Praise for British Culture

How Great Britain Is

I could swear the point of humanities programs at college is to destroy people’s minds. Did you know that there were plenty of “Romantic” paintings of how cool and glorious factories and other industrial structures were? That’s right, it wasn’t all longing for the past. Industrialism and Turner is inevitably how I think of English aesthetic, so have some Industrialist Turner art. That’s real, despite what your communazi professors may have told you.

As much as it feels almost trivial to do so, I’m going to continue posting aesthetics I think represent British culture for a while, because I am guided by the beauty of our propaganda.

Guided by the Beauty of One’s Philosophies (classicalfuturist.com)

I think we are in such dire straits largely because people don’t have any aesthetics to attach to much anything, except quite ugly ones, or ones that seem completely old and outdated at best. Yet there are a lot of old things that have gotten pushed to the side and essentially so they’re not boring despite being old. I think when those things come back out, that’s when they react with whatever’s already in people’s minds and hearts and something new forms as a product of the reaction.

I still tend to feel that my parents, and probably also yours, were completely unable to explain anything to us because they didn’t understand things themselves. The Greatest Generation became the technocrats (with a lowercase t, not any kind of movement,) but the Boomers in general (#NotAllBoomers) just assumed they couldn’t understand anything and took for granted that things were good because they were good for them, which leads to later generations now following the exact same logic and taking for granted that things are bad because things are bad for them, and at the extreme, becoming communazis who literally support Hamas and sometimes go off to join Hamas. One of the greatest targets of their ire is, of course, the British and especially the British Empire as well as the British Monarchy. Yet there’s a reason our culture came from the British and not from the Arabs or even the Germans, and the reason the British helped create Israel was largely just because the British were as good as any large group of people can get.

I really don’t care anymore if people try to cancel me for saying these things. What are they going to cancel me from? Living in the Dark Ages eating moldy cheese and worshipping idols? You can count me out! I used to always give thanks I was born in the Space Age and not the Dark Ages, but now I see it’s no longer the Space Age, the space program has not been functional in decades even if there are some shuttles that give it a vague semblance of existing. And with all the idols built in the public square we may as well be living in a new Stone Age or Babylon, dominated by tribalism, human sacrifice, irrational superstition, stupidity, recklessness, demon worship, and every other vice.

Wolx Are Reactionary - by Michaela McKuen - McKuen Musings (substack.com)

Goodbye and Good Riddance to College Humanities (substack.com)

As has been commented on before, the achievements that we call “the humanities” are not valuable because they are in the humanities, they are valuable because those societies were advanced technologically, scientifically, and in general in terms of real knowledge. Which brings us to the person who started British industrialism, Isaac Newton:

Artistic liberties liberally taken

Great Britain was miles ahead of anyone in Continental Europe because they were being bogged down by philosophy as well as “fundie” religious disputes. This lead Goethe to say he preferred England over Germany. That’s right, the national hero of Germany preferred Great Britain!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yes, that’s a real Andy Warhol painting of Goethe, plus a page from one of Goethe’s own optics books. Shows you just what kind of person Goethe really was.

Since this is a post about British culture and not German culture or Romantic science, that’s enough about Goethe, other than he really endorsed Great Britain hard, that’s how many problems he had with the Germany of his time. There’s a reason Britannia ruled and that’s because they were so industrious and practical, unlike most Germans as well as the rest of Continental Europe who was just looking for excuses to be lazy probably. Threatened people procrastinate on Twitter and in “fundie” churches and by inventing stupid philosophies.

Threatened People Procrastinate on Twitter (substack.com)

This upcoming holiday of Christmas, which it is today the eve of, especially makes me think of the relevance of Great Britain because Christmas is one of those things the Boomers couldn’t explain to us either. Lots of people still think Jesus was born in the spring, or that the point of Christmas is Christmas kitsch regardless of when Jesus was born, or that Christmas is pagan.

