VDH

Funny you should mention the Byzantine Empire. I recently finished that volume of The Cambridge Medieval History. In fact, the Byzantines were the original iconoclasts around the eighth century into the ninth century. This brought about the first major break between the Latin and Greek Churches. It took another 30-50 years after the fall the Isaurian Dynasty for the Greek Church to revert to its previous position. I find Orthodox Church theology is close to many Protestant denominations, which follow the Bible more closely than the Roman Catholic Church. But that is another discussion. 

Of course, the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire cannot be summed up in a page or two, but I think VDH sells them short. Although I have read history extensively, I had forgotten, or did not know, how deeply involved the Eastern Roman Empire was with the West until I started on the Cambridge History. Even though Rome fell to Aleric in AD410 and the generally recognized date of the demise of the Western Empire is AD476, for centuries thereafter those who ruled the various parts of what had been the Western Empire turned to the Emperor in the East for legitimacy. 

From the time of Christianity becoming the official religion of the Roman Empire (circa AD376) all Christian bishops from Rome to Jerusalem came under the protection of the Emperor in Constantinople. The Pope was considered a first among equals, but he did not have the power to dictate to the rest of the bishops, including the Patriarch of Constantinople. Although Constantinople was not one of the ancient bishoprics of the Church, due to its location it gained power that it would, otherwise, not have had.  One might say that this is the original seed of the schism. (My belief)

As the centuries wore on, the Pope had increasing troubles from various quarters, which encroached upon Church lands. The problem came to a head with the Lombards who pushed the Pope(s) continually. The Emperor's ability or willingness to protect the Pope was basically absent. In its absence, the Pope had to turn elsewhere for protection. He turned to the Franks, which were the first powerful Germanic tribe to accept Trinitarian Christianity as opposed to the Arian version, which the Lombards practiced.

It was with Charlemagne's father, Pepin, who made the first agreements between the Pope and the Franks. And it was with Charlemagne that they came to their height of fruition. The Carolingians, Pepin and Charlemagne, made short work of the Lombards and then became King of the Lombards as well as King of the France (Francia).

Basically, a deal was made between the Pope and the Carolingians which gave the Carolingians legitimacy. They were actually "Mayors of the Palace" for the Merovingian dynasty, but were in fact the real power in Francia. With the Pope's official blessing, they deposed the last Merovingian and became Kings of France. Charlemagne and Pope Leo III took it further. Leo crowned Charlemagne in Rome in AD800. This was, effectively, the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire, although the actual creation took place some hundred years later. Charlemagne became not only the King of Francia, but Emperor of the (theoretically continued) Roman Empire in the West. In effect, the Frankish Kings became protectors of the Catholic Religion in Europe.

This, in my opinion, is where the real division of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox (which was also called Catholic) Churches took deep root. 

You wouldn't believe how complex. The compilation is over 3,000 pages. And the more I read, the more I realize I don't know. Life, and therefore history, is complicated. 

This is definitely not your father's Oldsmobile.

Absolutely. And many of these assholes are fleeing the sewers which they created and coming here. Go back you pricks! Suffer the consequences of what you have sown. 

Blues state blues will lead to Red state regrets  

Note, Collin County has received the second largest contingent of these bacilli.  The infectious know who they are. 

Bremerton, Washington, used to be a bit of an oasis in all of libtard Western Washington (with Eastern Washington – east of the Cascade mountains – being generally conservative). We're a military town, perhaps unlike anything that exists in America except for Norfolk. We are a small town with a yuge (generally friendly) gorilla in our midst. One of my father's accomplishments as mayor was to get the Navy to pay a little B&O tax. The city was in the situation of gaining much employment from the Navy but still having significant expenses for infrastructure that the Navy was unburdened in regards to paying for.

Things are changing, with the main infection points being: the media, the proximity of Seattle, the local college, and idiot women. I don't say that flippantly. Just as Seattle has outright Communists on their city council, we've had some doozy idiot women in our government. Just as some men (Hitler comes to mind) would have done the world a service had he stuck to painting, so there are many communities around the nation that would be better off if the various offenders would have just stayed home baking cookies.

Increasingly we are living in the video game, "Revenge of the Zombies," where no neighborhood is safe and the zombies just keep coming and coming. Yes, you can move, and many have. But they will likely find you there too.

I was thinking today, I have a New Grand Theory to categorize all this. It doesn't purport to explain it, but it does in part. Mr. Kung had noted how in times past, the Christian worldview really was the way people saw and lived the world, much as Islam (that evil pestilence upon mankind) does today, but in a bad way.

No one here is a devout Christian or orthodox Jew, so far as I know. And yet we live and think as if we were living in a time when societies were formed by grand ideas (as opposed to stupid ideas). This is why VDH is so appealing. We can see that he is one of us, even though we know nothing about his family, his life, and various other things. But we know he's not a zombie.

