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Staying Local
Staying Local
By: Rory Feek
I once made a trip north to Amish country in Ohio to visit and spend time with Marlin and his team at the Plain Values home office. In the few days that I was there, I returned home with some unexpected personal insights that I thought I might share in the next column or two. The first one has to do with automobiles, or actually maybe the lack of automobiles in the world of the Amish, and also recently in mine.
On our last evening in Ohio, Joel Salatin invited me to come to an event he was speaking at in Middlefield, where a few hundred Amish folks from the community would be gathering to listen to and learn more about ‘being self-sustainable in challenging times.’ I thought this was an unusual talk considering how self-sustainable the Amish are. So, I was excited to go check it out.
The sun was setting, and snow was falling as we neared the event center where Joel was to speak. The highways were filled with hundreds of cars and trucks coming and going, as the snow fell harder and the visibility on the roads decreased. The travelers were all safe and snug in vehicles that made it possible to feel like it’s summertime, as they made their way through the frigid weather.
But here and there, we kept seeing fainter lights, moving much slower through the snow falling on the roads. Silhouetted horses and black buggies filled with Amish men and women were making their way to the event just like us. When we arrived, there were dozens of buggies lined up in a row in the parking lot.
Joel’s talk was wonderful, and everything he shared was well received by the hundreds of Amish folks who left their coats and hats piled on tables by the door and filled every seat in the room. I was honored to hear Joel speak and get to meet some wonderful Plain people who came up to me and said they’d been reading this column and even some of the books I’ve written.
When the event was over, the snow was falling even harder. As we made our way to our warmed-up rental car, dozens of Amish men were holding lanterns, scraping snow off their buggies, and hitching up their horses for the cold ride home. I thought about all the women in their dresses and the small children who would be making the chilly ride too.
The next morning on our way back to Tennessee, I found myself thinking about the cars that had filled the icy roads and the stark contrast between them and the horses and buggies, and why I felt such deep respect for the latter, even though logically it makes no sense to travel in such a difficult way when there are such easier options available. And yet, it strangely felt like their choice was better. But why?
Who would do that? I mean, who would purposely choose a slower, harder way of traveling over something faster and much easier… beside the Amish, that is? But then it occurred to me that, well, I would. And actually, I realized that, in some ways, I already have.
Now, I have been financially blessed to own and drive some nice cars and trucks over the last decade or two, but in the last year, I sold all of them. All except one that is.
First went the family Suburban last summer. With children, full-size SUVs are big and comfortable and even have built-in video players for those passengers in the back seat to make the ride even more enjoyable. The truth is that the video player went long before the Suburban did. Much like the time a dozen or more years ago, when my wife and I removed the television from our farmhouse, I came to realize that although Disney movies made traveling in the car fun for my little girl Indiana, it clearly wasn’t better for her. And so, one day I just decided to push the player closed, and we never opened it up again. Luckily, my little one loves playing with Barbies and reading books, so it wasn’t too much of a struggle for her to just talk with her Papa or play on her own while we drove.
Then this past fall, I took the final step and sold the F350 King Ranch that had been my dream truck for years. Living here on a farm, that one was a lot tougher for me to let go of. It had been easy to justify keeping it, by thinking it was a necessity. But with pickups in the driveways of both my brothers-in-law on the north and south sides of us, I clearly had access to a truck if I needed one. So last October, I handed the keys to my truck over to a new owner and drove home in my 1954 Oldsmobile 88.
Since the mid-90s I have always had at least one classic car from the ’50s that I would take out from time-to-time on Sunday drives when the weather is beautiful. If you don’t mind not having air conditioning or a heater that works very well, these classic cars are wonderful. Though most of them weren’t much to look at, or barely ran, I felt inside that they provided a link to the past my life somehow needed. A part of me wanted to make them a ‘daily driver’ but honestly, it just never made sense when I always had faster, easier vehicles as an option to drive.
My Oldsmobile, while it can be fun to drive, can also be very difficult. It lacks the comforts of the previous cars we’ve owned and a high probability of breaking down if I travel too far or go too fast.
But that isn’t the point. I didn’t want to go too far or too fast.
This decision was part of my continued effort to simplify this past year, with the hopes of making our lives more meaningful. While I had purged our modern vehicles and opted for a daily driver that lacked power steering, power brakes, defrost, and a windshield that forever stayed fogged up (not to mention leaking water every time it rained), I chose to limit my mobility intentionally to stay connected to my community.
I didn’t choose what was easiest for our family… I chose what was best for us.
