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00:00:00.000 Hello, everyone, and welcome to the inaugural episode of Cucking Out, We Get Triggered so

00:00:21.880 that you don't have to. I am your host, Richard Spencer, along with my co-host, Hannibal Bateman.

00:00:30.900 Hello, Hannibal. Hi, Richard. How are you? I'm doing very well, but I'm about to be doing a lot worse

00:00:36.760 because we actually have to read the worst examples of conservative thought. Or really,

00:00:44.120 we shouldn't say worst. We should just say quintessential examples of American conservatism.

00:00:48.620 This podcast was your idea because you're often sending me an iMessage or something like that, 0.97

00:00:57.600 just some of the cuckiest, most ridiculous conservative movement articles. And so we 0.96

00:01:03.940 decided to turn it into a podcast. So what we're going to do is read a conservative article on air

00:01:11.240 and we'll dissect it, give it a close reading. As we go, we'll jump in. And I believe through this

00:01:19.520 close reading process, very Straussian, that we will get a better understanding of how conservatives think,

00:01:26.800 and so will you. So we will get triggered. We will really get inside the cuck mind.

00:01:35.400 And the first essay that we're going to look at is, I mean, it was basically written for this podcast.

00:01:44.640 Like he might have actually tried, he had this podcast in mind, even when it did an essay.

00:01:49.360 Oh, yeah. He was almost, it was almost like he wrote this article looking to goad us.

00:01:54.900 Yes.

00:01:55.360 To create this podcast.

00:01:56.580 Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Actually, you know, now that I think about it, I even just thought of an even

00:02:00.880 better name for this podcast. Since you mentioned Straussians, riffing off of Alan Bloom, this could

00:02:07.420 be cucking of the American mind. 0.54

00:02:09.320 Cucking of the American mind. We could just call it First Things.

00:02:13.940 This is okay. The article in question is, Christianity is for Cucks by Matthew Schmitz.

00:02:20.000 This was published in First Things on September 12th, 1917. And I will read the article and we will

00:02:28.900 dissect it. So this is a block quote to begin. Disheveled white men were staring ahead with

00:02:35.440 vague, uncomprehending eyes to the end of the room where two candles burned. The priest turned

00:02:43.000 towards them his bland, black face. Evelyn Waugh knew that a vision of Africans proclaiming the 1.00

00:02:51.240 faith to whites would startle his readers in 1933. But it is a literal description of many American

00:02:58.580 and European parishes today. At the church nearest me, self-satisfied Irish Americans listen to an

00:03:06.220 Igbo priest preach and then complain about his accent at brunch. 0.99

00:03:11.380 Yes. So this is a bit of a fantasy of Africans will save Christianity. Yes. 0.97

00:03:18.520 Where they, they realize, I think a lot of Cucks realize that Christianity is becoming a non-white 0.96

00:03:25.800 religion over time. I mean, it is certainly the Catholic Church is majority non-white. Christianity 0.98

00:03:31.600 overall, what would you say the percentages are?

00:03:34.180 I believe it still has a white majority, last I checked. A white majority, yeah.

00:03:38.060 But obviously where it's growing the most, uh, South America, Africa, uh, Korea, South Korea,

00:03:44.460 you know, is a big hotbed of, of the evangelical church and, uh, China, of course, and other

00:03:51.040 parts of Asia. Yeah. And also it's, I think the, what they're getting at is this kind of like

00:03:58.860 having one's cake and eating it too. And in the, in the sense that so much of the Christian 0.96

00:04:05.040 cuck right want to claim that, you know, effectively to this Europe is the faith and the faith is

00:04:12.060 Europe. Um, the operative word there is Europe, not faith. Exactly. Um, so it's, it's a kind

00:04:19.340 of, it's this notion that, um, it's a non-racial and in a weird way, not, not, not even non-s

00:04:27.820 well, it is a civilizational understanding. It's certainly a non-racial understanding of

00:04:31.740 what it means to be European or what it means to be American. It's, it's in a way, a more

00:04:37.800 complicated, dense, more defensible version of the proud boys. The West is the best.

