I don’t like going to the movies. Too much hassle, too many commercials and previews, too expensive, and 90% of the movies are worthless drivel, SJW inspired crap, or government buoyed propaganda. Last weekend was my wife’s birthday and she wanted to see a movie. When she shockingly suggested a western, I reluctantly agreed. So my wife and one of my sons got in the car and headed to an old Franks theater in Montgomeryville that only charges $8.50. I had seen a brief review of Hostiles on-line and saw it got a decent rating on rotten tomatoes. I was looking forward to being mildly entertained.
The next two hours and fifteen minutes of this dark, somber, violent, morally ambiguous treatise about the old west cannot be described as enjoyable. But I did find it riveting and thought provoking. Christian Bale, as Captain Joseph Blocker, mournfully carries out his duties without a single smile crossing his bearded countenance for the entire movie. The tone, atmosphere and message of this film reminded me of my favorite western and subject of the final part of my five part series based on Clint Eastwood movies – Unforgiven. One of the soldiers in Hostiles even has dialogue almost matching Will Munny’s foreboding exchange at the end of Unforgiven:
“That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.”
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It was clear to me Scott Cooper, the director, was paying tribute to Eastwood and his Academy Award winning revisionist western classic, with his dark cinematography, introspective atmosphere, and themes of good, evil, heroism, aging, duty and courage. Movies in this age of shallowness, disinformation, and fake news rarely broach subjects like the treatment of Native Americans in the 1800s.
The usual superficial Hollywood treatment paints a black and white picture of good and evil; right and wrong; good guys and bad guys, when the true picture is a swirling surreal portrait of opacity and moral relativism. The reason Unforgiven is considered a classic is its honest portrayal of the brutality, murder, reputation, heroes, villains, and the blurred line between good and evil.
Hostiles tells the story of Captain Joseph Blocker who is on the verge of retirement after decades of fighting Indians, with a reputation as the most relentless, brutal and unforgiving Indian fighter in the U.S. Cavalry. By order of the president he is tasked with returning a paroled and dying of cancer Cheyenne Chief – Yellow Hawk – to his home Valley of the Bears in Montana so he can be buried in his birthplace. He initially refuses the assignment because of his blind hatred of all Indians and specifically Yellow Hawk.
During his decades of fighting Indians, he found Yellow Hawk to be his equal in murderous brutality and disdain for his enemies. He personally slaughtered four of Blocker’s closest friends. His colonel threatens him with court martial and the loss of his government pension if he does not carry out his orders. Always the good soldier, he obeys and leads his hand-picked men as they begin their mission.
Shortly after undertaking their mission they come across a burnt out homestead where a Comanche renegade war party had killed and scalped the patriarch, shot and killed his three children and left a shattered wife who had hidden in the woods to escape slaughter. The stoic, gruff, hard hearted Blocker makes the executive decision to escort this broken woman to safety, the soldier displaying a degree of compassion that almost renders him unrecognizable.
The dangerous journey to Montana becomes a metaphor for Blocker’s passage from blind hatred to trust, understanding and retrieval of his humanity. After a lifetime of barbarity and animosity, killing without remorse because he didn’t see his enemy as human, Blocker gradually gains perspective and empathy.
After his unit is attacked by the same murderous Comanche war party and he loses some of his few soldiers, Blocker reluctantly removes the chains from Yellow Hawk, who gives his word to help defend their small contingent. They prove their worth and allegiance by sneaking out of camp in the middle of the night and slaughtering the Comanche warriors and then returning. Blocker silently acknowledges this act, beginning to shift his preconceived beliefs about Yellow Hawk and his Cheyenne brethren.
A grudging respect between mortal enemies develops as the journey and metaphor intersect and the violence of the old West continues unabated. The line between heroes, villains, bravery, cowardice, murder and self-defense blurs, as the concept of morality is distorted by the lawlessness of an unforgiving world. The old West was far more complex than portrayed by the Hollywood entertainment complex.
Despite a well-crafted film and an Academy Award winning lead, I believe this western will not connect with Americans and draw a large audience because we are in the midst of a Fourth Turning. Movies and books become blockbusters when they reflect the current mood of the country. The violent backdrop of Hostiles fits into the current paradigm, but its message of compromise, understanding, and reconciliation is inconsistent with the current disposition of the American populace.
