“Speaking of military families: I was at Home Depot, checking out through the service desk for some reason. The young lady there asked if I were former military. Some kind of discount, iirc I feigned outrage. Does it still show, it’s been fifty years. Grinning. She smiled, “I’m from a military family. I can tell.” Do we walk around with some kind of aura visible to the elect?”

This kind of in-group recognition is good.. and even better if some nepotism and mutual aid involved is not a bad thing at all, given what’s coming down the pike.

I hammer my Racial Hobby Horse ad nauseum because I’m all for ripping up Third Rails and beating them into needful swords. Probably neglecting the Class angle too much. Class is back bigger and better, too. The Managerialists have become self-aware as a distinct class and have utter disdain for the various sub-categories of BadWhites — and I’m sure one of those cubbyholes is Serving and Ex-Military. So much the worse if multi-generational.

For catastrophes, see Blom, “Nature’s Mutiny” about the Little Ice Age. He’s right on about the physical issues. Gets over his skis on the effects on theology and philosophy. But the physical side is brutal.

Speaking of military families: I was at Home Depot, checking out through the service desk for some reason. The young lady there asked if I were former military. Some kind of discount, iirc I feigned outrage. Does it still show, it’s been fifty years. Grinning. She smiled, “I’m from a military family. I can tell.” Do we walk around with some kind of aura visible to the elect?

Good point. First we got a crap ton of bloviation about the Peloponnesian War back during reign of Bush II (Bill Clinton being Cut Rate Alcibiades). Now it’s the Bronze Age Collapse.Well we have Sea Peoples and Palace Economies and Santorini Real Estate is booming.

It’s the Thinking Man’s version of Flying Saucer Movies and then later Zombie Blockbusters.

Must go load up the Kindle with Lovecraft.

“In one chapter Eisely told the story of “Strandlooper,” a South African skull from 10,000 years ago with a small face and large cranium, which to Eisely suggested a highly intelligent human group which had died out, perhaps due to its intelligence, in competition with more aggressive, primitive humans.”

I recall reading that (at least proposition) as a kid. Probably from an old library book.

It seemed a fascinating and strange prospect; that an unusually intelligent species of hominid would flourish, only to inexplicably die out.

But then, in an era when lost civilizations were the stuff of typical childhood reading, it seemed no less plausible.

Speaking of lost civilizations, given the readership here, many will have certainly noticed the big resurgence of interest the last decade or so in the collapse of the Bronze Age. Michael Wood, was on top of this of course some decades ago; and then there were the fascinating discoveries of Manfred Korfmann. But the interest reflected by way of Internet coverage is relatively conspicuous … if you are looking.

Always wondered whether she (xhe?) was the inspiration for the character in Peanuts….

Anyway, here’s the Lucy wing of the Republican Party getting back up to speed after having been smacked around a bit by, um, reality. (Can’t keep ’em down, I guess….)
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-republicans-say-they-trust-biden-after-infrastructure-deal-walkback

John Updike and Richard Wilbur were two other mid-century writers who grew up on the outskirts of town, isolated, close to nature (Updike in Pennsylvania, Wilbur in New Jersey). Like Eiseley, Wilbur rode the rails as a young man. Here he is talking about and then reading a poem inspired by those experiences:

https://www.webofstories.com/play/richard.wilbur/49
https://www.webofstories.com/play/richard.wilbur/50

Wilbur served with the 36th (“Lone Star”) Infantry Division in WWII.

No fond memories of doing exercises in NBC suits? I know a guy who comes from military family and spent part of his teen years in Germany. He said that he learned pretty fast not to push the envelope on days when his father came home from work wearing NBC kit!

Remember Ashli Babbitt!