Tea at Trianon: Breeders.

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

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Breeders.

From Elizabeth Stone:

We all have seen, heard, and know that there is tremendous push to normalize every sexual desire, all of it is dressed in the belief that “people just need to be who they are”, that is until sexuality is ordered towards what it was actually designed to be. What you must understand is that these people are not actually against people making choices with their bodies, they are against people making choices that produce duty, because that would go against point number two, which is serving autonomy and self above all else. They are not scandalized by sex being openly discussed they are scandalized by sex being connected to what it always has traditionally been connected to. It is amazing that nowadays the shock factor isn’t more degeneracy, we are all so desensitized to it, I remember when Eminem used to get in serious trouble for the things he said and did. People acted like civilization itself was hanging by the thread of a Slim Shady lyric, now we see worse things on regular cable on a Tuesday afternoon. That is how desensitized we are. We are so porn-brained that traditionalism looks like the real obscenity. Show people a mother, a father, and a bunch of children, and suddenly they all start screeching like vampires caught in direct sunlight.
This “breeding kink'“ accusation reveals so much, it takes something that is normal, good, foundational, and forces it into pornographic language. This is the state of the modern mind, we cannot understand anything as sacred without dragging it into the sewer. The body is no longer seen as a gift given by God, it is seen primarily through the lens of desire, pleasure, self-expression, and therefore anything we do with our bodies must have a sexual connotation of some sort, this is the logical conclusion.
Children are the opposite of sexual libertinism, they are not self-expression, they are self-denial, they are not the endless pursuit of self and of personal autonomy, they are the daily death of autonomy in the service of love.
The very same people who demand endless compassion and understanding for every ridiculous, deranged, degenerate sexual preference, suddenly become total puritans the second anyone says babies are good, and this right here is what gives them all away, they are not offended by sex, they are offended by sex having meaning. (Read more.)