A McKuen Musings Advent - by Michaela McKuen (substack.com)

Jesus was Born on December 25th (substack.com)

No, Christmas is Not Pagan. Just Stop. — Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick (ancientfaith.com)

Not Offended by Christmas - Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf (substack.com)

One thing that the English also gave us is the other common forms of Protestantism besides Lutheranism. The English gave us Anglicanism, which looks very similar to Catholicism while having none of the baggage, which in turn gave us Methodism in the US, which was then exported back out to other countries such as Russia. One of the reasons Christmas is such a great holiday is that Britain and its former colonies have demonstrated quite clearly, in my opinion, that the sane, optimistic version of Christianity is the real one, and this is because they weren’t bogged down in all this backward religious philosophizing, yet they were still very much religious. That’s also the example I try to emulate and one of many things I celebrate this season. (Isaac Newton was also born on Christmas in the old calendar, making him relevant to the season as well.)

India, who is on the Moon while the US is back in the Dark Ages, is also still part of the Commonwealth! If you didn’t know that, now you know! English is also the main language of India like Indian is the main cuisine of Great Britain!

High Commission of India, London, United Kingdom : India - Commonwealth (hcilondon.gov.in)

Of course, there’s also all the more modern innovations the British gave us as well: the Beatles, prog rock, etc.

The greatest mythologization of Great Britain is, I think, not found even in the Arthurian myths or the British takes on Norse mythology, but in the much more modern genre of steampunk, bringing us back to the topic of industrialization and Romanticism. Steampunk is actually technically not fantasy, but science fiction, yet no one knows this because steampunk always includes all these mythical creatures and magic. I would say the reason for that is clear: because steampunk itself exists as a mythology of the great Victorian British Empire and its achievements. And this is a mythology I find much more inspiring than the currently trendy ones, which seem to amount to “let’s go back to the Dark Ages, we can do whatever we can get away with even if we’re all a lot dumber and sicker and less capable, and we don’t have to work as much because we’re all peasants or princes and princesses!”

Laziness truly is what drives many of these current trends in my observations, as well as probably environmental pollution, something which really took off at the fall of Rome and then continued after. I hope I’m not seeing a trend where the British Empire was the second Rome, its capitol moved around between America and maybe even India now, and we’re going back to the Dark Ages because we’re all sick from the industrial waste and maybe India won’t have Dark Ages because they’re the Eastern British Empire or something. If we can observe whatever trends are going on, I am hopeful we can also reverse them.

It might help Great Britain if they changed their national anthem to the good candidate that everyone wants anyway. Sure, lots of people sadly associate it solely with Republicanism but there was also a British King, King George V, who liked Jerusalem better than people mindlessly droning “God save the King!”

And now for the synth national anthem!

Everything about the “Jerusalem” song/poem does make me think William Blake meant the churches as the Satanic mills though, since that ties back into the point I made about Goethe’s preference for British culture and how the Continental Europeans were too into stupid philosophy that rotted their brains kind of like the Hamasniks and other communazis of today.

However, an even better British song for times like this would have to be the hymn, Abide With Me:

I actually heard an instrumental version of this playing outside a Starbucks on the University of Oklahoma campus after I was playing it repeatedly, even though it’s certainly not really a song about Christmas. It’s a song about God, however, and very much has tones that are reminiscent of this season, as well as what many students and professors feel about the upcoming finals (I know I was listening to “Abide With Me” and singing it off and on to try to get the Lord’s aid for my finals.) The darkness deepens as we go further into winter, yet we ask for help from the Lord. That’s very Christmas-y in an indirect way.

This was also famously one of the songs that was played by the British during WWI, but that doesn’t make it anti-German or anything. The British and Germans also came out of the trenches during WWI to celebrate Christmas with each other, seriously.

WWI's Christmas Truce: When Fighting Paused for the Holiday | HISTORY

Back then, people could celebrate Christmas with people who they were conscripted to shoot at. Now, people have difficulty even getting along with their relatives. Let us all get together this Christmas and try to get along and think about how great our culture is among other things like especially Jesus who is the reason for the season. The greatness of our civilization is connected to Jesus anyway, and I think people forgetting that is a lot of what’s making everyone turn against each other and turn bad. At the very least remember love, though God is love anyway.