{"id":1207,"date":"2017-06-23T22:02:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2017-06-23T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T02:02:04","slug":"what-have-we-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have We Learned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years into this egregious bout of cultural devolution it is probably worth analyzing what we\u2019ve learned.\u00a0 What seems clear is that the leaders of the supposed pillars of the old regime have proven themselves almost completely useless at withstanding the onslaught of the forces of dissolution.\u00a0 A closer examination of how this conflict proceeds demonstrates that these supposed leaders don\u2019t actually care about the values of their institutions.\u00a0 Their primary motivation is maintaining their positions and prestige.\u00a0 They are completely comfortable with compromising their morals and even the legitimacy of their organizations if doing so will extend their places in the hierarchy.\u00a0 This has allowed almost unlimited damage to be done to the structure of human culture. It has been responsible for plummeting birth rates, widespread divorce and the crumbling of families.\u00a0 It also has contributed to an enormous increase in mental illness and depression.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine that the continuation of this trend for even a very short time won\u2019t prove fatal to our people and way of life.<\/p>\n<p>Looking around I see that several groups and individuals have begun to produce strategies and tactics to allow both offensive and defensive activities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right wing blogs provide articles and discussion on who the enemy is and what tactics work best against them. A good example is Vox Day\u2019s excellent book \u201cSJWs Always Lie.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>These same websites also act as news sources that allow you to bypass the mainstream media.<\/li>\n<li>On the religious side Rod Dreher wrote his book \u201cThe Benedict Option\u201d to awaken orthodox believers to the severity of the problem and provide information on support organizations and tactics to protect families and educate kids on what it means to be a conservative Christian.<\/li>\n<li>Donald Trump provided us with a concrete example of what it means to expose the sell-outs in the republican party and call out the liars in the main stream media and get your message out there by social media and your own websites.<\/li>\n<li>Grassroots activism coordinated by some of the right-wing pundits and more prominent individuals can push back against thugs paid for by Soros and other progressive bankrollers.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, it becomes important to start building alternate structures to bypass the ones completely infested with progressives. Once again Vox Day has taken the lead with a publishing company that seeks out non-progressive authors.\u00a0 In addition to the science fiction and fantasy books that are the staple of Castalia House his company also produces books of interest to people on the right wing.\u00a0 He started up Infogalactic as an alternative to Wikipedia.\u00a0 And other individuals are building non-progressive structures too.\u00a0 Gab was started as an alternative to Twitter and Brave is an alternative browser that isn\u2019t slanted to the left like Google.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking at this situation gives a mixed impression.\u00a0 Something like Trump winning the presidency and possessing majorities in the House, Senate and Supreme Court should be a reason for great hope and enthusiasm.\u00a0 But progress is sporadic and push back from the Deep State and the press is insanely vicious.\u00a0 The contrast in strength between the rich and powerful progressive institutions like the colleges and other schools, Hollywood and the Media against the tiny fledgling conservative websites and other businesses is staggering.\u00a0 And yet, being able to read free thoughts and express your own opinion is intoxicating.<\/p>\n<p>What seems apparent is that the odds are daunting.\u00a0 But what also seems true is that the news black-out against our side is no longer as effective as before.\u00a0 Word is starting to get out.\u00a0 When Steve Bannon goes from Breitbart News to the White House change is definitely happening.<\/p>\n<p>So, what I think can be said is that the road is a very long one.\u00a0 But the first few steps have been taken and the direction is known.\u00a0 My advice is link up with the others out there who are against the progressives.\u00a0 Remember that the enemy of your enemy is your ally.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get into battles over our differences.\u00a0 Look to form ties to like-minded folks.\u00a0 But beware those in the republican party who attack Trump and say we must be \u201cfair.\u201d\u00a0 What they mean is kowtow to the politically correct nonsense that gives the progressives the whip hand.<\/p>\n<p>And support any of these alternative structures that are formed.\u00a0 They need your help, patronage and encouragement.\u00a0 And if you can build anything of your own do it.\u00a0 If you have a talent or a knowledge base use it.\u00a0 And don\u2019t get discouraged.\u00a0 It took half a century to get us in this mess.\u00a0 We won\u2019t clean it up in a year or even a few but we can start to build a new foundation for a better world.\u00a0 And we can annoy the hell out of a lot of snowflakes, so there is that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years into this egregious bout of cultural devolution it is probably worth analyzing what we\u2019ve learned.\u00a0 What seems clear is that the leaders of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[251,250,225,14],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-bypassing-progressive-organizations","tag-right-wing-alternatives","tag-rod-dreher","tag-vox-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Have We Learned? - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Have We Learned? - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fifty years into this egregious bout of cultural devolution it is probably worth analyzing what we\u2019ve learned.\u00a0 What seems clear is that the leaders of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"photog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\"},\"headline\":\"What Have We Learned?\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/\"},\"wordCount\":814,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"bypassing progressive organizations\",\"right wing alternatives\",\"Rod Dreher\",\"Vox Day\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Current Events\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/\",\"name\":\"What Have We Learned? - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What Have We Learned?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/\",\"name\":\"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\",\"description\":\"All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Orion's Cold Fire\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg\",\"width\":4022,\"height\":1419,\"caption\":\"Orion's Cold Fire\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orionscoldfire\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\",\"name\":\"photog\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg\",\"caption\":\"photog\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/author\/photog\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What Have We Learned? - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What Have We Learned? - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire","og_description":"Fifty years into this egregious bout of cultural devolution it is probably worth analyzing what we\u2019ve learned.\u00a0 What seems clear is that the leaders of","og_url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/","og_site_name":"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire","article_published_time":"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00","author":"photog","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@orionscoldfire","twitter_site":"@orionscoldfire","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"photog","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/"},"author":{"name":"photog","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3"},"headline":"What Have We Learned?","datePublished":"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00","dateModified":"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/"},"wordCount":814,"commentCount":2,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["bypassing progressive organizations","right wing alternatives","Rod Dreher","Vox Day"],"articleSection":["Current Events"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/","name":"What Have We Learned? - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00","dateModified":"2017-06-24T02:02:04+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/what-have-we-learned\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What Have We Learned?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/","name":"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire","description":"All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization","name":"Orion's Cold Fire","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg","width":4022,"height":1419,"caption":"Orion's Cold Fire"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/orionscoldfire"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3","name":"photog","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg","caption":"photog"},"url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/author\/photog\/"}]}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}