tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post2251744841735601824..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The Norman Conquest all over again (but this time Sorathic and global)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-44160455506019308652021-11-26T08:15:09.016+00:002021-11-26T08:15:09.016+00:00@JR "High-Trust Highly functional Scandinavia...@JR "High-Trust Highly functional Scandinavian societies of early modernity" - but it needs to be noted that they were 'nonetheless' self-loathing and suicidal - as evidenced by rising anti-marriage, anti family and anti-natalist motivations - which derived from their underlying anti-spiritual, anti-God and anti-Christ metaphysical beliefs."<br /><br />Orthodox Christianity as declared at Nicea? <br /><br />Or something else?<br /><br />John Rockwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15746216376164151386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88243863471422361782021-11-25T15:01:21.436+00:002021-11-25T15:01:21.436+00:00Note well the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pens...Note well the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense", which tells you frankly that they don't care what you think of them. Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030980000235824571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66196720639007637002021-11-25T06:23:39.777+00:002021-11-25T06:23:39.777+00:00@JR "High-Trust Highly functional Scandinavia...@JR "High-Trust Highly functional Scandinavian societies of early modernity" - but it needs to be noted that they were 'nonetheless' self-loathing and suicidal - as evidenced by rising anti-marriage, anti family and anti-natalist motivations - which derived from their underlying anti-spiritual, anti-God and anti-Christ metaphysical beliefs.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-50762388608449786772021-11-25T00:56:30.433+00:002021-11-25T00:56:30.433+00:00A real contrast with the Scandinavian descended No...A real contrast with the Scandinavian descended Normans and the High-Trust Highly functional Scandinavian societies of early modernity.John Rockwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15746216376164151386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-54644335584277245802021-11-24T08:47:38.408+00:002021-11-24T08:47:38.408+00:00I recently read John Julius Norwich's "Th...I recently read John Julius Norwich's "The Normans in the South", his very readable account of the Norman conquest of southern Italy and Sicily that was more or less contemporary with the English conquest. They were one riotous group of bad hombres. Total mercenaries, endless ambition and absolutely untrustworthy. I found myself sympathising with the Popes who had to try and contain them.Karlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-31020241444150729802021-11-23T19:59:42.636+00:002021-11-23T19:59:42.636+00:00A peasantry with it's native Elite destroyed w...A peasantry with it's native Elite destroyed whilst replaced by a hostile one. Is in a dire situation.<br /><br />And we all know that historically peasant revolts led by peasants only failed all the time.<br /><br />Because leadership capability isn't present so much at all.John Rockwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15746216376164151386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-14763098591093303892021-11-23T19:18:09.458+00:002021-11-23T19:18:09.458+00:00Yes!Yes!jana gatienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01341290730621953185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-11301260925544915002021-11-23T17:49:52.828+00:002021-11-23T17:49:52.828+00:00Or “normies,” as they’re called these days.Or “normies,” as they’re called these days.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-2082930907663185122021-11-23T13:25:26.863+00:002021-11-23T13:25:26.863+00:00After reading this morning about the sickening mes...After reading this morning about the sickening mess the U.S. has created in the Middle East (https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/syrian-christians-were-quietly-warned-before-the-war/) it occurred to me that what "we" have done there – the destabilization of society, the annihilation of Christian communities, the immiseration of the people, the genocide and population displacement – is being done here, too (and in the U.K. and Europe). It is the fruit of the same Norman spirit you describe that views people as so much dirt to be shoved around or discarded as needed. There is no better example of this than the global "public health" terror.Avro Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-79268413102492824182021-11-23T12:17:23.349+00:002021-11-23T12:17:23.349+00:00My family descends from the Normans, apparently. O...My family descends from the Normans, apparently. Our house crest, I kid you not, features a serpent encircling the base of a broken pillar. There’s certainly a streak of cruelty and will-to-power, so thank goodness we’re only diaspora peasants.Epimetheusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-23019970100304658082021-11-23T11:19:32.625+00:002021-11-23T11:19:32.625+00:00Well there certainly aren't many Anglo Saxons ...Well there certainly aren't many Anglo Saxons in the current cabinet so yes as usual we are still run by the Normans although I think there was a brief period after WW2 when we had a bit of rest bite.<br />Mike Bryantnoreply@blogger.com