For me, my decision to sell our nice cars and drive an older one wasn’t just about choosing to downsize vehicles, it was actually about choosing to stay more connected to the place where I live and the people around me. Like the Amish, whose horse and buggy keep them from straying too far from their beloved community, so my old car keeps me local. I too, in a way, have decided to be tethered to my community. Purposely. I don’t want to be able to go anywhere and everywhere whenever I choose. Instead, I choose to be happy where I am.
Being in Ohio this past week and seeing the Amish people’s commitment to their communities being lived out in their simple mode of transportation reminded me that sometimes we have to make decisions that aren’t always easy for others to understand. I like to think that these kind of choices hopefully make us better people. When Indy and I are tooling down the road in our old car it reminds me of this commitment and gives me hope that I’m on the right path… or at least a better path for me and the community that I’m part of.
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Wednesday 19 July 2023
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Tuesday 18 July 2023
Normans in Paris Riots
Normans in Paris
The internet is raging over France. Everybody has declared that it is a race war. This is it for the Frogs: the diversity immigrants have finally snapped; the incompatible Africans are finally being honest about their hatred of the White French and they’re burning down the country. It’s over this is the End. Well, if that’s the whole story then we have nothing to talk about. But I’m not that way inclined, I like stories. So, I’m joining the man who sat down calmly to eat a sandwich in the middle of a street battle to look at what’s happening to the collapsed imperial power – something I call the Vending Machine – of Europe known as the French Republic. All is not as it seems in the croissant utopia. It’s time to look at the French story over a sandwich.
Centuries ago, a ship arrived on a return voyage to the port of Marseilles. The vessel was notably called the Pharaon – ‘Pharaoh’ – and its captain had succumbed to a fever and died at sea. The crew returned without their captain to guide them safely to harbor, but they immediately followed the chain of command to get them to port. Spectators gathered to welcome the Pharaon’s crew to land and a young sailor stepped into the Mediterranean city. What follows is a tale of greed, betrayal, murder, and the imprisonment of the young sailor that assumed command of the Pharaon, a man named Edmond Dantes. This scene is the beginning of a great fiction by one of France’s most beloved storytellers Alexander Dumas. Like his character, Dumas stands in my story as the herald of a sort of madness that has drenched France in the same Malarial fever that took the captain of the ship in the opening of The Count of Monte Cristo. Like the Pharaon, France has become inflamed in revolutionary malaria again and lost its mind in the process.
I consider the Dumas family the key to unlocking why France is now in flaming ruins, even though Vending Machine People would consider the race-rioters racially identical to the Dumas men. I argue that they are not, and this is why calling the French unrest a ‘race war’ is hiding what is really happening in the secular Republic of France. France has been invaded many times before by foreigners with no regard for “French” civilization. The entire province of Normandy is a reminder of the Viking invasions of Catholic Europe. Most people are talking about the riots and blaming it on the Diversity failure; it’s the fault of liberal European media for encouraging “race mixing” in Europe; it’s the changing skin colour of the “French”. Although that is going to be the most basic way most readers will interpret this crisis, I’m interested in looking at France as Alexander Dumas did in his stories. His perspective is significant for many reasons, as Dumas’ father was the first general of African origin to command a French army. Dumas had roots in both France and what is now called Haiti, and Dumas’ father was one of the most respected military men in Napoleonic France. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (General Dumas) was so feared in Europe that the Austrians nicknamed him ‘The Black Devil. He was a heroic man who fought French campaigns in Egypt and the Levant and openly argued with Napoleon himself, who dubbed him “the Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol” (essentially the man who saved ancient Rome). You cannot get more Chad. The ‘Black Devil’ also sired the most beloved French novelist in history, his son Alexander, and gave his son plenty of fodder for good fiction as well as his own name.
General Dumas was African, a Frenchman by paternal descent, and the creolized grandson of a slave concubine owned by his grandfather in a French colony. I am not going to talk about the ethics of French slavery here, only that General Dumas was brought from the colony to France as a child to be educated and assimilated into French society. He was so fully assimilated that he eventually commanded the French army. If anybody needs a reminder of what that means, it means native French men were willing to kill or die on his command, without any affirmative action policies making that possible. What has changed in France that has made its ex-colonial-subjects-turned-citizens incapable of such glorious integration and loyalty? Why is France not producing men of Dumas’ excellence in their secular experiment? Why are Africans in France burning it down like Normans rampaging through Europe and sacking its cities?
