The Betrayal of Western Man, part I
How music was weaponized to mortally weaken the hearts of Men, and render the West defenseless against the Orc hordes.
A reader asked how it was that the men of the west fell so completely into helplessness. We are, in 2022, still in living memory of the generation of men who conquered the skies, built the skyscrapers, split the atom, traversed Everest, and, according to many, walked the Moon.
It must have seemed trifling, in 1965, when the US Government launched its Hart-Celler Act assault on America. The Third World was demonstrably inferior, had been beaten, colonized and tamed. Similar acts were introduced throughout the west simultaneously – give or take a year – and all objections fell upon deaf ears.
If you haven’t heard Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech, you should. He was, of course, even in that era of free speech, censured as an intollerable racist.
Surely the evolved, enlightened and bold Western Man had nothing to fear from the malnourished, primitive, unsophisticated beggars and shoe-shine boys of the territories. The problem was, the Western Man had somehow, without even noticing it, had been softened up, had lost both his boldness and his enlightenment. And he was fixing to lose a great deal more.
The West was subjected to a simultaneous attack on many fronts during the inter-war period. Whether that attack was premeditated and coordinated or simply a bit of tough luck is beyond our scope here. Suffice to say, he didn’t see it coming and it was devastating.
In popular culture, the record player and, soon thereafter, the radio, introduced a new style of music and new lyrical content into the popular mind. I suggest this revolutionary new style helped reprogram the male mind and weaken male character. First lets look at what went before. Here’s a list of the 100 most popular songs in America, from 1800 to 1899, according to Popular Culture Madness.
1. Good Morning to All (Happy Birthday To You) – 1893
2. Amazing Grace – 1800
3. Jingle Bells – 1857 (by James Pierpont)
4. Old MacDonald Had A Farm – 1859
5. Camptown Races* – 1850 (Stephen Foster)
*actual title is Gwine to Run All Night
6. Mary Had a Little Lamb – (1830 Lyrics)
7. Rock-a-bye Baby – 1884 (by Effie I. Canning)
8. Alphabet Song – 1834 (copyrighted by C. Bradlee, it’s probably older)
9. Wedding March – 1844 (by Felix Mendelssohn, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
10. William Tell Overture – 1829
11. Semper Fidelis – 1886 (by John Philip Sousa)
12. (Oh Dem) Golden Slippers – 1879
13. Stars and Stripes Forever – 1897 (by John Philip Sousa)
14. When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again – 1863 (by Louis Lambert & Patrick Gilmore)
15. Chopsticks – 1877
16. The Battle Hymn of the Republic – 1862 (by Julia Ward Howe)
17. While Strolling Through The Park One Day – 1884 (by Ed Haley)
18. Can Can – 1858 (by Offenbach)
19. When The Saints Go Marching In – 1896 (by Katherine E. Purvis & James M. Black)
20. Row Row Row Your Boat – 1881
21. Funeral March (Pray For The Dead and the Dead Will Pray For You…) – 1840
22. Fur Elise – 1810 (by Beethoven)
23. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad – 1894
24. She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain – 1899
25. Oh! Susanna – 1848 (by Stephen Foster)
26. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! – 1861
27. America (God Shed His Grace On Thee) words – 1832
28. I’ve Been Working On The Railroad – 1894 (copyright is probably older)
29. Dixie’s Land (aka Dixie) – 1860
30. Home, Sweet Home – 1823 (by John Howard Payne)
31. Joy to the World – 1839 (by Handel)
32. A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight – 1896
33. Alouette -1879
34. O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone – 1864 (by James Bland)
35. Turkey In De Straw – 1834
36. Funiculi Funicula – 1880
37. Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day) – 1883 (copyright, is probably older)
38. Reveille – 1890
39. Gloria – 1890 (by Mozart)
40. (Oh My Darling) Clementine – 1863 (by Percy Montrose & H S. Thompson)
41. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – 1872
42. Onward, Christian Soldiers – 1871 (by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould & Sir Arthur Sullivan)
43. The Yellow Rose of Texas – 1858
44. O Little Town of Bethlehem – 1868
