So the first presidential debate of 2016 is now history. What we learned from it is what most of us suspected: that both candidates are personally corrupt and neither has any idea what to do about solving our national problems. There was some mudslinging, some soundbites thrown around; and the American moved on to Monday Night Football.
Probably the best commentary on the debate came last weekend from Syrian President Dr. Bashir Assad. When AP reporter asked him which candidate he favored, Assad replied: "We never pay attention to US presidential elections. What the candidates say during campaigns is always different than what they do once they're elected." Having Assad in the debate would have made it much more interesting.
What most Americans fail to grasp is that presidents these days are not actually leaders. They are followers of party machines and vested interests. Trump is somewhat unique in that he's a vested interest and a political machine of his own; but the principle still holds true. What too many Americans really want is somebody to do their thinking and acting for them, while avoiding any responsibility. Hence, we have two candidates who do exactly that.
Lester Holt, who earns a $4.5 million salary from NBC hosted the debate. NBC is a subsidiary of Comcast. From those two facts, it would be predictable that the questions raised would be fairly generic ones, and certain issues would be swept under the rugs. For example Holt asked Trump about his tax returns while not asking about the near $28 million that Comcast has spent so far in campaign contributions, PAC contributions and lobbying during the current election cycle was problematic. Hilary Clinton has received $125,000 from Comcast.
Trump would not have mentioned this however, since the Republican Senatorial and Congressional Election Committees have received around $337,000 from Comcast, combined.
Comcast also has 112 paid lobbyists---94 of whom formerly held government positions; including 4 ex-Congressmen. Not surprisingly, Comcast is a major government contractor---so much so that the corporation even has a separate division for government contracts and affairs. Under Obama, Comcast was awarded the contract for the General Accounting Office's internet---which was hacked by the Chinese earlier this year.
Holt did ask a question about cybersecurity---discreetly of course omitting reference to the GAO attack, which put personal data on every federal government employee into the hands of Chinese Intelligence. Both candidates agreed that it was a problem, without specifying what they would do to address it however.
The Corporate Media will be spending all week arguing over who won the debate. The winner of the debate was Wall Street and Big Government, as usual.
The recent controversy between Game Cult blogger Dalrock and Christian Pastor Sam Powell brought to light many of the cultish tactics of this Manosphere movement. Among the almost 300 comments from Dalrock's followers---both at his blog and Powell's---another interesting item emerged. As a rule, we here don't typically give much credence to the ravings of commenters on Game blogs, but one merits special attention because it outlines a fairly detailed picture of how the Gamers pervert Christianity to serve their own ideologies.
A commenter calling himself Sipcode wrote something of a homily which received hearty applause from other commenters and was not challenged or repudiated by Dalrock. Sipcode takes exception to the notion that hatred is not a Christian virtue. He draws on a Biblical reference of Jacob and Esau and says the following:
"First we have to learn the language of God and drop the language of man. There are only two kinds of hate: righteous/godly vs. unrighteous ungodly. One is God's way, the other is any other way but God's. A loving God hates some things. God hated Esau righteously. Esau hated unrighteously by hating Jacob for the special blessing from his father and thereafter plotting to kill Jacob for that blessing and birthright. That is what has and is happening with women. They hate God for giving the birthright to men and have been killing and plotting to kill men across all time, starting with Eve killing Adam."
This is complete nonsense; and has never been taught by any Christian denomination at any time. Not one part of Sipcode's argument is either doctrinally or historically correct. From his ill-definition of hatred, to his misreading of Scripture, to the ridiculous notion that men are the victims of some eternal feminist plot---nothing in this passage makes sense.
In the 25th Chapter of the Enchiridion, St. Augustine explains for us the passage in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans to which Sipcode is alluding. Augustine demonstrates that both Jacob and Esau merited God's wrath because of Original Sin; but that Jacob found unmerited Grace whereas Esau drew further from God. The conclusion is the polar opposite of what Sipcode alleges: neither gender is free from sin and must repent and find Grace for Salvation. And besides this nobody ever taught anywhere that Eve murdered Adam.
Sipcode goes on to attempt to dazzle his readers with a display of his linguistic skills---which are not very high. After misinterpreting some Hebrew phrases and taking a passage from the prophet Hosea out of context, he comes to this astonishing statement:
"Now this is very heavy for a Church that has bought and sold Christ as Savior, not as Lord, and that His Grace has dropped the Law and the Prophets...and if this is still irritating you: women will come to the level of men at the Resurrection 'when there is neither Jew nor Greek, nor male or female.' But only then."