Simply put: Homage is dead in the West. This concept, completely alien to Vending Machine People, translates as “loyalty to a sovereign”. It comes from medieval feudal relationships where a serf would swear allegiance to a lord in exchange for protection, though it also describes willing obedience or tribute to an authority. You saw homage expressed like this in the recent coronation of King Charles III of Great Britain where the subjects of the British King swore an oath to their sovereign. The concept of homage will trigger the Equality Addicts of the Liberal New World Order because it implies becoming subject to an authority within a chain of recognized hierarchy without “affirmative interventions” and thus express inequality. Inequality is crucial in the two places where The Black Devil proved himself a Frenchman of prestige: martial and marital service. Dumas married a native French woman, and he wore the uniform of service to France. In a military, merit is earned (unless you’re in a diversity and equality military) where authority in a chain of command is vital to keeping people alive. Marriage requires a similar expression of homage to the hierarchy of the family.
The importance of service that Dumas illustriously demonstrated in France is not required now almost anywhere in Western culture. The key to immigrating to the West is purely a matter of money and paperwork. The offer of Liberté, égalité, fraternité to former colonial subjects without any requirement of intermarriage or service – any true homage to anything or anyone French at all – has backfired catastrophically. What created Marseilles 2023 and not the Marseilles of 1815? The Republic is generating this madness within itself. Like the Pharaon, France hasn’t had a captain since the fever took over and took out the monarch. The Revolutionary Malaria has never disappeared from France: the fevers merely return sporadically to cause a riot or a bad idea. The fevers are recurring symptoms of a nation without its ancestral homage to Cross and Crown. When Edmond Dantes’ captain died he said, “We bring to his widow his sword and cross of honour”. The symbols of Homage. Who in the Western Vending Machine cares for these things now?
We are seeing a world after the destruction of men such as Edmond Dantes and the symbols that were so important to him. France discarded them. We are numbed to it, but the French Revolution that started in 1789 tore through France with the ruthless violence of a Quentin Tarantino film. The French tortured and beheaded their monarchy and aristocracy, hunted and murdered clergy, monarchists, and counterrevolutionaries, and spilled so much blood even Tarantino himself couldn’t handle the carnage. Paris was a bloodbath. But the old French estates were still there beneath the Liberty or Death banners and Jacobin hats. The Cross and the Crown remained in France in the structure of the French cities: the churches remained in the architecture of French memory. The churches stood as silent Gothic reminders of a time when the many Louies reigned over France (all XVI of them). It took a few more bouts of revolutionary malaria for people to completely forget the ancient homage that constructed France. But as Dumas knew, the only way to keep an army marching or a ship sailing is with a leader of men who pay him homage. Dumas understood very well what happens when hierarchy is destroyed and revolutionary fever reigns. His stories are littered with references to it.
Everybody in France was relying on the Republican ideals to keep things going in the absence of Cross and Crown, only now the increasingly diverse crew of this European utopia have forgotten the homage that created France. The French are so philosophically confused that everybody has their own ideas about homage and who to give it to (if at all), with everybody succumbing to revolutionary fever, which is fine if you want infinite rights and chaos. But even in the case of Jacobin France, that revolutionary Liberty required martial enforcement. If people are not united by true homage, they can only be united by force. Force is failing. The loss of homage in the West has corroded the soul of the people that espouse “magic dirt” citizenship in the Liberal Republics. The France of the time of The Black Devil’s Austrian campaigns was still enjoying the residual influence of its ancient Christian social order, where the Cross and Crown were. French Republicans replaced homage to Cross and Crown with civil rights and citizenship – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity – ignoring the human nature that really governs the nations.