45. Buffalo Gals – 1844 (heard in the film It’s a Wonderful Life. Malcolm McClaren did it in the 1980s too)
46. My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean – 1881
47. Blue Danube Waltz – 1867 (by J.S. Strauss)
48. Shoo-Fly Don’t Bother Me – 1869
49. Rock of Ages – 1832 (by Hastings)
50. Au Clair de la Lune – 1811
51. Morning – 1890 (by Luse)
52. Home on the Range – 1873 (by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley)
53. King Cotton March – 1895
54. (I Dream Of) Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair – 1854 (by Stephen Foster)
55. (Gimme That) Old Time Religion – 1865
56. Song Of India – 1897 (by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov)
57. The Man on the Flying Trapeze – 1868
58. Hail to the Chief – 1820 (by Sir Walter Scott & James Sanderson)
59. Barber of Seville – 1813
60. Old Folks at Home (Way Down Upon the Swanee River) – 1851 (by Stephen Foster)
61. The Thunderer – 1889 (by John Philip Sousa)
62. Skip To My Lou – 1844
63. The Merry, Merry Month of May – 1862 (by Stephen Foster)
64. Frankie and Johnny – 1869
65. Grandfather’s Clock – 1876 (by Henry Clay Work)
66. Beautiful Dreamer – 1864 (by Stephen Foster )
67. Away In a Manger – 1887
68. Flying Dutchman Overture – 1844 (by Wagner)
69. The Washington Post – 1889 (by John Philip Sousa)
70. A Night on Bald Mountain – 1887 (by Mussorgsky)
71. Hello! Ma Baby – 1899
72. Git Along Little Dogies – 1893
73. Pictures at an Exhibition – 1887 (by Mussorgsky)
74. I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen – 1876
75. Hark the Herald Angels Sing – 1855
76. Sleeping Beauty Waltz – 1890
77. Peer Gynt Suite – 1888
78. Mazel Tov – 1894
79. Baa Baa Black Sheep – 1865
80. Liberty Bell March – 1893 (by John Philip Sousa)
81. Red River Valley – 1896
82. Maple Leaf Rag – 1899 (by Scott Joplin)
83. Goodnight Ladies – 1853
84. King Cotton March – 1895 (by John Philip Sousa)
85. Home on the Range – 1873
86. Coronation March – 1849 (by Meyerbeer)
87. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny – 1878
88. At A Georgia Camp Meeting – 1897 (by Kerry Mills)
89. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon – 1838
90. Good Night – 1899 (by Mendelssohn)
91. Dance of the Hours – 1876 (by Ponchielli)
92. Gypsy Love Song – 1898 (by Harry B. Smith & Victor Herbert (From the musical The Fortune Teller)
93. Prelude in C# Minor – 1893 (by Rachmaninoff)
94. Hush-a-bye Baby – 1884
95. El Capitan – 1896 (by John Philip Sousa)
96. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear – 1850
97. Romeo and Juliet – 1871 (by Tchaikovsky)
98. Three Little Kittens – 1885
99. Good King Wenceslas – 1860ish (words)
100. I Gave My Love a Cherry – 1850 (heard in 1979 film, Animal House)
The list is dominated by silly novelty songs, favorite melodies by Europe’s best composers, religious, spiritual and Christmas songs and a few about courtship, coupling and romantic love. But please note, they are the minority, and gained more traction towards the end of the century with the rise of the Tin Plan Alley publishing houses peddling sheet music. (It’s worth noting here that the Tin Pan Alley publishers were nearly all of foreign stock, not Christian and whose surnames are not to be found among the heroes of the Revolutionary or Civil wars. Strange but true!) Furthermore, of the “love songs” on the list, many are cautionary tales, such as “Frankie and Johnny” or “Romeo and Juliet.”
In a nutshell, when bold men of action were conquering the wild, wild West, the were not humming saccharine love ballads.
Even before World War I, the sappy ballad was gaining in popularity, for example, “Down By the Old Mill Stream,” by a Mr Tell Taylor, 1910. Interestingly, this is not a declaration of undying love, but a fond remembrance of youthful infatuation, presumably sung by a faithful and happy husband, looking back on the fondly-remembered season, the singular stage of life when his desire compelled him to take a wife. He remembers it fondly. He isn’t trying to make it last forever.
Contrast that to “Body and Soul” released in 1930, it became typical of the new class of “standards” featured on hit records for the next quarter century.
I can't believe it, it's hard to conceive it
That you'd turn away romance
Are you pretending? It looks like the ending
Unless I could have one more chance to prove, dear
My life a wreck you're making
You know I'm yours for just the taking
I'd gladly surrender
Myself to you, body and soul.
