Wow! The Baron hits one out of the park…

‘The Banality of Everything’   Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna:
Excerpt:
‘..One does not have to approve of vigilante action to recognize that the pitchforks-and-torches response is more rational and more sane than the candlelight vigil. Knee-jerk sentimentality in the face of deliberately-inflicted mass slaughter is evidence of a deep mental dysfunction at the collective level. Our societies seem to have lost the ability to respond effectively to forces that threaten them.
….The Teddy Bear and Candle Syndrome is part of a larger process of cultural degradation that has proceeded unimpeded over the past half-century. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, time-hallowed customs and institutions have been eroded and have disappeared.
….The form of these new rituals is dictated by the feminized zeitgeist, which demands the inhibition of all expressions of negative or violent feelings. The shaking of fists is out. The laying on of flower bouquets is in..’

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5 Responses to Wow! The Baron hits one out of the park…

  1. Andrei says:

    Yep – I really noticed it with the Pike River and Christchurch Earthquake memorial services – kept quiet at the time but I cringed. Put it down to my own personal cultural dislocation and when in Rome as they say …..

    People didn’t stand for Bible readings and clapped them. Clapped the reading of scripture? Heh?

    And doesn’t anybody know any hymns besides “How great thou art”? It always seems to get trotted out along with a piper or pipers playing ‘Amazing Grace”.

    Some of it seemed more like performance art and more about the performer than the dead to be blunt.

    I could go deeper but decorum will see me hold my tongue.

    Lubyanka Metro Station after a suicide bombing took forty lives
    This is how we do it, its been done this way for well over 1000 years and I know this off by heart because I’ve been there when its been done for my own, too many times, it seems – I’ve cut to Вечная память

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  2. KG says:

    “I could go deeper but decorum will see me hold my tongue.”
    I’d like you to go deeper, Andrei–this is a pet peeve of mine, what somebody called “the Dianafication of grief”.
    And thanks for that link. Beautiful, dignified–and it actually means something.

  3. Seneca III says:

    Yes, Andrie, please do go deeper.

  4. Andrei says:

    There is a post cooking in my head over some aspects of this -Firstly how modern culture cannot actually handle the inevitability of human mortality and airbrushes as much as possible that aspect of our existence out of sight.

    Secondly how these memorial services almost become celebration of celebrities – various dignitaries give speeches and they have nothing to say – nothing at all because they didn’t even know any of the dead in most cases – so they fill up five minutes of TV time, backed up by inane commentators – who likewise have nothing to say. It’s vapid beyond my comprehension

    Then there is the entertainment for the masses who are lolling about, slapping on sunscreen etc while some celebrity warbles out “God Defend New Zealand” which might belong or some ancient hit from the days before their star faded, which most certainly doesn’t. I’m not going to name names here. To be honest I find it slightly offensive but maybe that’s my culture which is not yours that is expressing itself.

    But then again the existence of that post might say otherwise

    This comment appeared on the original post after I left mine here

    Lighting a candle in church and praying for the souls of the departed is appropriate.

    Leaving candles and teddy bears outdoors – not so much.

    YouTube: Memory Eternal

    DOSTOEVSKY AND MEMORY ETERNAL

    I haven’t bothered importing the links but that commentator has had an almost identical thought to mine – MEMORY ETERNAL, Вечная память

    All I know is it should be about showing respect for the departed a not not a vehicle for politicians and celebrities to get yet another cameo in the public eye, in between their appearances at “Carols in the Park” and “the Big Gay Out”.

  5. GW says:

    Robert Avrech at Seraphic Secret has up a fascinating post on how the people of Norway are reacting to a tsunami of rapes committed by “non-Western” people.
    http://www.seraphicpress.com/muslim-rape-norwegians-norwegians-promptly-blame-israel/#comments

    It is as if the Norwegians are emasculated. They make the “lighting of candles” seem violent in comparison. It is true cultural suicide when the politicians refuse to address the issue – on the grounds that the Muzzies are acting out because Israel exists.