Notre Dame

I must confess, I’m not entirely sure why most Americans care about the destruction at Notre Dame. The structure and the craftsmen who built such a masterpiece are alien to our Postmodern minds, let alone the devotion and religion that inspired such an extraordinary feat. Given there is virtually no connection between Americans and the past anymore, why should anyone but conservatives mourn the loss of a mere building? Make no mistake I am choosing the word conservative carefully, purposely excluding the intellectual adherents of Jefferson, Locke and their ilk. A classical liberal is just that, not a conservative.

Most of us simply cannot comprehend the scale of the cathedral and the sheer feat of continuity of leadership. Two centuries does not do it justice, imagine the US starting anything in 1837 and finishing it today. Americans simply cannot grasp that level of homogeneity or commitment. The reality is a master mason or carpenter likely had a 20-30 year work career at best during that time. Given the life expectancy of aristocracy who hadn’t died of childhood diseases was around 60, three decades of work for a skilled craftsmen is optimistic. So the reality was likely between four and six generations, meaning those who started would have never even met the men who finished it. The scale of such a project in human capital is beyond any modern comparisons.

We, in this hellish landscape of Reason™ and atomistic nihilism cannot comprehend the devotion to anything extending outside our own personhood. Let us be frank, we kill children because they reduce the amount of baubles we can buy at any given moment. The concept of devoting not only an entire professional career, but six consecutive ones, to a project as an act of worship is simply incomprehensible to us. Not one, but thousands of men laboring on it and the untold billions of dollars in today’s capital that it would take to create such a thing…to glorify God. I’ve seen with my own eyes the inability of the scions of the dissident right fail to get more than two dozen people to show up in real life to hear someone speak. I was there. The right is not serious and the uncomfortable fact is they do not believe their own position, given their inability to get past words and onto action. The men who built the Notre Dame did more than just talk about it, they put chisel to stone and did it. The Neutered Postmodern Man is content to simply talk about political fantasies rather than impose his will on his surroundings and build anything more than a gun collection.

So why should anyone but conservatives care about what was valued by an alien culture, created by alien men for an alien God? We didn’t care about the dozens of other churches desecrated in France or the religious cleansing of the Middle East and central Africa. American’s rejected the concept of cultural, genetic or intellectual differences in mankind in 1776. We rejected God in the same breath, settling for a benevolent cosmic intelligence, placated by platitudes but ignoring that which we actually did. In short, the Notre Dame may as well be the Great Pyramid of Giza for all it represents of our current culture. If that bites, it should. The reality is we are not those men who built the Hagia Sophia, St. Peter’s Basilica or Notre Dame. We couldn’t even keep our seminaries from turning into Ivy League champions for atheism and overt enemies of our culture and people. Silicon Valley is our Notre Dame, a vacuous mix of decadence, worship of the obscene, a black hole churning out broken people and magnifying the worst in us.

Take from this what you will, but do not insult me with mourning an idea which you do not believe, a culture you do not subscribe to and a society for which you will not fight. The burning of the Notre Dame, whether arson or happenstance is indeed an excellent representation of the West. What once was is gone. The fact it lasted this long is a testament to a feat better men than us accomplished. None of us have known that level of brotherhood or national and religious identity. We have absolutely no frame of reference to get back there. Notre Dame is tragic to those of us who embraced the social and religious constructs that got us those monuments to Western Culture. We look back and pay homage to the products of that system, but we are intellectually honest enough understand that you cannot have the fruit without the tree.

I don’t pretend to have all the answers, or even half of them. I do know that if you don’t like here, then change the ideas that got you here. Much attention is paid to what the left is doing and the reactionary response to the latest insult. Little attention is paid to real change and being better than the left or aspiring to be men deserving to carry the burden of civilization. Virtually none of you hate the communists and their enablers enough to work with people you don’t like to further a goal. Look at what is done and what is said and tell me we are fit to be held up as an example or govern. Grow up, get serious and act like well-adjusted adults capable of rational discussion and complex thought. The conflict we are in the beginning stages of is not about you, or your children. Western men were once capable of a bigger perspective than themselves, the proof burned as we watched. Be better or settle for watching the monuments of other men decay and smolder as you ignore the barrenness of the current age. We are in a civilizational struggle, so perhaps start acting like it.

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  1. Anonymous April 23, 2019 at 07:29

    5

  2. Anonymous April 23, 2019 at 09:25

    4.5

  3. Rick Riemer April 23, 2019 at 09:30

    “The reality is we are not those men who built the Hagia Sophia, St. Peter’s Basilica or Notre Dame. ”
    I suspect we now aren’t even able to replicate the rescue of Apollo 13 … and that happened less than 50 years ago.

    • Bryce Sharper April 23, 2019 at 11:11

      I think we’re having trouble with a lot of technologies now. Supposedly, we can’t produce or test nukes and usually military technologies are the last to be lost. We definitely can’t get back to the moon.

    • WalkingHorse April 23, 2019 at 15:13

      I gave a presentation in 1993 which included the observation that we were at the time unable to recreate a Saturn V launch vehicle. That is doubly true now.

    • Pvt.Joker April 24, 2019 at 09:09

      I wonder if we even have the ability to recreate Notre Dame…whether in terms of skill or will.

