through this I've realised just how Nihlistic many people around me are. I listened to one of my family members talk about how he wants to be cremated and would rather not have a funeral, he's a life long labour voter who now despises the left, that hurt to hear. He's also very old and I watch him get obsessed with a new purchase every week, only to be miserable again the next week. Their connection to anything beyond the material has been severed, quite badly.
There needs to be something that reliability causes spirituality. Many people left religion because whatever spiritual experience they were supposed to have never happenned. Also, aspies and autists are far less likely to get it. This end of spirituality might even be why weed, shrooms, and DMT are made hard to get. The PMC doesn't want anything enjoyable that does not make record breaking corporate profits next fiscal quarter.
@@skylinefever One thing I've heard from the Irreverend podcast is that a lot of people are coming back to Christianity because they could see that evil was something real and tangible during the Covid hysteria and it made them question the entire nature of reality. The old cosy agnosticism/comfy conformist atheism didn't really cut it for them anymore.
Are you saying that Semitically co-opted State governments importing the Third World well-passed replacement rate aren't in your best interest? That sounds downright anti-semitic lad.
The Fighting Temeraire was a sailing ship which saved Nelson's ship The Victory at Trafalgar by crashing into a French ship. When it was finally broken up, J Turner painted it being tugged to its fate by a modern steamer. You'll find it depicted on the £20 note. It hangs in the National Gallery.
And like Denethor, so passes Hitchens. If he wants to jump into the abyss, so be it. He's weak, there's nothing else to be said. We're on a war-footing, we don't need people like him.
The problem with the institutions that Hitchens is so keen to preserve is that they are essentially Anglo-Norman institutions, created after 1066 precisely to disempower and exclude the ordinary people of England (and later the rest of Britain and - until they gained their independence - Ireland). The analogy with the Toby Jugs on the one hand and the plastic cup on the other is good as far as it goes, but somehow the Anglo-Normans (and their globalist counterparts elsewhere) have created a series of transitional drinking vessels in which some of the external features of the Toby Jug are retained while they are still incrementally plasticised and standardised.
The Anglo-Normans are not behind the current state of the country, a great deal happened inbetween and the current elite hate the aristocracy because they took power off of them and need to justify it. The Anglo-Normans were only globalist in the sense of wanting to invade France and fight with Muslims, they had no shred of liberalism or post-reformation theology. If they had a sin it was in the duplicity of the embryonic Tory party in going along with the glorious revolution. The main enemy to the country have been non-conformists and liberals (including those of descendant ideologies, like the fabians). The current elite are managerial and ideologically liberal, they aren't an oath based Christian warrior caste, the two groups don't even share ancestry, the modern managerialists are very obviously under bio-leninist pressures while the old Norman stock occasionally turn up when they do something eccentric or impressive enough but are mostly in the private sector or the army, and are quite regional.
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Hitchens is a self satisfied Cassandra with no answers.
Morgoth, you are a light in the darkness. Thank you for sharing your views. We’re beginning to grasp the current Organising Principle and how different it is from the one that allowed Trumpton and the Shires.
Hitchens always struck me as a miserable bellend. I could never really take him seriously as it always seems like he's just trying to wind people up for the sake of it.
20:02 - 20:40 Football is another example of this, an English "institution" that is (right now especially) being held as gospel. How many ethnically English men are there on the England team today?
The older I get the less I care about politics. I got interested in 2016 when I was 16, I'm 24 now, and we have had the same shit for at least a decade when the all gender bathrooms became a thing. I live in canada so it is literally completely over. If we are not explicitly preserving or "conserving" a racial and ethnic grouping then who cares. I can't be bothered to care about politics of New India. It's the same old song and dance.
That's why you get ruled and don't rule. Also why democracy isn't a good system. Edit: To clarify people just give up when the other option is picking up arms or doing anything that inconveniences them. Even if the end result of that is 100 times worse
@@jamesharrison2679 broadly speaking that's correct. I don't wish them harm but I don't care about them and don't want anything to do with their heritage or culture or identity
And the grim coda to all of this is: Do the people even want to be saved? Most of the evidence suggests that they don’t. And tomorrow we have an example of this, when the country “unites” to cheer on the England football team, a complete artifice of England, made up of parts that are not English at all.
It's over. While the people are still there, it's a tiny handful who are fighting while the majority is either apathetic or actively working against them.
The apathy in the people is what really gets at me, like their not fully human to even care about their and their children's future. I grew up observing this but it still astonishes me.
@@kairos_fluent What would you have them do and how would it work out for them? Largely the situation is a prisoner dilemma straightjacket, half-woven by our own tendencies as weaknesses. People avoid short term hardship and so they will get long term hardship, anyway.
Here's a parable: the mass of the UKs population are like bacteria in a petri dish - along comes the liberal/woke antibiotic which 'kills' the spirit of the majority, but a few bacteria with some special mindset mutation are resistant and they survive, grow and take over.