So, according to the Gamers, Christ is not Savior, we are not living under Grace, and women cannot be redeemed until the Resurrection. Can anyone doubt seriously after reading this that the Game/Red Pill movement is not an anti-Christian cult?
Before any angry Gamers who troll this blog regularly start scoffing: ask yourselves one question: At what point in history did the Church adopt all of these supposedly false teachings? When and how did they---erroneously according to you---start believing that Christ was a Savior? Or that the Old Covenant did not end? There is no answer to these questions because these things were taught from the New Testament onwards. Nor are there any grounds for believing that women become like men at the Resurrection. The idea is absurd even by Gamer logic since, according to them, women were created as inferior to men.
Sipcode then gives us seven points for spiritual reformation. They are as follows:
" 1. Scripture never says that Adam transgressed in the Garden or that he knowingly ate of the fruit.
(A straight-out lie. According to Genesis, God cursed Adam for eating the fruit. Additionally, the New Testament tells us repeatedly that Christ removed the sin of Adam---i.e. was, a Savior.)
"2. Scripture never says that woman was made in the image of God."
(Other than of course being made from Adam, who was made in God's Image. And it would be interesting to hear the Gamers explain why Christ incarnated in the Womb of the Virgin, or the various references to ''sisters in Christ").
"3. Scripture was written for men to exhort, reprove, etc. themselves, wives and children."
(Christ had a mortal mother, performed His first miracle for her, his first convert was a Samaritan woman, and women first witnessed His Resurrection. The 2nd Epistle of John was addressed to a deaconess. Christ took little children on to His lap and taught them. Where are we informed that women and children are not to study the Bible?)
"4. Marriage is fundamentally about the man just like it is with Christ and the Church; it is fundamentally about Christ.
5. Men glorify God, women glorify men."
(This is, simply put, idolatry. And worse it seems to be some pagan form of phallic-worship. Men are not to usurp the place of Christ.)
Finally, Sipcode crowns all his blasphemies by exhorting men to desert the Church and follow the Game Cult instead:
"6. The church with the steeple is history; it is dead and effectively over.
7. The church is now individual men studying and meditating on God's Word for themselves, then being sharpened by the Holy Spirit and other men seeking God, all to build up their individual families to withstand the coming persecution. The day of the traditional pastor is over."
This last point of course reflects the typically cultish practice of isolating its followers from others, and preaching an impending apocalypse.
All of these points and the preceding quotes reflect not Christianity, but idolatry. We can see plainly that all of this equates the Alpha who has taken the Red Pill with Christ Himself in the eyes of all unenlightened men, all women, and all children. Christ is really nothing in their scheme of things other than a Divine Alpha---like Jupiter or Ahura Mazda. This is not Christianity, but paganism in its most vulgar and revolting aspects. At least the pagans had female deities, representing women's spiritual equality: the Game Cult can't even boast that much.
Christians of whatever denomination need to become more aware of this insidious movement. Hatred as virtue; man in the place of God; redemption as mythology; secession from the Church; and the enslavement of women---this is what the Game Cult offers as an alternative to corrupted Christianity, which preaches love, fellowship, service, and gender polarity. Too many men (and a few women) are falling for it. It's time they were challenged.
In Charlotte, NC this week, the police shot a suspect and---before there was even an official inquest into the matter---thugs turned out into the city streets, burning, looting, attacking people with one fatality (so far). We don't know at this point whether the shooting was justified or not, but Ameroboob outrage will have its pound of flesh regardless.
So yesterday in Burlington, Washington a thug armed with a rifle walked into Cascade Mall and shot and killed five people. The police apprehended him today in nearby Oak Harbor, Washington and identified him as one Arcan Cetin. The Skagit County Sheriff has not---as of this writing---released a motive for the attack. However, KIRO News interviewed some of Mr. Cetin's neighbors and acquaintances whose opinion of his character was not exactly high. One was quoted as saying "that the neighborhood will be better off without him."