Americans are in a fighting mood. Just as physical altercations broke out on the floors of Congress in the 1850s and compromise became impossible, the current animosity in the political realm has crossed the point of no return. Self-proclaimed moderates have no say in the current poisoned partisan atmosphere. The pure hatred and vitriolic loathing of opponents for control of this country has reached a breaking point.
Hostile is the perfect description for the factions clashing for control of the American Empire. The last week revealed the Deep State conspiratorial plot to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency. A sitting president, his high level lackeys in the FBI and DOJ, crooked Hillary, and the left wing propaganda spewing media, colluded to steal the presidential election – essentially committing treason. A few years ago only obscure bloggers used the term Deep State to describe the shadowy wealthy interests pulling the strings behind the scenes and ruling over the peasants through a combination of fear, disinformation, surveillance, propaganda, and control of the legislative, judicial and executive branches.
Now there is irrefutable proof Edward Bernays was telling the truth in 1928 regarding an invisible government manipulating the habits and opinions of the ignorant masses to benefit their own self interests. The level of control and manipulation has reached a tipping point. The internet, obscure bloggers, and a small but vocal irate minority setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of critical thinking citizens has foiled the plans of Deep State traitors.
The unanticipated election of Trump has unleashed a tsunami of civil strife, plots to undermine the presidency, exposing the corporate fake news media as co-conspirators of the Deep State, and an out of control surveillance state that makes Orwell’s 1984 Big Brother seem like a piker. Make no mistake about it, there is a civil war ongoing in this country and the outcome is very much in doubt.
The three critical factors driving this Fourth Turning continue to be civic decay, global disorder and debt. As described, civic decay is accelerating at an astounding rate, hurtling the country towards a Constitutional crisis. Every day new evidence of surveillance state misdeeds feeds the rage building among critical thinking non-partisan Americans. The American military empire is actively engaged in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and other countries around the globe. Turkey is at war in Syria with our Kurd allies.
Our Al Qaeda backed rebels are fighting Assad and Russia. The Ukraine is a powder keg, with our installed lackey president pushing for conflict with Russia. Israel and Hamas are on the verge of war. Iran and Saudi Arabia are fighting a proxy war in Yemen. The Korean peninsula could explode at any moment. Global disorder is mounting in intensity and dimension. America’s belligerency, policing the world, provoking Russia and China into an alliance, and pursuing the agenda of neocons and the military industrial complex, pushes the world ever closer towards a global conflict.
The third core element of this Fourth Turning has thus far been the component temporarily concealing the foulest aspect of this ongoing crisis. The Deep State and their financiers at the Fed and Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks have propped up a debt saturated failing financial system with tens of trillions in additional debt. By artificially suppressing interest rates; rigging stocks, currencies and precious metals through the shadowy derivatives market and dark pools; and providing free money to Wall Street bankers, they have purposely created the largest bubble in world history in stock, bond and real estate markets simultaneously. The “Everything Bubble” puts all other bubbles to shame. Just the slowing of debt creation is beginning to reveal cracks in the system.
The average American has been led to believe the current bull market is due to an improving economy or some other such tripe. Their delusions are built on a vaporous foundation of unpayable debt and relentless propaganda spewed by the corporate media. This debt based paradigm is mathematically unsustainable. A 1% increase in interest rates blows the entire Ponzi scheme sky high – and rates have begun to rise. The ten year Treasury breaching 2.8% last week led to a 1,100 drop in the Dow in the blink of an eye. When greed turns to fear, look out below.
Buy the dip says the Wall Street shill “experts” who are paid to tout stocks. Debt is still the key focal point which will propel this Fourth Turning towards its climax. Leverage is a beautiful thing during a crack up boom, as speculators who believe they are brilliant investors appear to get money for nothing. During the inevitable bust the highly leveraged “investing experts” see their faux wealth evaporate in an instant, while the debt remains and must be serviced.
I wonder how the investing geniuses who bought bitcoin at $18,000 with their credit card a few weeks ago are feeling now with bitcoin below $8,000. It appears this fragile fake financial house of cards, built on a titanic mountain of dodgy debt, is wobbling and the slightest gust of wind or 25 basis point increase in interest rates endangers all of the Deep State machinations to prop up their failing social order. When average Joes and Janes see their 401ks obliterated for the third time in the last two decades, they will be enraged and susceptible to the ravings of the latest politician lunatic savior. When people lose it all, they will lose control of their reason, and all hell will break loose.
