China and Globalization - Melbourne Traditionalists Podcast - Episode Thirty Nine

Why did the West allow China to grow as it has? Why are we now so dependent upon China? How did China go from the Cultural Revolution to a place of such world prominence?

Length: 34 minutes

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How Can We Win?

I don't know where I'm going with this one. It's not that I don't have anything to say but that maybe I have too much. I read somewhere that hardly anyone stays politically active for more than a decade and even to get to that point is rare. It is a lonely activity, if you are that committed then you have both a stubborn streak and some strange ideas. Ideas that may be right or wrong but that most people find quite odd. The hardest part is not having ideas, the hard part is getting things to happen.

I never wanted to be a writer or a political theorist, I have always wanted to be politically active. To be destroying the things that are destroying me and the things that I love. That has always been my goal, to defend the things that I love. What I have found is that at every point you remain politically lonely because the strange ideas that keep you going also keep you from building cohesive groups. There is always a reason to not do something or to not associate with someone. And of course it works both ways, others have these feelings as well. Instead of getting stronger we just know more people.

Have I made any contribution to defending the things that I love?

What can I point to and say that exists because I was a part of defending it?

I keep running into the same problem, people don't want to do anything. People want to talk about how bad things are. They want to assign blame, they want to tell you what punishment they want to dish out. But actually doing anything, no.

I'm not saying nothing has been done or that absolutely no one has done anything. But those people are as rare as hens teeth. The reason hens teeth are rare is because hens don't have teeth.

A few years ago I delivered about 4000 leaflets, I received 1 reply. A women wrote to me and told me that I had changed her life, that her life had been heading in one direction and because of my leaflet she had been introduced to another type of life and she liked it. Occasionally you get something good. Most often you hear silence and you just hope that what you are doing is not shouting into the wind.

Recently I sent out an email with a suggestion to the Melbourne Traditionalists about what we could do during the current Corona Panic. I suggested that we use this time to get onto as many social media platforms as we could. With each person looking after a single platform. I received 1 reply and they said that it wasn't for them, at least he replied. Why is it that even among a group of people who I personally know I got so little response?

I was also recently involved with a group who were putting together a media proposal. But it didn't get the support it needed because not all the i's were dotted and not all the t's were crossed. There is always a reason not to do things and there are always it seems people who like it exactly that way. Once the perfect plan has been assembled then and only then will it be time to start doing things.

By God it disgusts!

As someone told me last year, we don't have to wait for a rainy day it is raining right now!

Yesterday I watched Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones a mini-series from 1980. If you don't know his life story here's a brief outline.

James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American communist and cult leader.^[1][2] Ordained as a Disciples of Christ pastor, Jones founded and led the radical leftist Peoples Temple, often described as having cult-like qualities.

In 1978, media reports of human rights abuses in Peoples Temple's Jonestown surfaced. Democratic Congressman Leo Ryan led an investigation into the commune and was murdered while boarding a return flight with defectors. Jones subsequently committed a mass murder-suicide of 918 of his followers in Jonestown, Guyana. Nearly three hundred children were murdered, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning via a Flavor Aid mix. This historical episode gave rise to the ubiquitous American-English expression "drinking the Kool-Aid".

In the mini-series there is a scene about political power. Jim Jones started the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis and in 1960 was made Director of the Human Rights Commission in that city.

Why?

Because he could control votes, in other words he got his congregation and other supporters to vote for who he wanted them to vote for. That translates into political power. With that power he made sure that his supporters got jobs, including within the government. Which then gave him more power.

When you read it it's quite clear, it even sounds obvious....so why don't we do that?

Because it's much easier to complain then to do things. It's much easier to leave it to someone else. It's much easier to wait for the perfect plan.

There are so many simple things that we can do to fight back. But until we actually start doing them we cannot win and we really need to!


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Protecting You From Your Worst Enemy

If you are like most people there will be one person who has done you more harm than anyone else. That person has done more to destroy your hopes and dreams than you ever thought possible. That person is most likely you!

If the person who has harmed you the most is not you then you have mostly likely had a very hard life. But hurting yourself, doubting yourself, setting yourself up to fail is not an easy life either. Yet we keep doing it, we keep making bad decisions and getting ourselves into mischief. The truth is hard to admit but we need to be protected from our worst enemy, from the person who has done more than anyone else to destroy our hopes and dreams. How exactly can you do that?

