Archive for August, 2018
Protected: The Last Straw 07: Emo, Mopey and the Sad Backstory
Posted August 31, 2018 By John C WrightEven More Lost Delay!
Posted August 30, 2018 By John C WrightApologies to my faithful readers: the next exciting episode of LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT is not yet ready. I hope to do double service during the three day weekend.
Megan Fox interviews John C Wright
Posted August 29, 2018 By John C WrightMax Kolbe is on sabbatical, so there is no Red Pill Religion for this week, but I had the rare pleasure of being interviewed by Megan Fox for her podcast. You may hear my dulcet tones bloviating, pontificating, objurgating and rudely interrupting my fair hostess here:
She asks me about my conversion story, a topic I forever delight to dwell upon, and my opinions of the most recent scandal to wound the Church, a topic that provokes disgust and pity, outrage and horror, in all men of good will who hear of it.
In any case, as you can imagine, I was honored to speak with the famous Megan Fox.
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Not Tired of Winning Yet XLVIII
Posted August 29, 2018 By John C WrightNo trade deal with Mexico has been signed yet, but the celebration is perhaps not premature of the hope of things to come. Under the dreary days of the previous administration, there was no such hope for economic growth at any time.
All these wins will be reversed if the House turns Dem in the midterms. Read the remainder of this entry »
Lost Delay!
Posted August 28, 2018 By John C WrightUnless fate alters course, this week’s publication of LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT will be on Thursday rather than the accustomed Wednesday. Sorry about the delay: I have been pretty regular about my weekly serial since I started in May of 2016.
The Black Flag of Anarchy
Posted August 26, 2018 By John C WrightA reader named Kevin Johnson opines:
Saying “the Left is a violent mob” is kind of like saying “the Right are all fascists.” It’s asinine virtue-signalling. How Americans fool themselves into believing they have actual alternatives in the GOP and DNC, I will never understand.
Keep on drinkin’ that establishment kool-aid and everything will turn out fine!
This is a rhetorical game played by Leftists of the Left and by Leftists of the Alt-Right alike, wherein two opposite things are said to be equal. It appeals to the natural egalitarianism in fallen man, all of whom fall short of the glory of God, to assume that not only are venal versus mortal sins somehow equal, but that virtue and vice are somehow equal.
False equivalence is a game because it is not serious. It is not a philosophical nor political stance: it it is a mouth-noise, what we call phatic speech, merely intended to signal the virtue of the utterer by lifting him above the fray, as he judiciously pronounces a curse on both our houses. Like saying that the Jews are equally at fault as the Germans for the Holocaust, on closer inspection, one can easily see which side of the issue is elevated by the comparison, and which is undermined. The comment by Mr. Johnson is not meant to bring the Right up to share in the high moral ground of the Left: it is to silence any criticism of the Left and its perennial violent mob mentality.
Saying “the Left is a violent mob” is exactly like saying “the Right are all fascists”, except for the tiny niggling detail that one statement is true as Gospel and the other false as Hell.
Let us see if we can see which is which, shall we?
Here is an article from the Origonian concerning a Bernie voter who brought an American flag to an Anti-Fascist protest rally, and was duly beaten in the head by a baseball bat by Antifas. For those of you not keeping score, both Antifas and Bernie voters are Leftwing.
Paul Welch came to the downtown protest Aug. 4 to let his political leanings be known.
With pride he clutched his U.S. flag as he moved among the crowd of like-thinking demonstrators.
Soon a group of black-clad anti-fascist protesters, also known as antifa, demanded he lose the flag, calling it a fascist symbol. Welch refused, and a tug-of-war ensued.
It ended with Welch taking a club to the back of the head, lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood.
Only Welch was not a Proud Boy, a Patriot Prayer supporter or among the other conservative activists who descended into the area that day, many from out of town.
He was one of hundreds of progressive Portlanders who had turned out to oppose the right-wing rally held at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
Protected: The Last Straw 06: Dim and Dank On Planet Swank
Posted August 24, 2018 By John C WrightThe Sin of Lucifer
Posted August 23, 2018 By John C WrightIn the ongoing and ever-losing battle with my own personal dragons of pride, I took to wondering: why is the proud man angry or peeved with the stupidity (real or imagined) of his fellows?
I ask because one would think a saint would be very patient with someone who was stupid, if it were honest stupidity, and not merely laziness in thinking. Whereas the devil (or Lex Luthor) is always in a state of haughtiest annoyance, because he is brighter than those around him. Their stupidity proves his superiority – yet it irks him. Why?
This is not a rhetorical question: I do not have a theory on the subject myself.
Red Pill on Leave
Posted August 22, 2018 By John C WrightDear readers, I should have explained last week that Max Kolbe is taking a sabbatical from the internet, and so our weekly podcasts of Red Pill Religion will be on hold for at least a month, perhaps longer.
Maybe I will start my own podcasts, just of myself standing in an echo chamber ranting into a microphone on topics only of concern to me.
Hmmm … What are the topics over which I most obsess?
Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 63, City of Corsairs
Posted August 22, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 63, City of Corsairs, is now posted.
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost is thrown over a waterfall, survives, and enters the Theno, City of Sudden Death, by an unexpected approach, and finds a lost treasure.
Freestartr still stalled
Posted August 21, 2018 By John C WrightJagi, here.
Sadly, Freestartr is still unable to collect funds. We will give them until the beginning of October before we consider giving up on them. We are still hoping they will recover.
In the meantime, Freestartr patreons, you can wait, too, or send your monthly contribution through Paypay, as you wish.
To both Freestartr and Patreon folks, and those who support us directly, we are so very, very grateful for the support of all you guys !!!
On a somewhat related subject, because of carelessness by yours truly, there is no recording of this month’s live chat. John and I are going to try to make it up to Action Team Swan by recording a brainstorming period or some other conversation on book related topics between the two of us.
Thanks, all! And God bless!
Elves on Trial — by Superversive
Posted August 20, 2018 By John C WrightAn essay by our own Tom Simon I had somehow not had the pleasure previously to read.
Please look: it is well worth your time. Maglor speaks in his own authentic voice, and unmistakable. I stumbled across it here:
https://superversive.livejournal.com/65965.html
And here is the direct link:
https://bondwine.com/2008/02/08/interview-with-the-oldest-member/
Protected: The Last Straw 05: Mary Sue and Master Mopey
Posted August 17, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 62, Cataract of Catastrophe
Posted August 15, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 62, Cataract of Catastrophe, is now posted.
Episode 62 Cataract of Catastrophe
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost cleverly eludes pursuit, but is swept away in the terror of an invincible current.
On Vacation
Posted August 10, 2018 By John C WrightExpect less activity here over the next week, as I am on vacation. I have the next episode of my ever lengthening diatribe and anathema against THE LAST JEDI scheduled to publish automatically. I will interrupted my vacation, sacrificing precious hours of leisure and joy with my family, to write and post the next episode of LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT because I love you, dear readers.