Alexander Dumas understood human nature. Republics exist because they have torn down existing hierarchies to replace them with human nature, but Republics cannot tear down Human Nature itself. It returns again and again like Malaria. France is now fighting another of its revolutionary fevers, and even worse, the malaria is emerging in a population of people who do not have homage to either the Republic or the symbols of Cross and Crown. And they do not understand the great mosaic called European Civilization that they have become a part of thanks only to some paperwork. The New Normans are in Paris. But Europeans were all White and basically the same, you’ll say. Nobody in Paris thought the pre-Norman Vikings were the “same race” when they invaded France. The consideration was whether they were civilized or not. In Europe at the time of the Viking invasions, being civilized meant being Catholic, and it wasn’t until Rollo made a pact with the French and became Catholic did Normandy see its genesis. Barbarian Vikings had to convert to the Apostolic faith. What most people in the New World don’t understand is just how African ancient European Christian culture was. Allow me to introduce you to the world of ‘Afro Monte Cristo’:
Like Alexander Dumas in my story, the Holy Roman Empire was heralded by an African. Saint Maurice, commander of the (entirely Christian) Theban Legion from Egypt, was an Egyptian Christian famous for the martyrdom he won at the hands of pagan Romans, who punished his entire legion for refusing to worship Roman gods. The entire legion was decimated, literally: the Romans picked off every tenth soldier for execution and the legion had to watch itself progressively shrink until St. Maurice was left standing. He joined them in glory. The kings of the Holy Roman Empire wore his relics at their coronations; Charlemagne carried the sword of Saint Maurice as a demonstration of his martial authority over Europe. Austro-Hungarians also honored the relics of Saint Maurice in their ceremonies. The central veneration of this African martyr would appear to Modernity like a bunch of Europeans culturally appropriating or blackwashing themselves. But Saint Maurice is so ubiquitous in Europe that I find it difficult to imagine a Christendom without him. The Germans, Swiss, French… the list of nations who requested his patronage and protection goes on, let alone all the towns and churches named after him. He was the most venerated soldier of Christ in Europe besides St. George and yet the internet is talking about a Black-on-White race war in France? It appears to me, as I eat my sandwich here and look at the rioting, that Europe has forgotten its own ancient Catholic identity in the revolutionary fevers – an identity that transcended the categories of Black and White. Something very different is happening in France than a ‘race war’.
France is now in its Count of Monte Cristo moment, and “Conservatives” in the New World must look at France with the eyes of a Dumas if they are going to see the cause of this fever. Like Edmond Dantes, Europeans are seeing the consequences of an anti-Catholic liberal conspiracy to conquer the established Christian social order of Europe centuries ago. That social order was built by people who venerated Africans and engraved the names of their African saints onto the map of the European world for their patronage. To put it plainly: we were protected by the blood of African martyrs. The Holy Roman Empire carried the sword of the Holy African Legion as its symbol of homage. My cringe “Afrocentrism” is exactly what Europeans did when they named every single town in Europe after Saint Maurice: European Christians paid Saint Maurice their homage and venerated him for revealing Christ to them in his victory over Death. Nobody remembers now because Republicans have been Jacobinized to the point where they don’t even know that Europe was religiously yoked to Africa via the Alexandrians.
…everybody is seething about a ‘race war’ instead of seeing the crisis for what it is: apostasy.
Only after several bad clerical gang wars and the Arab conquest of formerly-Catholic North Africa did Europeans come to think of themselves without The Nile in the picture. From the time of Saint Augustine, Catholic Europe always had one foot in Africa. Similarly, it took a few generations enduring revolutionary malaria in France to get to the point where the country has been lit on fire by its African residents, but the Western sickness is now infecting everybody. The West has abandoned its ancient homage: it thinks only in race not in sainthood. Thanks to the Clown World diversity cult hijacking language, the ‘antiWoke’ are embarrassed by any European veneration of the holy Africans of Europe even while many scream for a “return to tradition”. And because of this, everybody is seething about a ‘race war’ instead of seeing the crisis for what it is: apostasy. The religion that inspired the creation of Notre Dame Cathedral was abandoned by the French for unfettered Liberty. Then they invited disparate peoples to join in their Humanist orgy. But these new Normans are not Vikings without religion.
The French are not in a ‘Race War’ as the Liberal world understands it. There is something very different happening in France right now. The revolutionary fever that’s burned in the French for centuries found new bodies to seize, but these new bodies do not respond to revolutionary malaria the way the mob did at the founding of the French Republic. These new bodies are like Normans in their unfamiliarity with Paris and lack of Dumas’ homage to France, but they are not pagans; they have religious impulses that have not been cauterized by centuries of philosophical engineering in a Jacobin Vending Machine. And they are raging against the Vending Machine France that has infected them with its Republican malaria.
You are now watching what happens when homage is activated in a people that do not give their dues to a Jacobin system. We’ll need another sandwich break to discuss what the New Normans are rioting against.
A troll who started rhyming, Kilts is a Medieval thinker, poet, and co-author of two books (and counting) published by the Dragon Common Room. She co-hosts the Mosaic Ark podcast with her friend and DCR mastermind, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown.
Kilts is currently working with the DCR team on the five-volume epic, Draco Alchemicus. She regularly muses on her Telegram channel The Sandwhich Press, a digital liberal arts project that feeds into DCR’s work. The Sandwhiches have inspired both devotional piano composition and hate mail.
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Building a Parallel Economy and Nurturing a New Christendom
Building a Parallel Economy and Nurturing a New Christendom
The concept of building a parallel economy and nurturing a new Christendom offers an inspiring vision for those seeking alternative frameworks to secular society’s crumbling infrastructure. This is something we’ve been working towards here at Gab for several years now and I’m excited to share some more of that vision and highlight a few of the great people laying the foundation of a new Christendom with their work.