Once financial hardship sweeps over the land, the civic decay and global disorder will fuse with the anger of the populace and thrust this crisis into a violent dimension. The use of debt by the Deep State ruling class has disguised the rot in the system, but will turbocharge the downside as financial collapse and universal dismay with those in power leads to violence, bloodshed and war.
If you think the current environment is hostile, you haven’t studied history to understand the death and destruction wrought during the climaxes of the last two Fourth Turnings. Millions will die before this is over. We are exiting the eye of the hurricane and the risk of catastrophe is high. You can feel the swelling peril in your bones. Get your affairs in order and get ready for the next phase of this crisis.
“The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
I wish this had started playing out earlier. The new highs will make the lows just that much more crushing for the more optimistic.
The US Government is deeply flawed. Morality has fled our country, and with it went the values that built the greatest nation the world has ever seen: thriftiness, hardwork, freedom….and rebellion. Americans have always possessed a stubbornness that rivaled a Missouri Mule, doggedly pursuing their own happiness, and secure in the knowledge that they were imbued with unalienable rights by their creator.
The last 100 years have torn all that away, replacing our humanity with machines, our thrift with debt, and our freedoms with shackles. Decades of rot and corruption piling on top of bright flashing lights and scientifically perfected addictive foods have built a pyramid of wanton debauchery that will fall hard when it inevitably does.
A nation most focus first on the liberty of its people. To place anything ahead of that is to invite folly.
I’m not prepared for a Fourth Turning. I doubt anyone truly is. But I think I’m ready for it. Know what I mean?
Thanks for the articles Jim. They mean a lot to me and those like me.
” the greatest nation the world has ever seen ”
ha ha ha ha ha ha you should run for office.
This gal hates freedom!
Anonymous, You’re full of shit!
This country was begotten by people that brought the best out in others in countries the world over. The fact those other people’s tried so desperately to mimic our founders great success speaks volumes.
This was not only the greatest country but was and still is a blessed one.
Consider how the United States revolution occurred in a period of time that’s akin to a space capsules odds and finite window of opportunity for reentry back to earth’s orbit. Today’s revolutions are snuffed out in a weeks time or less.
If I wasn’t so sick of this pervasive attitude of yours, shared by so many others, I might’ve suggested a book or two.
Huh? She started coming around after I did. I take it an incident happened that I missed in absense, which could explain that, but barrinhg that STFU.
I agreed with most comments.
Indeed the “Everything Bubble” has most likely reached its peak, it’s all downhill from here right? I’m not sure if the breaks can handle the coming steep decline, it is a long way down, but I’ll be holding on for dear life. Getting your affairs in order is good advice, the next phase of this crisis is underway.
That really was not very cheerful. I don’t know if I want to see a movie which brought on such a dismal opinion piece.
Oh, this was NOT a movie review?
Well, then, I suppose I will just point out that just one week ago my husband and I decided to position a small piece of our retirement (my residual IRA from my gubment contracting career) to be able to invest after the next correction. Surely, simply moving the money from one account to another would not cause the market to crash?
It did. You got it here… the entire market is rigged against me. Period. Dot. Me.
IOMEGA went bust against me. Ascend Communications. Ditto. JNJ did not begin to climb UNTIL I sold all the shares accumulated in Joey’s DRIP account. Ditto PNG. Let’s not discuss the silver sitting in the pond nor the other items here there and everywhere around this part of the countryside. All about me.
You may well have triggered the current market swoon, but I take full credit for the dive in cryptos. Tried to buy a dip and they just kept on dippin’.
Interesting to see where this goes. Cryptos may have another major run in their future, when scared money comes flying out of equity markets–and it may not. I have enough exposure to be happy if they skyrocket and not to much to worry if they go to zero.
Since we just moved 1/3 of my IRA, we still have 2/3 to put into cryptos! How about that?
A few hundred might be wise (it’s either one hell of a dip or just the road to their annihilation)….2/3 of your eggs…not so much.
Speculating with money you can’t afford to lose might not be a wise decision.
