PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron was at an Elton John concert as France burned. Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, ‘dancing’ and jihad. And of course he lied about the actual cause of the rioting and the violence. He blamed video games and parents. The ‘children’ destroying things, assaulting Frenchmen and robbing Louis Vuitton should have been kept at home, he said. Close but no Quai d’Orsay Clemenceau. If their parents had been kept at home – in Africa and the Middle East – he might have both a point and a recognisable nation. Tyrannical subjectivism and brazen gaslighting to pardon its destructiveness have become the couplet of unreality that defines the age. M. Macron knows that years of immigration from Islamic cesspools has brought nothing but cultural ruination to France. The institutionalised lie, however – that Diversité has joined the national motto’s older trio of watchwords with unfussed aplomb – is too sacred to endanger.
It is rare for Kamala Harris to say something worth heeding but “don’t be that first frog” applies to the French presidency and modern Frenchmen perfectly. The latter were slow-boiled in a pot of Brussels-coordinated social engineering and Élysée-endorsed penance for colonialism. A few registered the deadliness of gradualist malice but were dismissed as ‘right-wing.’ Applied to civilisation today, however, the big problem with the froggy apologue is this: it is already too late for its lesson to save the day.
So-called conservatives in Europe and elsewhere are caught in the quixotic rut of proclaiming that all will be lost ‘if something isn’t done’ starting now. But Western Civilisation has already collapsed and those who think otherwise are deluding themselves and bedevilling counter-revolution. Many of them – ratcheted accommodationists – don’t even understand, for example, that feminism and ‘Pride’ were not benign movements corrupted, but progenitors of the corruption. Left-wing moral vandalism works – as the French know better than anybody – because re-establishing obliterated ideals is difficult. What foundation, then, can undergird an existential answer to the ennui of stasis that followed the Charlie Hebdo murders in 2015 and the covid liberty massacre of 2020-2022? In a Word: God. In a sentence: the moral objectivism that inheres in man, as in nature, and which is the fount of all reason. It’s a big boulder to roll.
Big and noble but not Sisyphean. In his sermon for the coronation of King Charles III, Archbishop Welby observed that the Kingdom of God “sets the aims of all righteous government, all authority.” This enormously consequential dogma – for such it is – rhymes splendidly with Saint John XXIII’s Pacem in Terris, whose 60th anniversary was marked in April. All political leaders, the Pope wrote, “are still bound by the natural law, which is the rule that governs all moral conduct, and they have no authority to depart from its slightest precepts.” It follows ineluctably that the West’s current religious mission – forcible conversion of entire nations to a ‘woke’ cult, backed by endless war – is counterfeit, Godless and barbarian. The fact that those three adjectives describe Russia and China at any given time is not an excuse. A week ago, strangely triumphant neocons used the Prigozhin mutiny to round on imaginary foes they claimed had lionised Vladimir Putin as the arch-defender of civilisation. The uprising in France right now is a thousand times worse and is a direct corollary of precisely the cultural nihilism they themselves labour to universalise. Bringing these dangerous cynics to heel is a good way to start fighting back. As for France, it will never Isabella its way out of Islamic chaos. Its best hope – paradoxically – is a blasé majority yearning for the Way, the Truth and the Life. There is no other genuine way out of the rubble.
Top commentary, C.L.
C’est magnifique!
GBN Video – Nana Akua: What we’re seeing in France is only the tip of a global iceberg.
“But Western Civilisation has already collapsed and those who think otherwise are deluding themselves and bedevilling counter-revolution. “
I have only one word….yep.
Superb C.L.
quite so.
Exactly; when France returns to being the responsible eldest daughter she will have hope.
I did see video of young men fighting back rioters so not all French lie back and think of Foucault.
This interview of Jordon Peterson’s makes sense, to me anyway. Especially from the 45 minute mark. Thank you for your analysis.
a good site to see how far things are in France, people in cars trying to run over off duty policewoman, man taking licence numbers of private cars parked at police station and on and on
A great column, thank you. Wish I could write like this.
“quixotic rut”
Have to defend Quixote. He’s ridden through the “jungles and tundras of human thought..his blazon is pity, his banner is beauty. He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish and gallant”
Exactly. And they have been the problem since 2020…they are called denialists.
Have yet to hear one mainstream news source mention the burning of libraries in France. But hey, some school in America moved a gay porn book away from the kiddie shelves! Any word yet on whether the kid who was killed was (a) an honours student (b) a gentle giant, or (c) an aspiring rapper?