00:04:44.620 Only to be fair here, we're at least talking with people who have read about Western civilization

00:04:50.460 instead of inserting objects into various orifices. Right. Do you mean that metaphorically?

00:04:56.960 Hopefully. Of course. But, um, but, uh, but, but anyway, so they, they reckon they, they don't

00:05:03.060 want to look at Europe as an ancient conception as dating back to our pagan past. They, they want 0.86

00:05:09.840 to gloss over to a large extent, the pagan elements within even the modern Europe and

00:05:16.180 so on. And even within medieval Christianity. Within medieval Christianity, certainly within

00:05:21.340 the Renaissance was a, I mean, the Italian Renaissance was a kind of paganization of, of

00:05:26.660 Christianity to a large degree. Um, but there, there were Germanic pagan elements within medieval

00:05:31.800 Christianity, no doubt. Yeah. James Russell's book. It's a classic. Everyone should it. Well,

00:05:37.200 it's, I shouldn't say everyone should read it. Let's be honest. It's a very dense dissertation.

00:05:41.560 Everyone should read a review of it. Yeah. But, uh, but, uh, but effectively they recognize

00:05:48.420 that Europe is declining and the faith is declining as well, but somehow these Africans are going 1.00

00:05:53.500 to save Europeans and that there can be a disembodied, de-racialized, de-racinated kind 0.72

00:06:00.860 of midair floating version of Western civilization. Oh yeah. Uh, that can be, you know, promoted

00:06:09.300 by Nigerians, maybe even more so than Frenchmen because whites are so decadent. Oh, this gets 1.00

00:06:15.980 to the point of, you know, bringing up, uh, this, this, this, this thought experiment by Evelyn

00:06:22.080 Wall. Evelyn Wall was of course a noted anti-Semite and racist who supported Franco in the Spanish

00:06:28.740 Civil War, but be that as it may, uh, when, when Schmitz says that Evelyn Wall knew his vision

00:06:35.180 of Africans proclaiming the faith to whites would shock at his time. I don't, I don't think

00:06:40.580 Wall intended it to shock as Schmitz says it is to be shocked. It would be shocking to a European 0.77

00:06:46.800 precisely because there is this de-racionization of European man and his faith that this would be

00:06:54.280 shocking. To Schmitz, he's almost saying it in the opposite way. I think that Wall intended

00:06:58.600 it, which is that this is, this is good. This is obviously what will happen. Wall, being

00:07:03.060 a satirist, use this to poke at, you know, the Western mind and its decline. And over

00:07:08.920 time, I'm reminded of this. I hesitate to always say, I hesitate to use the N word, but I'm using 1.00

00:07:13.580 it objectively in the sense, but I remember there's a very amusing scene or a telling scene

00:07:19.300 from a gangs in New York, uh, where, so there, there was someone starts screaming, there is

00:07:24.300 the Irishman. They create this diversity coalition against the evil Anglos. And I think there's 1.00

00:07:29.080 someone that was screaming, there's a nigger in the church. There's a nigger in the church. 1.00

00:07:33.460 And, you know, obviously, you know, Christianity is a universal religion. And, and I, I'm sure 0.98

00:07:38.840 that many people probably thought in their minds, okay, they could be sure everyone should

00:07:44.920 be Christian. We're all brothers at some point. But this notion of, you know, quote, a nigger 1.00

00:07:50.580 in the church, end quote, uh, is this, it's this, this stain upon something that is meant

00:07:59.860 to be holy. It's like the Christianity is meant to be, or Christianity succeeded when

00:08:05.080 it was identitarian, when it, when it was a, an expression of, of a kind of holiness or 0.94

00:08:11.260 idealization of a people and bringing a nigger into this, uh, it, it stains it. It, it, it 1.00

00:08:19.400 makes it profane.