“Tried to buy a dip and they just kept on dippin”. LOL! Is that original Drud? I’m going to steal it. I will give you credit, though.
That’s where I’m at with cryptos. Can afford to lose what I have invested, but will do well if they fly. We shall see.
As far as the article goes, I agree this country is in no mood to compromise. I’m certainly not. All compromise has been one sided, as in the right has devolved into progressivism light(at best). Once you realize that the left seeks total victory, you realize compromise is counterproductive. There is no grand bargain to be struck that will make them happy. They’ll keep pushing. Unlike the left, I don’t seek to rule anything. I just want to be left alone. But I’m tired of watching my freedom and future be sold down the river by these people.
I agree we are well past the point of no return. I find myself torn between wanting this market to finally collapse like it needs to, and apprehension over what this will cause. Scared people, especially large groups of scared people, don’t tend to make smart or rational decisions. I used to believe that burning down the old edifice would be the course towards greater freedom, but now I’m not so sure. People are just too stupid. Rather than rightfully blaming the government/fed as the cause of most of their problems, they will instead look to it for solutions.
Maggie….prob won’t see this, but….
On a Daily chart of your ticker symbol, only buy when an up pivot occurs and it is confirmed with two green positive bars creating the up pivot.
After entry, place your stop loss a little below the low of that up pivot.
IOW, the right hand side of the chart has to show an up posture.
thanks for the tip, but the mention of the move was simply because we absolutely are not invested in this right now and my claim to have “caused” the drop is because we just decided to position some of my last IRA not moved into land or oak logs for investing AFTER the correction.
We haven’t put a dime into this stuff for a long, long time.
“Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.”
At what point does that upward ratchet become so extreme that there is no possible recovery? What does that look like?
It’s playing out just as many of us have seen for way too many years.
It truly is dismal. Too bad it’s reality. Never has humanity had such an intertwined existence with such almost unimaginable technological advances, coupled with such wide-spread depravity and insanity. What explodes/implodes, from whatever catalyst, cannot possibly be contained within national boundaries. And once THAT tide starts ripping…words fail. There’s a lot of places where existence is still quite pleasant, but the overall global aspect is not good, and getting worse every day.
Any optimism I have is purely short-term, or spiritual. I shudder at what this world is going to go through. I, at least, have an assurance that keeps me from troubled sleep or fear. My days are generally beautiful. I’ll deal with whatever comes the best I can. I have no disillusion that I have some free pass, just because. Nobody knows 2 minutes into the future, only educated guesses at best.
Each to his/her own. But at least do whatever you do with open eyes.
Or you can, as Rock Hound said, “Embrace the horror.”
My advice; laugh when you can, be serious when you have to.
Damn ,now you got me interested in seeing another Hollywood movie .I like movies about the old West.
I hope this coming collapse will save what’s left of our nation.Maybe white Americans will be woke from their comfortable live styles just enough to realize they are in danger of losing everything they have ever known including their birth right. If that happens then maybe there will be a possibility for a real change in and who Controls our institutions.
The movie did $10 million opening week, $5.5 in the 2nd week. It will do $3 million this week and then disappear into oblivion. It cost $39 million to make, so it will be considered a flop. The mood of reconciliation and understanding is non-existent in the country, so no one wants to see that message in their movies.
I almost went to that movie this past weekend – had I read your review I would have made it there for sure – it sounds intriguing.
Admin,
Thanks for the thoughtful movie review, I’m going to see it this week.
As for the rest of the 4th Turning info, you’ve once again hit the nail on the head, like you’ve done over and over again.
Keep it up, it helps keep us all more sane.
Thanks
CNBC ratings will soar. They always do when the market tanks. People enjoy watching other people lose money. Don’t know why but its true.
For a good western, try “Good For Nothing”
“Missouri Breaks”.
‘Legends of the Fall’
Dow down 1000
Whoa.
Down1300
Down 1600
Plunge Protection Team is operational. Dow down 850
Proletariat Propaganda Transference Detraction and Distracting
NOT!!!
The Deep State fires back.
Great article, I’ll post it tonight. My son was an extra in Hostiles.
There can’t be anyone on TBP who’s surprised by what’s happening in the stock market.
I caused it.
It’s all about you, Maggie. I have to use the boob for attention.
All women do. Maggie shamelessly posted a selfie featuring her knockers.
