“I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

In 1980, 6.5% of the US population was hispanic.

In 2000, 12.5% of the population was hispanic.

Today, it's perhaps 19%.

What are the implications of this?

When you import millions of hispanics, don't be surprised to find your society becoming more hispanic.

One way in which this is happening is in increasing anti-gun attitudes.

"An early 2014 Pew Research Center survey asked U.S. adults what is more important — protecting the right of Americans to own guns or controlling gun ownership (Pew Research Center, 2014d). Hispanic registered voters nationally say they prefer gun control over the rights of owners by a margin of 62%-to-36%, as do black registered voters by a margin of 71%-to-26%, according to the survey. By contrast, white registered voters choose gun owners’ rights over gun control by a margin of 59%-to-39%."

"82% of foreign-born Hispanics think controlling gun ownership is more important than protecting gun ownership rights, compared with 59% of Hispanics born in the U.S."

The results of hispanic polling on the subject of free speech are no better.

"Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies."  –Nicolas Davila

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2014/10/16/chapter-2-latinos-views-on-selected-2014-ballot-measure-issues/

https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-america#overview

We all have enough strength to bear the troubles of other people.  -La Rochefocauld

Call someone an isolationist or an anti-war activist, call it a sin tax or a progressive tax, call it an incentive or an effort to "fight" the thing incentivized.  Either way, the wise man knows words don't change how a thing works by even one little bit.

"Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over it."  -La Rochefocauld

"Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire.  A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience, that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it."  –Hitchens

Many of the reactions upon OJ's passing were deeply disturbing.  I share them with you so you know what to expect.

"Pervasive antiwhite antagonism is perhaps the best-kept secret about black inner-city culture."  –Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops

"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

A man gave his coat to a homeless bum and the homeless bum up and stole his wallet as thanks.

Solar eclipses are so overrated as to be barely worth looking up for.  Rarity aside, solar eclipses are about as interesting as rain.

"Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”  -CS Lewis

https://twitter.com/AmiriKing/status/1776344677991453080

Happy Easter!

I discuss the enslavement of perhaps 1,000,000 white/Christians by the barbary pirates and the man who finally brought that trade to an end.

"And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild."  -GK Chesterton

Seems like just yesterday Conan O'Brien et al were telling us about what a lovely place Haiti was, on account of Trump said it wasn't.  As the corpses are roasting in the streets, join me on a stroll down memory lane.

"I am terrified of Africa.  I don't want to be from this place."  -Keith Richburg

"I'm leaving Africa now, so I don't care anymore about the turmoil in Rwanda and have no interest in this latest tragic development."  -Keith Richburg

“It has been said critically that there is a  tendency in many armies to spend the peace time studying how to fight the last war.”  January-February 1929, The Military Engineer, “Some Notes on the World War” by J. L. Schley (Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers), pg. 55, col. 1L

I read the State of the Union address and will give my thoughts.

““Did you ever in all your life see the head of a human being which so closely resembled that of a cod fish?”

“He is not responsible for his head or his face. But why do you say he is a fraud? The newspapers call him a reformer, and give him credit for great efficiency.”

“I deny your conclusions,” he replied. “A man of fifty is responsible for his face! Yes, I know he is courting the newspapers: that proves him a humbug and presumptively a fraud.”

A few months later the official in question was found guilty by a court-martial of peculation and fraud in the management of his bureau and dishonorably expelled from the service.”  -Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, quoted by Lucius Crittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration

“Utopian ideologies invite genocide for two reasons. One is that they set up a pernicious utilitarian calculus. In a utopia, everyone is happy forever, so its moral value is infinite. Most of us agree that it is ethically permissible to divert a runaway trolley that threatens to kill five people onto a side track where it would kill only one. But suppose it were a hundred million lives one could save by diverting the trolley, or a billion, or—projecting into the indefinite future—infinitely many. How many people would it be permissible to sacrifice to attain that infinite good?"  -Stephen Pinker

According to my rough calculation, 50 million people were killed by their non-government countrymen in the 20'th century.  According to RJ Rummel, about 250 unarmed people were intentionally killed by governments over the same span.  5:1

"The failure of technological determinism as a theory of the history of violence should not be that surprising. Human behavior is goal-directed, not stimulus-driven, and what matters most to the incidence of violence is whether one person wants another one dead."  -Stephen Pinker

We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

-Robert Frost. "The Secret Sits" (1942)

@psychiconfire makes a good point on Twitter.