00:08:20.300 Well, not only that, it's, it's sort of from, from a, thinking from a traditionalist, uh,

00:08:25.100 Catholic point of view, what it does, uh, what the Catholic church does well is adapt

00:08:30.340 itself to different civilizational discourses.

00:08:33.180 Right.

00:08:33.780 And, you know, when, when, uh, a lot of these, uh, bishops were brought to Europe for their

00:08:38.440 education, they were sent back to their people to instill Catholicism or Christianity in 1.00

00:08:44.240 its way in Africa to, to then think that, you know, there could be this free market, 0.71

00:08:50.240 that there will be this sort of free market of priests floating around sort of in a deracinated 0.93

00:08:56.180 homogenous culture is almost, you know, it is anathema to the historical spirit of a lot 1.00

00:09:02.040 of traditional Christianity.

00:09:03.180 Yeah. I mean, it's globalist and libertarian and deracinated as you point out. Yeah. I mean,

00:09:08.700 no, no question there. One of the great strengths of Christianity is its ability to be adapted. I

00:09:15.060 mean, voodoo is effectively, you know, Haitian Christian, Haitian Catholicism. And that, I mean, 0.93

00:09:21.260 that's an extreme example, but obviously there's, there's a degree to which German Protestantism,

00:09:26.280 even German Catholicism.

00:09:27.660 Oh yeah. Look at the stave churches in Norway or Sweden.

00:09:31.340 Italian Catholicism, like these are different or, or, or Russian Orthodoxy or something. These are, 0.62

00:09:38.180 you know, they're obviously connected on a, on a deep level, but they are national folk expressions

00:09:43.600 of the religion. Um, it's, again, it's, it's not like we just have this itinerant Negroes across the 0.99

00:09:50.340 continent who will come and preach the truth to various peoples. It's the, it, again, it's this idea

00:09:55.260 that Christianity had a strength when it was able to be molded by and mold to a large degree, but it 0.92

00:10:01.040 also be molded by indigenous folk and ultimately pagan cultures. Um, you could, you could look at

00:10:07.680 this in contradistinction to Islam, which does that to a certain degree, of course, but is, is

00:10:14.640 remarkable in the way at which it obliterates ancient cultures. I mean, it, it, uh, it actively

00:10:21.240 attacks them, attempts to uproot them and destroy them. And there is a kind of like Islam as a franchise. 1.00

00:10:27.400 And yes, I'm well aware that there are divisions within Islam and blah, blah, blah. But you know,

00:10:32.500 when I was in Turkey and I walked by a mosque, I mean, it looks like this foreign spaceship that 1.00

00:10:39.360 just landed on a hill. I mean, it looks like something out of Saudi Arabia or something.

00:10:44.540 You know, you think about this, uh, a lot of, you know, a lot, a lot of, a lot of pagans that we know

00:10:49.480 always bring up, you know, ancient Christians tearing down statues of Apollo and whatever, 0.63

00:10:54.020 but it should be noted that in Europe, a lot of these things were still there. Whereas in,

00:10:59.180 in medieval Arabia, a lot of the remnants of the earlier cultures and religions are just

00:11:04.420 obliterated. I mean, look at Zoroastrianism in Iran. It's, it's, it's reduced to smaller 0.96

00:11:10.000 sects of people. A lot of its images in great temples were destroyed. Islam is sort of this 1.00

00:11:15.120 pulverizing force in a way that Christianity just was not in Europe.

00:11:20.300 Right. Anyway, let's move on. That was, this is how long we're going to talk about two paragraphs.

00:11:25.680 Um, this is the next quoting Schmidt next paragraph on the level of the universal church.

00:11:30.980 Uh, the Guinean Cardinal, Robert Sarah has become the most full throated defender of Catholic faith.