Maggie,
In that case, expect to be hunted down by retired government employees.
An Online Debate With An Atheist As The World Turns, And The Market Crashes
Peace,
Andrea Iravani
We sold a buncha stocks two weeks ago at the high, and bought a pair of snowmobiles and all the gear that goes with them. I’m riding into this fourth turning on a nice new 2 stroke. Braap lives matter.
Don’t you know 2-strokes cause Globull Warming?
That’s what the gubmint says about my LawnBoy lawn mower, which I love.
Enjoy your new toys with this winter’s abundant snow and cold!
speaking of braap lives matter,today would have been trayvon martin’s 23rd birthday–
please pause for a moment of silence and ask yoself how you can make the world a better place so that more trayvons aren’t shot down in their prime while walking home from a scout meeting by a hyped up,scared white boy–
remember,he could have been your son–
Hey, there’s that number 23 again. Trayvon would have been 23 today. I’m sure someone finds great meaning in that.
Not me.
I was getting nervous:
Quinny was trotting down the moderate path. Thankfully it was only a feint before firing up the fourth turning blow torch
Fortunately, I have my affairs in order. I plan on joining the marauding horde.
Just don’t plan on cross the Castor River anywhere near Marquand. We will be watching the bridges.
Affinity groupies hostile aversion to other affinity groupies may be AG’s most salient aspect. ‘Authentic’ against begets faux for, & the suckers pucker up in wild, savage, abandon.
Skinny ,you must plan on getting Shot . Meathead!
Thanks Admin.
And here I was about to buy the dip. Should I hang on to all my $18,000 bitcoin, or just cut my losses now? (Sarcasm off, just in case there are any goobers reading this that cannot discern sarcasm).
FFS – Hostiles sucked major ass. The noble savages screwed over by the white devil, overcome their treatment to save their enemies… Hostiles sucked. I love westerns, like C. Bale, etc., but Rosamund Park is the worst actress alive – check that, worst actress evah. W-O-R-S-T… she totally ballbusted the first installment of Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise.
How could you be riveted? Seriously. As I sat there into the second act, I knew it wasn’t going to get better. Bad movie only getting some props b/c the overall lineup of movies is horrible & white Merika loves hating itself.
On a scale of Zero to Four Chubbies; four chubbies being best, I give it marginally 1/2 a chubby for the setting and backdrops.
Another, they’re not all like that “minority” uplift piece?
No thank ya.
That swill is beginning to stink.
American Indians NEVER COOPERATED. The real reason they all have their own reservation is cause they WOULD KILL EACH OTHER if they were all put on one. THERE ARE NO ANCESTRAL LANDS. Most of these Indians were migratory and would follow their food when it moved. Few had any “Tribal Lands”. That’s Anti-White Propaganda.
Do Indians help each other now? NOPE. ONLY “THEIR” TRIBE AND NO OTHER. Keep that in mind Kemosabe…
Have you ever spent any time in Oklahoma [ also known as ‘the nations’ ] ?
Trump and his people are at war with the corrupt deep state. They control a lot of information and it will help them take some of the bad actors down. But I’m not so sure they control the markets. If I was Trump I’d quit tweeting about the economy and just get busy doing what needs to be done.
My feeling, given the complexity of it all, is this is going to get worse before it gets better. Look out below.
Dr. you are mistaken. Plains indians yes; They were always mobile. However the natives east of the Mississippi were homebodies.
Actually the Indians were constantly having tribal battles. Their fortifications left much to be desired. These were not “wars” but tribal conflicts that NEVER ENDED. The “peace pipe” is a Hollywood contrivance and NEVER EXISTED. Indians did not know what peace is at all.
The Indians would most often raid each other at night and kill enemy warriors while they slept. This caused the Indians near the enemy to have to run often. Famine and disease could cause whole tribes to be massacred. The Pilgrims found an empty spot that a tribe used to be on. Historians say a disease or plague was responsible. They often leave out that those Indians were MASSACRED when they were sick and not killed off by the disease itself.
Indians never made peace. There were never any stable borders to be mapped. Indians never used maps. I suppose they never needed them due to no stable borders to actually map out.
Ever?
