{"id":7395,"date":"2019-06-17T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2019-06-17T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T04:00:12","slug":"building-the-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/17\/building-the-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I read Angelo Codevilla\u2019s essay \u201cConservative Resistance<\/a>\u201d in American Greatness.\u00a0 His thesis was that since the Leftists have begun selectively to ignore federal law (e.g., marijuana illegality) that it has come to the point where Red States will start ignoring social policy laws that they disagree with (e.g., abortion, homosexuality).<\/p>\n

Whether things will actually progress very far this way anytime soon remains to be seen but I realized that we already live essentially in two different worlds.\u00a0 The conflict over the last sixty years has been over which world will rule the other.\u00a0 And essentially it is not a matter of agreeing on a common set of rules that we can reach a compromise on.\u00a0 We are being systematically undermined in all areas of the most important aspects of life.\u00a0 The Left\u2019s social projects have absolutely nothing to do with freedom.\u00a0 They are efforts to destroy the traditional family as the means to eradicate the people they cannot control.<\/p>\n

Looking at things from that point of view it seems plain to me that until we can reassert control over the agencies of the government that are infringing on our freedoms of speech and religion, we must in some ways look upon ourselves as people living under a foreign power.\u00a0 We live in occupied territory.\u00a0 This is similar to how the people in Eastern Europe endured the Soviet occupation.<\/p>\n

The Soviet occupation controlled every facet of civic life with an unbreakable grip based on the military strength of the Russian army.\u00a0 But the people lived a dual life and their inner life expressed the truth of what they actually believed as opposed to the outer rituals that the state forced them to observe.\u00a0 So, whereas Poland was officially a communist state with atheism as the official position, the Poles clung desperately to their Catholic faith.<\/p>\n

Not to be dramatic about this but there is a way for us to live a similar inner life.\u00a0 We will have to foster a separate culture and society from the one we live in.\u00a0 We will need to have our own fiction and philosophy, our own music and movies.\u00a0 We will need to communicate together over our own channels, websites and networks.\u00a0 And someday we may need to invest our money in our own banks and businesses.\u00a0 We\u2019re actually luckier than the Poles and the Czechs.\u00a0 Theoretically we still live in a free country.\u00a0 If we are careful and patient, we can make a lot of progress without depending on some kind of upheaval to get what we want.\u00a0 But it will require slow methodical effort by large numbers of like-minded people to lay the kind of foundation needed to bypass the converged infrastructure currently surrounding every facet of our lives; schools, social networking sites, businesses, federal bureaucracies and even churches and non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n

All these things are possible and relatively easy to understand.\u00a0 The hard thing to do is how to pass along this information to the children today.\u00a0 If you homeschool your children then this simplifies matters enormously.\u00a0 But if your kids are in the public (or private) schools then it will be a struggle.\u00a0 They are saturated by the propaganda that the culture and its representatives broadcast at them continuously.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a fish in poisoned water it can\u2019t escape the effect.\u00a0 To tell them the truth will seem to them like madness.\u00a0 It will fly in the face of everything that is drummed into their heads twenty-four\/seven.\u00a0 But even here there are ways to use the natural advantage of the truth to simplify the effort.\u00a0 When a child tells you about global warming have facts on your side.\u00a0 Point to statements by alarmists like Al Gore about how the polar ice caps would be completely melted by 2017 and then show a photo of the Arctic today.\u00a0 This will be understandable to the child.\u00a0 Then it would be useful to explain that not everything that is taught in school or on television is true.\u00a0 You can then introduce the concept of political bias and how this can cause people to lie about objectively true things for the sake of gaining political power.\u00a0 It will also be necessary to explain how arguing to the authorities about their lies will only get the child punished.\u00a0 It will have to be explained that for the sake of keeping appearances the truth won\u2019t be mentioned.\u00a0 But introduction into the inner world of those who know will be an interesting phenomenon for him and allow a space where you can talk to the young without confusing them.\u00a0 Another good way to break them out of the propaganda mode is to give them books and movies from the earlier times before the worst of the madness evolved.\u00a0 Books and movies that showcase the qualities and behaviors of Western civilization and the normal occupations of men and women before the present confusion was inflicted on society will be interesting and attractive to their minds.<\/p>\n

For an American having to do this seems Kafkaesque.\u00a0 And probably that is the apt word.\u00a0 Modern American life with its continuously weirder new outrages and never-ending assaults on the wholesome and sane appears like some surreal nightmare from which we never awake.\u00a0 But teach them we must.\u00a0 The memes and other tactics that the dissident and alt-right employ are meant to show the normies out there, the absurdity and illogic of the Left\u2019s signature positions.\u00a0 This we have to incorporate into our dealings with our children and grandchildren.\u00a0 It is hoped that we can one day recover control of the culture and return it to normal.\u00a0 And with President Trump some of that is actually happening.\u00a0 But I know it\u2019s much too soon to even think we can go back to business as usual.\u00a0 We are behind enemy lines and will be so for the foreseeable future.\u00a0 We will therefore have to act accordingly.<\/p>\n

After you’ve read enough sexbot articles on Drudge maybe switch to something interesting<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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