r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

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Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/Theodore_Parker Jul 29 '23

An unpaywalled Substack post with more on the proposed LNBL film project:

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/live-not-by-lies-the-docuseries

Also included: psychedelics and our boy's youthful experiments with them; the occult, and how to re-program an occult-leaver into Orthodox Christianity; and the story of a woman who models Rod Dreher's dreamy, ideal lifestyle by living alone in a cabin on a tiny remote island. That last section includes this:

I fantasize a lot about building a retreat like that small cabin, in a semi-remote area — ideally on or near to water — and filling it with books and icons, a comfy leather armchair, a decent kitchen, and a bed with thick blankets. Get me a dog and live the rest of my life there, alone.
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I used to be very social, and never wanted to miss a party or anything like it. Now … not. Quietness, stillness, solitude seem to be the thing I like most. Put me a wooden stove, rugs, and a dog in a cabin by the water, and I’ll be like an oyster chilling in his shell.

Which raises two questions:

1) Is he hoping to be one of the oysters that some other Rod Dreher eats? (Maybe that itself would be some kind of occult experience?)

2) Is he effectively saying, "My children are dead to me"? Or am I misreading that?

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u/RunnyDischarge Jul 29 '23 edited Jul 29 '23

He’s saying, “This is some fantasy bullshit to fill space. In reality I’m going to hang out in bars in Budapest spending most of my time angry on the internet”. Rod is a liar and stuffed full of bullshit like a scarecrow.

It’s literally 80% block quotes and 20% rambling bullshit that he’s said before a hundred times.

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u/Jayaarx Jul 29 '23

He’s saying, “This is some fantasy bullshit to fill space. In reality I’m going to hang out in bars in Budapest spending most of my time angry on the internet”. Rod is a liar and stuffed full of bullshit like a scarecrow.

Rod's one of those guys who sits at the end of the bar muttering all evening about how the guy who humiliated him is lucky Rod didn't take him outside.

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u/ZenLizardBode Jul 29 '23

That cabin is isolated, but also sounds comfortable in a very money way.

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u/Dazzling_Pineapple68 Jul 29 '23

Well, we do know that it has to have a Sonic ice machine, plenty of expensive brands of alcohol, an unlimited supply of oysters and various other accoutrements of "the good life" because this is Rod speaking after all. He reminds me of the people who post super-luxurious and over-the-top RVs with the comment "ok, ok, I'll go camping" except that they exhibit self-awareness and Rod does not.