The Broken Clock

Guest Post by The Zman

Even the least educated among us knows something of ancient Egypt. For instance, there is a strain of Afro-centrism that insists the ancient Egyptians were black. They go through the list of pharaohs, pointing out how each one had distinctly African features. The “Hotep” thing grows out of this. The sort of people who attend a Juneteenth festivals will have the word “Hotep” attached to them in some way. Black business people will put this on their business card or website to signal to other blacks that they are down with the cause.

It is complete nonsense, of course, but the reason we know it is nonsense is the Eqyptians preserved their past in memorials of stone, often filled with hieroglyphs so precise that we can know the exact order of their rulers, four thousand years after their time. The Egyptians were so careful preserving their dead rulers that we have fully intact mummies in our museums. Using modern science, we now know how they looked in life and how they fit into the emerging genetic mosaic of the human family.

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The Egyptians had a strong sense of time and their place in the historical timeline. Time was an important part of Egyptian culture. They had crude water clocks and a surprisingly good calendar. Memorializing the dead has only one purpose and that is so future generations know their past and their place in the timeline. The Egyptians put so much effort into preserving their past is they naturally assumed they had a future. The names and deeds of those who came before them would have use to those in the future.

In contrast, the Dorians burned their kings, as well as any record of them. Other than a few references here and  there in later Greek writing, we don’t know the names of their kings. They did not see any reason to preserve this information because they lived in the moment. The past was meaningless, because the future was meaningless to them. Even in the age of Aristotle, the Greeks could not know if Leucippus, the man credited with inventing Atomism, was a real person or the dates of his life.

The Cult that rules over us has forever lectured against the past, claiming that it is what prevents us from reaching the glorious future. The future is never defined, it is just assumed, but the past is full of a detailed list of monsters. The rage-heads, running around defacing statues and demanding people named “Jefferson” change their names, are not making detailed arguments about who should and should not be memorialized. These are not people with a sense of the past. They are raging against the ideas of having a past.

The proof of this is they quickly moved from rebel flags to Confederate statuary to pretty much every white man who is now dead. There are calls to rename Disney World because old Walt was a Jew hater. The Red Sox are trying to erase the name of the man who founded the franchise. Tom Yawkey was a man of his age and racist by modern standards, but so was every other human on earth just a few years ago. The rage-heads are erasing the name, not the man, because they simply want to erase the past.

Returning to the Greeks, they have an expression that is important to keep in mind while the rage virus runs through our society. “A Society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.” The opposite of that is true. What we are seeing today is barren young women cutting down memorials because they remind them of the fact they have no future. The high presence of infertile women in these mobs is suggestive. One day, the cat will die and they will be alone.

It is this ahistorial nature of the American Left that is at the root of this incoherent and pointless violence. The Left organized a great PR campaign in response to Charlottesville, but they threw it all away in an orgy of violence over the last week. The reason is they are locked into the moment, a moment bound on all sides by a rage against nature. They can’t think about how today’s action will be viewed tomorrow, because there is no tomorrow for these people. All that matters is the catharsis.

Men have always contemplated their place in the timeline. The Irish used to say that the past is a nightmare from which they never awake. This was, of course, in relation to the troubles. Faulker had Quentin Compson, his character in The Sound and the Fury, obsess over his family’s past, which was a stand in for the Old South. The Compson family was the emblem of the old, post Civil War South. Quentin finally smashes his pocket watch, a family heirloom, snapping off the hands, before he drowns himself in the Charles River.

That’s the end for the Cult of Modern Liberalism. What has kept it going for generations was an easy to find collection of devils against which they could rally the true believers in a great cause. They have run out of devils and now they are digging up old graves, in an effort to bring back devils from the past. This rage will end in a great fire onto which they throw the old culture of America. Finally, when they have burned the last of it, they will throw themselves on the pyre, perhaps with some help from the rest of us.

 

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

They want to throw away Western Civilization – aka civilization.

hardscrabble farmer

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The oldest Egyptian mummies all feature red or blond hair and facial features that clearly do not resemble modern Africans. Not sure what that means, but it’s a fact.

