I like your podcast because I love reading and I am also a Christian so really appreciate what you are doing. I am writing to you with a heavy heart - full of anger and grief over the interview you did with Will Tanner on Rhodesia. I was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. I grew up when the bush war was raging hot. My family was impacted badly by it. My older brothers stopped going to school (8km walk one way - 16kms to and fro) due to the harrassment of White Rhodesian soldiers who would stop and accuse them of being terrorist, insisting that they were old enough to go to work on the farm instead of wasting time with education. Our homestead was on the farm where my dad worked and was raided pretty much every night, everyone was ordered outside and IDs were checked as names were called out. Beatings were common if one was found without an ID as that was a sign that you were a terrorist. Rhodesia was hell for black people. For Will Tanner to present a picture that it was paradise and a bastion of Western civilisation is being disingenious and economical with the truth - or choosing to be ignorant. For me hearing that was like a Jew hearing a member of Gestapo saying Germany was paradise at the height of Nazi rule. There is two sides to a story. You in that interview focused on one man who is obviously inthralled with the history of white supremacy because thats what Rhodesia continues to inspire to this day. There is another side. Africans resisted white rule in Rhodesia right from the beginning. There is a reason for that. The reason is that white rule from the start was oppressive, racist and cruel. I challenge you to be fair and give your listeners a chance to hear the other side of the story. The African side of Rhodesia. Then they can decide if Rhodesia was indeed a bastion of Christian western civilisation. Surely it shouldn't be difficult to find one Zimbabwean who grew up in Rhodesia to tell you the truth. If you cannot find one, I am here. I am in the UK but technology can bridge that gap easily!
There is hardly any civilization left any more. The end of civilization or the old world order (such as it was) was dramatized on the blood-soaked-slaughter-fields of Europe during the two world wars.
WW1 began that destructive Process. WW2 which was an extension of WW1 finished it off.
At another more primal level sinners, who are by self-definition entirely Godless always, sooner of later create hell on Earth - have you really read the news?
Put in another was the wages and applied doings (or business) of sinners is death.
The Christian West (in particular) has always dramatized the deeply psychotic Wetiko mind-virus onto the world stage. That collective psychosis has now reached its inevitable destiny/momentum.
Thank you for the education about an area of the world I knew little about. Really insane how little any government can be trusted and yet, people still want the government to solve their problems.
"The freedom to flourish. There is a great deal to be accomplished just by recognizing nature and building a society around that." So very true!!!
Fascinating. I love Zimbabwe. Visited twice. I didn’t know these nuances in its decolonisation story. It’s fascinating how the West has selective amnesia for injustice and tyranny when perpetrated by non whites, be it in Gaza, Zimbabwe, Iran or Sudan. Once an ‘ethnic’ is in power looting and tyrannising the country, the West and all the NGOs lose total interest and it may as well have never happened.
Just finishing “against the machine” by Paul Kingsnorth.
Awesome book. Would be great for the club.
Sounds interesting… I’ll talk to the team.
Fantastic job, gentlemen!
Thank you, Sir!
The CIA has rarely been on the right side of anything.
I like your podcast because I love reading and I am also a Christian so really appreciate what you are doing. I am writing to you with a heavy heart - full of anger and grief over the interview you did with Will Tanner on Rhodesia. I was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. I grew up when the bush war was raging hot. My family was impacted badly by it. My older brothers stopped going to school (8km walk one way - 16kms to and fro) due to the harrassment of White Rhodesian soldiers who would stop and accuse them of being terrorist, insisting that they were old enough to go to work on the farm instead of wasting time with education. Our homestead was on the farm where my dad worked and was raided pretty much every night, everyone was ordered outside and IDs were checked as names were called out. Beatings were common if one was found without an ID as that was a sign that you were a terrorist. Rhodesia was hell for black people. For Will Tanner to present a picture that it was paradise and a bastion of Western civilisation is being disingenious and economical with the truth - or choosing to be ignorant. For me hearing that was like a Jew hearing a member of Gestapo saying Germany was paradise at the height of Nazi rule. There is two sides to a story. You in that interview focused on one man who is obviously inthralled with the history of white supremacy because thats what Rhodesia continues to inspire to this day. There is another side. Africans resisted white rule in Rhodesia right from the beginning. There is a reason for that. The reason is that white rule from the start was oppressive, racist and cruel. I challenge you to be fair and give your listeners a chance to hear the other side of the story. The African side of Rhodesia. Then they can decide if Rhodesia was indeed a bastion of Christian western civilisation. Surely it shouldn't be difficult to find one Zimbabwean who grew up in Rhodesia to tell you the truth. If you cannot find one, I am here. I am in the UK but technology can bridge that gap easily!
There is hardly any civilization left any more. The end of civilization or the old world order (such as it was) was dramatized on the blood-soaked-slaughter-fields of Europe during the two world wars.
WW1 began that destructive Process. WW2 which was an extension of WW1 finished it off.
At another more primal level sinners, who are by self-definition entirely Godless always, sooner of later create hell on Earth - have you really read the news?
Put in another was the wages and applied doings (or business) of sinners is death.
The Christian West (in particular) has always dramatized the deeply psychotic Wetiko mind-virus onto the world stage. That collective psychosis has now reached its inevitable destiny/momentum.
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/undreaming-wetiko-introduction
Thank you for the education about an area of the world I knew little about. Really insane how little any government can be trusted and yet, people still want the government to solve their problems.
"The freedom to flourish. There is a great deal to be accomplished just by recognizing nature and building a society around that." So very true!!!
I now need to read this book!
Fascinating. I love Zimbabwe. Visited twice. I didn’t know these nuances in its decolonisation story. It’s fascinating how the West has selective amnesia for injustice and tyranny when perpetrated by non whites, be it in Gaza, Zimbabwe, Iran or Sudan. Once an ‘ethnic’ is in power looting and tyrannising the country, the West and all the NGOs lose total interest and it may as well have never happened.
I knew a white woman who grew up in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe - impossible to build a business there.