00:11:37.160 When he quotes John's apocalypse, European bishops are baffled. I cannot imagine what they think when he

00:11:43.620 promises that in the battle against secularism, Africa, like the Vendee will 1.00

00:11:49.860 resist. The Holy Ghost fathers who rigorously catechize Sarah are long gone as are the French 1.00

00:11:58.520 colonial textbooks that taught him. He was descended from the Gauls. Even so, I sometimes think we are

00:12:04.620 heading towards the world described by Waugh. He got the idea from John Gray's novel, Park,

00:12:10.800 whose hero is transported to a future in which savage Englishmen live underground while civilized 0.78

00:12:17.180 Africans cultivate England's greens and pleasant lands, uh, celebrating splendid Latin liturgies,

00:12:24.240 studying the perennial philosophy. I mean, I don't know if we have to even comment on this.

00:12:29.540 Well, this just reinforces a lot of what we were saying earlier, but the, but the interesting

00:12:34.120 point I, well, you could maybe not blame people who thought in this way because they had not truly

00:12:39.300 experienced Africa. Also, again, these are, these are satires written by Europeans for Europeans, 0.82

00:12:46.480 right? The, the, it's not actually about the Africans doing this, but it's about what is going on

00:12:51.920 in the souls of European man that he has reduced to this station. It's not about this literally 0.80

00:12:57.400 happening. Right. When I mentioned Waugh's story on Twitter recently, I was inundated with messages

00:13:04.680 from members of the alt-right, oh, gasp, who told me that Christianity is for cucks, short for cuckold, 0.97

00:13:11.560 a slur, a slur they hurl against whites who don't subscribe to their racial theories. I think I was 0.99

00:13:17.480 even called a social justice warrior. Who guessed that Evelyn Waugh would one day appear as a paragon 1.00

00:13:23.280 of wokeness? Oh, God. Yes, yes. This is just, he, one, he is conflating his views with Evelyn Waugh's,

00:13:32.900 which I don't, which I think is incorrect. On another level, he just, he, his mind is still

00:13:40.800 so baptized and marinated in liberalism that it can't think of it, think its way out. I also,

00:13:47.460 I really get tired of these paleocons or, you know, first things, trad, Christians or so on, 1.00

00:13:56.540 who, particularly when they're older and they haven't been directly forced to think about race.

00:14:04.300 They've lived in a white country. I mean, the conservative movement was, you know, materialized

00:14:10.540 in the mid-1950s. It is interesting that, like, the Sharon statement, you know, their manifesto didn't

00:14:17.360 even mention race or anything like that because they didn't have to. I mean, they didn't want to

00:14:22.160 address the Negro question, segregation, et cetera. And they didn't have to think about this because 0.93

00:14:29.240 no one, outside of maybe a few real, you know, extreme Marxist or Looney Tunes, imagined that

00:14:35.840 America's white majority would decline. And so they didn't have to think about this. And I love it how 0.88

00:14:40.840 they tell us, oh, I'm a big, I'm a great trad con and I don't see race or something because I'm just

00:14:46.860 so traditional. And it's like, you are not traditional. You are lucky or cursed, depending

00:14:54.280 on your perspective, to have existed in this oblivion for your childhood and early adulthood.

00:15:02.040 And that's why you, quote, don't see race. But don't claim that you're somehow more traditionalist

00:15:07.920 than an 18-year-old shitlord who is, like, living, seeing his town being overturned, 0.97

00:15:15.780 experiencing anti-white bigotry at, like, an orientation session, who just sees race everywhere. 0.99

00:15:22.800 I mean, there is a woeful ignorance to race on their part, too. Again, to go back to Evelyn

00:15:29.740 Wall, who is actually one of my favorite writers, you know, Wall wrote a novel, Black Mischief,

00:15:35.420 that was, you know, part of the plot of the novel was this African who was educated at Oxford

00:15:40.380 and goes back and does, tries to cargo cult a lot of Western technology. You know, he has

00:15:45.000 this, like, ball for contraception where people are wearing condoms and various things like

00:15:50.440 that. But it's like, you know, have you even read the same novel that, you know, he's clearly,

00:15:55.720 Wall, who traveled to Africa extensively, is clearly poking fun, you know, at this from a decidedly

00:16:02.180 racialist angle. Right. Okay, next paragraph. Maybe it shouldn't be so surprising. Waugh is

