When the Gauls Burnt Rome

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“The Gauls are coming!” But the warning was ignored.

I wonder how many more indictments will be hurled at President Trump today. Meanwhile, the early history of Rome cries out a lesson to us.

Rome was embroiled in a long and indecisive war with her neighbors. Not until they gave the command to Camillus were those wars won. But instead of gratitude, Camillus was subjected to a host of indictments by his political rivals, and forced to leave the city as an exile.

So caught up were they in partisan politics that the Romans ignored dire warnings that hordes of Gauls had invaded Italy and were marching on Rome. Resistance proved futile; the Romans were disorganized. The Gauls took the city and burned down most of it. Only a small force of Romans still held the city’s Citadel.

The situation was hopeless–until, in desperation, they recalled Camillus. Rallying the Roman troops who’d fled to every corner on the map, he annihilated the hitherto victorious Gauls: the city of Rome was restored to the Roman people.

America is in a very bad way: we all know it. Maybe not quite so desperate as Rome’s peril was, but more than bad enough.

Rome survived, and came back to win the war, because of only two reasons: Romans put their trust in their gods, their religion; and put Camillus back in charge. Nothing else would have rescued the city from extinction.

We must learn from their example.

‘Sink the Bismarck!’ (2017)

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There are still people alive who were here for World War II, but you’d almost think that war had never happened, judging by the little that we’ve learned from it.

‘Sink the Bismarck!’

The British ruling class spent years appeasing the Third Reich, making excuses for Hitler, trying to be Mr. Nice Guy, and they still got the living daylights bombed out of their country–and a brand-new German battleship, the Bismarck, determined to cut off their imported food supply.

Some folks you just can’t be nice to.

You Can’t Defy Reality Forever

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Every last one of them died.

In our mania for “change” and “transformation,” we’ve come up with many ways to defy reality–all in the interests, of course, of creating “equality” and a utopia on earth. Imperfect sinful stupid human beings creating a perfect world: uh-huh.

So the BBC is going to run a series called “No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Be Gender Free?” Because, again, doing away with the male/female distinction will create “equality” and a paradise on earth. To this end, an “expert” has been given a free hand for six weeks at a school, where he means to wipe out all visible signs of difference between boys and girls.

Male and female created He them, chuckles.

Reality is real and you can’t cheat it forever. Sooner or later it will eat you. Let me offer an analogy from history.

On January 17, 1912, a party of five British explorers led by Captain R.F. Scott reached the South Pole–a month after Scott’s rival, Amundsen, got there. On the way back to base, all five of the British died. All five. The Norwegians got back to their base all safe and sound with everybody healthy.

For “reality” read “Antarctica.”

The icy continent has its own unique conditions which brook no compromise, no negotiation. You either do things Antarctica’s way, or you don’t do them. Amundsen’s expedition was consciously made to conform to Antarctic conditions. Scott ignored those conditions. Here are some of the disastrous decisions he made–all of which had nothing to do with how to survive in Antarctica.

He passed over his strongest, fittest men and took those who were much less fit. He took one man from the Army because he decided the Army had to be represented. Sort of a token, you see. The Army man died. But then so did all the others. He also took an older man who’d already been weakened by earlier adventures in the killing cold, because the man was his friend and supporter. No one who was fit for the journey was picked.

Although the polar party was provisioned for four men, at the last minute Scott decided to take five. The fifth man didn’t have skis.

For transport of supplies he relied on ponies. The Antarctic is no place for herbivores: nothing for them to eat. The ponies failed and died.

Failing to account for weather and climate conditions, Scott didn’t keep accurate track of  the location of his supply dumps. His party lost considerable time finding them again.

Wishing to salvage some good public relations after losing the race to Amundsen, Scott chose to have his freezing, starving men haul loads of fossil-bearing rocks back to base instead of leaving them somewhere to be picked up later.

And on and on. Did Scott think he could make it to the South Pole and back just because he wanted to?

It remains to be seen whether Western society can make it back alive from its expedition to Transgender Land.

 

‘How to End Income Inequality’ (2014)

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When you see fabulously wealthy politicians and celebrities yapping their heads off about “Income Inequality,” you have to wonder if they’re quite all there. I mean, they could always give you half their money, to make you equal to them.

But they’d always rather give away someone else’s money.

How to End Income Inequality

Here is an example from history of a nation that actually achieved income equality, if only for a little while.

I think they hit upon the only way to do it.

‘Sink the Bismarck!’

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We’ve just watched Sink the Bismarck! (starring Kenneth More, 1960), and it’s, like, y’know, so full of Teutonophobia! I mean, what were they thinking when they made that movie?

You would’ve thought that, once the Germans started bombing London every day, and shooting people all over Europe, that at least some part of the British public would’ve embraced the Third Reich, and asked soul-searching questions like “Why do they hate us, and how can we get them to like us, what can we give them?”–oh, wait, they already tried that for eight or nine years and it didn’t work. They practically gave away the store to the Nazis, and still they got bombed.

Does the Western world suffer from amnesia? They all very nearly went down for the count, Hitler very nearly won the war–and they could have stopped him seven or eight years sooner with relatively little expenditure of effort.

But that’s the question that history asks us all the time: “Have you already forgotten? Have you lost all the lessons taught you by experience?”

I’m afraid that if Hitler came back for a second try today, he’d find it pretty easy going.