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The Americano – No Truth, Just Flitting in the Wind

The Americano is a sight to behold. He gets upset at nothing. The banks foreclose upon his house and his family is out on the streets? No problemo, he jingle mails the keys to the bank and crawls into a cardboard box.

He has gays parading in front of his children at the public school, no problem, he thinks, “I don’t judge anybody!”

Food prices go up 20% in a year while his earnings decline? No problem at all, he is glad to see those in power grow even more fantastically wealthier. He thinks, “I’ll get there some day!”

His civilization is destroyed right before his eyes? Of course that’s not a problem. He thinks, “The third world is not so bad, everyone’s equal!”

He gets home from work and settles into the well worn groove of his couch. He turns on the tv and turns off his brain. He swallows the indoctrination, learns to repeat it like a parrot. He is content. He is a great jackass. He is the perfect Americano.

The Americano is a weak, sniveling fool, willing to take any beating from life. Very few have firm morals to stand on, and so are swayed by the changes of modern tides. He is taught to accept everything, and never stand for truth and beauty. If he were a video game character he would only have one move – cower.

An Interesting Perspective From a Wise Old Lady on Her Funeral, and Getting to Heaven

The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy

I heard a story recently about an old lady who told her priest that at her funeral Mass she didn’t want him to say she was a good person or was going straight to Heaven. Why?

Her wishes go against conventional thinking. Most, at their funeral would want everyone to go on about how good they were, how kind, how charitable, the great legacy they leave behind. How they are assuredly going straight to Heaven.

How to Turn Away From Money

Thoreau made the perfect pencil, then never made another

Regarding society, I keep thinking back to Dylan’s song – Everything is Broken. What other way is there to describe society? Everything actually is broken. It is almost pointless to talk about how broken everything is. Why? Because there is no firm philosophical footing to stand on. Should money be made by the market? Sure. But that’s not how it is and not how it’s going to be for the foreseeable future. Best just to hunker down, stand up for what is right in whatever way you can, take your family to church. Prepare for more brokenness. None of these problems are going to get ‘fixed’ in any meaningful way. Society is headed to catastrophe, and then after that something else can be built. Hopefully in a way which follows the light of Christ.

Modern man has had his hurrah. He built his skyscrapers, his great monuments on the “glowing wisp of vapor” and now it is time for the next chapter. I hope the next chapter is based on the principles of Christ, but it will probably more of the human same – power for a few, great slavery for everyone else. Modern man chased money, false idols, ignorant economic theories. He has been ripped off of so much in life that is great – morals, values, good living, family, praying to God, meditating on the life of Christ. He has gotten sports icons, economic theory based on catastrophically foolish ideas such as printing fiat to prosperity, and heavy debt load as the means to true wealth. This has allowed a great false boom, a hollowed mountain, giving the illusion of lasting power, but as fragile and fleeting as the wind. And so many bought it, built fortunes with it, spent their whole life in pursuit of that which is nothing.

I remember a story of Thoreau, whose father had a pencil-making business. Thoreau set out to improve the pencil. He succeeded. Then he stopped. Moved out to Walden pond, wrote in the mornings and wandered in the afternoons, moving forward with life. Now, the modern man, if he had devised a clever new device, he would contract with a factory in Thailand, or China, to produce barrels full of pencils. He would hire an ocean going shipper to bring them into america, truckers to truck them across the country, retail stores to properly place and sell his wares. He would grind out, day after day, the business of business, and increasing profits, decreasing expenses. He would do his bookkeeping and taxes. He would have an attorney on standby. His life would revolve around his pencil business. He might grow rich, divorce his wife, buy a yacht and get drunk on it. He would get new teeth as he aged, maybe expensive injections into his face to look younger. In short, he would be a fool. This is why I think Thoreau will be read forever. No one will care about warren buffet in 1000 years, just as no one cares about JP Morgan only 100 years later. But the people of the future will remember Thoreau.

Which reminds me of one of Thoreau’s great passages. In a week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, he goes sailing with his brother. The writing is some of the best I’ve ever read – vibrant and joyful – maybe because he is writing about time he spent with his brother. I looked recently to find that part of the book and didn’t find it. I will have to reread it. Thoreau was not interested in increasing the profit margins in the pencil making business. He was interested in sailing with his brother. This is life.

“Ain’t no use jiving, ain’t no use joking, everything is broken.”

But it’s just another beautiful June night in Florida. Hot and balmy. Sweaty and perfect. The sweet sweet summer. Here’s hoping you’re sailing on the water with a brother, loving your great wife, kissing your sweet children and praying to the good Lord above.

Ukraine, Russia, Fatima: What Is Heaven Telling Us?

This is a fascinating talk by Father Chris Alar MIC on many topics. The first is the Red Army invading Poland after WWI. “Lenin wanted to take the communist revolution worldwide.” So he started with Poland. No one came to their aid. Poland was outnumbered 10 to 1 and looked set for easy defeat. “The entire country, led by the bishops, began prayer, began adoration, began eucharistic processions.”

The Goal of Life – Not Money, but Spiritual Enlargement and Enrichment

The Rabid desire for more fake fiat bucks, endless amounts of fake wealth…the great illusion

I see so many toil endlessly for money. And though I can appreciate the desire for money and having money – for it can buy freedom from necessity, I cannot understand the endless grubbing for it. If someone has a million they want 2. If someone has a billion they want another. I heard Rick Rule say recently that he and his wife can live the rest of their lives in comfort, never having to sweat again. They have more money than they need. Then he said, “I want more.”

The Beauty of The Divine Mercy Image

There is so much beauty in The Divine Mercy Image. From St. Faustina, who had it painted from her memory from when Jesus visited her, to the great words He said: “Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.”

From thedivinemercy.org, here:

Helping the Homeless Experience the Dignity of Life, in a Simple Way

I know a man who volunteers at a St. Vincent de Paul Society center that helps the homeless. They give them food, wash their clothes, provide showers, etc. I used to look down on places like this. But thinking recently, trying to put myself in the shoes of a homeless man, I thought it is probably pretty easy to lose the dignity of life. Living in squalor most of the time, begging for money, getting food wherever you could find it. It would be easy to become a barbarian.

Are You Overly Critical of Those Around You?

This is an excerpt from a book by Joseph Breig. Find the full text here.

THE FAMILY AND THE CROSS

THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND THEIR RELATION TO FAMILY LIFE

By Joseph A. Breig

III-JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME

THE FATHER WHO has never reached the heights in business, industry or a profession is often the loudest in condemning his son for not making a brilliant record in school. The mother who bores all her friends stiff is not infrequently the first to criticize her daughter for not excelling in social graces.

Mortgage Rates Are Exploding Higher

There’s no way the rise in mortgage rates can maintain this trajectory. If it does, the housing market will collapse post haste. If housing goes, everything goes.

Either way, massive changes are coming to America that will result in the decline of everyone’s living standards. Look for war with Russia to divert attention away from economic collapse in the homeland.

(Chart from Zerohedge)

The Fools Run the Show in America

Their names are writ in water

The last several presidents are but placeholders, whose names are writ in water, forever to be forgotten. Like Augustus Claudius the 3rd, they never did anything for the people. They never did anything worthwhile, merely carrying on the same imbecilities of the past. History will forget them.