tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post7408034653134194752..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Mad Rant: Freedom in the Far EastMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-53933781221589582712012-12-16T02:52:33.027-06:002012-12-16T02:52:33.027-06:00True, yet we go on making the same mistakes over a...True, yet we go on making the same mistakes over and over because we refuse to look back or, more importantly, we refuse to admit when we made a mistake. China made a pretty big damn mistake with Chairman Mao and all his idiocity but at least, after about 60 million people died, Deng Xiaoping came along and said, that didn't work, lets try something a little different. In the west, two World Wars, the Soviet Union and we still refuse to learn the lesson. Heck, there are still people in Russia who think Stalin was a great guy. We just refuse to see the facts staring us in the face.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-25675320800980713372012-12-16T02:49:17.647-06:002012-12-16T02:49:17.647-06:00It is the same sickness, I suppose I feel a little...It is the same sickness, I suppose I feel a little more sorry for the Far East since it was imposed on them before anyone really knew what it was all about as opposed to the west where we fell for it, fought it off and then willingly and cheerfully embraced it again, assuring ourselves the whole time of how "enlightened" we are.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-55063581185827877082012-12-16T00:08:10.739-06:002012-12-16T00:08:10.739-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ulf Jarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13809295086187092020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-72569405125851802812012-12-14T18:33:30.244-06:002012-12-14T18:33:30.244-06:00Heck, its not even different from the story of how...Heck, its not even different from the story of how all Truth was lost after the Apostles Died in the Great apostasy, and men walked in Darkness and ignorance with no love or peace till the Prophet Joseph Smith found the Golden Plates in Palmyra, New York and restored the Gospel.<br /><br /><br />It's essentially the same kind of story, with the same emotional appeal and the same basic structure of contrasting the world before with the world after.<br /><br /><br />The story was simply modified to fit Asia. The Emperors and old Feudal Stem left them living in grinding poverty and in abject oppression where merely saying the worked thing would lad you to being beheaded! Luckily, the West has discovered Freedom and Reason and elevated us out of the darkness of superstition and subsistent living and made us see the world anew in the light of Rationality and Science! Oh and they gave us freedom by letting us realise true power rested in the people and giving us Basic Rights!<br /><br /><br />One must forget the past, in order to not see any alternative. This is that the way the world is now is the only way people ever see it. They may elect new leaders, or even overthrow an elected government by Revolution,but it will be replaced by another Elected Republic that is much the same. Its the only choice they know.<br /><br /><br />They either do not think of the past, or think of it in terms of backwardness, with Monarchy at best an older form of Government used by man in his infancy but which we have outgrown, and which has become obsolete against the newer, better Democratic system. At worst, its a tyranny thay held us back in the Dark Ages and prevented any real Growth till the explosion of Knowledge and Rationality in the 18th Century.<br /><br /><br /><br />To learn History is to dispel this mythology, and perhaps even to reject the Modern Religion. <br /><br /><br />It is like John Corigliano said, “The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. “. Or, Chesterton. “You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”<br /><br /><br />I think the Asians, as in the West, were basically told to ignore the past, and are only taught sketches of it before the 20th Century and Democracy took root. They don’t understand the ideologies and beliefs of their ancestors, nor know any detail, and no benefit is ever taught of the old ways, only how superior is the new.<br />ZAROVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668854596329493360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-64556728651085689892012-12-14T18:33:01.682-06:002012-12-14T18:33:01.682-06:00I often speak of my own ancestral Homeland, Englan...I often speak of my own ancestral Homeland, England, and Ireland to some extent. In this case though I think an article I read, from the Guardian no less, explains why we see there attitude we see.<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/13/english-bereft-of-history-lost-self-respect<br /><br /><br />Most people do not know the History of their own Peoples, or even their own Families. I've met people who didn't know what their own Grandparents did.