Changing the Culture

THE ONLY thing which will rescue America is to re-embrace the concept of America. This starts with renewing American culture—with promoting the idea of unique American culture which has been lost in a mad rush toward unthinking irrelevant Globalism which posits all cultures no matter how backward or barbaric as equal to the achievements of Western civilization. America is one of those achievements.

To do my part I’m working to re-introduce the concept of American literature. I’ve been doing this at another blog,

www.americanpoplit.blogspot.com

(See the All-Time American Writer Tournament there.)

My next objective is to renew the American short story, which lost its way several decades ago when it left the vigorous stories of the past to fall into a morass of elitist solipsistic navel-gazing overcrafted literary junk.

My first shot? The new ebook, Ten Pop Stories, now on sale at Amazon’s Kindle Store, (www.amazon.com) and as a Nook Book at Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com). The ebook contains entertaining American fiction. It’s ridiculously affordable. Purchase your copy now!

Lauren Collins Cries Islamophobia

There's a rather biased article in the July 4th, 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine titled "England My England" in which Lauren Collins or her editors freely throws the "Islamophobia" word around.

Consider this. When you express an opinion which Lauren Collins and her editors disagree with, you're phobic. You have a mental illness. This is their viewpoint. (So much for The New Yorker magazine's commitment to free speech.)

The essay by Lauren Collins is about the effort by working class folks in Britain to retain their nation's cultural identity.

Cultural identity isn't an issue that Lauren Collins herself has ever had to personally deal with. She has existed her entire life within the safe bubble of privilege. Graduate of Princeton University, the Lauren Collins career has taken place within the upper levels of Manhattan magazine publishing. She works with and no doubt socializes with other high social caste persons exclusively like herself.

Lauren Collins grew up in the restricted enclave of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. A quick check of demographic information about Wrightsville Beach reveals the population there to be 99.1% white. There are no black residents. Not one. There are 23 Hispanics. Anyone care to bet how many of the 23 Hispanics are employed as domestic help?

Is Lauren Collins of New York City and Wrightsville Beach, Vogue and The New Yorker, in a position to be lecturing anybody about "Islamophobia," or cultural issues in general?

Twisted History

Because universities today teach a distorted version of the history of the Crusades and the medieval age, we see the spectacle of American college students raised in a Christian background sympathizing with Islam against their own heritage. That Jesus was a man of peace and Muhammed a man of war is something they don't wish to hear.

Fiasco

The way the “coalition” is handling the Libya matter is a throwback to the French-British Suez excursion in 1956. Confusion, weak leadership, and no plan.

Discipline

An interesting case, involving Brigham Young University in Utah, where a star basketball player has been suspended for breaking the school’s or team’s Honor Code. He had premarital sex with his girlfriend.

Sports radio hosts have called the suspension “Wacky.” Indeed, in the everything-goes context of America now, it surely seems so. The idea of any rules , barriers, or restrictions—at all—must clearly be wacky.

On the other hand we have the example of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and countless others like them, who have callouses on their foreheads from the intensity of their five-times-a-day praying. For Western Civilization, what that civilization has become, this is the opponent. Characters capable of total commitment, complete dedication. How do you defeat such people?

The move “El Cid,” made fifty years ago when ideals of codes and honor in America were not archaic, is instructive. For the Cid and his bride, honor isn’t archaic. It’s everything.

Western Civilization

The question isn’t whether radical Islam will predominate through half of the planet, as seems possible, if not likely. The question is what kind of alternative, weak or strong, will be offered? I’m talking about strength of ideas. Western culture, once so glorious, is in a down period and badly needs to revitalize. If people don’t believe in themselves, their civilization, their time, if they stand for nothing, then they’re not equipped to oppose anything.

Mubarak Out!

What will happen? Study history!