A few links to get you started:
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Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum, which was a critque of what the industrial revolution wrought in society: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html Bit of a heavy read because of the ye olde style language, but not incomprehensible.
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Cardinal Manning and the origins of Rerum Novarum: https://cardijnresearch.org/cardinal-manning-and-the-origins-of-rerum-novarum/ Bit of an explanation of the times and the currents of thought that went into it.
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G.K. Chesterton's Distributism: https://distributistreview.com/archive/g-k-chestertons-distributism Article that gives basic background. Good to browse around the Distributist Review website for other articles.
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Hilaire Belloc's Economics for Helen: https://archive.org/details/economicsforhele0000bell Written for his adolescent neice, this is an excellent, clear, and very basic introduction to economics: defines in understandable terms "wealth", "money", "capital", "labour", "economic rent", "subsistence", etc.
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Hilaire Belloc's 1912 The Servile State: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64882 An economic history book, but also predicting the rise of socialism and totalitarianism. Written before the Communist Revolution of 1917, but shows things were brewing in that direction for some decades at that point. Also predicted drive for lower and lower wages, which is what gives us the situation today where all our manufacturing is in China: "industrial society as we know it will tend towards the re-establishment of slavery".
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John Medaille talk from a decade ago plumping his then-new book on distributism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PtStipIsc Medaille is an entrepreneur, but also a prof at University of Dallas, and one of the "big names" in contemporary distributist analysis.
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Good to always read arguments against something, and Thomas E. Woods of the Mises Institute has written many critiques of distributism. Here is one: https://fee.org/articles/the-fallacies-of-distributism/
Getting away from economics specifically, looking more at social structures, worthwhile reading Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, a Brazilian from the mid-20th century, who is much lauded by some sectors of the Catholic Traditionalist movement. Still worth a read, and here are two articles:
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What is Organic Society? https://www.traditioninaction.org/OrganicSociety/A_002_OrganicSociety_PCO.htm
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How Do We Build an Organic Society? https://www.tfp.org/how-do-we-build-an-organic-society/
... Society begins to wither away when people lack a common interpretation of reality to orient around. The liberal individualism we're used to slowly turns the human experience into subjective mush that completely lacks the power of giving life any meaning or purpose.
Agreed. Which is why studying history and maintaining traditions are important, and why immigrants have a duty to adopt their new country's way of life. Which is why tryants of all sorts first have to destroy what exists in order to replace it with the "new thing". They did that in Cambodia under Pol Pot, and in China with Mao. Soviet Russia had the "new Soviet man", and the Taliban did it in Afghanistan when they blew up the thousand-year-old Buddhist statues.
... For a long time, capitalist consumerism and the notion of "progress" was supposed to serve as the rallying point that held society together. ... The economy gradually became our new religion, but it left a lot to be desired.
I wouldn't say for a long time. Only since the post-war 1950s, really, did capitalist consumerism really get off the ground. Eisenhower identified the "military-industrial complex" in 1961, and they were pushing for it to keep busy all the industries which had developed during the WW2. Before that, self-sufficiency was more the norm in society. The post-war era made "store-boughten clothes" and "store-boughten food" more mainstream. But, nonetheless, your point about the end result is well taken.
... we should instead return to a system of caste, where people are initiated into a particular Tradition that gives their life a clearly defined purpose.
I wouldn't make it hard and fixed, like a caste system. But the idea that every role in life is important to the whole is well taken. Not everyone NEEDS a university degree or is suited to climbing the corporate ladder! A guy who sweeps the streets is still performing a valuable function in the world. Maybe more of a recognition that all parts of society are valuable, and we should cultivate personal excellence and good character, and so bloom wherever we are planted.
... By focusing on God, we focus on the totality of being and see how parts are all interconnected and aligned towards a common purpose.
Absolutely! Well said.
... The individual who lends their body to the Sacred King shrinks into the role just as the artisan and the farmer shrink into theirs.
Agreed. A good King does not impose their own personality on the role, but sees that he is fulfilling a role for the whole of society. Maybe by preference he would want to be an academic or a businessman or something. But he subjects himself to endless stream of ribbon-cutting ceremonies and fundraising dinners because it is important to the people to have the King coming to their local event.
A good politician will do this too. It is not entirely antithetical to democratic forms of government, just rare.
... Instead, we should seek cooperation, community, and interconnectedness within a Tradition that gives our life a common orientation. ... The things that separate us can ironically bring us together if we can understand that we all exist within a hierarchical order.
Yes, harmony in society and not a striving to "crush opponents". Order is indeed needed. Hierarchy, much maligned by the 1960s hippies, is not evil in itself if the head of the country (or head of the household) truly cares about the welbeing of those in his care.
