Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Gerald Warner, where art thou?

I've no idea where The Much Honoured the Laird of Craigenmaddie has gotten to these past few weeks, but I miss him dearly. No one, it seems, is better equipped at encapsulating the ills of our time than he:

The EU and the UN are working to establish a monocultural world government. Its malign culture is one of population control, secularism, relativist morality, materialism, self-conscious modernity, equality of all under the benign rule of the totally unequal governing elite. It promotes the New Man: cellophane-wrapped, emasculated by health and safety, dedicated to extending his meaningless and despiritualised existence by medical improvements, inhabiting cities rendered anonymous by globalised architecture and the ubiquity of international corporations.

The intolerable antithesis of that Utopian future is any society that values tradition, that clings to custom, that engages in virile activities such as hunting or bullfighting, that serves God rather than Mammon. The free spirit who owns a gun, cherishes wildernesses not yet tamed into heavily sign-posted heritage parks, practises Christianity in the manner of his forefathers, respects animals as part of creation but would never equate their status with human beings – such men are a hostile spectre haunting the social engineers charting our global future. They must be eliminated, and useful idiots in politically correct parliamentary assemblies are the instruments of that purge.
Mind you, Theodore Harvey has a marvelous way of bridging the gap.

12 comments:

  1. I had wondered the same thing myself as he has not added another post at the Telegraph since this summer. He does appear to still be updating his blog over at the Scotsman however http://news.scotsman.com/geraldwarner/Gerald-Warner-We-mock-the.6562418.jp

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  2. Thank you very much for the kind compliment! I miss Warner's blog too.

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  3. Warner, The Much Honoured Laird of Craigenmaddie is well. He was touched by your kind post. He continues to write in lots of places (primarily Scottish).

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  4. I wouldn't worry too much, gentlemen. His latest article at Scotland on Sunday is from last Sunday, and his article archive at Scotland on Sunday, which is a sister publication of the Scotsman, is BTW not a blog.

    See his archive here.

    And his latest does refer to quite recent events. Judging from what he writes, he must have written this less than 10 days ago.

    That said, I do wish he resumes his activity at the Telegraph.

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  5. Thanks gents, I'm grateful for the links. Looks like I have some reading to do!

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  6. My apologies for calling it a blog then J.K. Batzersen, I had only found his articles on the Scotsman a few days ago when looking to see if he was still writing somewhere aside from the Telegraph. I had only found the time to read one of his articles there though so I had not looked too closely at just what it was.

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  8. You are of course excused, sir (?). People follow him at Scotland on Sunday for years without getting that he writes for the Sunday paper and not for the daily -- The Scotsman. They are sister publications, so it's perhaps not so strange. For this too you are of course excused.

    I hope you will find the time to read lots amongst Mr. Warner's article archive at Scotland on Sunday. There is a lot of great material :-)

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  9. Gerald was the commentator of choice for real conservatives in the run up to the election and it would be nice to see the posts he made for The Telegraph during that period compiled together somewhere. A great man, thinker and wit.

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  10. Gerald Warner's instincts are well and good, but he doesn't seem to have any instinct for how his comments could be interpreted. What's the point of putting your case (if you want to change people's views and get them onside to your worldview) if you don't care how they are received? Shooting from the hip can be fun, but does it achieve anything meaningful? Doesn't look like it.

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  11. Which comments of his were you referring to Crux Australis?

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  12. Was he "let go" from the Telegraph for the sin of being too clear?

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