00:16:09.420 usually caricatured as a bellowing, gin-swilling bigot, the collective id of pimply conservative 0.91

00:16:16.480 boys. This is about as accurate as my youthful impression that Jane Austen was a writer of pretty

00:16:23.220 trivialities, just because my big sister once tried to force Emma on me. As it happens, I think those

00:16:29.120 alt-right accusations had some truth to them. Ooh, fancy that. Christianity really is for cucks, 1.00

00:16:35.460 and no one knew it as well as Waugh. All right, well, let's get into the argument before we dissect it. 0.98

00:16:42.020 One sees this most clearly in Sword of Honor, his novel about one man's disillusionment while

00:16:46.960 fighting World War II. At the outset of the story, Guy Crouchbake is living alone in Italy in

00:16:54.260 self-imposed exile. As a pious Catholic, he still believes himself married to the woman who left him

00:16:59.780 eight years before, but he has nonetheless been deprived of the loyalties which should have

00:17:06.940 sustained him. England may be his country, Virginia may be his wife, but neither one will claim him.

00:17:14.480 When war is declared, Guy at last has a purpose. Now, splendidly, everything has become clear.

00:17:21.280 The enemy at last was plain in my view, huge and hateful, all disguises cast off. It was the modern

00:17:27.640 age in arms. Whatever the outcome, there was a place for him in that battle. He goes to pray at a

00:17:33.680 crusader's tomb. Then it's off to join the army. Once in uniform, he even hopes to retake his wife.

00:17:40.660 Instead of enjoying conquest, he suffers a series of humiliating, erotic, and military defeats.

00:17:45.900 Guy tries to seduce his wife and fails. She instead becomes pregnant by her former hairdresser, 0.90

00:17:52.660 a man named Trimmer, who, through a series of comic mishaps, becomes an unlikely war hero.

00:17:59.540 Guy's aspirations to success in field and bed are deflated by perfect parody. Virginia fears scandal and

00:18:06.140 tries to abort the child before desperately asking Guy to acknowledge it as his own. He chivalrously

00:18:12.740 agrees. He is a cuckold, a cuck. By embracing this role, he becomes true Christian and knight. 0.99

00:18:21.660 At the end of the war, Guy is stationed in Yugoslavia, where his exertions serve merely to shore up the

00:18:26.980 coming communist reign. His dreams of facing off against an allied Hitler and Stalin have given way to the

00:18:33.300 reality of midwifing red terror. He is stripped of his last illusions when a female acquaintance denounces

00:18:40.640 the men who thought war would make them heroes. And this is a block quote.

00:18:46.520 It seems to me there was a will to war, a death wish everywhere. Even good men thought their private

00:18:52.760 honor would be satisfied by war. They could assert their manhood by killing and being killed. I knew 1.00

00:18:58.480 Italians, not very many perhaps, who felt this. Were there none in England? God forgive me, Guy says, 0.93

00:19:04.820 I was one of them. Like Father Martin's Christ,

00:19:10.520 was hero learns from a wise woman. Oh, God. He sees that Christianity is not a matter of blood

00:19:18.560 or of race or of victory in this world. It requires us to accept defeat in this life so we might enjoy

00:19:26.500 triumph in the next. All right, let's... Okay, this is like... I've said this on Twitter a number of times.

00:19:35.000 It's like Christians are desperately attempting to prove that Nietzsche was right. I mean, I, in a way, 1.00

00:19:41.280 as someone who is critical of Christianity, I would, in a way, agree with this caricature. But it's very 0.83

00:19:49.420 sad that this is what Christianity is. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, again, it's not even a kind of, 0.81

00:19:56.680 you could say, stoicism or, or, or steely resolve against all odds. In the sense of, look, we all lose

00:20:04.800 in life. We lose, we lose with women. We, we, we have personal turmoils. We, we all have suffer career 0.91

00:20:13.360 defeats, et cetera. But the whole idea is that we have, we have a certain resolve. We pick ourself back

00:20:18.920 off the mat. That is not what he's saying. That, that would be a positive Christian vision.

