Thread by @RonColeman

Remember my wise friend?

We caught up today.

https://twitter.com/roncoleman/status/1332146155292160003

You should read that tweet if you haven't yet, or re-read it.

Some new, additional takeaways:

• What's going on culturally and politically is not at all partisan. It is a class war being fought top down that our betters are quite determined to win. >

• You cannot sufficiently appreciate the true depth of the contempt the elites feel toward the middle class.

• This contempt has been seamlessly transmitted to their offspring, who revel in their supposed superiority openly and with glee from a very young age. >

• This contempt is reinforced by the state media. Most noticeable (as I recently discussed with @JoshDenny) is how it has not only murdered comedy - offering up such unfunny mugs as Trevor Noah and Samantha Bee - but made it mean and directed meanness at enemies of the rulers >

• The meanness and lack of humor is also accompanied not only by a lack of intellectual creativity of any other kind but

this is very important

A COMPLETE LACK OF JOY. >

• Their comedy, their entertainment, their politics are nothing but a series of grievances

• No grievance is greater however than their suspicion that

THE PEOPLE THEY HATE MIGHT BE HAPPY.

• They just therefore stop this everywhere and at any price >

• My friend observed that people felt bereft at the passing of Rush Limbaugh because they felt an emotional connection to him. Why?

• Because contrary to what the left claims to believe Rush exuded joie de vivre, hope and a sort of communitarian vigor (my phrase) >

We then waxed a bit philosophical and metaphysical for a bit, coming as we do from different religious traditions, and agreed on this:

• There is great evil in the world

• The elites who wish to control you not only tolerate this evil, they are very much a part of it >

• The likelihood of good but regular people vanquishing that evil by confronting it head-on is, absent a major eschatological event (which @Cernovich has alluded to), very slim

• But God has structured our world in a way so that a very little light will banish much darkness >

• The natural inclination toward joy, comradery, forgiveness and acceptance of real those people -

not the clichéd ugliness depicted in their entertainment and social fantasies -

is that light.

Our joy.

And this is what they fear above all. >

And this is what we must build on, together, bit by bit, and in person as much as the tyrants will allow, to recover our light

our hope

our liberty

our empathy

and our souls. >

And we discussed some ways that we might undertake to make that happen

but I have said enough for tonight already, and our ideas are far from a taking the form of implementation, much less publication.

Two good frosties each, and we bid each other good night. <>