Tea at Trianon: Beware the Rule of the Riot-makers

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Beware the Rule of the Riot-makers

From TFP:

Framing the debate as a systemic crisis allows the riot-makers to avoid anyone from raising moral questions about their action. A systemic crisis absolves people of personal responsibility and free will since they insist the system determines how people behave.

It also hides the real problem. Indeed, it is much greater than racism, which is only a consequence. This problem is a moral crisis of massive proportions that is tearing America apart. This crisis happened because modern society developed styles of life that teach individuals not to assume moral responsibility for their actions. It created conditions whereby people became slaves to their unbridled passions. The result is a sinful society that becomes ever more disordered.

In the present war against order, the riot-makers now fight with increased rage against the remnants of the natural moral law that seeks to restrain them—even if only by fallible police. They want their bricks to bring down the present decadent system, full of family, cultural and even economic institutions that remind people of the Christian order that still survives in these times. The most radical riot-makers rage against God and His Law. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: If one looks back in history those tactics never work because the ordinary citizen wants to live in a place that is safe and peaceful. They want to be able to get about and do the things necessary to feed and protect their families, because the family is the root of a Civilized existence. The family unit rose from prehistory and all past efforts to destroy it have failed. Even those who, because of their gender disorder of wanting to marry the same gender, want a family.; June 21, 2020 at 10:13:00 AM EDT