00:20:23.700 It's actually even to deny that further Christian vision, which is that the eternal victory of Christ

00:20:29.200 is within you. Right. And so you can overcome these, you can overcome these defeats. And it also

00:20:34.880 overlooks, you know, the conquering Christian armies of the conquistadors or, yeah, absolutely. The 0.69

00:20:40.800 crusades. Crusades. It requires us to accept defeat in this life so we might enjoy triumph in the next.

00:20:46.620 You must lose. You must, your blood must cease to flow. I mean, it is kind of funny that it's,

00:20:55.680 this is, again, we get it, this, this aspect, like, it's only whites who think this way. I mean, 0.57

00:21:00.440 even if you agree with this notion that Christianity is going to be saved by Africans, 0.98

00:21:05.880 the Africans are winning. Oh, yeah. The Africans are flourishing. They're having, 0.84

00:21:10.080 their offspring are triumphing. They are taking over civilization. Like, someone's winning. All this

00:21:17.060 is, is just a philosophy of losing. It's not even for losers. Like, in a way, you could offer, 0.95

00:21:24.220 like, a certain, like, gift to the loser. Like, don't worry, you tried hard. Or don't worry,

00:21:28.320 you'll be, you'll have a gift in the afterlife or something. This is a philosophy of losing in the

00:21:33.020 sense that one must lose in order to ultimately win. And it's an attempt to want to, in their weird

00:21:40.420 way, say there are great things about European civilization without having to defend the people

00:21:45.760 who created it. Yeah. You know, to go back to that earlier quote from, from Cardinal Seurat about the,

00:21:51.240 uh, the Vendee, it's sort of sad in a way because this is a man, though, yes, educated by the French

00:21:59.080 and by all accounts, more Orthodox than the current Roman Catholic establishment is reaching to the

00:22:05.220 history of another people, the dead aristocrats of France and the Vendee, the dead Catholics there. 0.78

00:22:11.100 They were European men fighting for a European civilization. And it shows, it shows the sort of,

00:22:18.800 the, the, the thing that, like, a lot of these cucks do, that Africa will save us, misses the point.

00:22:26.260 It's that even the best of these Africans are drawing from the well of the, of European man. 0.97

00:22:33.200 Right. And that it is that which gives them these glimmers of greatness within the Catholic Church.

00:22:38.380 Right. Well, it's just also this, to go back to something earlier, it's, it's almost like the,

00:22:44.100 the, the, there's a certain arrogance, or you could even say white supremacy, this hidden white 0.82

00:22:50.640 supremacy in the sense that Africans aren't going to succeed as Africans. They're ultimately going to, 0.94

00:22:56.160 going to succeed as parodies or simulations of Europeans. So Africans will ultimately triumph by 1.00

00:23:04.180 becoming Catholics and, you know, reinventing this, whatever medieval Catholicism, you know,

00:23:10.200 that Schmitz has in mind. So it is this kind of white supremacy that is very foreign to a true

00:23:17.340 identitarian view. It's a desperate hope that you don't have to defend your own people.

00:23:20.980 Right. Because the enemies will actually save you. And so it's a kind of love thy enemy in this

00:23:25.800 terrible way. Like, don't worry, all of those refugees who, you know, have IQs in the 70s and are 1.00

00:23:32.680 raping people and, and are just totally dysfunctional and terrible. Oh, don't worry, 0.99

00:23:38.340 they're going to all become priests. And then we're going to all read Aquinas today.

00:23:42.940 Pope Francis has said Europe becoming more Arab will be a good thing. 1.00

00:23:48.280 These people are really the worst. And this is where I despise these people far more than I despise 0.98

00:23:55.120 the left, actually. Because these are the types of people who are presenting themselves as

00:23:59.660 traditionalists and conservatives. They are the closer, nearer enemy. They are far worse.

