Tea at Trianon: The Revolt Against Humanity

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

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

The Revolt Against Humanity

From Return to Order:

One reason is that the 2023 work is an awfully small book to deal with such a monumental subject as human extinction. The elimination of humanity should merit something more than a mere hundred pages. The first impulse is to disregard it as a booklet, pamphlet or tract. However, in this case, looks are entirely deceiving. The author, Adam Kirsch, is an art critic and editor for the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section. He is deadly serious about narrating the story of the human extinction movement. Publisher Columbia Global Reports is an imprint of Columbia University, representing an official endorsement of the establishment. The book itself is a well-designed and high-quality publication. It aims to impress—and even intimidate.
Thus, Americans should take notice and beware. From a Catholic perspective, it describes a plan that directly challenges the Creator. Rarely are such plans revealed with such clarity. The human extinction people are not environmentalists of the Rachel Carlson Silent Spring variety. The old school of ecologists wants to prevent humanity from ruining the earth. It advocates recycling, carbon credits and Green New Deal programs to make the planet a cleaner place to live. This old form of eco-thinking has become yesterday’s revolution and is rejected as not radical enough. The human extinction people want to remove humanity from the universe. (Read more.)