day no. 15,740: sand castles where storms are brewing

“As Owen Barfield once said to me, ‘The trouble about insects is that they are like French locomotives--they have all the works on the outside.’ The works--that is the trouble. Their angular limbs, their jerky movements, their dry, metallic noises, all suggest either machines that have come to life or life degenerating into mechanism. You may add that in the hive and the ant-hill we see fully realised the two things that some of us most dread for our own species--the dominance of the female and the dominance of the collective.” — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

Matriarchy and the hive-mind make the bee's life a microcosm of what Feminism and Socialism are attempting to accomplish. It is no wonder that men like Barfield and Lewis found this diorama repulsive. Mind you, this was written in 1955. The seed forms of the effeminatti and the cult of the comrade were merely cutting teeth back then. However, if that much can happen in 70 years, it can also happen in the opposite direction, and in less time, no doubt, since sanity has the advantage of steady strides whereas insanity stumbles over itself every other step like a drunk runner-up prom queen missing one of her heels.

The hope of a fully realized Lesbyterian Utopia would have been pretty bleak in 1940, but look what they've accomplished by sheer stick-to-it-iveness. It goes to show that with enough passion and perseverance even insanity can make hay even while making a mess of everything. Therefore, let us not lose heart. Consistent persistence is a proven tactic. If it works for those consistently insane, it can and will work for the consistently sane, if they keep their eyes in their heads and their hands to the plow.

Our enemies may appear to have the upper hand, but insanity cannot stand forever. They are feverishly tossing aerosol cans into an open fire. They are frantically filling their homes with gun powder as the fire fast approaches. The more zealously they build, the more tremendous will be their fall. They have selected sand as their foundation for some inexplicable reason... despite many warnings to the contrary, and the rumor is... there's a storm a brewing.