As IF Times

As most are keenly aware, it’s summertime in the northern hemisphere.  As should be evident, there will always be days of uncomfortably high temperatures in summer as there are stretches of uncomfortably cold and or wet conditions in the winter.  Is this abnormal?  What is abnormal?

The answer is; it depends who you ask. You will find ‘studies’ from all and sundry parties invoking their views on this.  But all that is irrelevant.  The salient thing to know, is that we can moderate our environment to make these weather swings habitable.  It’s called technology.  It’s called human progress.

The advance and harnessing of new technologies and discoveries has made previously hostile environments, habitable.  It has enabled humans to create, to build and to advance their societies. It is what separates the human species from the rest of the animal world who are entirely at the mercy of their environment.  The fact that this self-evident reality is disavowed by so many in our time is emblematic of just how pervasive mental disorders have affected populations.

Of course there are societies which eschew to a large part, the advances of modern technology. The Amish and Mennonites prefer to remain attached to their ways of doing things, preferring to live in the same fashion as their ancestors, ignoring most modern machinery and devices. The Amish take it more seriously as they don’t even use electricity.  These are choices these societies make to live in their way.  The Muslim world have their own, much more oppressive dictates for their people.  As closed societies within a larger free society, they can do as they wish.

In the larger society, people are less likely to be as principled.  They prefer to benefit from the conveniences created by technology in order to live more comfortably…which is the whole point of technological progress.

At the moment, an oppressive heat wave has enveloped much of Europe as temperatures soar to over 110 degrees Fahrenheit for extended periods.  Unlike North America, European cities are not generally equipped with air conditioning, thus, living is not only uncomfortable, it’s dangerous for much of the elderly and the very young.  More than 1300 deaths have been attributable to excess heat in this particular heat wave according to the WHO.

It would make sense that those who purport to value human lives would find some means to stop these preventable tragedies. And you’d be wrong.  Governments there are doing the exact opposite.  In the UK, people are being fined for using their air conditioners.  In France, your neighbors need to agree to allow you to install an air conditioner for your flat.  The social media post above shows the mentality of those who are so bereft of common sense that death is preferable to comfort.

Somehow, the acceptance of self-destructive behavior in the guise of social awareness has officially crossed the line into mental illness.  In any free society, people are allowed to inflict self harm…as supposedly free thinking individuals.  Heck, in Canada, it’s officially supported by the government.

When the urge to impose your views on others or worse to mandate them as government policy, then the society is no longer free.  It has then devolved into a giant HOA with self righteous ninnies making the rules. We all witnessed this on a global scale with the COVID fraud.

The existence of people eager to impose their will on others is not a new phenomenon.   Every society has their own rules of expected conduct and behavior.  Every religion has their codified standards of social interaction.  Every bikers’ club, every bowling league can make up their own rules.

None of this is odd.  What is odd is that in our lifetime, people feel that they have the right to coerce others NOT in their group to abide by rules made up by them.   What’s more odd is that people fall in line. The line graph of ‘tolerance’ for other communities has gone from urging people to wear pride buttons to now requiring them under duress of ostracization.  We’re now at the point of the graph of not letting people get relief from deadly heat because, you know, the planet.  Peak absurdity is that people in a society are encouraged to meekly accept the behavior of aggressive ideologues against their very existence…with the support of governments.  We now even witness white people protesting…against white people!

We now experience alien cultures imposing their views on their host nations going as far as demanding, demanding that host nations bend to their values.  There has been no instance in history of any civilization willingly ceding their sovereignty and culture without a fight, though many European nations now aspire to break that pattern.  Men would defend their societies, to the death if necessary to preserve what they hold dear.  Only male sensibilities will preserve a nation.  In fact, the founding of an entire nation, the most successful one ever, America, was founded on this very principle.  What’s changed in our lifetime is not the emergence of  tyrants of all stripes;  it’s the emergence of the meek and effete in host societies.  It’s the acceptance of surrender to long held values created by people attuned to reality. There has never been a successful society governed by the meek.  Any society unwilling to push back against threats to their very existence is unsustainable.

