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ἀλλὰ λαλοῦμεν Θεοῦ σοφίαν ἐν μυστηρίῳ τὴν ἀποκεκρυμμένην ... ἡμῖν γὰρ ἀπεκάλυψεν ὁ θεὸς διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος τὸ γὰρ πνεῦμα πάντα ἐραυνᾷ καὶ τὰ βάθη τοῦ θεοῦ
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Apr 26 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
1. For those of us on the right, we need to begin thinking about politics in terms of competing interests and not ideology or policies.

Why is this?

Because all policy and all broad ideological frameworks work for managerialism and the administrative state.

A thread.🧵 2. All policy begs the question of how will it be enacted? It gets enacted through the administrative system, that is how. In this sense, all policy proposals validate and reinforces the administrative state as the singular form of governance.
Apr 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Yes. Trump basically needs to go to war with the administrative state. They must think of it not as a tool to be utilized, but rather as an enemy that must be defeated. 2. Even then, “the administrative state” is not a neutral, empty vessel waiting to be filled with political and ideological content. No, it must be properly understood primarily as a way of thinking, a way of approaching problems that has been instantiated across society.
Apr 11 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
1. I am going to try to answer this question, “What is a Canadian?” in a way that is not typical. .

What makes Canada, well, Canada is its geography and its climate.

This is why the Group of Seven hold a special place in the hearts of Canadians. Image
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Image 2. It is the middle of April and yesterday it snowed here. Not everyone can endure this year in and year out and thrive. Many died to make a home. They died because Canada can be an uncompromising environment. Image
Apr 6 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1. This completely misunderstands how Canadian politics works. It assumes that elections dictate the direction of politics in Canada and that ideology is what drives the parties.

This could not be farther from the truth.

Canada has real politics with “fake” elections. 2. By using the work “fake,” it does not mean that they are rigged or that there is cheating or stolen elections, only that electoral politics are of only marginal importance to how power operates in Canada.
Apr 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Let’s just say this straight out. This woman’s problem is that she wants it all and expects her husband to bend his entire life around her to support her in her aspirations.

The οἰκονομία, the running of the household, has throughout history been the woman’s task. Image 2. From the sounds of it, she does a great job running the household.

That is not the problem. She wants to have the household run like a well oiled machine … AND … she wants to work and have a career.

Maybe she has a certain lifestyle she wants to live.
Mar 31 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
1. Canadians are going to have to come to grips with a new political reality.

In the past the political conflict has revolved around three interest groups, the Laurentians, the Albertans, and the Quebec nationalists.

In theory they were all supposed to put Canada first. 2. But in reality, they groups have worked to secure power for themselves and their own interests, often at the expense of the other and the nation as a whole.

The Laurentians have dominated this battle, working in concert for a set of shared commitments around their own interests.
Mar 31 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. So what is the alternative to collective political action by groups which share common political aims?

Mutual disarmament because the tactics of your opponents are effective?

Liberalism only works in a society where everyone is committed to the same set of values. 2. Liberalism only works when everyone is willing to set aside their private interests in the public realm and act in concert, in spite of any differences they have, for the collective good of the whole of society.
Mar 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. This a perfect example of why politics is not a women’s domain. The majority of women really don’t see the world as an object, nor do they evaluate things in terms of what is right or wrong. Rather, they place themselves as subject into a web of relationships. 2. Everything that happens is evaluated in terms of how does this affect me and my network of relationships. How do I feel about this? How does this enhance my sense of wellbeing? Will this impact the relationships in my life?
Mar 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. This might be one of the dumbest implied arguments for mass immigration.

The whole Japanese population is never going to be managers. You always need people to do menial work.

The dirty secret is that people like Bryan don’t want to pay decent wages for their menials. Image 2. So they advocate for policies which support mass immigration, that give carve outs for temporary or immigrant workers or they just hire illegals under the table to do menial work. Foreign born nannies. Underpaid Indian programmers. That sort of thing.
Mar 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1. It won’t matter. The pivot is happening. The era of the politics of values is over.

It’s not just Canada. There are early signs a similar move happening in Britain. We saw this during the lead up to the American presidential election. 2. Figures like @pmarca were arguing that it was time to shelve DEI and get back to a focus on making excellent products.