For me, as a younger person, Peter Hitchens is the type of conservative speaker that you eventually realise has no solutions to anything he moans about, so he just becomes irrelevant, and I move on. Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson and now Hitchens.
Well said. I can have mercy on Hitchens bc, to me, he seems like a man who can't get over the loss of a beloved spouse. He's caught in the memory of what was and can't look forward to what could be. I've been there, but appreciate people spreading messages like this, reminding us that people are what matter, not the institutions of our beloved past. Well said.
I just wanted to say that I absolutely love the 15 second intro's and outro's to your new videos. I don't know if I even have words, but it is haunting and inspiring at the same time. There are many great releases in life and each gives intense pleasure to the mind, body and soul. Four come immediately to mind. 1. Warming by the fire on a cold winter day 2. Eating after a period of starving 3. Release of sexual tension 4. The release of death from life. People are accustomed to regarding the first three as intensely pleasurable, while associating the last one with pain. However, the last one is actually the most intense pleasure a person can feel, during a person's final moment of release. One's brain lets go of the heavy burden of consciousness, and one's neurons suddenly drift haplessly into a most carefree state. A dream that fades into paradise and oblivion. The picture with the eye wide open represents seeing all the truth in its fullness, which is life (think New Testament theology). The music represents the intense pleasure of death, to those who do not possess the strength and will to open their eyes and bear the realities of this world. These two elements come together in your intro/outro, in that the people with their eyes open also must observe the deaths of their loved ones and kin, who did not have the strength to endure to the end. In the end we live for them.
Agree 100% - the institutions can be rebuilt so long as the British people endure. I never liked Hitchens either. BTW the analogy of the plastic cup and Toby jug was fantastic
Excellent description. Similar to Matthew Raphael Johnson's recent two part discussion on Nationalism where he spoke of the ethnic group/the folk/the linguistic and historical inheritance as the vital building block of national identity rather than institutions. Hitchens and Scruton types of conservatives have always shied away from such discussions and have never been able to defend anything.
Power abhors a vacuum. That probably explains why politicians are so enamoured with the EU/UN. Once they realised what power was available, whether as individuals entering politics today or the very first empire to ever expand, it can't be unrealised. That devotion of The institutions is devotion of the Empire that was lost. It's the inability to fill the vacuum with anything else, such as the British people for whom the Empire was originally supposed to benefit (for the common good of the nobility.) The inability to distinguish Empire from any version of a better life is probably one of the primary sicknesses/addictions affecting politicians and bureaucrats.
Grandma had a Pam Ayers Toby Jug , she was a staunch conservative, but even she hated the ugly characture, preferring traditional pre Toby jug English drinking receptacles , like cut glass and China , interesting how the drinking vessel gives a hint of the current psyche of the time.
@Morgoth. "The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up", 1838 is a painting by the English artist Turner. The end of the famous English warship in the dying light. Worth looking at this beautiful nationalist painting Hitchens refers to in the article. It's very romantic and apt to his theme. Autodidacts always have gaps :)
@@iandougall7169 Totally understand why you responded to it. It offers such an intense vision of our history. We are dragged in by the glory of it`. Beauty will save the world.
Turner is my favourite English artist. Stylistically his work is beautiful. Atmosphere oozes off the canvas and his subject matter has always struck a chord. Constable is a close second although light-years apart in style.
Peter forgets that the institutions were built up over centuries of fine tuning; habeas corpus, government by consent, liberalism for the individual and not legislation. The Blair changes were top-down, enforced upon the people and inarguable. What he dismisses as populism IS the system he so cherishes.
@thunderstruck1078 basically just agreeing with the video. Government exists to serve a few basic purposes, and arises organically to serve a geographically associated population. Social institutions exist to serve more personal concerns. The Enlightenment over thought the entire process with notions of universal rights, etc. All Government should be local and require participation in social institutions. Central governments exist only to provide for a shared defense of local governments. The entire notion of shared human rights protected by a mega state should be abandoned for the obvious catastrophic failure it has been.
@@stanleyshannon4408 If you were a benevolent dictator who wanted to protect your own people, would you want to rule using a small, weak state or a strong, powerful one? A small, regional government will never do what's necessary to save the English people, even though survival is the ultimate moral issue.
@@thunderstruck1078 you can have both. But if you have a megastate dedicated to some ludicrous proposition that all men are created equal, there can exist no natural, organic community acting in its own best interests.
Don't get it into your heads Brits that Reform are somehow based or like genuinely nationalist. they aren't. They're no different to our One Nation party who's basically wed to the idea of sensible centrist, post-national, post-ethnic 90's neoliberalism. There's nothing particularly nationalist about that.
