Why does a dystopian, apocalyptic movie from 2013 look and sound so much like the bilge coming out of the World Economic Forum ten years later?
We watched Snow Piercer (Czech-Korean, believe it or not) on YouTube yesterday. Wow! Based on a graphic novel–that is, a comic book–it still seemed a good bet. And it was, it was.
Scenario: Somebody’s bright idea of using Science to fight Global Warming backfires, big-time, plunging the earth into a new ice age in which almost everyone has died. All that’s left of humanity has to live on this super train that never stops running. The plebs are in the back of the train: they have to eat protein bars made of bugs. The rich are up front, eating high-class meals prepared by master chefs.
And somehow, with the human race all but extinct, the ruling class still manages to sign up Herod’s Men to enforce the new society by violence and terror. How is it they never run out of Herod’s Men?
“You will own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” Guess which half of that comes true.
Snow Piercer has great effects and marvelous acting: John Hurt inspires the rebels, Ed Harris drives the train, and Tilda Swinton is a Hillary Clinton with a Yorkshire accent. It would have paid off to have cut about half a dozen fight scenes out of the film; but what the heck, you can go to the kitchen for some popcorn.
The only question is: Are John Kerry, Klaus Schwab, and the rest of the WEF crowd of monsters and jidrools actually powerful enough to cause a truly global calamity? They will convince themselves, of course, that any crime they might commit is really A Good Thing that they do for the benefit of all. That’s how deluded they are. They shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near any kind of power.
Well, they’re doing what they can to erase our species, aren’t they? Transgender, homosexuality, breaking up families, permissive drug policies, assisted suicide, “vaccines” that just might kill you dead… etc. They don’t like us and they don’t want us here.
One thing has changed, though, that wasn’t so glaringly apparent in 1996:
Science nowadays is heavily politicized–almost to the point where it isn’t “science” at all. Can you say “Climate Change scam”? Transgender movement? “Vaccines” that don’t work but earn a lot of money? “Green energy” that costs a nearly infinite amount of public money but doesn’t work? I mean, just for starters…
That’s all what happens with “science” and politics wind up in bed together. They corrupt each other–and they weren’t exactly squeaky-clean to start with.
Rushdoony believe that Christians have to work to build a Christian culture. Like humanists labor unceasingly to build a Godless humanist culture. They work at it. We haven’t. And it shows.
Disclaimer: I don’t like football anymore. So what?
Here’s The New York Times kicking off the 2017 football season with a rant by a “professor” of something who doesn’t like football and hates everyone who watches it and would probably slash your tires if she could ever figure out which end of the knife to use.
A few months ago he was nattering on about keeping the plebs anesthetized with drugs and video games. And him a citizen of the state of Israel, a state born out of the horrors of the Holocaust. You’d think he should’ve learned a lesson from that.
But chimpanzee scientist Jane Goodall has him beat. The ol’ Planet would be doing just fine, she sez, if only we could get rid of “94%” of the earth’s human population.
Do you ever get the feeling that these people who want to be our lords and masters aren’t exactly fond of us? Like, maybe we should make damned sure they never get the power to act on their depraved impulses?
What’s your Final Solution, WEF? How many of us will you leave alive?
Well, they’re running wild out there. No question about that.
Inspired by the Red Pope’s latest apology tour, complete with pagan “smudging ceremony,” statist secular liberals world-wide are demanding that Christians “apologize” for preaching the gospel and sending out missionaries to make converts (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/apologizing-for-the-gospel/).
Maybe the Church should also apologize for setting up hospitals and orphanages, stopping human sacrifice, campaigning for women’s rights in countries where there had never been any such thing as women’s rights… and giving hope to the hopeless, comfort to the poor and needy, feeding the hungry–
Why did they do those things?
Because those things are Christianity in action.
There’s no one so anti-human as a humanist.
Yeah, let’s all wail and gnash our teeth because the Aztecs’ bloodthirsty paganism is no more. And they’ve stopped burning widows alive in India. Christians stopped the slave trade, too. But libs in the US (at least at Harvard), Canada, and Australia say it was all just “Christian supremacy” and shame on us!
Our Lord Jesus Christ told us that would happen. But He commanded us to do good even if the world hates us for it. Which apparently it does.
God’s wisdom, personified, warns us, “[A]ll they that hate me love death” (Proverbs 8:36). I wish I could say we all listened.
The wisdom of this world is twaddle; and here are 26 minutes of it, spouted by a “space scientist” who comes at the question from a “hedonic utilitarian perspective.”
Ooh! That sounds smart! It wouldn’t have such a cool name if it wasn’t smart.
Even having to ask the question points to a bottomless moral imbecility–which describes very much of what the world today trots out as wisdom.
You don’t have to watch the whole thing. Why should you? On the same YouTube page are a host of videos by sophomoric “science” wallahs trying to give us the upside of human extinction. Remember Prince Philip saying he wished he could be reincarnated as some kind of plague?
We can laugh at them; but I think the point is why is anyone at all saying these things? Humanism at the best of times is anti-human; it makes a virtue of misanthropy. We should know that this darkness is out there and believed by persons who haven’t gotten around to acting on it.
It doesn’t have to be a giant comet slamming into the earth. Just abort all the babies, or succeed in selling “transgender” to a point where everybody buys it, and you’ll have all the extinction you can handle. To say nothing of what might happen if the scheme for “vaccinating” everybody in the world doesn’t turn out so good, after all.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6: 12). This is what we are up against, and we’d better not forget it.
If you ever thought you could study archaeology without being nagged about a lot of Far Left twaddle, you thought wrong. Nowadays archaeology is all about Saving The Planet and reining in White Supremacy. (Barf bag, please.)
In fact, you can’t study anything today without having PC palaver rammed down your throat. And it’s all gibberish, they make it up as they go along. (Done any othering lately? How ’bout that intersectionality? Blah! Blah!)
The original Tower of Babel judgment, in which God confounded human language, was a sovereign act of grace and mercy that protected us from world government.
Today humanists confound the language in an effort to set up world government–with themselves in charge of it, of course.