Order

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A few months ago I raved about a book titled the Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk. If you guys didn't immediately buy it I understand.

Buy it now. Read just the first chapter (it's relatively short). The subject is order. It's not the same as law.

Order is two things: it is personal, or moral order (inside us), and it is social order.

We need a thorough understanding of order to see where the enemy has been attacking us. It has been an attack at a much more foundational level than we've been aware of.

It's funny because you can identify the two centers from which the attack has emanated. Washington, D.C. and Hollywood. No surprise, but see it this way: Washington, D.C. has attacked our social order while Hollywood has been attacking our internal moral order (our mind and soul). The beast and the false prophet directed by the dragon, or, Satan himself. Translate all that to your nations.

The subject of order is as big as the subject of worldview. It is necessary for subjective and objective understanding to know this subject.

This book by Kirk is the ideal teacher. Then he lists numerous books for each chapter.

We who know Work teaching and have biblical understanding have been delinquent in getting understanding of the chaos we see around us. Yes, much if not all of it has been caused by big money buying orchestrated anarchy, nothing organic, all astroturfed, yet the effect is the same. An attack on order, personal and social.

This study takes one into the sophisticated depths of political science, philosophy, religion, economics, law, warfare, etc. The Kirk book is the best place to start. (It is not just about America, it translates to all nations.)

For instance, we witness all the gender confusion and attack on the reality of gender and we see it as cultural Marxist anarchy, attack on mores, etc., but this book written in 1974 mentions all this about gender - seemingly prophetically - but gives a deeper, classical explanation for it in the context of order. You have to read it.

If you don't understand something you are irritable towards it. If you understand a thing it doesn't mean you agree with it, but you won't be irritable regarding it, or in a constant state of freaking out, or just dissonance.

Understanding order makes you turn your attention to figures like Solon or Lycurgus who had to create order out of disorder.

If the parts of the fact of recurrence about recurring back in time to play a conscious role are true (a theme that also exists in Grail legend, where the knights leave the higher realm to go down to be a king in the lower realm) then part of your education is to understand order.

It's a big book. Over 500 pages. But it is readable. Kirk had the reputation of being able to write engagingly.

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When you see all this in the foundational context of order you immediately see the only solution. It is war.

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This is why trying to deal with these phenomena through law is so pathetic. A coup attempt is an act of war. Bankrolling sedition is an act of war.

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Here's a basic thing to know about order.

Thomas Hobbes wrote the Leviathan. It has a popular reputation of being about totalitarianism. But it's really about how to maintain order. He thought the only way you could stave off bloody nature in the natural world and fallen nature inside humans was to have an authoritarian government. So he was for good order, he just thought there was no other way than authoritarianism.

Montesquieu accepted Hobbes read on the situation, but he disagreed that authoritarianism was the only way and proposed the concept of limited government. America's founding fathers fell in with Montesquieu and created a system of limited government, which works.

Ideally order is something that evolves via trial and error and tradition and mores that develop over time. It was like that in America. The colonial era to the Constitutional era, plus what Americans inherited from Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and London, created our order. It also has to be adapted to geography and what not. Also the particular economic situation of a country. And the people have to carry that order within them. You can't overwhelm the order with mass immigration from countries that don't carry your order within them, or can't even.

The order of your nation is like first principles. Wars are fought over first principles. When your social order and your moral order are being attacked you are already at war.

People who attack a nation's order usually do it from the position of not a rival order but from an ideology. Order is not ideology. Ideology is inverted religion. It is shallow. It is adopted by the dumbest and worst of a society (think Communism, Fascism, Anarchism). It has power if a nation is not good at defending itself from internal attack. A nation can be great at defending itself from external attack and absolutely retarded at defending itself from internal attack.

These are all my notes just jotted down extempore...

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Plutarch's Lives really is a massive work on the subject of order. The very first life is Theseus who goes across the landscape and rids it of all the criminals that were controlling everything. That is establishing order. Then you have lives of actual kings who handed down laws to establish a people and a nation.

It really is as simple as kicking ass on bad guys and trouble makers. In all nuanced ways. I mean, when Americans were carrying out the Indian wars they were doing the initial business of laying down the foundation of order on which laws and freedom could be built. The same thing will probably now have to be done with Muslims who the enemy in D.C. brought into the country with the sole goal to destroy the American order.