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DarkNotes: Monopoly

In its history and even in its gameplay, Monopoly has always been an anti-capitalistic indoctrination tool. It glorifies submission to central banking and the State while treating competition in free markets as nothing but a hateful exercise of ruination against your fellow man. Try to cooperate? Other players howl collusion. "Land" on the property of another? You are forced to pay without receiving any benefit from exchange. That is to say that the Georgist, original intent of the game remains: to leave the contestants believing that any sound recognition of property rights (from which all other inalienable rights are mere descriptors) renders individuals throughout the rest of the world as nothing but aggressors and trespassers. When Oak Parkers are not busy defending their collective right to monopolize land use according to the richest Oak Parkers' tastes, they are busy arguing about just how democratic their democracy should be. The rabbi class wants less. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.tridentinebrewing.com BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX!

No Pusillanimity Here

"Peace is the tranquility of order." That's damn straight, St. Augustine! And, a good God wills that we live in the happiness and mirth of that order, one in which we are called to make manifest the Kingdom of God by loving and cooperating with our neighbor. It is not primitive man, only in the state of nature, that we attain such natural heights, but in true civilization which is nothing but approved and binding adherence to Revelation and Tradition. Be gone--again!--thievery, betrayal, mendacity, avarice, pride and pusillanimity... Return--again!--cooperation, friendship, honesty, temperance, humility and magnanimity... Oak Parkers walk the tightrope of being optically inclusive, really exclusive and always "democratic". *The guys preview next week's episode which will feature a Darknotes take on the boardgame, MONOPOLY. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER--www.tridentinebrewing.com. BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER--www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX!

The Free Will Zone

Mayor Zohran found time away from his busy schedule of talking tough publicly against Netanyahu and the Israel cabal but then kissing their local asses behind-the-scenes, so as to promote his counter-reality grocery stores. They promise to be the DMV and post office of food conveyance. Socialism does indeed suck. The U.S. Post Office announces a running deficit that exceeds the going rate of regime change wars, but no one has the gumption to dismantle the boondoggle. St. Ephrem the Syrian reminds us of the centrality of a well-informed, grace-directed and nonetheless FREE will. Progressives and elites recoil at the notion because, in the end, their worldview is driven by their megalomania and disgust for the choices of those "below" them. Oak Parker debate over just how much the government should control who gets to live next to them while ensuring that Oak Park remains the thinly-veiled, exclusive, old-money country club it has always been. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.tridentinebrewing.com. BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX!

Ashes Fall Down

The State continues to play the roles of arsonist and firefighter--albeit a poor one--up in Canada to the environmental and respiratory health of those of us to the South. What would anarcho-capitalists do to resolve the problem of air pollution, in this case coming in the form of wildfire smog? Turns out, the great Murray Rothbard penned an essay on just this topic. Privatization and incentive would likely eliminate the conditions by which these destructive conflagrations rage. Oak Park certainly has no shortage of flamers, and one was sent as a reporter to spy in on the Society of Saint Pius X church there. Errors abound from there. An Indian Oak Parker is appreciative that, after an injurious fall, paramedics did not take him to West Suburban Hospital because no one would have been there to give him treatment. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.tridentinebrewing.com BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX!

The BIG Fumble

In the fullness of time in history, wherein so many nefarious forces have revealed their methods and their claws all at once--from socialism, COVID, Epstein, globalists, war-mongers, Zionists, and the rest of the cabals--the Catholic Church had the opportunity of opportunities to promote and defend Divine Majesty and human dignity in light of the Incarnation. And, she totally dropped the ball. At least, the ape church with its whorish antipopes and their lackeys did. The webbed institutions of official church continue limping on, leading sheep away from the salvific Faith and into the laps of wolves. Do graced inquiring minds and potential converts possess both the imagination and courage to take one more leap; namely that the so-called visible, official apparatus is not where the Holy Ghost resides? Do they have the fortitude to be truly Catholic? Meanwhile, the CCP in China is walking and chewing gum at the same time. Chinese patriotic catholics do not get excommunicated for elevating their own, commie-approved bishops, and Beijing encourages explosive innovations which provide solace in the mist (pun intended) of woe (and heat). Oak Parkers learn their own brand of austerity from yet more outside advisors while still ensuring the bankruptcy of the village's future generations who still prefer to ride their bikes and scooters on crumbling sidewalks. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.tridentinebrewing.com BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX!