Warming up for Patrick's Day!

‘Our culture is completely comatose because it’s corrupting. . . '

. . . but the flame has not gone out!

Two very different videos this week. In the first, I’m back with a regular sparring partner, Rick Munn on his channel, No Risk, No Reward Media, to explore how, as the rest of the world is emerging from its Woke dementia, Ireland seeks advanced modes of ‘progressive’ repression, as though determined to discover new frontiers of its now matastasising absurdistan, and cross them into outright insanity. We discuss and trace to their outer limits the latest threats and initiatives to criminalise dissenters for expressing unapproved opinions, again noting the roots of these tendencies in the fourteen-year-old Irish autogolpe parcial and its external origins and curators. At this moment of uncertainty, as our tenant-in-chief prepares himself to attend before the President of America for the annual St Patrick’s Day palaver — albeit a perhaps meaningful five days before the customary occasion — we explore some of the remaining possibilities for rescuing Ireland from the grip of globalism and domestic venality, with special attention to what possibilities may arise from the recent change of tenancy at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Here is the question: What would a sensible person, knowing what is true, try to convey concerning Ireland’s plight to President Trump in the White House on St Patrick’s Day — or any day?

The second video is a recording of the audience Q&A session that followed the filming of Episode IV of Through the Looking Glass, on February 23rd last. As the discussion progressed that Sunday two weeks ago, I was visited by a feeling of uncharacteristically positive déjà vu, which afterwards struck me as resonating with something in the now distant past: the mood of public meetings at which I spoke many years ago — in particular in the 1990s — when I would go all over the country to lead conversations at public/community gatherings concerning everything from threatened post office closures to the imposition of polluting industries on communities to the future (if any) of the Irish language — when people would stand up and say their pieces in a way that implied proprietorship of place, country and future, and declare their love of Ireland as though she were a living being. Listening that afternoon to people speak from the floor, it struck me that the oppositional voice of the Irish People, as I had known and loved it, may have become weakened in our time, but might with a little thought and effort be returned to its full power. The phrase that entered my head was: The flame has not gone out! When I said something along these lines to Gerry, he listened back to the Q&A and agreed; and so we decided to put it out as a separate post.

For reasons that I trust will be obvious, we do not show the faces of the audience members.

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