There's a John Buchan quote I think about sometimes, the protagonist is in a meeting along with a Cambridge professor and anti-war activist.
"I thought I had never seen anyone quite so fluent and so futile, and yet there was a kind of feeble violence in him like a demented sheep. He was engaged in venting some private academic spite against society, and I thought that in a revolution he would be the class of lad I would personally conduct to the nearest lamp-post."
It's stuck in my head for years, I see men like Williams and I just think of the feeble violence of a demented sheep. It isn't that men of this type are incapable of real violence but there's something that just signals the enormous gap between their desires and their abilities. Their real danger is the sort of moral or social rot they spread.
It certainly does. One of the things I like about Buchan is that his protagonists certainly don't suffer from that affliction. They're firmly rooted in a sense of place and purpose, without resort to irony or reactionary provocation. It is a confidence in themselves and their society that seems almost alien. Obviously it's fictional but I get the impression that the man himself really did believe in his civilization and understood what a man's role within it should be. I don't think men like Williams have any comparable sense of confidence and don't believe in anything beyond mindless destruction of norms, institutions and values in all forms.
I think what you're describing there is the Inner Directed personality type. Buchan, it seems, was an exemplar of that type:
"John Buchan was a published historian, lawyer, editor, war correspondent, government administrator, MP and director of a successful publishing house."
He's the reason I pray my lads don't want to go to uni. Eldest has decided he doesn't - says he doesn't want to be brainwashed and end up in debt. It's a pity because he'd make a great teacher and we need folk like him (normal, sane humans) in the profession....
Is Williams the product of his upbringing, society or his years in our left wing education system? 🤔
Deep thought for this early on a Tues. Is the decline of formal religion in this country causing our young folk to seek something else to fill the void?
The tragic naivety of cretins like Williams and his band of merry morons is that they really think they've found something worthwhile to believe in because until now they've probably only ever had to worry about their gcse results and whether they would ever outgrow their acne.
So their very self importance, picturing themselves on par with the poisonous Swedish dwarf (about whom I have no doubt he masturbates nightly) is so pathetic that it would be laughable if it wasn't so potentially dangerous .
Some might call them useful idiots or flying monkeys, but in their own minds ( or what is supposed to be a mind) they believe they ate making the world a better place. Or ay least ingratiating themselves with the powers-that-will-be if labour stay in for much longer.
Mr. Gage once again exposes one of the dangerous viruses that have infected significant elements in Western cultures. We ignore them at our peril.
There's a John Buchan quote I think about sometimes, the protagonist is in a meeting along with a Cambridge professor and anti-war activist.
"I thought I had never seen anyone quite so fluent and so futile, and yet there was a kind of feeble violence in him like a demented sheep. He was engaged in venting some private academic spite against society, and I thought that in a revolution he would be the class of lad I would personally conduct to the nearest lamp-post."
It's stuck in my head for years, I see men like Williams and I just think of the feeble violence of a demented sheep. It isn't that men of this type are incapable of real violence but there's something that just signals the enormous gap between their desires and their abilities. Their real danger is the sort of moral or social rot they spread.
YES. That is gold. That gap, in the social media age, is ever so more pronounced, too. Ties to Durkheim's malady of the infinite. (What doesn't?)
It certainly does. One of the things I like about Buchan is that his protagonists certainly don't suffer from that affliction. They're firmly rooted in a sense of place and purpose, without resort to irony or reactionary provocation. It is a confidence in themselves and their society that seems almost alien. Obviously it's fictional but I get the impression that the man himself really did believe in his civilization and understood what a man's role within it should be. I don't think men like Williams have any comparable sense of confidence and don't believe in anything beyond mindless destruction of norms, institutions and values in all forms.
I think what you're describing there is the Inner Directed personality type. Buchan, it seems, was an exemplar of that type:
"John Buchan was a published historian, lawyer, editor, war correspondent, government administrator, MP and director of a successful publishing house."
He's the reason I pray my lads don't want to go to uni. Eldest has decided he doesn't - says he doesn't want to be brainwashed and end up in debt. It's a pity because he'd make a great teacher and we need folk like him (normal, sane humans) in the profession....
Is Williams the product of his upbringing, society or his years in our left wing education system? 🤔
Good question... his Instagram photos saddened me a little. Felt more pity than anything. The boy is lost.
Deep thought for this early on a Tues. Is the decline of formal religion in this country causing our young folk to seek something else to fill the void?
I'd say yes. And the recent rise in religion amongst Gen Z suggests that, too.
The tragic naivety of cretins like Williams and his band of merry morons is that they really think they've found something worthwhile to believe in because until now they've probably only ever had to worry about their gcse results and whether they would ever outgrow their acne.
So their very self importance, picturing themselves on par with the poisonous Swedish dwarf (about whom I have no doubt he masturbates nightly) is so pathetic that it would be laughable if it wasn't so potentially dangerous .
Some might call them useful idiots or flying monkeys, but in their own minds ( or what is supposed to be a mind) they believe they ate making the world a better place. Or ay least ingratiating themselves with the powers-that-will-be if labour stay in for much longer.
That masturbation remark left a skid mark I’ll never be able to clean off on my brain.
Sorry about that. True though, innit?
An effing brilliant line, Pastrami!
🙂
You nailed it perfectly.