Oh yes, the natives were such nice people. Never hurt a fly. Would never consider cannibalism. Oh, and if you read this, you will see evidence of “CLIMATE CHANGE”
“Warfare
A color picture of a large sandstone cliff dwelling
Oak Tree House
During the Pueblo III period (1150 to 1300), Mesa Verdeans built numerous stone masonry towers that likely served as defensive structures. They often incorporated hidden tunnels connecting the towers to associated kivas.[43] Warfare was conducted using the same tools the Mesa Verdeans used for hunting game, including bows and arrows, stone axes, and wooden clubs and spears. They also crafted hide and basket shields that were used only during battles.[44] Periodic warfare occurred on the mesa throughout the 13th century.[28] Civic leaders in the region likely attained power and prestige by distributing food during times of drought. This system probably broke down during the “Great Drought”, leading to intense warfare between competing clans.[45] Increasing economic and social uncertainty during the century’s final decades led to widespread conflict. Evidence of partly burned villages and post-mortem trauma has been uncovered, and the residents of one village appear to have been the victims of a site-wide massacre.[46]
Evidence of violence and cannibalism has been documented in the central Mesa Verde region.[47][lower-alpha 3] While most of the violence, which peaked between 1275 and 1285, is generally ascribed to in-fighting amongst Mesa Verdeans, archeological evidence found at Sand Canyon Pueblo, in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, suggests that violent interactions also occurred between Mesa Verdeans and people from outside the region.[28] Evidence of the attacks was discovered by members of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center during the 1990s. The assaults, which also occurred at the national monument’s Castle Rock Pueblo, were dated to c. 1280, and are considered to have effectively ended several centuries of Puebloan occupation at those sites.[48] Many of the victims showed signs of skull fractures, and the uniformity of the injuries suggest that most were inflicted with a small stone axe. Others were scalped, dismembered, and cannibalized. The anthropophagy (cannibalism) might have been undertaken as a survival strategy during times of starvation.[49] The archeological record indicates that, rather than being isolated to the Mesa Verde region, violent conflict was widespread in North America during the late 13th and early 14th centuries, and was likely exacerbated by global climate changes that negatively impacted food supplies throughout the continent.[50]”
https://infogalactic.com/info/Mesa_Verde_National_Park
Oh, and if you have never been there, go..if you are ever in the area. It’s beautiful.
As I write a suit representing myself and other offspring of the Solutreans is being filed to foreclose on all of you who are on our sacred lands…..that especially includes the Indian squatters . We were here first…not the Indians or Asians…or what ever they are.
Now on a serious note: Jim…excellent post….just proves my point …buy more ammo.
Ammo and barter goods like whiskey and sanitary items like toilet paper , baby wipes and medical supplies and a few cases of MRE’s
and mags…lots of mags…and gear to carry them on the move….tape two together for your introduction….maybe you won’t get interrupted…
And do not forget some Junk Silver to enhance and augment your barter transactions. A modest amount, perhaps just a few pounds . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_silver
Since you will be living and traveling light ( gotta be mobile ! ! ) you will protect your junk by cunningly hiding it, and by using your guns´n´bullets.
SnowieGeorgie
Mary…I hope you know what you wrote pisses off the Indians and tarnishes their 100% peace loving,salt of the Earth history .
Buck, so solly.
Dr Doom…..the Indian’s will curse what you wrote. Of course the Crow Creek Massacre proves your point .
There is no escape , dig in and hold on the shit is about to hit the fan ! Yippie ya ky yo mutha fucka …
Another excellent post, Admin!
I thought I was ready for just about anything in this Fourth Turning until I started reading Selco’s blog articles. He survived the war in Bosnia and one year under complete siege in stone-age conditions where good people did evil things just to survive. Those who didn’t survive died horrible deaths and those who survived were never the same again.
https://shtfschool.com/blog/
If you’re up to it, start by reading his early 2011 articles and be prepared to get really depressed.
