Sipsey Street Irregulars: From Fred Reed last month that I previously missed: “Payback’s a Bitch”: Rural Wisdom and the Gathering Storm

Sunday, August 23, 2015

From Fred Reed last month that I previously missed: “Payback’s a Bitch”: Rural Wisdom and the Gathering Storm

"But it is dangerous. The economy declines, people out of college can’t get jobs, the ghettoes simmer, automation surges across the board, and one day soon we will have cutbacks in the entitlements. When groups begin competing for dwindling resources, things will get ugly. It could explode. It really could. You might be surprised how many people out there think, “Bring it on.” Not a good idea, but we go that way. Tick Tick. Tick."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Dove tails right with "The Reset Button" post.; August 23, 2015 at 7:26 AM
Anonymous said...: Yeh...I'm one of those who says "bring it on!" Let's have this fight with the have-nots while there is still something to have. The have-nots have been trained to expect entitlements. I don't know if they can be 'un-trained'. They are more likely to steal a gun, then go out with the attitude that they are "gonna kill some honkies and take their stuff"!

Pretty damn soon, when the free stuff does run out, going outdoors without an AR slung over your back will be stupid. Might as well start the clean-up now.

One question. What on earth are we going to do with the bodies? Pile and burn?; August 23, 2015 at 8:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Related, from Matt Bracken:

"When the Music Stops"

https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/; August 23, 2015 at 9:23 AM
Galaxie_Man said...: To use a fire service analogy.....right now I see the country as a big shallow open pan full of gasoline, with plenty of lighters and matchbooks lying about, and the surrounding area controlled by four year olds.

Just what the f@^# do they think is going to happen?

Can't you just imagine the news reports when the SHTF, and the stunned disbelief of the media as to how FREE people react?; August 23, 2015 at 9:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Oh, don't believe for a minute that they are unaware of the anger. More than likely they are surprised that something this hot doesn't burst into flames, giving them the excuse they need to put the fire out. Hopefully they have miscalculated by underestimating the resoluteness of those they wish to subjugate.; August 23, 2015 at 11:17 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Sunday, August 23, 2015

From Fred Reed last month that I previously missed: “Payback’s a Bitch”: Rural Wisdom and the Gathering Storm

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