Sometimes it is impossible to do good without appearing mean.

What does doing evil feel like?  Sometimes, *exactly like* doing good.

A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation says we will pass 300% debt:GDP ratio in 2044, 500% in 2058, and 1000% in 2078.  It's probably later than you think.  This present system of vote-buying will end, one way or another.

Certain jobs can only be done properly by people who don’t care too much if they are fired.

Out of the crooked timber of man, no straight thing was ever made.  -Immanuel Kant

A Welsh slave was once given a direct order by his captor and notorious butcher of men, sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco.  He refused it and lived.

This is the problem of despotism. It’s why despotism, or even just authoritarianism, is all-powerful and brittle at the same time. Despotism creates the circumstances of its own undermining. The information gets worse. The sycophants get greater in number. The corrective mechanisms become fewer. And the mistakes become much more consequential.  –Stephen Kotkin

If the history of slavery ought to teach us anything, it is that human beings cannot be trusted with unbridled power over other human beings - no matter what color or creed any of them are.  –Thomas Sowell

"How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."  –Robert Frost

"One woman died and more than 20 others were injured when gunfire erupted at the Kansas City parade."  -BBC

What I hate about Bill Maher - no retractions.

“Where courage is not, no other virtue can survive except by accident.”  -Dr Johnson

Nikki Haley:  "I am going to beat President Trump." 

"In the hive and the ant-hill we see fully realised the two things that some of us most dread for our own species - the dominance of the female and the dominance of the collective." -CS Lewis

"It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear."  –Ayn Rand

Jim Jordan has revealed leaked Amazon emails.  One of which says:

"Starting March 9—the same day as its meeting with the White House—Amazon enabled “Do Not Promote” for books that expressed the view that vaccines were not effective."

I have two things to say.

The first is:  With government as limitlessly large and therefore limitlessly powerful as it is at present, it can do immense harm to your company or your life out of pure spite.  You will pay far more for thumbing your nose at the state than you would have in, say, 1880.

The second thing I have to say is:  These are among the biggest scandals in our history.  They will not be treated as such by our media because our media agree with infringing our First Amendment.

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”  -James Madison

"A lie never lives to be old."  –Sophocles

Walmart Battle Orc @ASo1omons:  "Brits are lost."

Egyptians only kept records of the good things.  So every battle was a win, just... closer.

Three illegals have been charged with armed robbery in Massachusetts.  I think the punishment should be somewhat more severe than whatever free room and board they will undoubtedly receive.

One reason why political pugilism is so popular is everybody wins.  At least, everybody who likes you and who you therefore like in return will slap you on the back no matter how poorly you did.

I may have figured out why the left, for all it's incessant winning, is so miserable.

“Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.”  -Brian May

“You ask me what makes Rockefeller the unquestioned leader in our group.  Well, it is simple. In business we all try to look ahead as far as possible. Some of us think we are pretty able. But Rockefeller always sees a little further ahead than any of us—and then he sees around the corner.”  -John Archbold

I've been listening to a "Great Course" on Audible.  It's by a man of the left and is therefore alienating and a bit dull.

He manages to critique Isaac Newton, the Bible, and Great Britain in the first two hours.

“Often it is those who are most critical of a ‘Eurocentric’ view of the world who are most Eurocentric when it comes to the evils and failings of the human race.” -Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals

*disturbing content*

Martin Luther King, Jr was many things.  Like me, he advocated nonviolent protest.  Unlike me, he was a Communist sympathizer.  An advocate of reparations and antiwhite discrimination.  But the most distressing allegation about the man is what he did in a hotel room once in the early 1960s.

https://www.davidgarrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DJGStandpoint2019.pdf

“Man, I went through hell … I’ve really never been this sick,” he said.

Stern also thanked those who helped develop the vaccine against COVID-19.

“What a wallop this thing is — can you imagine if we didn’t have the vaccine?”

Josh Slocum:  Mistakenly once believed "That "science" was an un-contaminated-by-human-ego endeavor that could solve all human problems."

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live. For neither in war nor yet in law ought any man use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death, if a man is willing to say or do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs deeper than death.  –Socrates

"I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?"  -Ayaan Hirsi Ali

"If the world is against the truth, then I will be against the world." —St. Athanasius of Alexandria