I was eagerly anticipating seeing Hostiles, as I live in MT. Well to say I was disappointed is an understatement. How do you ride from New Mexico to MT and not see a single animal, much less hunt one for dinner. (Must have been the movie budget). All of the characters were simply SJW cardboard cut outs. The Noble savages, the evil white men who actually apologize to the Noble savages and offer them tobacco and then kill themselves. The most evil MT ranchers stealing Noble Savages sacred burial grounds. Even the Comanches, arguably the most savage of all are cartoonish and offed easily by the Noble Savages. The rapprochement between Capt Blocker and Yellow Hand is not inconceivable but was handled at an amateurish level. Let’s not forget the token Buffalo Soldier, also a Noble person, ever faithful despite all the horrible things whitey had done to him. The weak tension between at the beginning is too easily overcome. There was indeed a great opportunity here to do a cavalry Unforgiven, where the PTSD impaired troopers make one final journey through Hostile territory fighting demons internally and externally. But that is not this movie.
How about a little of the grand strategy…destroy the buffalo, making it impossible for the plains indians to gather in large numbers and then the US Cavalry destroyed them in detail. Except for that Little Big Horn thing.
See many native Americans as I do, they are very impressive physically….huge many of them, I can only imagine what a 6’4″ Sioux warrior looked like to a 5’6″ 125lb Irish trooper! Godzilla. Of course the native Americans were savages and our manifest destiny move west was for the times much more genteel than most. Ask the central and south Americans how they feel about the Conquistadors……you can’t none left!
Now onto this 4th Turning, better late than never. I was actually beginning to hope we could get through this one without all the drama. That the election of Trump would be seen in hindsight as the peak of the crisis but of course that was just wishful thinking and he is the Grey Champion in the fashion of Lincoln. The Statist opposition is both better entrenched than we imagined and more determined than would seem rational. The existential fight to the death for the soul of America is likely near. 2018 election Dems retake both House and Senate….impeachment and conviction……Trump refuses to go 50% of America stands with him and the other 50% takes up arms to see justice done. Not hard to imagine. Not hard to imagine that since Trump stupidly claimed credit for the stock market advance that TPTB will do everything possible to take down the market and the economy to discredit him and make the nation desperate for Statism! A whole flock of possibilities.
I agree with those who have said batten down the hatches and trim the sails…..the storm is here.
sorry to hear the movie was a bust . the idea is plausible, but not the way they depicted it . I am from Kentucky. my ancestors beat Daniel boone by 30 years. After Kentucky became settled, he ended up moving west to Missouri. He lived with many of the Indians from Kentucky who also left after it became too settled. Neither he nor them could abide “civilization”. my family is still there.
Elbow room cried Danial Boon!
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/daniel-boone-1
I mostly agree with movie review by our host; the Old West was far more complicated than than our history pretends: blacks and Indians fought on both sides in the civil war, and both still go off to fight with scotch-irish flag-wavers for corporate wars today. The movie did seem a bit heavy-handed with the nobility stuff, I agree. I am somewhat optimistic that we will get the authoritarian Ceasar (who declared a national emergency a while back) for this fourth turning – who will call up the militia to help HIS armed forces restore the republic. if not- well … nobody knows the future but God, so I say a prayer for the progeny of those who founded this nation, and our future.
Only one real quibble with this post. There not 50 individual Americans who will take any risk to support an action against the coup against President Trump. Saying that 50 percent will violently oppose his ouster is ridiculous dreaming. This is 2018 not 1776 or 1861. No one is going to resist the combined power of the established military/police/ national security structure. Rember, about 40 percent of the people at the Bundy Ranch protest were paid FBI informants.
The crash in the market is the follow through of the deep state for November. The initial preparation of the psychological battlefield has been relentlessly carried out by the Media since November 2016. The final assault will commence in September. It will not be a Stalingrad or even futile defense of Berlin. Expect the victors to treat the deplorables as the Romans treated the Carthaginians or the losers at Jerico.
Thank you Admin. I was thinking the other day that I miss your articles.
My great great grandma, a pioneer in the Northern California wilderness, had to dress like a man and carry a rifle during times her husband needed to travel away from home. The local natives were apparently kept at bay by this ploy. I suspect the women who helped to create the communities that became America could put today’s feminists to shame, but that’s another topic.
Those I know who have yet to be red-pilled are unfettered with the alarm the people like us carry around. It’s a striking disparity, I suppose soon to be erased. I think their optimistic outlook is to be envied as well as deplored. It makes me think of an old episode of The Twilight Zone: a boy sees an amazing vision of the immediate future. He tells people how glorious and perfect things will be, and they are thrilled and ecstatic. What he really saw was their painful and abrupt destruction, but he decides to deceive them so they can have a bit of time to be happy prior to their demise.