It happens though, that Cetin's family were immigrants from Turkey---a predominantly Moslem country. Just as the Charlotte Anarchists have pounced on the police incident to run wild, Alt-Right pundits and bloggers are already running with anti-Moslem speeches and posts, claiming that Cetin is a Jihadist and the Burlington Mall shooting was a terrorist attack. Again, we have no knowledge to what motivated Cetin, but the fact that he was born in Turkey seems to sufficient for these writers to draw conclusions.
One fact that we cannot overlook easily, though, is that Cetin---like most of these other mass-killers and street rioters---was a young man educated in a US public school. Cetin graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 2015.
Neither the Corporate Politicians nor the Corporate Media want attention drawn to this fact. They would rather scream about gun control from one faction, and about deporting Moslems from the other, than to face the truth that our culture is radically failing young men. The fact that, for two centuries, American schools produced American citizens and today produces Anarchists and Terrorists should indicate that our problems have less to do with guns or immigration than with education.
The unpleasant truth is that our public schools are characterized by high-level corruption, incompetent teachers, political correctness run wild, and widespread drug abuse. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy showed that 1 in 5 high school graduates cannot even read. Add into this mix the hostility toward masculinity in our culture generally and an Arcan Cetin becomes inevitable.
It does not change matters in the slightest as to what Cetin's supposed motivations were---whatever they are, they no more rational than the Charlotte Anarchists' are. It's past time that we took a hard look at both our system of public education and our society's attitudes towards men and boys. Because both are failing young men---and the longer we ignore the problem the more that Charlotte and Burlington will be repeated elsewhere.
But given the American public's indifference, and cultural elites like these shylocks at CNN who consider this violence mere political capital, things are unlikely to change. It's far more expedient for the Alt-Right to cast all Blacks as potential criminals and all Moslems as potential terrorists---just as it is for the Cultural Marxists to cast all men as potential rapists and all Whites as potential racists. And so the bloodshed will likely continue, while Ameroboobs settle for another tranquilized New Normal.
"Go Get Those Moslems!"
Speaking before a group of journalists yesterday in Italy, Pope Francis addressed the lack of integrity characterizing contemporary the Western news media and stressed the need for reporters to exercise personal responsibility. The Pontiff received the audience in the Hall of St. Clement in the Vatican.
"All throughout history, dictatorships of any orientation or 'color' have always tried not only to undermine the media, but also to impose new rules on the profession." Francis stated. "I understand that in modern journalism with an uninterrupted flow of facts and events, it not easy to get at the truth, or even close to it. However, it is necessary in journalism to discern between the shades of grey of the events being reported."
The Pope joins a growing number of world leaders disgusted with the inferior quality of the Western news media, and the damage it often does to people's lives. There have been conferences held in Russia, China, and other countries during 2016 to build reliable alternatives to the Corporate Media. The Pope may also have had in mind proposals in the United States to limit foreign media access to US markets; or the recent revelations of corporate manipulation of news.
"Living with professionalism means, first and foremost, living beyond what we find written in codes of ethics. It means understanding and internalizing the deep sense of one's own work. This gives rise to the need not to submit one's profession to the persuasions of partisan interests, whether they be political or economic."
It is no wonder that the US Corporate Media gave the Pope's speech almost no coverage. Journalists in the United States routinely do the polar opposite of what the Pontiff recommends. Witness today, for example, that the media ignored the report from the Charlotte Police that 70% of the rioters arrested there this week were from outside North Carolina. That doesn't fit the political narrative of Charlotte being a spontaneous local uprising instead of being conducted by a gang of criminals shipped in by George Soros---as it very likely is.
The Pontiff spoke of an earlier homily he had given on the Epistle of St. James, which has relevance for editorialists and online bloggers as well:
"I have often spoken of rumors as 'terrorism', of how you can kill a person with the tongue. If this is valid for an individual person, in the family or at work, so much more it's valid for journalists because their voices can reach everyone. And this is a very powerful weapon. Denunciation of evil must not come at the cost of disrespect for others, because the unjustly defamed can be destroyed forever."
And we would add to the Pope's words, not only those defamed, but those incited to violence by irresponsible use of the tongue (or pen). We've seen this week alone attacks on mosques---as well as Christian bloggers---incited by hostile and extreme rhetoric. Not to mention the tensions building on the Korean Peninsula right now, thanks to the disinterested reporting of the Moonie Cult.
The Pope is bringing to mind again the Biblical maxim 'by their fruits you shall know them.' And the fruits of Western journalism today hardly resemble the fruits of the Spirit." It more closely resembles jungle witch-doctors leading cannibals dancing around a stewpot than anything remotely Christian.