00:24:04.660 And they can kind of poison good minds. And the way that a leftist, like, it's true that many people

00:24:12.560 kind of flirt with the left and be youth or what have you or whatever. But to be a true leftist,

00:24:18.620 like, leftism poisons a bad mind, I would say. It poisons rotten people. Like, you know, I'm not 0.99

00:24:25.200 talking about Whole Foods swipples here, who are just kind of...

00:24:28.240 It makes bad people worse.

00:24:29.560 Yeah, you could say that as well. I'm not talking about Whole Foods. I'm talking about the people who

00:24:33.560 are really destroying civilization, or even taking that further, like the Antifa person. Like,

00:24:39.120 those are not good people. They are not good people, morally, mentally, physically, etc. They're

00:24:47.620 just terrible human beings that are attracted by this. The problem with this kind of cuck Christianity, 1.00

00:24:53.660 or Christianity, you could say, is that it poisons good minds. It makes people who want to be who want 1.00

00:25:01.780 to be part of some deeper, you know, European story, essence of civilization, that it poisons them to 0.68

00:25:08.660 thinking this. But anyway, let's move on here. A Catholic cannot be certain that his line will continue or 0.97

00:25:14.840 his country thrive. He only knows that the gates of hell will not prevail against Christ Church. 0.96

00:25:21.300 Again, because hell will take over the church. So, I mean, again, it's like your enemy will take

00:25:27.780 over the church, and then you'll ultimately win. That's the argument. It's absolutely stupid.

00:25:32.060 This is why Waugh could happily entertain the idea that black men would bear forth a faith and culture 1.00

00:25:38.380 abandoned by whites. Perhaps it will not happen, but no Christian would mind if it did. No true Christian 1.00

00:25:45.600 would mind if St. Peter's was run by an African and it was filled with Arabs who had adopted the 0.98

00:25:56.280 universal faith. No true Christian would mind that. Okay, well, you know, good luck with that. 1.00

00:26:03.220 Yes, yes. Going back to an earlier point in this, to get literary, I guess, for a second. Well,

00:26:10.100 one, there's a James Bond reference to be made. Sword of Honor was actually made into a movie with

00:26:16.460 Daniel Craig starring as Guy Crouchback. One of his earlier roles. When was that? This was in the 90s.

00:26:24.780 In the 90s, yes. I'll have to go check that out. It was one of his first films, I believe. However,

00:26:29.020 the other point is, again, the author is missing sort of Waugh's despair at this whole situation,

00:26:35.720 at the destruction of European civilization at the end of World War II. And to his point about

00:26:40.760 cuckoldry, you know, you read one of Waugh's earlier novels, A Handful of Dust. The character

00:26:47.820 is cuckolded by his wife. And similar to Crouchback, instead of having to take the stain of divorcing his

00:26:54.660 wife in English society of the time, he decides to say he was the one who committed adultery and run

00:27:01.240 away to South America, where he's lost in the jungles of South America, and is condemned to

00:27:08.540 have to read Charles Dickens to a crazy man for the rest of his life. But this gets to the deeper

00:27:13.780 point that it's when civilization dies, that is what happens. This is despair. This is not something

00:27:22.660 to be proud of or be triumphal about. To read it that way is to miss the larger point about meditation

00:27:29.120 on the decline and fall of who we are, and the innate spiritual sense of European peoples.

00:27:35.920 No, right. And if Christians, if conservative trad Christians are like this, and I know there are 0.99

00:27:43.120 obviously many counterexamples, but if the Christians like Schmidt, it's the most telling thing is that 0.97

00:27:50.120 they and their people will not lead the revival. I mean, it says it all. Like, we can't really do it.