This is a similar move and reflects a preference cascade happening among the most influential members of the managerial class.
Mar 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. Mass immigration is over. Many politicos and the propagandized masses don’t know it yet, but those that actually write policy have figured out that it’s a failure that threatens everything, and now they are scrambling to figure out how to fix it. Image 2. Another screenshot of this article: Image
Mar 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. This is another canard of the libertines.

Once the social order breaks down and morality is no longer enforced at the community level, if social order is to be maintained, the state now must fill the role once taken by the community. 2. Morality, once enforced by your neighbors who all knew “this is how we do things around here” now must be enforced by the state if social cohesion must be maintained.

At this level of social breakdown you have a choice between more social breakdown or state tyranny.
Mar 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. No, it’s because our moral compass is completely screwed up. Having sex with 14 year old girls is not immoral because they are 14, but because it is immoral to have sex with women who are not your wife.

“Age of consent” is a way of making what is immoral, moral. 2. Sex with an unmarried woman, a virgin, in a previous age, is the kind of thing that would get you the death penalty, often from family looking for revenge/retribution for making their daughter/sister unmarriable.
Feb 28 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
1. Perhaps the better question might be:

Why Are There No Godly Men Who Can Lead Us?

It’s a whole magazine dedicated to giving the same answers to the CRCNA that they have been giving for the last 30 years, now with women as the mouth pieces. Image 2. We might want to begin with the general spiritual poverty in our churches. The churches abound with God talk and generally nice, decent people. But many of those same people are trying to fill spiritual voids with material solutions.
Feb 18 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Companies want to own you and your labour. This is fundamentally incompatible with being a being a wife and mother. It doesn’t seem fair. Why aren’t the same expectations placed on men? They are, but men deal with them differently. Men are expected to sacrifice. 2. This is all downstream from the idea that women only have true value when they are able to do everything that a man can do. The funny thing is that men define themselves as being “not women.”
Feb 10 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
1. A distributed power structure such as US federal bureaucracy — it’s more than that, it’s gov, business, non profits, think tanks, media, etc — works not through command and control, but by ideological alignment. 2. DEI was not “injected” from on high, but rather was implemented and maintained by people who believed in these policies.

A very real problem that Musk will face is that command and control has scale limits.
Feb 4 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1. “The idea that the citizen should control the state rests on the assumption that, within the state, parliament effectively directs the administrative organs, and the technicians. But this is just a political illusion.”

Jacque Ellul, The Political Illusion Image 2. “The organs of representative democracy no longer have any other purpose than to endorse decisions prepared by experts and pressure groups.”
Feb 3 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
1. The problem with the way this is stated, is that working towards every item on that list can be worked on a way to show worship and to glorify God.

We need to think about salvation in terms of asking, “What was the point of it all?” Image 2. The language of salvation is rich and multifaceted. A key aspect, a key image has been that of “atonement.” In the Protestant era we have thought about this through the theological lens of “substitutionary atonement.”
Jan 27 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
1. “Diversity, equity and inclusion” is a propaganda formula designed to appeal to the fundamental nature (weaknesses) of women, and to nihilistic feminized men who believe that they can engineer the perfection of society to win the favour of women.

Why? Let’s examine it. A 🧵 2. “Diversity” seems on the surface to be a wonderful idea when pitched to you in the propaganda. We will bring in all these different ideas and it will create a dynamic, vibrant, innovative environment.

In reality, on of two things happens.
Jan 25 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
1. I get why people are making these arguments for "meritocracy" as a counter to DIE policies.

This is a mistake. The "meritocracy" works for the regime power system, not against it.

Resistance to the regime system means being able to resist its punishments and its REWARDS. 2. The meritocracy works for and reinforces the regime reward system, engendering loyalty to the way things are, working against reform, as well as against mounting direct challenges to its power structure and the ideology with supports it.
Jan 24 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. The role of self-proclaimed, so-called “conservatives” is to give their blessing to yesterday’s progressivism, thus whitewashing it and making it normative for American society. Image 2. Less than a month ago Vivek explained that this meant that America should be run by Indians if they are the “best and the brightest.”