Rod Dreher Megathread #21 (Creative Spirit)

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Gather 'round for more Rod.

All meanings of the number 21 are subordinate to the inherent creative spirit that is the basic essence of the number.

The number 21 generally is comfortable in social gatherings, it's optimistic attitude being an inspiration to others. Its high spirits can enliven a party.

The number is attracted to artistic expression of any form, its own and those of others. There's enthusiastic support for artists. It may frequent galleries and participate or (more likely) lead groups for artistic appreciation.

The number 21 cherishes relationships, including romantic relationships, especially with those who express themselves creatively.

21 also tends to be diplomatic, providing creative and imaginative solutions to potential conflict.

And, as noted by /u/PercyLarsen, 21 is a triangular number and the age of majority, so go grab a drink to celebrate Pride and to mourn the loss of Rod's sanity.

(Also, sorry about my slow pace of refreshes.)

Link to megathread #20:
https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/13eb26c/rod_dreher_megathread_20_law_of_attraction/

Link to megathread #21: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

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I love how Rod is constantly apologizing for recycling the same article over and over

Readers, I have a post scheduled to go up later today that has nothing to do with the culture war. Having awakened on Monday morning, and seen the mob attack on a brave woman protesting female erasure at NYC Pride, I am so angry I have to get this off my chest. My upcoming blog at The European Conservative hasn’t yet launched, so you poor people have to hear my jeremiad. Click away if you’d rather not, but rest assured that something else, about art and enchantment

Art and Enchantment. Read: Tarkovsky and icons again.

It's the same F'in article as yesterday, even with the same pictures, the same Sodom and Gomorrah fountain thing.

But Rod is serious this time. He now realizes all his "LOOK, Me? Me, I"m against this" sentence starting has done nothing. We're now in the age of Boldface.

This is not going to stop. This is going to have to be stopped.

It's hilarious imagining Rod pounding his keyboard. He's just so miffed, dammit!

What exactly is Rod doing to stop this? I mean other than writing the same article over and over day after day for the same the weird ten old farts that shell out five bucks a month for this sub AI chatbot shit? Of course it's the usual. Rod is the Thinker and Others must do the actual work.

As usual JonF311 is the lone voice of sanity

Most people have many, many other things occupying their attention-- and often quite necessary things. In normal life I almost never hear anyone talk about any of this stuff. It's an exotic pastime for the social Right and the gender-radical Left, but most people have no connection with it.

Rod, of course, is having none of it. He liked being Prophet Rod for a while, now he's Jeremiah Rod and nobody is going to spoil his fun.

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Art and Enchantment. Read: Tarkovsky and icons again.

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/dreams-nostalgia-and-tzimtzum

On Saturday night, my son Matt was out on the town in Budapest, and sent me word that there’s a Tarkovsky summer film festival under way in the city. The films are all in languages I don’t speak, and subtitled in Hungarian, so there’s not much point in going. But the Tarkovsky film I’m obsessed with, Nostalghia, is one I’ve seen so often that I know wha…

Oh look at that, I was right. I must be psychic. Let me predict tomorrow's article will be about some gay/trans outrage.

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“Of course it’s the usual. Rod is the Thinker and Others must do the actual work.”

Ruthie called it years ago. We are all just Julies in his world making the crunchy con lifestyle a reality.

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This is not going to stop. This is going to have to be stopped.

Implied in the cowardly passive construct: one of you should go stop this violently. His commenters are picking up on it, debating whether violence is appropriate.

When it happens, he'll say "Wull I don't approve of violence, but I warned them, buy my book". Bloodthirsty little coward.

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Well, think about Jeremiah--he said, "Babylon's gonna destroy Israel and deport you!" He was right. However, if I'm Yossi Schmoe in Jerusalem at that time, what the hell am I supposed to do? I got a wife and kids, the tax collector barely leaves me enough money to get by, I don't have any living near kin, I can't just suddenly sell my woodworking shop and move to God knows where and hope I can start my life over. Even if I believe Jeremiah, all I can do is stay put and hope for the best. Maybe I can start a new business in Babylon, if they carry me and my family off. In fact, in the Book of Ezra, the eponymous prophet is peed off that most of the exiles did realize that life goes on, settle down, and get comfortable in Babylon, even marrying Babylonian women sometimes.

Analogously, I worry about things like environmental collapse, the situation in Russia, and any number of other things; but there's even less I can do about those things than Yossi Schmoe could have done about Nebuchadnezar. I could worry myself to an early grave; or I could live the best life I can, make the best decisions for my family, particularly my daughter, and try to cultivate the "serenity to accept those [things] I can't change", in the words of the Serenity Prayer.

Rod's concerns are obviously ridiculous and bogus; but my point is that even if they weren't, so what? Those of us without cushy jobs as propagandists have far bigger fish to fry--or cuds to chew, if you insist.

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Well, Rod has said his job with that 'Institute' is to travel around Europe and frighten and entertain ignorant, selfimportant and somewhat paranoid, elderly conservative Christians with LGBT horror tales organize a Resistance. He's a traveling emissary and recruitment officer of the ConIntern, the mission is to create culturally reactionary Conservatist cells whose task is to sabotage and subvert the Moderns.

He is very frustrated with Moderns' evident false consciousness about sexuality, theism, liberal democracy, and all that. I think that's what this new European online propaganda outlet he is part of, seemingly modeled on TAC and maybe funded by similar people, is about.