00:27:56.740 It says something about white guilt that's burdening them. It says something just about their lack of

00:28:03.180 energy and drive. It says also, it probably reveals a kind of hidden doubt, that secret doubt that this

00:28:10.580 is not true, that this is not leading us towards a revival, that you would say something like this,

00:28:17.260 in the sense of like, we can't do it. We can't lead this revival. We're gonna have to rely on Africans. 1.00

00:28:22.240 Yeah. It's, it's, it's sad. It's, uh, it's innately even unconservative in a way, and that it's not

00:28:30.280 conserving anything, but, but praying for Armageddon. Yeah. In a way that he wants to

00:28:35.360 immunitize the eschaton, to use that old conservative phrase, come Armageddon, come, come, uh, come the

00:28:42.400 tides. Yes. Come Armageddon, come. Yes. Uh, Morrissey reference there. Do you think Christianity is 0.87

00:28:49.480 inherently for cucks? Do you think it's inherently a cuck religion, a God on a cross, a, a universe? I 0.99

00:28:57.400 mean, look, one could, one could argue that Christianity from the perspective of the ancient

00:29:04.840 world is atheism. Yes. In the sense that the old gods died. There was, God did not live in the

00:29:13.540 world. In fact, a lot of the, a lot of the latter pagans, uh, attacked Christianity because they saw it

00:29:19.600 as atheistic. Uh-huh. Uh, but in a, in a deeper sense, though, to, to, to defend Christianity, it is a

00:29:27.500 universal religion, meaning it's not just a religion for cucks, but it should be a religion for all types

00:29:32.880 and verities of the human spirit. That's a good point. To, to, to, to privilege, to privilege, to,

00:29:36.660 privilege, to sort of, privileging cucks. Right. To privilege this sort of mentality is very sickening

00:29:41.860 and weak, you know, it's, it's, it's revealing, but it shows that. It's revealing because it's only cucks 0.96

00:29:48.060 who are trad Christians, basically. And, you know, and I wouldn't say only trad Christians are cucks. 0.98

00:29:56.140 No, but we're, no, I wouldn't say that, but only cucks are trad Christians. And when we're talking about 0.99

00:30:00.360 these trad Christians, we're talking about people like Rod Dreher, who is probably one of the best

00:30:04.580 examples of this type. Yes. You know, we're, we're not talking about, uh, you know. We're actually not

00:30:10.640 talking about your average Midwestern Catholic. Or even your alt-right trad Catholic. No. And there,

00:30:17.000 there certainly are some, but we're, but, but put intellectuals aside, we're actually not talking

00:30:21.420 about your average Midwestern Catholic who voted for Trump and actually sees his church as the place

00:30:27.560 where he goes with his family and meets up with friends. And it's a source of community and,

00:30:32.420 and, uh, and meaning in their life and, and the part of the calendar and the seasons and all that

00:30:37.440 kind of stuff. We're not talking about those. We're talking about people who write for first things.

00:30:41.420 Yes. No. Yes. The, the, the, the, the illustrious, uh, the illustrious cucks.

00:30:47.620 Yeah. No, these people need to go. I mean, I do think that there probably will be another

00:30:51.660 generation of them. I mean, obviously they're all old and flabby, but, uh, they're probably,

00:30:57.680 they probably will be replaced. Um, you, the, there does seem to be a, just a certain personality

00:31:03.580 type that emerges in the Western world that is this type of, that's attracted to be the priesthood

00:31:11.100 or being a monk or denying the world and, um, just not even striving to achieve power or greatness

00:31:20.520 or, or beauty, but to kind of look at all of that with a quiet. Oh yeah. Well, in a way, if we,

00:31:26.060 if we, if we meditate for a second on the sociology of, uh, of right wingers, it is the exact opposite

00:31:32.520 of the personality type that becomes an alt writer for an example, for example, right. Both sort of have

00:31:38.180 a disposition to believe in some grand narrative, to believe in a civilization in a way, which I will

00:31:45.920 say that I do think a lot of these first things guys probably do conceive of Western civilization

00:31:50.940 and believe in it, but they take a different turn than someone like you or I when, when they're

00:31:56.880 confronted with what does it mean to believe in this? Exactly. Well, let's put a bookmark in it.

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RadixJournal - September 27, 2017

Cucksplaining - Christianity Is For Cucks

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