“Americans are in a fighting mood”
I see no evidence of that. Americans are on the cusp of granting amnesty to an invasionary force of illegal aliens. An America that was ready to fight would be mass deporting these illegals and hanging their treasonous facilitators.
Martel…spot on. If the economy finally comes to fiery crash ( which should have been allowed in 2009) then most of those will ask for the Statist return and the gooberment teat in which to suck on. Most folks will gladly give up freedom for comfort and the thought of security .
When they are being taken away one by one by the Statist regime “they’ll burn in the camps” like Solzhenitsyn wrote about in the “Gulag Archipelago ” .
Dr Doom…do you know that Kemosabe is Cheyenne for Dumb Fucking White Man ?…LOL
Buck, sorry to correct you but Kemosabe is a friend who is going through chemo at the same time as you are..at least in my world…and it’s all about me, in spite of what Maggie thinks.
Since I like Westerns and this one was on my radar – I took advantage of my local theater’s $5 Tuesdays and went to see “Hostiles” all by my lonesome.
For the most part, it was well done and I enjoyed it. Although, in relation to other modern films, I thought it was a little more “Dances with Wolves” and with, perhaps, a pinch of “Unforgiven” thrown in for good measure
If you like Western novels read Peter Grant…start with “Brings the Lighting”…you won’t regret it.
My wife is a Chris Bale fan, so naturally we had to see it last weekend. We’re both fans of Westerns having grown up with the plethora of that category on network TV in the 50’s & 60’s.
I think he deserves an Oscar for underplaying the role. The Female lead who was in Gone Girl (sorry can’t remember your name…yet) was very convincing. Can’t say more without spoilers.
Jim, EXCELLENT post. Your three critical factors, civic decay, global disorder, and debt are spot on. All three can be seen daily in the news if one cares to look. You so accurately describe the level of discourse between the “opposing” parties in Washington DC. I loath Pelosi and others on the democratic side but loath McCain and Graham types just as much. None of these people give one damn about the American people. All they want is more and more power to rule with their vision of this insane world. Both want bigger government and global dominance. God help us. Thanks for your post and this site… Chip
Excellent Review Admin. I haven’t been to movie for quite some time as there isn’t much these days worth watching. I just finished an epic 5000 km trip from my hometown to Edmonton Alberta.
Reading this piece helped frame the perspective of sights. I was viewing something that has very high chance of soon being gone. What stood out everywhere was the delapidation of rural Canada. Sure the lights still shine along the highways. Yet venture further from TCH than the donut shop or hotel and what can be seen are Mainstreets everwhere that have seen better days.
When the collapse comes all of this infrastructure in Rural North America will need to be built from pretty much the ground up seeing as mainstreet coffee shop has all but dissappeared
Easy access to energy and credit have created only Districts, Powercenters, Commutes, Bedroom Communities and Suburbs.
Everywhere.
The social capital that built all those Mainstreets in first place has frayed. Is it beyond repair? Might be…
What could go wrong… when success is defined by getting up hoping everyday is groundhog day.
The answer gets plainer, at least to me, with each passing day.
Mary C…yep .
I am positive that the first time I heard the term ‘deep state’ was while reading a Charles Hugh Smith post. I credit him for the term.
Great article, Admin, as usual. The Deep State is real and a mortal danger to our Republic. Now on to some history related to the movie Hostiles.
Yellow Hawk was a Sioux chief, not a Cheyenne. He was one of the chiefs present at the Treaty of Ft. Laramie in 1868, which granted the Sioux all of the territory of the Black Hills in South Dakota. The USG was represented by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who promised that no whites would be allowed in the Sioux territory other than officials of the USG. The Sioux agreed and signed the treaty.
That lasted until it didn’t, when gold was discovered in the Black Hills by geologists accompanying an expedition led by Custer through the area in 1874. The USG offered the Sioux $25,000 for the land, and the Sioux rejected the offer. A stampede of white settlers searching for gold followed, and camps/towns (Deadwood for example) sprung out of nowhere.
The Sioux were outraged and went to war. The Sioux allied with the Northern Cheyenne, and we all know what happened in 1876 at the battle of Little Bighorn. That was the apex of the war with the northern plains Indian tribes. It was all downhill from there.