Traditional society did try to do that, it did try to protect you from your base desires and stupidities, from yourself. It set limits to your behavour, it said that you had to listen to those older and those more senior than you. It said you didn't know it all and that no matter how intelligent you were or how knowledgeable you were in your trade or craft, none of that was wisdom. That wisdom was of greater value than either intelligence or knowledge. 

Today that is not true, instead we live under Liberalism and it proclaims that desire is wisdom. That the freedom to choose is the greatest aim in life, the entire purpose of life. That a bad choice is just as good as a good choice, because what is important is not the outcome. What is important is your freedom to choose.

That freedom comes at quite a price, today most people believe that freedom means 'being able to do whatever you want or desire'. Traditionally, freedom meant 'to not be a slave'. Literally, figuratively and metaphysically. To not be in bondage, to another man, to a women's love and to be free of addictions of all kinds. Lust, drink, drugs, obsession the list goes on. To be physically and mentally free so that you could concentrate on the real tasks that should occupy your time.

It is not that other men are not important, it is not that you should not love, or have lustful thoughts. It was not so that you can become a rock or a machine, unthinking or unfeeling. Freedom meant that you were free to do and think unhindered by those things that seek to make slaves of us all. Desire, that thing that Liberalism says is wisdom, is our slavemaster. We have all heard the crack of his whip and we have all done his bidding. When it is over we say to ourselves that we are free because we choose to fulfill our desires. But the truth is that we do not wish to be free, instead we wish to be slaves to those desires. Freedom is the rejection not of desire, but of allowing ourselves to become slaves to our desires.

Having a place in life, having responsibilities helps us to protect ourselves and others from this slavery. Solid things protect us from superficial things, it helps us to determine the difference between what we want and what we need. Tradition always sort to highlight this, to show that together we can fight against our base desires. We do not always win but that there is honour in the struggle. That that struggle is one of the few things that can really make us free. It is the thing that can protect us from ourselves, from our own worst enemy. 

Desire seeks to make our wants more important than our responsibilities. But we all have responsibilities, to our faith, to our beliefs, to our family, to our friends, to our neighbours, to our country and to many others. We also have a responsibility to protect ourselves.


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China 1949-76 - Melbourne Traditionalists Podcast - Episode Thirty Eight

This week I talk about China when it was behind the 'Bamboo curtain' and a mystery to the West. Before it, like us, was Globalized. A very strange and interesting place.

Length: 30 minutes


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Discovering Australia

On either the 19th 0r 20th April 1770, the lookout on Captain Cooks ship HMS Endeavour, sighted the east coast of Australia. In what is now Victoria, they turned north and travelled along the entire east coast of Australia until they reached Cape York. It was there that the eastern portion of Australia was claimed for the British crown. Everything else in Australia's history is because of that event that happened today, or maybe tomorrow, 250 years ago!

Why either the 19th or 20th April?

Because each day an entry was made in the ships logbook. When they arrived back in England, the logbook was a day behind. At some point they lost a day and no one is certain when that was. Thats what happens when you travel to the opposite side of the world.


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What is a Revolution and are we in a Revolutionary phase?


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The Eighty-Fifth Month

It has been an average month on the blog, not good or bad. I must admit that I have found it hard to get motivated at times. That has a number of reasons. I'm quite disappointed that I seem to be constantly struggling to get things moving. The failure to convince people that madness should not be an option. That panic should not be an option. That failed philosophies have failed and should not be an option. Instead of building a bigger movement I'm feeling that it seems that there is always something to disagree with. How much should this tree bend?

I should say that even though I don't always reply to comments I do read them and I do appreciate them, thank you!

In March I had 5,417 visitors, from 11th March to the 11th April I have had 3,753 visitors, so numbers are heading down. My best day was the 17th March when I had 194 visitors and my worst day was the 21st March when I had 70 visitors.