Subwo
Subwo

To get a great understanding of the past read Z. Sitchin’s The Earth Chronicle series. Seven books starting with the 1976 “The 12th Planet”. Fascinating the way he read the Sumerian clay tablets and the revelations about mankind. I saw plenty of Hoteps in a Berlin museum last fall. I do like the theme in the Bubba Hotep comedy movie.

ragman
ragman

It means that negroes are generally FOS.

Dutchman
Dutchman

Negroes are more that ‘Full Of Shit”.

They have nothing to offer, so they invent.

Dutchman
Dutchman

We all know the Egyptians weren’t black. In order to be black there would have to been jungles / Popeye’s Chicken / SNAP. Pyramids with front porches and sofas.

All kidding aside, they were of mid-eastern descent. DNA testing of mummies verifies it.

No chimpanzee DNA there!
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God – an REI Ad poped-up. Some young nigger with Dreads and a Pack. No more REI for me.

rhs jr
rhs jr

I like you article but I think the Left has a vision of a future where they have destroyed Conservatives, confiscated our property and finally run every thing their way. Destroying history is their way of preventing people, esp the youth, from seeing their lies. The Left’s big problem is they destroy the producers and replaced them with their own Useless Idiots as they did in Rhodesia, Cuba, the USSR, Congo, Communist Cambodia, South Africa, Venezuela, etc and every US city or operation they dominate.

Captain Willard
Captain Willard

Zman’s best essay ever. I knew all my ball-busting would pay off.

I would only argue that the the problem with the Marxists among the Alt-Left is not, as Zman suggests, that they are ahistorical. Rather, the problem is that they worship History in place of God.

Their embrace of the historical dialectic, wherein they are always Just and Right, and their belief that arc of the universe “bends” toward their creation of Marxist heaven on Earth is what blinds them to the wisdom of the ages and the God of our fathers.

John Smith
John Smith

Who was it again, who said:
“If you give white or Asean people a huge pile of stones, you will eventually end up with cities and palaces (Vienna or Beijing e.g.), but if you give Africans cities and palaces, you will eventually end up with a huge pile of stones”.

Now I suddenly remember!
It was me who said that, some 30 years ago!
Unless somebody can provide me with an earlier similar statement.
In that case I sincerely apologize for blindly clawing back into my erudition.
(It didn’t get me kicked out of university at the time however ……… but nowadays…………)

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

The 4th turning rages on. The definition of hate-speak expands to include value judgment and virtue signalling. Language is undergoing a transformation or deformation; men are now cucks, women are bitches and dykes, boys are little mans, and girls are hos and sluts.

Gangsters demand respect but the working folks who by right ought to have respect get no respect at all. This generalized disrespect is turned inward and the people of Walmart exhibit this lack of self respect.

Good customs and manners that symbolized a healthy culture give way like a mountain under assault by a raging flood. The decadent culture is brought on by the rampant online pornography. Homosexuality and bestiality having gone mainstream, folks of every persuasion compete to publicize every perversion not seen since antediluvian times.

The country is undergoing a transformation as well. The decay of certain urban centers is spreading outwards. It begins with small steps, a statue here, a monument there. Pretty soon, synagogues and churches will be intolerable.

Then nighttime lighting will be intolerable and soon it will become a nightlife of rape, violence, theft and murder. The few remaining honest folks will cower in their homes after nightfall.

Hondo
Hondo

there is one type of racism no one ever talks about: that being ‘internal racism’. that is the racism where one hates his own race so much that they self destruct by refusing any meaningful employment, marriage, responsibility for their debts, or any effort to shed themselves of self indulging sympathy. we see this internal racism duplicated millions of times from coast to coast amongst the black population. they, as a whole, simply refuse to better themselves for no other reason than they have convinced themselves they are unworthy to walk upright and join the human race as equals. instead they choose to live in the shadows of violence, self pity, and government support. until they, and they alone, choose of their own free will to extinguish the rampant systemic internal racism that they cultivate so effectively, then how can they expect to ever extinguish external racism. thanks

GilbertS
GilbertS

There’s a hard rain coming and it’s going to wash these terdz away.

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