Defining "trad" would be helpful. While the Little House on the Prairie crowd is a real thing, I know many ardent traditionalists working in media, finance, medicine, federal LEO roles, etc. Not every TLM attendee is an ignorant peasant, as this article seems to imply. Also, not everyone is cut out for the elite. Those people should not be told that they are failing their Country and their family by aspiring in proportion to their abilities.
This article lacks coherence. The author seems to be attempting to criticize some theory about how young people should go about their lives in their 20s, but this isn't specified. Who are these "trads?" What precisely are they saying? There is a lot of random criticism of advice given to young adults, but nothing offered in its place. Something about a vague battle to be fought. How? We are not told.
Education is great. We really do need more of our people in the commanding heights, but counseling literally everyone to spend tens of thousands of dollars to go to college is idiotic. That's a huge problem we have. The trades can be a solid route to local influence in the community. If Zoomer Zane has a 105 IQ, why send him into debt slavery at college?
Eschewing family? Why? If the culture can produce warrior monks, then so be it. But can it? It can't even produce good fathers (mostly because women refuse to be good wives and mothers). Why counsel families to contracept and avoid having children? Is it worth it to win the temporal battle but lose our souls?
Maybe we have to fight with the army we have. Maybe we have to play the long game. I wish the author the best with his education!
Get married have children and be there for your family. That will change the world! My dad was a door to door milkman , my parents had four children three boys and a girl, we live in a very small two bedroom converted attic home, the brother closest to me and myself both thought we were rich! Mom said she didn’t have enough at the end of the month to buy us an ice cream cone! We had God fearing parents who were wonderful ! You can’t get richer than that!
Sorry, I'll read the rest later, busy harvesting Summer fruit crops and veggies with my wife, In preparation for the Dormition and the rest of the year.
Take it from an old Catholic deacon from liberal California, when you see your old friends and family members broken hearted because they didn't have kids or their kids aren't producing grandchildren, you will know the devastating effect of the "small family mentality." When I see young couples in their late 20's and 30's come into the church to discuss getting married and we discuss Catholic teaching on contraception, they usually get a desperate look in their eyes and say, don't worry, we just hope we can have have kids. That is when I see the shocking effect of the "Wait until we get through college and get settled in our career" mentality. Psalm 90 says, "Lord let us know the shortness of our lives." These are wise words.
You lost me at Machiavelli. The evangelical counsels are poverty, chastity, and obedience. They’re counsels because that’s how Jesus expects most people to live and all people to at least some degree. More was accomplished by St. Joseph the carpenter living by these simple principles than all those who habituated themselves to the lust for power and money.
There might be some few who, like Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, or Daniel, first schooled in the discipline of prayer and confirmed in grace, might be called to take up heroic roles of leadership. There might also be some who already find themselves elites, like Louis IX or Richard Cœur de Lion, that are called to heroic leadership due to their state in life. However, to blank call for the masses to enter into the arena like this is to call people to corruption and hell.
Catholic traditionalists that I know are above average in the metric of virtue....the only metric that matters. Friend, we are ALL members of a cult. Choose yours wisely.
Defining "trad" would be helpful. While the Little House on the Prairie crowd is a real thing, I know many ardent traditionalists working in media, finance, medicine, federal LEO roles, etc. Not every TLM attendee is an ignorant peasant, as this article seems to imply. Also, not everyone is cut out for the elite. Those people should not be told that they are failing their Country and their family by aspiring in proportion to their abilities.
This article lacks coherence. The author seems to be attempting to criticize some theory about how young people should go about their lives in their 20s, but this isn't specified. Who are these "trads?" What precisely are they saying? There is a lot of random criticism of advice given to young adults, but nothing offered in its place. Something about a vague battle to be fought. How? We are not told.
Education is great. We really do need more of our people in the commanding heights, but counseling literally everyone to spend tens of thousands of dollars to go to college is idiotic. That's a huge problem we have. The trades can be a solid route to local influence in the community. If Zoomer Zane has a 105 IQ, why send him into debt slavery at college?
Eschewing family? Why? If the culture can produce warrior monks, then so be it. But can it? It can't even produce good fathers (mostly because women refuse to be good wives and mothers). Why counsel families to contracept and avoid having children? Is it worth it to win the temporal battle but lose our souls?
Maybe we have to fight with the army we have. Maybe we have to play the long game. I wish the author the best with his education!
Like most articles published here it was a bunch of observations/complaints and then no actionable plan.
Get married have children and be there for your family. That will change the world! My dad was a door to door milkman , my parents had four children three boys and a girl, we live in a very small two bedroom converted attic home, the brother closest to me and myself both thought we were rich! Mom said she didn’t have enough at the end of the month to buy us an ice cream cone! We had God fearing parents who were wonderful ! You can’t get richer than that!
Exactly. The Holy Family did more for the salvation of the world in their quite, hidden life than any disciple of Machiavelli.
Tough read here. Getting "Old man yells at clouds" vibes.
100% agree
Sorry, I'll read the rest later, busy harvesting Summer fruit crops and veggies with my wife, In preparation for the Dormition and the rest of the year.
Take it from an old Catholic deacon from liberal California, when you see your old friends and family members broken hearted because they didn't have kids or their kids aren't producing grandchildren, you will know the devastating effect of the "small family mentality." When I see young couples in their late 20's and 30's come into the church to discuss getting married and we discuss Catholic teaching on contraception, they usually get a desperate look in their eyes and say, don't worry, we just hope we can have have kids. That is when I see the shocking effect of the "Wait until we get through college and get settled in our career" mentality. Psalm 90 says, "Lord let us know the shortness of our lives." These are wise words.
You lost me at Machiavelli. The evangelical counsels are poverty, chastity, and obedience. They’re counsels because that’s how Jesus expects most people to live and all people to at least some degree. More was accomplished by St. Joseph the carpenter living by these simple principles than all those who habituated themselves to the lust for power and money.
There might be some few who, like Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, or Daniel, first schooled in the discipline of prayer and confirmed in grace, might be called to take up heroic roles of leadership. There might also be some who already find themselves elites, like Louis IX or Richard Cœur de Lion, that are called to heroic leadership due to their state in life. However, to blank call for the masses to enter into the arena like this is to call people to corruption and hell.
Catholic traditionalists are a cult, and they are among the worst human beings I have ever known.
Catholic traditionalists that I know are above average in the metric of virtue....the only metric that matters. Friend, we are ALL members of a cult. Choose yours wisely.