      I think the author’s reference to the Pyramids at Giza is most apt.

      • revjen45 April 25, 2019 at 00:49

        No, we don’t.

  4. Bob April 23, 2019 at 10:52

    Excellent essay. We in America are in a transition period, where we’re no longer communities of English colonists, no longer Anglos with Scotch, Scandinavian, east European, etc communities, but we’re not yet all mixed together to be a new, homogeneous group. While the media/university system is trying to homogenize our culture, its means and ends are poison. I know this post was meant as a wake-up call, but I want to ask:
    How do atomized individuals in America cooperate against an all-powerful government and its quasi state religion?

    Conserving the past failed because it involves believing the moral framework that brought us to today. So, what are we aiming for? We have to reorganize society completely and reject the ideas that brought us to where we are now.
    Previous attempts at uniting around a set of ideas failed. Military power is still firmly held by the state, so a martial aristocracy is not possible. Monarchy is great, but how do we avoid the pitfalls of succession?

  5. Nathan April 23, 2019 at 10:58

    We are in the End Times and as Jesus said they hated me they will hate you. The good that will come of this is that the Church, the real body of Christ blossums under persecution, and the gates of Hell will not succeed. He is coming back and soon from the looks of things. We are supposed to have a sword and I am quite sure He will let us know when to use it.

  6. StBernardnot April 23, 2019 at 11:01

    This isn’t the same USA of my childhood, (the 50’s) for sure. Church’s were full, family’s had Dads. We carried our 22’s down to the RR tracks & shot old beer cans. The young have no idea what is gone. Granted we had other problems, but we thrived. We were pretty sure tomorrow was going to be better than today. That confidence has taken a beating.

  7. Bryce Sharper April 23, 2019 at 11:15

    I must confess, I’m not entirely sure why most Americans care about the destruction at Notre Dame. The structure and the craftsmen who built such a masterpiece are alien to our Postmodern minds, let alone the devotion and religion that inspired such an extraordinary feat. Given there is virtually no connection between Americans and the past anymore, why should anyone but conservatives mourn the loss of a mere building?

    Yep. After all, Notre Dame is just where people have worshiped the Sky Bully for the past 1000 years. The real tragedy is how this will negatively affect our commitment to diversity. Happily, Macron has already offered to rebuild it as a multi-faith center for all “French”.

    • Feral Underclass April 23, 2019 at 21:30

      I’ll make a prediction: Notre Dame will never be “rebuilt”. France will fall to the muzzies long before anything meaningful is accomplished, progress will stop toot sweet, the entire site will be abolished and some muzzie abomination will go up in its place.

  8. johnnyreb April 23, 2019 at 13:16

    Sitting here trying to think of a comment…………..and it occurs to me that there is nothing more that needs to be said. Too bad more people won’t be exposed to this truth.

  9. Kaycee April 23, 2019 at 15:43

    The modern evangelical fascination with Jesus-Hoover theology is the high-water mark of narcissistic theology. How can anyone care what comes after us after we’ve been deceived into believing that nothing comes after us? Luther’s bad idea of making works entirely and inviolably separate from salvation must not have gone far enough to suit some. Now most believers in the only growing denominations effectively believe that nothing we do matters at all, even in this world. Because Jesus is just about to suck us into the sky so we can escape the world we let go to hell. After all, Jesus suffered so that we could all be healthy, wealthy, and fabulous. Like Joel Olsteen, but with a hotter wife, preferably.

    • Kaycee April 23, 2019 at 19:28

      Just how many notches would one have to dial that comment back to get through moderation? Asking for a friend. ;)

      • Jesse James April 23, 2019 at 21:16

        None. Just the requisite level of patience.

        • Kaycee April 23, 2019 at 21:31

          Rats. I’m doomed. What was that thingy we were talking about….. Time preference, or some such?

  10. Kunkmiester April 23, 2019 at 18:38

    Two groups have continued to show such devotion. They unfortunately show stagnation.

    One has shown willingness to die for their cause, but isn’t much into building monuments.

    The second has but 165 monuments and counting, but socialist “all is wellism” has infested the members. They ignore the rather blatant liberty preaching in their own holy book, and since we do a lot through unanimous consent, we won’t be doing much anytime soon.

  11. Stephen Dorsey April 24, 2019 at 19:42

    An excellent, thoughtful and rightfully stinging commentary. As a non-Christian but monotheist, I DO mourn the sacrilege done to Notre Dame as well as the many, daily atrocities committed by angry sickos and the Muslims world wide. I’ve lived in Europe twice and have always marveled at the aspirations/prayers in stone that stretch across Europe and Russia. And I include the Alamo in that list of holy places.
    At 79 and being betrayed by my body, I regret that I can’t charge to the call to arms that is needed but as far as hating communists enough to join with like-minded others to DO something about it, I have to point out that when I try (as a formal historian and writer, former army officer) to engage the average Mercan male in substantive discussion, I find he doesn’t have the educational background nor the intellect to carry his side of the inquiry nor especially carry it to some action. We have been dumbed down for generations and it has profound implications.

    • Nathan April 25, 2019 at 07:49

      When called to do so we can all do one more thing take one with us…

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