March-April

Entry	Pageviews
United States	1548
Australia	997
United Kingdom	172
Germany	127
France	118
Canada	99
Unknown Region	63
Ireland	55
Netherlands	49
India	44

February-March

Entry	Pageviews
United States	3483
Australia	1097
Germany	202
France	170
United Kingdom	136
Canada	118
Ukraine	81
Unknown Region	65
Argentina	59
Russia	49

The United Kingdom is the only country that is up this month.

Unknown Region is basically the same.

The United States, Australia, Germany, France and Canada are all down.

Ireland, the Netherlands and India are back in the top 10.

The Ukraine, Argentina and Russia have all left, although Argentina has just left today.

I have also had visitors from the following countries: Isle of Man, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, U.A.E., Qatar, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria. Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, New Zealand, Nicaragua,  Barbados, Cayman Islands, Argentina.

Thank you for visiting and I hope to see you soon. 

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Recession or Depression? Melbourne Traditionalists Podcast - Episode Thirty Six

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Why Remigration Needs To Be Generous

Remigration is my idea to pay immigrants and their descendants to leave and return to their ancestral homeland. By giving them $100,000 each in return for their citizenship or Permanent Residency. To read the entire policy, Remigration, a Policy Idea.

The most common criticism is that I am being far too generous. It does seem that way but it needs to be for at least three reasons.

Firstly we want people to take up our offer and to feel that they are getting a good deal. The policy needs a nice tasting carrot. It will work much better if people feel that they are winners by remigrating then if they feel like losers. This is a sane and rational answer to our current immigrant problems and it needs to be treated as such. Not as if we are expelling people, that might take place under a different policy but that policy is not Remigration. 

My issue is I do not want these people to live in Australia, not that I wish any harm or misfortune towards them. So helping them to remigrate can also help our international reputation and we can still remain friendly with those who have remigrated. We do not need to have any anger or animosity from them or towards them. If everyone gets what they want then we can use that to our advantage. Many of those who remigrate will have positive feelings towards our country and we should encourage that. International relations will continue as they do now. 

Secondly we need to do it for our people, I must admit I am surprised by how many of our side do not understand our people. We are an empathetic people, we think about others, we care about others. That is a good part of why we are in the mess we are currently in. Our virtues are used against us. We need to use our virtues and to turn them back to supporting us. Our people will not stop thinking about others, they will not stop caring about others. We need to make them comfortable with having people leave, when they are used to people arriving. We need to encourage them to think about how it will improve the lives of those who remigrate. How they will take what they have learnt here and help to improve their own country. That this is as much foreign aid as giving money to governments is. That those who remigrate are spreading our values.

This is important to normal people, they need to feel good about it and future generations need to feel good about it. We need to make positive arguments for our ideas and far too often I hear negative arguments. 

Thirdly $100,000 is a good price, it is a good amount of money. But when people say that it is too much money I do not agree. Remigration is a big commitment for people to make and they should be encouraged and rewarded for making the right choice. I don't know where I heard this or maybe I read it, but if you lend someone money and you never see them again....it was probably money well spent!

I strongly encourage you to think of that money in exactly that way, as money well spent. 

For $100 Billion we can move 1 Million people out each decade without violence. I haven't heard of any other plan that can achieve this. Would a Civil War cost us more or less than $100 Billion? 

It might come to that, but if it doesn't then we need a plan to get our country back, Remigration is one part of that plan!

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The Tree Paradox

A tree that does not bend breaks, a tree that bends too much breaks.

Trees are quite remarkable but we often don't remark upon them because they are so common. Trees come in many different shapes, sizes and even colours. They live outside in all kinds of weather without relief. But we all know that trees break, what makes them break?

Rigidity makes trees break, the very thing that gives them strength can destroy them. But a tree that lacks rigidity can also be destroyed. It rots and falls apart. Trees cope with this by being flexible. However they are not so flexible that they look like lampposts or rubbish bins. A tree remains true to what it is, a tree. You may confuse a tree with a shrub but you would never confuse it with an elephant. 

What does any of this have to do with us?

We need to be strong like a tree, but we also need to know when to bend before we break and we need to know when we should not bend. We need to be flexible while always being true to ourselves. Also we need to remember that a lone tree in the desert is a landmark, something that is known by everyone. But a tree surrounded by many others trees is part of a forest. For too long we have all been landmarks, we need to become a forest!


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