@@evolassunglasses4673 One Nation here has been since forever, since before I was born but they've been delegitimised or whatever as being a bit too neo no no even though they really aren't. I don't see Australia's Ged Zed voting for them. But they'll vote for complete slop like the Greens and Socialist Alternative or whatever because who the hell else is there? Oh yeah I'm really going to vote in Dutton, oh so based and dissident Dutton. Ha! Lol. What a joke. Politics is just a joke now. It's embarrassing. What the hell is the point in having the mandatory vote? Why? To swear fealty to a party who could not give a shit about me if it tried? Is that what we are now?
Sounds like Hitchen’s is mourning the loss of English class stratification more than English culture & its wider citizens. Agree entirely with your use of the word contempt. Weak people need to either get off their knees or vacate the debate.
He is half Jewish, it makes perfect sense he loved Britain as an institution rather than England as a nation of people, or Scotland as a nation of people etc...
Imagine if Alfred the Great had done his call to arms and no one turned up to fight for their way of life when he started his re conquest of England, to me Hitchens is a worm tongue character causing the downfall of Rohan.
i have for about a year now, been firmly quoting Horus Lupercal's famous phrase "Let the Galaxy Burn!" when in regards to the establishment, politically/financially corrupt institutions, and general modernity's (CULT)ure
Hitchens by his own admission is coming to the end of his life and fears it ends in a gruesome manner in a war-torn Mogadishu-like place. We didn’t do what he wanted when he wanted it so he’s checked out. He’s no longer invested. He tells us to leave. He’s being completely selfish as he wants to enjoy what time he has left in the most comfortable manner. And to hell with the rest of us.
Hitchens, Murray and all the usual so called heroes have let us all down especially during COVID, the single most blatant attack on freedom since, I donno, ever. The Fighting Temeraire is a brilliant painting by Turner showing one of the last battleships that took part in Trafalgar being towed to be scrapped. It's actually a brilliant painting and a searing criticism.
Peter Hitchens seemed very odd around Russia as he knows the country well and I did so can catch him out on things when he covers up the countries difficult reform as illusory.
Something people often forget with Hitchens, he is a failed politician. He ran for parliament several times after being bumped off by the Tory’s. Most of his “hatred” of the party he wanted “stuffed down the plumbing” is because they turned him away. He is in a category of people for me like majority of GB news hanger ons, Sargon of Akkad, who if things ever really do change in this country would need to be pulled into a room reminded of the track record of opinions they held and how they helped sell us further down river, told to piss off because there will never be a place for them.
Maybe the Yanks had a point with 'no taxation without representation'... 66% of Brits who voted didn't get what they wanted, and 20% get a pathetic 5 MPs to represent them. Busted Britain.
Hitchens : Morgoth = Peterson : Nick He'd probably give the same answer about engaging in a conversation: "When the hell freezes over". They know our children won't have a place to call home when they grow up. They are aware of the fact that this existential angst is what (subconsciously or not) drives their audience, but this is not the truth they want to convey to them. The truth on which everything else in our societies depends on. Just some snippets here and there to wet the beak of their audience and keep them coming for more, so they can become millionaires and save just their own children. They are traitors!
Hitchens' thinking is exactly like someone who has been locked inside a straitjacket, and over time, has felt it being "comfortable" after wearing it for so long. He would rather die with the straitjacket on, than experience the sharp joint pains and stiffness taking it off that comes with freedom.
That’s something Christopher greatly exaggerated to fit in the higher echelons of American society. Peter noted that their Jewish ancestry was really only 1/16 or something similar.
@@shrunkensimon lmao, Christopher stretching the truth to the extreme. He also stole the delivery of his Jewish ancestry from an obscure 1982 Irish movie called Angel.
people forget that these cathedrals didnt spring out of the ground, nor did anyone just decide to have a pop at making something nice. there was an ethos and a spirit and way of life that informed the need to make them. the ardent belief that beauty was communication with God and vital to the most urgent need of everyone, which to the medieval mind was salvation. they didn't make pretty things for, as we would say, psychological benefit, because to them it was much deeper than some tertiary function to form and cost. it was pivotal to the reason we were made, to build a pretty thing. you lose that mindset and you lose the pretty things, it is not something so innate in us that cultural conditioning cannot train it out. and that is the more fundamental point, that institutions were born of an ethos and not the other way around. a church was built to bolster the cross on top of it- see now when they convert a church to another night club or block of flats, that the cross is taken down. this is not removing the prime symbol of the west but in fact replacing it with the current one like an enemy standard over the fort. its just that our current symbol is empty space. but thats space yearning to be filled with something again.
Is this the last gasp of the classism? He's just the last upper class (meaning intellectually only) that didn't embrace neo-liberalism? The institutions were always "for" them and they wrapped their whole identity around it. I can't be surprised when they learn that these are no more (crown and Parliment), they think it's over. Anything the British populace create won't do it for them either. No wonder why he countersignals everything. Great work, Morgoth. I think this finally seperated the myth from the reality in whole.
