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Gallia Watche's blog
- GalliaWatch has posted on a gargantuan sculpture to be placed behind an abbey in France. It is the usual modern fare of louder, bigger, kitchier is better. There is no art in the piece.
Yet, why shouldn't this horrendous sculpture be placed there? France touts itself as a secular nation, and this Abbey hasn't been functioning as a Christian center for generations. If people cannot even respect, let alone allow to function, their Christian institutions, then anything else is free to come and replace, or destroy, it.
Isn't that one of the successful strategies of Islam?
Here's what Wikipedia says about the Abbey:
The abbey was disestablished in 1799 during the French Revolution, and within a few decades the bulk of its buildings had been demolished. Today its grounds contain a private school, and of its former structures only a few ruins remain.- Ilana Mercer keeps repeating (and linking to) a mantra, "We are Doomed" interspersed in her blog posts. But like many things Mercer writes, it isn't even her original idea or thought. She borrowed it from a nihilistic book title by John Derbyshire, which Mercer is actively publicizing on her blog. Derbyshire's full title is: We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism. Isn't conservatism about optimism? We are confident that what we have is worth keeping, that it is positive and good. And that we have to fight for this good. Of course, we base this on many things, the least of which is our Christianity. And Christians and Conservatives Derbyshire and Mercer are not.
That really is the fundamental difference, isn't it, between pessimists and optimists. Pessimists believe in nothing, they are nihilists to the core. Their great system is to believe in doom, in nothing.
On a side note, although uber-self-annointed intellectuals like Mercer and Derbyshire will never acknowledge this, their doom (and emptiness) is precisely the kind of emptiness that Islam (and evil) looks for, to fill up and influence that emptiness with something.
But Mercer and Derbyshire do have their belief systems. Mercer's Libertarianism is her religion that excludes everything but the individual. The sacrosanct narcissist. No wonder this leads her to doom, and enter the "higher"realm of Derbyshire's belief system (an offshoot of his liberalism), which is nihilism.
It is also a little infantile to just keep repeating "We are Doomed" interspersed "liberally" blog supposedly meant for sophisticated reading. But, I have never been impressed with Mercer's writing style either.
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