A few months ago, an ‘organic’, but somehow well orchestrated national protest consumed all the media headlines with the catchy slogan of  ‘No Kings’.  This of course was not a protest against kings per se, but was targeting the policies of one individual they considered to be acting as a king, that is, Donald Trump.

It sounds good; a protest against someone who autocratically imposes his will upon his subjects and who restricts the rights and privileges of his people.  But as in all protest movements by the left, there is usually more thought put in to creating the jingoistic war cry than the actual substance of the underlying cause.  Take for example, Black Lives Matter, a movement intended to galvanize a particular constituency politically but which was entirely non-sensical.  In reality, the movement was all about Black Lives Better and this movement was used as a sledgehammer to cow the larger population against pushing back against obvious racial crimes.  Objective crime statistics over decades showed that Blacks were disproportionately represented in crime statistics as a percentage of population.  This fact is blithely ignored by the deluded movement.

On to the No Kings protest.  Recently, the present Regent of the UK, King Charles, paid a state visit to the United States, a former vassal colony but one that turfed the Brits in an independence war exactly 250 years ago.  In fact, this can be considered the preeminent No Kings protest because the colonies decided that they really did not care for the way the Kings and Queens were running things, especially by imposing non representative taxation and thus they fought a war to have…no kings.

America was the first nation ever in history to endow its own citizens with the ability to rise to the level of their own efforts, without the advantage of birthright as has been (and still is) the case in most nations until then.  Mere citizens could be elected to high office solely on their appeal to their constituents, not because they happened to be the scions of rich dudes from past conquests.

The very notion of someone being entitled to rights, privileges, wealth and power just because their ancestors won some battles centuries ago is absurd in this modern age….or should be.  Most monarchs today live their privileged lives solely through the support of taxes by their loyal subjects and are largely ceremonial in their positions, much like vases in a curios cabinet…and just as useful. They really are human museum pieces representing an archaic history which, while amusing, is of no real consequence to anyone today.  Of course, people still sit in rapt attention when these regents make a well-crafted speech, but the fact is, it’s like consulting a magic 8 ball as far as any real wisdom is concerned.

Let’s pick on King Charles as an example. On his recent visit to the United States, he made a speech about the historical connection between the UK and the United States and their shared history and traditions.  This is somewhat reminiscent of a spouse talking about their romantic history before the acrimonious divorce.  Many residual royalists swooned in reverence at his articulate delivery as compared to the oaf sitting in the President’s office.

The reality was that the visit was not a social call.  It was a personal plea to have the United States continue to deliver military funding to the European cause since the Europeans are in dire straits.  Under Charles’ watch, the UK’s influence had collapsed in the realms of industry, of trade and of the military.  Their role as a finance capital is in serious jeopardy. The nation itself is on the verge of civil war not helped by the King’s embrace of Muslims.  This civil war will be inflamed by the speech made by Charles in the weeks after his visit announcing that the UK will implement nationwide digital ID’s.  Apparently, this was so that ‘everyone would be equal’.  This might have been taken more seriously had he not been wearing a jewel encrusted crown, wearing an ermine cape, sitting on the regal throne.

The pearl clutchers and hand wringers in the United States are in perma critique mode as to their own nation without understanding that the US is still the freest nation on earth.  This is in no part due to the help of globalists who are tirelessly trying to bring their own brands of kings and queens with their associated levels of inequality back to the US.

We can see this brand of ‘Royal’ behavior in the nation to the north, Canada, still a vassal state to Britain. We can observe that elections are manipulated, certain people are given more rights than others and speech is increasingly being stifled with the help of compliant state media.  They even have the King’s representative whose position is like the vase in the cabinet mentioned earlier but nonetheless commands a royal salary, allowance, housing and oh, a pension for life, informing the public that they need to tighten their belts. Where are the No Kings protestors?

The public have hopefully become fatigued by the protest flavor of the day, telling them how and what to think. The collapse of credibility of mass media has made the bleats of the day as just so much noise.  Ironically, they are correct in this particular bleat, they just targeted wrongly.  We don’t need Kings.