You are thinking along lines that others have also thought. Look into "distributism" as an economic system (Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton).
This is very, very, good news!
I posted a longer article on the RKI information a couple of weeks ago:
https://greatawakening.win/p/17tebv3X9g/unredacted-rki-protocols-lay-bar/
A good complementary read to your info.
Theres also the Pachamama ceremony in the Vatican Gardens 2019: https://wdtprs.com/2021/10/4-october-2019-demon-idol-pachamama-ceremony-in-the-vatican-gardens-for-the-amazon-synod/
He's just kissing Chinese ass because he's getting money through Belt and Road.
I think Trump is a pro-vaxxer in the public mind.
I found it rather cringy, actually.
Good for her.
Excellent vid; thanks for posting.
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Politicians have to appeal to voters to get elected. Look at how leftist the Canadian general public is! Both socially liberal and fiscally liberal, they are pro-abortion, pro-day, shack up rather than marry, and they want their government programs ("what will you do for my niche group?" etc.) If you don't appeal to them, then you're one of those boutique candidates who get a dozen votes. That's how the uniparty phenomenon arises. Every party is just making tiny tweaks to what will fly with the general public.
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Voter turnout in that byelection was under 50%. There was no mass rejection of Trudeau's platform. Over half the eligible voters were just "meh" on the whole election and couldn't be bothered to cast a vote. The CPC had a slightly better GOTV effort, that's all.
"School" in the modern understanding of it only dates back a couple of hundred years: dividing children into "grades" based on age, the division of subjects, bells to signal the start and end of classes.
Formal education in (say) Roman times through the Middle Ages was more free-form: you were grouped according to what you had learned, which was not exactly by age because some people catch on faster than others. Parents paid directly for it, and decided on when Junior would start and was done: and it was much more of a relationship like getting your child swimming lessons or hiring a piano teacher.
Many people never went to any "school" but were apprenticed as blacksmiths, shoemakers, etc. and learned "on the job" from about age 7 or so. By the time they were 13 or 14 they had been working a few years, had saved up some money, and were ready to marry.
Farm labourers (the bulk of people up until fairly recently) didn't really NEED to know how to read and write. They could learn that skill on their own time, if they wanted to (say) read the Bible. Enough did. Monks in the Middle Ages who copied out manuscripts were generally from the labouring classes, who either had a religious vocation (so to speak) or say were lame or injured and could no longer work--for them, the monastery was a "social safety net". They either knew how to read and write going in, or they learned while in the monastery.
At any rate, the point of schooling was to get you to learn material. Nowadays, it's to get you to conform to a process; if you actually learn anything, it's almost incidental. This is deliberate: the Prussians did so well in the Franco-Prussian war that their military/industrial approach to schooling spread across Europe and got incorporated into "compulsory schooling" which started in the 1800s. The point was to get you ready for a regimented life as a factory worker: hence all the bells, time-limited classes, grades, etc.
Check this book: Designed to Fail by Steve Kellmeyer https://www.amazon.com/Designed-Fail-Catholic-Education-America/dp/0976736802 Focused on Catholic schools in particular, but gives a good overview of the history of education.
And even that is a stretch. I watched the whole thing on OANN and saw the guards opening the doors and moving barricades away. Even trespassing is a stretch when you were invited in.
In his posts, West detailed the extreme measures taken by Biden’s team to control his interactions with the media and limit his exposure to staff. He accused the inner circle of creating a “bubble” around the president, designed to protect him from any challenging or unpredictable situations. ... Additionally, he described scenarios where staff were discouraged from engaging directly with the president, creating a highly controlled environment around him.
Emphasis mine: they are hiding Biden from staff as well as the media. It must be really, really bad.
And they don't want anyone leaking the real story.
That's Femen, the feminist activist group. Their signature move is to protest topless with slogans written on their bodies.
They got labelled as far-right lately, because they protested the violence and rape committed by Muslim migrants against women. In the woke hierarchy, race trumps sex, so Femen got "downgraded" to "far-right".
Olivia Chow is the widow of Jack Layton, leader of the Federal New Democratic Party (NDP, hard left). Both of them were Toronto City Councillors, then both of them were Members of Parliament.
In the Mayoralty election, she got 37% of the vote, defeating former deputy-mayor Ana Bailão (32%), and 100 other candidates who shared fractions of the remaining 31%.
White hat comms? Perhaps Klaus is being taken out of the picture with "sexual harassment" as the cover story?
^This.
That's why the debate was so early; gives them time to get the replacement in place.
Both NATO and the UN have outlived their original purpose.
Ask for the "Jehovah's Witness" treatment; they've been avoiding blood products forever, and hospitals will accommodate.
Thanks! I've read The Abolition of Man, but the others are new to me.
Much appreciated!