Ghost of a flea

Parliamentary dictatorship

Shelby Steele offers a useful point of difference between freedom and the good explaining as he does so the Left's philosophy of cake-and-eat-it (via Bloodthirsty Liberal).

Take would be philosopher king prophet James Lovelock, for example. In the name of the good, he would have democracy "put on hold" in order to address imaginary catastrophes. But wailing about global warming in the middle of a snow storm is unlikely to convince even the most lumpen amongst the lumpenproletariat Lovelock both loves and despises. Hardly convincing even as hoaxes go, at least the Nazis had the decency to burn the Reichstag. Small wonder Lovelock and his ilk wish to suspend democracy, the rubes aren't falling for it.

As the levers of American democracy fall into the hands of Marxists, we are treated to the unedifying spectacle of a latter day House Un-American Activities Committee bullying companies for accurately reporting their bottom line (as they are required to do by law). In England, the naked exercise of power requires no figleaf as the monarch is sidetracked and the ancient upper house of Parliament is bowdlerized and disbanded.

Such is the West labouring under Parliamentary dictatorship, a situation without parallel since the interregnum (to use the word literally) following the Civil War.

A depressing state of affairs, in other words.

Perhaps thinking along parallel lines to Thomas Bertonneau, I have been reading Spengler, Ortega and, critically, Julius Evola. Without launching into an excursus on Evola's program of reaction (but by all means consider Bertonneau's take on the subject), it occurs to me there is a treasure to be found in the wreck of civilization. With Barack Hussein Obama as the apotheosis of the Left's long march through the institutions, with progressive ideology ensconced at most every university, hospital, prison, police force, and legacy news organization of the West, with Marxists in place of loyal citizens and subjects everywhere from the Archbishopric of Canterbury to the American Presidency, it is a scene of economic, moral and spiritual disaster. Hardly encouraging.

But the armature of civilization remains. Yes, the Levellers have taken Parliament and, in practice, the levers of power. But what they have taken they have only taken by stealth or by guile. They have taken power without the consent of the governed but, more than that, without undermining the principle of sovereignty they seek to usurp. God and the right remain with us.

We are in the right. Our sacred institutions remain. All that remains for us is a Crusade to retake them and, with them, the West.

For example: The enemy (via Blazing Cat Fur).

Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 31, 2010 09:08 AM

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