Thanks for that site Rosie. Had to laugh at a quote there from Macron, that the riots are not a problem of immigration, because the rioters are “children of the 3rd, 4th, 5th generation”. Glad he cleared that up.
In theory this one today is OT, but it fits so so well!
Carbon Footprints are for Peasants (Daniel Greenfield, 2 Jul)
You’ll have to RTWT to get the full glorious hypocrisy. As a cherry on top the recent Froggy edict that thou shalt not fly short route flights has a special dispensation for, wait for it…private jets.
That was Hollande, but still.
fdesouche refer to such persons as Hollande as Bobos
Bravo! C.L.
Anglican by choice from the year of Archbishop Welby’s birth until lapsing from its doctrines in recent years, I applaud his words about the Kingdom of God at the coronation of Charles III.
Alas, I do not see his life illumined by Psalm 36:9 in the same way as I do Saint John XXIII of your branch of Christian faith. The 1963 encyclical is an inspired piece of writing, in keeping with the gospels and epistles of the New Testament.
There is, or so I believe, an unmistakable Pauline ring to the second paragraph of Pacem in Terris.
The foundations (of the West) have been destroyed (Psalm 11:3) as they were in ancient Israel and Judah. Those kingdoms and their people were exiled in Assyria and Babylon, but God preserved a remnant from the latter to return and rebuild Jerusalem under godly men such as Ezra and Nehemiah.
At age 85, my earnest prayer is that there remain and will become sufficient numbers of men of faith, goodwill and intellect to rebuild the West and Christianity from the ruins that lay around us today. I suspect God this time will not allow Judaism to decay in the same way. He will preserve Jerusalem as the venue of the eventual return of His Son.
More power and influence to you C.L. and your inspired writings.
Excellent, C.L.
Leaders like Macron are the problem, not the solution.
Things in France are not going to improve, but probably get far worse.
The “far-right” French figure Papacito to his followers: «Do not intervene, let the Republic go to the end of its logic». Translated captions.
Of course, nothing that is happening in France could happen here in our multicultural paradise. Otherwise, why would the government increase our immigration intake?
Excellent piece, C.L.
Have to defend Quixote. He’s ridden through the “jungles and tundras of human thought..his blazon is pity, his banner is beauty.
Allow me to refer to the [far] lesser known Donkey Oatee
About immigration – many of the people of African descent in France are French and were French before they came to France. And yes, Macron at an Elton John affair is as much a sign of a cultural disintegration as is the rioting in the streets.
terry (8.59am) On that note…the defiance of God…from the Nobel Laureate almost 60 years ago….Highway 61 Revisited…
“God said to Abraham, “kill me a son”
Abe say, “man, you must be putting me on”
God say, “no”, and Abe say, “what?”
God say, “you can do what you want Abe, but”….
“Next time you see me comin’, man, you better run”
Abe said, “where do you want this killing done?”
God said, “out on Highway 61”
And something else…same song. Joe and his gamblers…
“Now the rovin’ gambler, he was very bored
He was tryin’ to create a next world war
He found a promoter who almost fell off the floor
He said “I never engaged in this kind of thing before”…..
“But yes, I think it can be very easily done”
” ‘Cause we’ll put some bleachers out in the sun”
“And have it on Highway 61”
As Peterson noted: these Marxists are nought but the successors of Cain.
rosie (11.56am) Good find. I’ve already seen vids from Papacito, and he’s 100% correct…
Everyone I know and respect in France lives in the country. The big regional cities are just as bad as Paris ( Nantes, Rennes I know well) and they are full of the same dopes as the big smoke. The French have had the chance to vote FN or RN, but chose Hollande and macron instead.
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind!
BTW: For those who like their politicians fresh…here’s who the French shoulda been supporting when they had the chance….https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Mar%C3%A9chal
“Marxist .. successors of Cain”. It’s all so grim.
But bless that darling Donkey Oatee
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Oops. Shoulda been John of Mel at 12.11pm with Papacito link. Sorry John and Rosie.
https://summit.news/2023/07/02/the-truth-about-france/
It’s difficult to have much sympathy for France; it has been warned explicitly about this for many years, but it keeps voting left wing governments back in.
As PJW points out, they still have four more years of Macron, although I suspect he will be gone long before then, and possibly, hopefully his government too.
Maybe ‘It’s Time'(tm) for a Sixth French Republic!