Francis' own words are more likely to bring down further media opprobrium on his head. When wicked men like our media moguls have their consciences stung in this way, they typically react with fury. Nonetheless, it is to be hoped that many independent writers and reporters will take the Pope's words to heart and effect some positive change. That change---as Christianity teaches us---begins with acknowledging and accepting the truth.
In our Postmodern dystopia, probably the least appreciated and most disrespected of all masculine occupations is fatherhood. This should not be overly surprising since so few Americans today grow up in the same household with their biological fathers. The results of this negligence is being well-displayed on our city streets.
Fathers are seen as largely unnecessary for child-rearing both by Feminists and Manospherians. They both see the father essentially a sperm donor, with little other value to the family structure. However, it was not always so. There were actually a significant number of dramatic productions set around the single father. One such character was Lucas McCain, the main character in the ABC television series, The Rifleman.
The Rifleman aired from 1958-1963 and was one of the most popular Westerns of the era. McCain gets his nickname from his service as a sharpshooter in the Civil War, and for his modified Winchester rifle which he can fire as quickly and as accurately as any gunfighter can with a pistol. As an interesting side note, Chuck Connors---the actor who played McCain---was also a gunsmith who built the rifle used in the series.
McCain moves West after the Civil War, married with a son, and hopes to begin the peaceful life of a rancher. His wife dies, however, leaving McCain to raise their son, Mark, on his own. And McCain doesn't find much peace as a rancher, either. His reputation with a rifle comes to the attention of Marshal Micah Torrance, who enlists McCain's services in dealing with the lawless elements of the West.
The program is a wonderful contrast to the negativity surrounding fatherhood today. What is portrayed by the contemporary Manosphere as a fatherly image is that of a controlling bully who rules a household without love. We get from them a picture of selfishness---where might means right and the ends always justify the means. We see in McCain a defender of the weak, a stern but loving father who teaches Mark from the Bible and, most importantly, always leads by example.
Small boys always look up to a father as a hero, and in McCain's case, he actually was one. It's telling to note how many Western aficionados remark that they admired McCain as a hero while watching the series, and now---as grown men and fathers themselves---still look up to McCain's character as a father. That's one of the significant differences between past and present in the entertainment media. The past presented us with an idealism that depicted eternal values. Now, ABC---the same network which ran The Rifleman, offers garbage like this as examples of supposedly excellent parenting.
The Rifleman gives us a picture of masculine dedication to duty in the face of adversity. It's excellent to watch McCain bring justice to the Old West then sit at the table at the end with son to a dinner, like any other hard days' work. That scenario sums up what being a complete man really looks like---a far cry from the phony and superficial Alphas presented to us in the contemporary Manosphere.
The Rifleman is a series with compelling storylines, plenty of action, and even better, always a high moral code. It is available on DVD and some episodes on Youtube and other sites.
Blogger and frequent commenter Insanitybytes wrote an article yesterday critiquing yet another of the Game Cult's justifications for domestic violence and attacks on a Christian blogger. The Game blogger who goes under the name of Dalrock attacked the Rev. Sam Powell, in much the same way that he previously attacked Mary Kassian.
Dalrock's argument essentially boils down to the dishonest claim that Christian bloggers who write on the topic of gender roles are covertly relying on the Duluth Model of Abuse. The Duluth Model was constructed by Feminists; hence he argues that those who employ it are likewise corrupted by Feminism. The dishonesty in his arguments comes in because he defines following the Duluth Model as essentially whatever contradicts the Game Model. It's a circular argument designed to discredit anyone as Feminist who doesn't subscribe to the Game Cult.
Here is an excerpt from Powell's article, which Dalrock claims represents the Duluth Model:
"The husband does not rule by power and control. He governs his home by service and love...Why do so many who claim the Name of Christ believe that women are to be controlled by entitlement and power? The husband isn't the boss, the commander, the chief or the king. All of that belongs to Christ."
To which Dalrock rejoins: "Hierarchy, leading, believing you are the head of the household (in any non-feminist sense) is abuse and Satanic, according to Powell."
Actually Rev. Powell said nothing of the kind. It is especially telling, though that the Gamers consider a husband 'governing his home by service and love' to be an unholy act of apostasy. What exactly then, do the Gamers advocate as the proper paradigm? Hierarchy is the answer claimed here.
