Tea at Trianon: A 'Dangerous Lie'

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, November 19, 2022

A 'Dangerous Lie'

From Human Events:

In the latest episode of Human Events Daily, Host Jack Posobiec and Post Millennial Editor-in-Chief Libby Emmons discussed the exit polls numbers revealing that nearly 70% of unmarried women are now leaning left. Posobiec noted that these polls show that Republican candidates were "absolutely slaughtered" in a lot of races by single, unmarried, millennial women.

"We're also seeing in the demographics that Millennial voters are now the largest voting bloc in the country, having actually surpassed baby boomers," said Posobiec."So why are unmarried millennial female voters going for Democrats by as many as 38 points over conservatives?" he asked Emmons.

"I think this is a really fascinating trend," Libby Emmons said about the results, "and I think that it tracks back decades, when women were sold a false promise that if they leapt into career, if they pursued their own self-determination, their own inner passion and followed their bliss, that they would be really happy."

Emmons argues that this is not true, that rather than these women ending up happy, they're going to end up unhappy and bitter. "I think our culture has done women, and young men as well, a total disservice by telling them that there's no reason at all to prioritize love, that we should not prioritize family, that we should not prioritize fulfillment through raising the next generation. It's a dangerous lie, and it's dangerous for our culture." (Read more.)