For those who don’t know: a parallel economy refers to the creation of an alternative economic system that operates in parallel with the existing mainstream economy. It aims to promote values that align with specific communities or ideologies. A parallel economy rooted in biblical principles serves as a platform to manifest our faith through economic practices and help lay the groundwork for a new Christendom.
We must return to the foundations of Christianity. Rediscovering the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and embracing His message of love, compassion, and grace becomes paramount above all else. This means focusing on core tenets of faith such as love for God and one another, forgiveness, and the pursuit of truth. Understanding and internalizing these principles will guide us in shaping a Christendom that is relevant and engaging for the modern age.
To build a new Christendom it is essential to engage actively with the modern world and address the challenges and opportunities it presents. Christians should actively participate in shaping public discourse, advocating for truth, and offering a compassionate but bold response to societal issues. This involves integrating faith with various aspects of life, such as politics, economics, science, and technology, in a way that aligns with Christian values and principles. We simply can’t afford to sit on the sidelines anymore.
In order to build a new Christendom we first need builders.
I’m a builder. I don’t just sit around complaining about the issues and problems in the world, I actively set out to build solutions for them. When I saw the rise of censorship by Big Tech platforms back in 2016 I took the initiative to establish a platform that aligns with my own beliefs and values. Gab is a social media platform owned by Christians that aims to provide a space for free speech while fostering an environment rooted in Christian principles. Platforms like Gab not only cater to the need for alternative social media spaces but also facilitate connections among like-minded individuals who are fostering a thriving community. Over the past several years Gab has become a crucial backbone of a growing parallel economy in the new Christendom.
The concept of a new Christendom transcends the economic sphere and envisions a society that embodies Christian values across various domains. While Christianity has influenced Western civilization throughout history, the idea of a renewed Christendom seeks to reinvigorate those values in a contemporary context. A renewed Christendom requires active engagement in shaping culture and influencing society positively. This involves Christian artists, writers, thinkers, and leaders using their talents and platforms to promote Christian values.
A group of visionary leaders has emerged on Gab as the vanguard of a new Christendom. These builders actively shaping the landscape of entertainment, music, education, and technology to provide alternatives that align with their faith and values. There are far too many to list in one post, so for now I’d like to highlight a handful in particular who I’ve been very impressed with.
Michael Foster: Sherwood – A Beacon of Wholesome Entertainment
Michael Foster is spearheading the creation of Sherwood, a one-of-a-kind streaming service that serves as a home for ebooks, audiobooks, and video content. Recognizing the scarcity of high-quality Christian entertainment, Foster envisioned a platform that offers a wide range of wholesome content. Sherwood caters to individuals seeking faith-based narratives, family-friendly shows, and spiritually uplifting content, effectively addressing the need for a safe space for Christian audiences.
Brian Sauvé: Producing Inspiring Christian Music
Brian Sauvé has devoted himself to the production of Christian music that resonates with the hearts of believers. By crafting melodious tunes and heartfelt lyrics that reflect Christian values, Brian’s music serves as a source of inspiration, encouragement, and worship for countless listeners. Through his artistic expressions, Brian contributes to the development of a thriving Christian music scene, nurturing the spiritual lives of individuals and fostering a deeper connection with God.
Roman Roads Press: Illuminating Homeschool Curriculum and Books
Roman Roads Press stands as an essential pillar in the realm of Christian education. With a focus on homeschool curriculum and books, this publishing house equips parents, teachers, and students with materials that integrate faith and knowledge. By creating well-researched and thought-provoking resources, Roman Roads Press nurtures critical thinking, biblical literacy, and intellectual growth within the homeschooling community, ensuring a solid foundation for the next generation of Christian thinkers.
The new Christendom is being built by people like this who recognize the importance of actively shaping the cultural landscape according to their faith and values. These contributions bring light, hope, and a renewed sense of purpose to those seeking to align their lives with their faith. As builders of the new Christendom continue their work, their impact promises to shape a brighter future for the Christian community and beyond.
Building a new Christendom in the modern age is an ongoing journey that requires sincere commitment, self-reflection, and adaptability. By rediscovering the foundations of Christianity, nurturing spiritual growth, engaging with the modern world, and embodying Christ’s love, we can create a transformative parallel Christian community. Let’s embark on this journey together, embracing the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and strive to build a Christendom that shines as a beacon of hope, truth, and love in our chaotic and changing world.
Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
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