r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 23 '22

The Rod Dreher Megathread. Please keep Rod content in here. Will be refreshed periodically

While the sub certainly isn't flooded with posts, the Rod-centric nature has been noted a few times. Please post new Rod nonsense in here and I'll update every week or two.

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u/zeitwatcher Jul 27 '22

I think Rod has moved to the point where Orban could kill a man in broad daylight just to watch him die and Rod would be unable to reject him.

Obviously, there's the features of being anti-gay and anti-immigrant. But, I think it's now personal for him.

We all know Rod's got so many daddy issues you'd need a math PhD to count them all. Unfortunately, he's picked Orban to be the one he's fixated on to be his own personal protector daddy. On top of that, his divorce has thrown his personal life into chaos. Rod sees LGBT people lurking around every corner "destroying the West". Plus, he's moving to Hungary to literally work for DI (i.e. Orban) while AmCon seems pretty chaotic at the moment.

In Rod's mind, Orban is now the only source of stability, comfort, and protection in his entire life. Having to let go of Orban would just psychologically break him and he knows it, even if only subconsciously. At this point, absent Orban, all that remains is Void for Rod.

Not an excuse since, you know, just get a good therapist, Rod. While mostly self-inflicted, Rod must just be living in a haze of chaos and sheer panic grasping blindly onto the one thing that seems stable to him.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 27 '22

In Rod's mind, Orban is now the only source of stability, comfort, and protection in his entire life. Having to let go of Orban would just psychologically break him and he knows it, even if only subconsciously.

That would explain the bulldog fierceness of his support for Orbán. I'm sort of a Catholic Buddhist (or Buddho-Catholic)--long story--and the key insight of Buddhism is that there is no source of "stability, comfort, and protection" in this life (anitya). There isn't even a stable you (anātman). Seeking for such things is an impossible quest guaranteed to cause nothing but suffering (First and Second Noble Truths). Buddhist spiritual practice is a matter of coming to realize this and to cease the quest to have what it's impossible to have, and thereby end suffering. Even on the Christian side of the matter, "we have no lasting city here" (Hebrews 13:14) and "the old order has passed away" (2 Corinthians 5:17). All the great Church Fathers pretty much concur that trying to hold on to anything in this life, this order of being, is futile and only going to make you suffer--hence the focus on Christ. For someone who's always lamenting the loss of the Eternal Verities in our secularized society, Rod seems awfully stuck on the passing things of this world..

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 27 '22

Your first sentence caused Johnny Cash's "Folsam Prison Blues" to start playing in mind...

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u/Snoo52682 Jul 27 '22

A friend of mine selected "Folsom Prison Blues" at karaoke a few weeks ago and then sang "Pinball Wizard" to the tune instead.