2 Recent Conversations — On Quantum Nurse & Stephen's Substak
‘History tell us that ultimately good triumphs. It took an avalanche of good to bring us to this moment. And that will continue. All we have to do is stay standing.'
The Avalanche of Good
These two wide-ranging conversations, embrace both the bigger and the littler pictures at a moment of expectaion and uncertainly at the global and local levels.
1. Quantum Nurse
Last week I was back on with Grace Asagua on her podcast, Quantum Nurse, with regular panellists, Roy Coughlan and Hartmut Schumacher, and her guests, Lt. Scott Bennett and Drago Bosnic, to discuss Ireland’ continuing subjugation, as well as the escalating global situation and in particular the background radiation of the coming US presidential election.
‘The only thing that will work of us is if we can expand the consciousness of humanity, [so it can come] to understand that the impossible has happened, that the values we were pummelled with all our lived have been dumped, trashed, and no longer have any value in the operation of our societies, that those societies are no longer run by the people, or on behalf of the people, but by an invisible elite which simply sends orders down to those whom we elected to represent us. . . . It is as if all the value system that we have constructed and which we have lived by all our lives have suddenly been thrown on the scrapheap. That no longer do we wish to protect children — that’s old hat! Let the children worry about themselves, we have a country to run! We have migrants to feed and house! Women’s rights? We heard about this for all of my lifetime — “violence against women!” Now? Oh no! No problem! So long as it’s a migrant, it doesn’t matter. Don’t try to play that trick on us now about violence against women — you’re only opposed to our compassionate and humanitarian gestures towards these people!”’
‘It’s not just about America. It’s about the whole world. Because, for the last four years, and intermittently before that, America has ceased to be the defender of the Free World, of liberty and all of those things. On the contrary, it has been the enemy of freedom in the world. The only hope that the world has — because the rest of the Free World is in a terrible state — it’s demoralised, it’s emasculated, it’s weakened, it’s terrified, it’s afraid to open its mouth. It’s muted — lockjawed. But the quality of American manhood remains pretty strong, I have to say, from what I see from this remove. Not all of it, of course, we’ve seen the other side too. But there is greater evidence of a residual capacity to fight for principle and for right — in America and by America, than there is anywhere else in the Free World.’
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2. Stephen’s Substack
The Harp that Once
In this conversation between myself and Stephen Sutton, we discuss the current state of the Irish nation, the condition of the Irish Resistance, the psychological mood of the Irish people and the changes of reviving the Irish spirit with song.
‘I’ll continue doing what I do, but it’ll be kind of a private, lone-gunner approach, as opposed to . . . Sorry, that’s a metaphor, by the way — “lone gunner!” i don’t know if they do metaphors down in Templemore these days, but just in case!’
‘I didn’t watch much TV for well over a decade, but I was in a situation where there was a TV on around me in the last week to so, and — my God — it’s just unbelievably bad. Just the level [of it] Most of it, if it was produced by a gap-year team, you might say, “Oh well, must try harder! You’re not really going to be a presenter or a reporter.” You think: how they did let that out? At innumerable levels, I can’t comprehend how these guys can get up in the morning and look at themselves while they’re shaving.’
‘I was convinced for the first couple of years that somebody — at least one — would break the logjam and come out and blow the whistle — somebody in a fairly senior position in the media, coming out and saying, “This is disgraceful! This is not what we took up journalism for!” And once or twice there ware a couple of guys who did articles that sounded like they were beginning to get it. But it was all a set-up, a kind of controlled explosion, and then it went back to normal next day. It was almost by way of showing their “objectiveiey” — as if to say, “Well, there you are now, we’re objective! Now we’re going back to being propagandists!”‘