Here’s “All or Nothing at All,” as sung by Frank Sinatra, 1939:
But please don't bring your lips so close to my cheek
Don't smile or I'll be lost beyond recall
The kiss in your eyes, the touch of your hand makes me weak
And my heart may go dizzy and fall
Here’s a major example. In 1932, the great, incomparable genius, Cole Porter published “Night and Day.”
Night and day, you are the one
Only you 'neath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me or far
It's no matter, darling, where you are
I think of you day and night
Night and day, why is it so
That this longin' for you follows wherever I go ?
In the roarin' traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you day and night
Night and day, under the hide of me
There's an oh, such a hungry yearnin' burnin' inside of me
And its torment won't be through
Till you let me spend my life makin' love to you
Day and night, night and day
If you’ve never had the pleasure, here’s Diana Krall’s masterful take on this masterpiece. Dig this chick’s voice:
Dang! Now I have to finish this article with a raging erection!!
Do you see how powerful a drug this is? I am and have always been mesmerized by this stuff.
Here’s he single best example I know of this message of Romantic-Love-as-Life-Purpose: Wanting to market Tom Jobim’s “Corcavdo” in America, Sergio Mendes came up with these intoxicating lyrics:
I, who was so lost and lonely,
Believing that life was only
A bitter, tragic joke, have found with you
The meaning of existence, O my love.
Are you seeing the theme here? Real men of action, badass men of violence and grit like John Wayne and Frank Sinatra were falling head over heels in this stuff. Our G.I.s, the night before the Battle of the Bulge, were pounding one out staring at pin-ups of Betty Grable while listening to this mess.
Strong drink indeed.
When I was a little kid, long before I ever cared about music, I was watching Star trek on TV every afternoon. In show after show, Captain Kirk shirtless and sweaty, bagged girl after girl on planet after planet, explaining to them that “love” was the universal language of life-worth-living.
Disgusting!!!
Now, this is NOT a family blog but it is a Christian one. I’m not going to be too medical about this, but suffice to say all this obsessing after women depletes the man of his “essence.”
Do you think the Bold Men of old could indulge in this intoxicant without succumbing to it? How do you think men like deNiro or Brando turned into the wretched, blubbering metrosexual scum they became? CIA death ray technology?
Actually that’s not far off the mark, but the “beam” wasn’t a sci-fi laser weapon, just a simple steady stream of psychic seduction delivered by amplitude modulation receiver.
Now think how his sex addiction, more than any other factor, has sabotaged the life and work of the top alpha male of our age, Donald Trump. A real man like that, totally rekt, as the kids say, by mommy issues, willing to pay six figure to a fake titty old dried up whore like Stormy Daniels when she was already 10 yeas past her sell-by date.
Trump did that. And he is not stupid.
Have you ever seen the third Dirty Harry movie?
Now, I have mad respect for Clint Eastwood pushing these women around and treating them poorly, but why, o why even have them in the movie in the first place? Why let them in the door? Why not impregnate them and send them home?
Seriously.
Because Clint Eastwood – Clint Eastwood! -- couldn’t resist. He couldn’t say no, even when he knew for damn sure it was a massive, fife-or-death mistake.
Garbage in, garbage out. You can’t indulge in the love and idolization of women all day every day year after year and still have a proper space n your heart for God, our Father in Heaven.
God, give us strength.
Here ends Part I of our series. In Part II we’ll discuss the corruption of the sciences, and how a fake science called “anthropology” was deployed to convince Christian men who should know better, that women, of all things, were the root and source of civilization. Hang onto your hats, fellas!
Lance Peckerwood is Senior editor at Large for Dies Irae, a chronicle of the Outpouring of God’s Wrath upon the earth and items of general interest to Christian men. Send him mail.
Speaking of pussies, here's a good laugh...
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/11/06/no-hope-for-our-future/
The Dirty Harry clip, tho... lmao
Yuri Bezmenov identified the shit-show we call America back in the early 80's. The Cloward-Piven Strategy had been in full swing for twenty years prior.
America is done.
Our elections are shit, and the leaders produced by them are even shittier. Your article on being unable to vote our way out is spot on. Even if we had fair elections, the result is the same.
Our public schools and universities have vomited a new generation of well-indoctrinated useful idiots, and there's no way to re-educate them. The look on their faces when they too, are told to face the wall will be priceless.
All I can say is prep now and prep hard.
1923 Weimar Republic will look like a garden party before they're done here.
Even so, Lord Jesus, come