And today we are living amongst zombies. The ideas of traditional and historical American society were founded upon some very high ideals and some time-tested principles, both in terms of how we formed the government and how we generally formed and lived our lives. We weren't all uniformly this or that. The North certainly differed much from the South, and vice versa. And until the Civil War, we could at least say that we were not all insane.

People worked, raised families, went to church or synagogue, helped build the one-room schoolhouse, and generally had a stake in building civilization from scratch. There was very little, either in government or among our neighbors, to support really stupid and bad ideas. This is the message of freedom. If left to our own devices, we won't be perfect, but we will not unite under Really Stupid Ideas because such ideas will not be given enough oxygen to survive long. The underlying realities of life, combined with the freedom to pursue the betterment of one's circumstances, meant it would not be easy to go off on tangents of ideology, for there was no widespread reason to support kooky ideas and idiots.

Contrast that with today. Just think about it. Think about the vast structures that exist today that make it extremely easy for kooky and bad ideas, idiots, ideological thugs, and just the plain mentally ill to grab hold of the sphere of ideas and ram our society off the rails. The zombies are coming for us, no matter where we live, and they will not leave us alone.

And it really is a Zombie Culture (suggesting a new thread title, if not a site-name change). Those who center their lives around pop-driven fads (which also inform and form their morals) become zombies. I realize that with few exceptions, I cannot speak to my fellow citizen in a way that would not bump up against the zombified ideas they have gobbled up from television, movies, the news, school, or just the dumb-fuck 13-year-old hysterical teenage girls whose trauma is amplified for all of us to suffer via "social media."

However you want to term it, or explain it, or analyze it, you will admit that there is a new center for how people live and form their lives, and it is by the social-contagion-amplifying means of, not mass media, but the new instant and ever-changing mass media that is the Vomitorium called "social media," where no bad idea can't be one-upped by an even worse one in a perverse competition for social fame and "likes" fortune.

Remember, right now there is some weirdo somewhere doing weird things and gaining millions of attentive viewers on Facebook or Instagram. However you wish to understand Zombie Culture, it is a completely different universe from ones that we are well aware of, that worked, and that we now see being invaded and taken over by the Zombies. And these Zombies we can't even have a conversation with because their minds have been taken over by the habitual infestation of Really Stupid Things. The best of themselves has been warped and ruined as they accommodate these various Really Stupid Things. It's like putting sand in the gasoline tank of humanity.

So when I see some idiot woman with "she/her/hers" on her business card, I'm looking at a Zombie. This is not someone I can relate to. This is a different species. I know Artler has a plan to keep them out which includes a lot of lead. And perhaps that is exactly why we have all those (really dumb) zombie video games. Perhaps some bazillionaire was thinking ahead and thought this would be a good way to prepare the select few against the coming storm. Certainly Musk has the money to do this behind the scenes.

We can parse it, explain it, observe it, and dislike it. But the Zombie Culture is apparently impervious to our stance on it. It just keeps creating more Zombies. Given the sheer amount of lead that has been stashed away by so many gun owners, I think many of us are on the same page here, even if they haven't thought of it explicitly in these terms.

It's interesting the VDH is one of the few to mention this fact. Others might mock it as sort of a cult. But it is indeed a religion. It is impenetrable to reason.

I think it was at American Thinker where a guy had an article mentioning the last couple of VDH articles and some other guy's article. It was a hodgepodge but the message was "There is no through...there is only out." And although that will sound defeatist for the "Don't Mess with Texas (or Arkansas)" crowd, I don't see an alternative.

Idiot Chicago voters just voted for more crime, and all because the other staunchly Democrat candidate was seen as a closet Republican because he emphasized the need for law enforcement. It's one thing to be "accepting" of men dressing as women (or vice versa). Theoretically, at worst, only the aesthetics of common sense and dignity are betrayed.

But when you talk about a culture that is increasingly giving black criminals a pass, you're talking about a serious blow to a civilization. Same with the debt and degradation of the military and education...and the media, movies, news, and everything else the Left has touched.


So we shall live out the rest of our lives while the clowns drive the clown cart. And we will try to insulate ourselves from this as much as possible and wait for the inevitable breakdown of civil order.

Isn't that the truth.



That is exactly my point of view as well.

VDH gives a nice history lesson. He also recites many of the present insane policies and actions which have brought the country close to collapse. He even says there is a counterrevolution building. Yet, even if this is true, (which I don't necessarily believe to be the case) I see the weapons of control wielded by our modern state are more powerful than those at the disposal of the Jacobins in 1793. 

I do not believe our Wokefarians will simply concede defeat and fade away. They have already shown they will lie, cheat, steal, use physical force, the security state and judiciary to maintain power. To physically wrest control from our modern Jacobins will likely be much bloodier than the violence visited upon Robespierre and Co.