Whenever Elizabeth Nickson’s substack posts appear in my email, I can’t help but stop everything to read each one, all the way through, videos included. A seasoned journalist, her work exemplifies the much larger and longer deeply informed perspective needed as we head into the seemingly unimaginable future. I find it very interesting that she is here focusing especially on young men under 40 to be the ones who are taking up the cause for Freedom.

Excerpt:

But, today’s youth have a great deal in common with that history, as if it is rising in their souls, like a fierce unstoppable fire. And that is because Fabian culture stripped life of meaning, purpose, sacredness, eternity.

And, it turns out, we can’t live without it.

To the Puritans, life had meaning, history had direction, individuals were accountable to God, and every action mattered eternally. That produced a very different human being than a culture organized around comfort or consumption.

We’re sick of consumption. We’re sick of our sexuality being inflamed, by porn, by public erotic writhing, by the sickening sexuality of public figures. We are sick of comfort. There are entire TikTok series from random young women saying my life is so convenient, comfortable and easy, I have never been more miserable.

The Puritans were scholars, all of them. They believed that everyone must read, must study. That is happening now among the young. As our true history opens up, they are interested again, and they are consuming massive amounts of information, all of it impossible at this point to censor. Hollywood and publishing are dying because their audience has fled to the margins where they find fascination. The rabbit hole is the new university.

The Puritans were willing to suffer, to get right up to starving, to clear fields, to work and work and work, and that ethic too is rising. Within a few generations of that, they produced publishing houses, universities, constitutional government, global trade systems, scientific institutions, industrialization, missionary networks, and eventually the cultural machinery that shaped the modern world.

Contrast that to the fruit of modernism: the rape of hundreds of thousands of children a year. While boomers, GenXers, and even Millennials ignore it, the younger generations do not.

The rebellion against our current civilizational filth means that they are starting to see their time and work as sacred. And that is far far better than chasing the ghastly prizes of modernism.

 

I wondered how old Elizabeth is. She looks so very young! But she’s not. Born “around 1950.”

Meanwhile, I found myself searching for her bio.

And came upon this:

Twenty Years A Fool: My Long Journey Home from the Left

 

[Before I excerpt from this tale, just know that her conversion occurred within a dense personal history that would overwhelm most of us in its intricacy, depth and breadth. Plus, I was interested in the title itself, because I have long wondered about my own Long Journey Home from the Left. When exactly, did I switch?

Short version: Well, wouldn’t you know, as a “feminist,” of course I loved Hillary. Until I didn’t.]

 

Excerpt

Those revivals – and they are vital, exciting, and filled with extraordinary music and spirit – dragged me out of the Buddhist passivity that is the only approved spiritual attitude on the left. No one who is even a little open to the idea of God can go to these gatherings and not be suffused with grace.

This final lesson popped me right out of the cultural left where I had made my home. It was now clear to me that our contemporary story tellers were telling lies. They had utterly corrupted our idea of our country and culture, religion and past. They misread the very ground of human character. They had taught us that with few exceptions, we came from exploiters, oppressors of natives and blacks. All the “great” writers of our time read to me now as depressives caught in an almost demonic fiction, charlatans who had seized the criminal and disaffected and made of them the norm that must be defeated and replaced by another system. And that system was inevitably command and control socialism.

Oh, and check this out. Something I came across lately elsewhere, and echoes Nickson.

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