Poor Wendell Berry. He doesn’t realize that farmers should be thanking the Global Economy for removing them from what Jew Karl Marx called “the idiocy of rural life” and into respectable janitorial jobs and crowded tenements where they have time to read books by Mises and Hayek. Only an idiot would rather grow his own food than drive to the grocery store for beef-fed beef (pity the occasional mad cow) and the chance to impress his friends by purchasing pricey “organic” food, such as tomatoes with actual tomato genes.

Let’s return to a brief reflection on this great man. As all Southerners used to know, it is impossible to separate our faith in God, our connection to the land, and our connection to our people. It’s spirit/water/blood in its secondary meaning. Human parasites know that one of the best ways to destroy the Christian faith is to dispossess the Christian people. This can be done without violence through usury. As soon as Christians are removed from their farms, no matter how small, and herded like cattle into cities (the city has become the farm of the satanist), they begin to believe nonsense about Equality, which is antithetical to the faith once delivered to the saints.

Here is one of my favorite quotes from Mr. Berry:

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

In his superlative book The Art of the Commonplace, he quotes from The Idea of a Christian Society by T.S. Eliot:

We may say that religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life.

What great prize have we won through international “free trade” governed by Jews with their fractional reserve banking and fiat currency? We have traded “land, work, people, and community” for “the industrial categories of resources, labor, management, consumers, and government.”

We are pummelled with the idea that work is drudgery, and it’s no coincidence that our understanding of God’s law and grace have deteriorated, art has atrophied, and our kin have been decimated as well. If we understand, as Mr. Berry understands, that work is worship, land is seen as a vital instrument in the practice of religion. H.L. Mencken was not quite correct when he said that we “go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.” It is much more than that. Fine art will flow freely from the one who thinks God’s thoughts after Him, which is the basis of all art. And it is art, as we know, taking shape in music, poetry, images, literature, icons, folk songs, myths, and more, that gives our people roots and helps them to grow like a sturdy tree.

I hardly need to point out that we have lost all of this. True to the curses of Deuteronomy 28, we have lost our culture and our land and have been invaded by aliens. The practice of religion in this land that was our home is the laughingstock of the world. Actual excrement is now called art. And the people who have brought this about, many of them “Christians,” dare to condemn us for remaining true to the doctrine of our forefathers, who actually built civilization rather than sat around wishing for it.

Berry identifies this sad state of affairs as dualism. It is

a cleavage, a radical discontinuity, between Creator and creature, spirit and matter, religion and nature, religion and economy, worship and work, and so on… the dualism of body and soul…

It leads one to believe falsely that the soul is pure and divine, and the flesh is base and wicked; that the soul is owned by God and the flesh is owned by the devil.

You would have to be blind to miss the racial implications. Opposition to Kinism comes almost entirely from those dualistic “Christians” who have borrowed from gnosticism and asceticism in their understanding that overcoming the lusts of the flesh necessarily involves a rejection of the flesh, when in fact the flesh has been redeemed, making us whole once again. As Rushdoony writes on p. 166 of The One and the Many, “Matter and spirit are both created by God, both fallen in Adam and under the curse, and both objects of saving grace and the resurrection.” Dualistic, neo-Babelistic Christians also borrow from neoplatonists in their quest to make idea conquer matter or the soul to conquer the body. This is what has led to the whole concept of a proposition nation, as well as a laundry list of other theological heresies, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with actual Christianity.

I’ll let Mr. Berry explain the twisted, dualistic, and non-Kinist version of Christianity.

They conclude that the formula for man-making is man = body + soul. But that conclusion cannot be derived, except by violence, from Genesis 2:7, which is not dualistic. The formula given in Genesis 2:7 is not man = body + soul; the formula there is soul = dust + breath…

The flesh is a part of the soul, not removed from it. You’ve heard that every theological heresy begins with a false view of the Trinity, and this is true. It is equally true that heresies spring from a false understanding of ourselves.

The dominant religious view, for a long time, has been that the body is a kind of scrip issued by the Great Company Store in the Sky, which can be cashed in to redeem the soul but is otherwise worthless. And the predictable result has been a human creature able to appreciate or tolerate only the “spiritual” (or mental) part of Creation and full of semi-conscious hatred for the “physical” or “natural” part, which it is ready and willing to destroy for “salvation,” for profit, for “victory,” or for fun. This madness constitutes the norm of modern humanity and of modern Christianity.

He calls this burning one’s house for the insurance.

Modern Christianity, then, has become as specialized in its organizations as other modern organizations, wholly concentrated on the industrial shibboleths of “growth,” counting its success in numbers, and on the very strange enterprise of “saving” the individual, isolated, and disembodied soul…

The idea should be foreign to a Christian that our salvation is eternal and not also temporal. The resurrection is physical as well as spiritual. When this proper and holistic balance is rejected, wayward men go in search of false messiahs.

Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households. It has flown the flag and chanted the slogans of empire. It has assumed with the economists that “economic forces” automatically work for good and has assumed with the industrialists and militarists that technology determines history. It has assumed with almost everybody that “progress” is good, that it is good to be modern and up with the times. It has admired Caesar and comforted him in his depredations and defaults. But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life. A part of the normal practice of his power is his willingness to destroy the world. He prays, he says, and churches everywhere compliantly pray with him. But he is praying to a God whose works he is prepared at any moment to destroy. What could be more wicked than that, or more mad?

I think you’ll enjoy this poem of Mr. Berry’s:

From the union of power and money,
from the union of power and secrecy,
from the union of government and science,
from the union of government and art,
from the union of science and money,
from the union of ambition and ignorance,
from the union of genius and war,
from the union of outer space and inner vacuity,
the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

We recently watched the incomparable John Adams miniseries. (Giamatti and Linney are superb actors.) John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, the Fourth of July, exactly fifty years from the anniversary of independence. In the closing scene, Jefferson is surrounded by his devoted slaves and Adams is surrounded by his devoted wife and loving, though sometimes alienated, children. How much better, I thought, to pick my own damn cotton. I mention this only because Mr. Berry referred to what he called the “nigger factor,” which is the reliance upon others to do our work for us. “If some people grow rich by making things to throw away, then many other people will have to empty the garbage cans and make the trip to the dump.”

“A man that breeds a family without competent means of maintenance, encumbers other men with his children.” ~ Edmund Burke, Speech on the Repeal of the Marriage Act, 1781

I think Mr. Berry would like this product. But perhaps one should not use a scythe barefoot.

I think he would not care for this symbol of vehicular indulgence.

Starting over:

In Africa, Herbst worked a 13,000-acre farm, part of which had been in his family for generations. He grew paprika that was exported to Spain, ran a successful safari business, raised cattle and employed more than 150 people during the busy harvest seasons.

That life ended in 2002 when men armed with automatic weapons evicted the Herbst family from its farm. In a land redistribution campaign overseen by President Robert Mugabe, political loyalists seized thousands of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe and turned them over to impoverished blacks.

Lincoln did the same thing in this country, and each niggruh was promised 40 acres and a mule of stolen property.