A Christian then might naturally wonder how, in such an arrangement, the two become one flesh. The Game Cult sees this a metaphysical impossibility. Dalrock derides Powell for arguing this very point, as Powell says here: "The goal of marriage is the one flesh relationship, rather than the antagonistic and abusive relationship that characterizes the kingdom of the Devil."
One does not have to read very far in Game literature to comprehend that it is entirely premised in mutual gender antagonism, along with abuse and control. This is why Game preaches a hierarchal relationship, though often called by them Biblical Headship. Like the earlier attack on Mary Kassian, the purpose of the attack on Powell was to set up a false dichotomy under which the Game Cult appears to represent the true and uncorrupted faith.
Powell says in his article the following: "The husband's job is not to rule over his wife, enforce the rules, or be the commander and king of his home in the castle, for it is not his castle. The home belongs to Christ. He is not to usurp Christ's role as King of Kings, but he is to emulate Christ in only one way, according to the Scriptures. He is to love her."
And that, according to the Game Cult, is Feminism co-opting the Church.
What it is in reality, is the Church teaching what it always has. The Game Cult is not anti-Feminist at all, it is anti-Christian. It is in fact, much closer to Feminism than it is to Christianity. Fortunately, there a few clerics like Powell who see it for what it is.
Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University lashed out yesterday at critics who oppose his politically-correct policy of creating safe spaces. Safe spaces, along with trigger warnings, and speech codes, are supposedly put in place to protect people from what the Academic Mafia calls microagressions. Microaggressions are what normal people refer to as irritations; but here in the Prozac Nation, minor irritations rise to the level of national emergencies, and so Schapiro---as a Cultural Elite---steps up to his duty.
One would assume that, with the ability to fleece tuition to the tune of over $70,000 a year per student and a with a fat $1.33 million salary, Schapiro would be living in a very safe space. Not so. What occasioned Schapiro's outburst was that the University of Chicago---in a sudden and involuntary spasm of Common Sense---issued a policy statement renouncing safe spaces and other such nonsense---on the grounds that college students should be treated like adults.
In the 2016 Northwestern commencement speech, Schapiro exploded into proper Ameroboob outrage.
"The people who decry safe spaces do it from their segregated housing places, from their jobs without diversity, and from their country clubs!" the Dean thundered, "It just drives me nuts! If those people say that you shouldn't be warned to prepare yourself psychologically for traumatic content---that is somehow 'coddling'---then those people are lunatics!"
Schapiro then got to the heart of the issue, stating that "I remember every microaggression I've ever experienced. Such incidents cut you to the very core. Those who deny the existence of microaggressions are idiots!"
Statements like these indicate very clearly that this man is a neurotic. By any respectable theory of psychology, anyone who claims to be traumatized by every perceived slight and sees these slights all around him, is seriously mentally ill. The illness is even more pronounced when such persons project their delusions on society at large and seek to hide in so-called safe spaces. We are not inclined to throw such accusations around lightly here; any of our readers may consult Freud, Koffka, Adler, Menninger or any other psychological authority to confirm this assertion.
And yet this man not only is the millionaire head of one of America's prestigious universities, he is considered by other degenerates among our Cultural Elite as a great intellect. Schapiro has written allegedly scholarly editorials, such as for the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, wherein he defended black students' decision to segregate themselves as creating a safe space. In August, he wrote an editorial, co-authored by another PC administrator in the Los Angeles Times (a subsidiary of Tronc Inc.). Here he defended the riots on campuses by stating:
"As college presidents ourselves, it is our preference that students work with faculty and administrators rather than occupy offices, shut themselves off from others with whom they disagree, or leave school. But we recognize and accept that these students are coming of age in a time of political, social, and economic turbulence unseen in a generation. This year's presidential rhetoric only makes things more volatile."
Since we're speaking of feelings, how do Americans feel about spending millions of tax dollars keeping people like Morton Schapiro rich and famous? Do you feel better knowing that top educators think of you as idiots and lunatics if you don't agree that their personal traumas are national issues? How does it feel knowing that people educated by people like Morton Schapiro are going to be running the country some day?
Unfortunately, most Ameroboobs are too full of amphetamines to feel much of anything. Except feeling outraged; which characters like Morton Schapiro are only to happy to accommodate.