<br /><br />What little History we learn is rooted in the Revolutionary Fairy Tale of evil tyrannical Kings who didn’t care about their people, struggling against noble Freedom Fighters rising up in the name of he People.<br /><br /><br />I maintain that, far from becoming Irreligious, modern Secularism is itself a Religion, and a large part of its doctrines are to support Republicanism. To them, the story of the American Revolution, and later the French Revolution, are the equivalent of the Story of Moses freeing his People, or of Jesus dying for our Sins, or even the Prophet Muhammad and his foundation of Islam. The ideas they promote predate the events, but this is seen as the Funding of the Religions in full.<br /><br /><br />This new Enlightenment Religion has successfully spread out and become the dominant Religion, in fact I'd say its the worlds largest Religion, for even those who have not embraced Atheism, or even still cling to traditional Faiths like Christianity or Buddhism or Islam, have really subordinated those Faiths to the modern Secular, Enlightenment ideology. In America, for example, a lot of Neo-Cons say they are Christian and want a return of Christian Values, but to them, the American Founding Fathers based the American Government on the Bible.<br /><br /><br />When I tell them that previous Generations of Christians were actually Monarchists, I am told I'm either wrong, or it was because they were afraid of the evil Kings slaughtering them, or because they were ignorant of the Bible due to it being banned or illiteracy. They can't comprehend how a Christian can support Monarchy when the Bible clearly condemns it. This despite the Kingship of Christ being central to the Christian Faith.<br /><br /><br />Asia is no different than the West. The Enlightenment Religion spread to them via the West, and took root. Everywhere it spreads, it spreads the same way. First by demonising the past, then by causing a sort of Historical and cultural amnesia to prevent it from being considered.<br /><br /><br />The past is usually depicted as a Time of oppression and Ignorance in which people lived in fear for their daily lives, had no Freedoms, and were no better than ignorant beasts. Then, Enlightenment cam and men’s minds opened to Truth, and they became Rational, and clawed heir way up. Thy realised they were oppressed, and tossed aside the evil Oppressions of the past to embrace freedom, which naturally means Republicanism. ( Or today Democracy.)<br /><br /><br />This narrative is no different from the narrative of Sin enslaving us till we find Salvation in Jesus, or the world being in Darkness till Muhammad was given the Koran by God.ZAROVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668854596329493360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-32159191516888798442012-12-14T16:34:23.595-06:002012-12-14T16:34:23.595-06:00Good to know. Probably most monarchists in America...Good to know. Probably most monarchists in America have considered or at least thought about moving at some point. I have as well but never firmly decided on where I would go if I did. However, unlike some, I am heavily attached to my home and native land (Texas), I live off my land and could not live so comfortably in another country and I live on land that was owned by my father, grandfather and greatgrandfather all owned and it would be nearly impossible for me to walk away from it.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-69174905524134163292012-12-14T16:28:57.931-06:002012-12-14T16:28:57.931-06:00I don't think you understand what a "Mad ...I don't think you understand what a "Mad Rant" is. These are not nor intended to be, detailed, "nuanced" studies but emotional tirades, in this case, a venting of frustration against those who think American liberals invented "freedom" and "rights". MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-71042278973175469862012-12-14T16:24:12.960-06:002012-12-14T16:24:12.960-06:00i freaking love u u think just like me!!!!!! in an...i freaking love u u think just like me!!!!!! in another note, have you ever considered moving to a Kingdom? i am from the Kingdom of Morocco but my family took me to USA for a better education but i will return soon as I get my HS Degree. I know you're from texas right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-59957218319234432682012-12-14T00:31:35.102-06:002012-12-14T00:31:35.102-06:00I think a more nuanced analysis will take into acc...I think a more nuanced analysis will take into account the big differences between China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.<br /><br />Firstly, China has had not one monarchy but numerous dynasties with periods of fragmentation and warfare. Korea on the other hand had been more stable, with longer-lived dynasties. Japan and Vietnam had a central monarchy whose powers were (especially Japan) limited by feudal lords.David Votoupalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580606716887515975noreply@blogger.com