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Mar 3, 2023·edited Mar 4, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Great post. The airport is the regime's Cathedral.

It is also a giant humiliation ritual. The people who work the security-theatre line are barely the dregs of society. It is a jobs program in the states largely for blacks. In Denmark and London and major American cities, the taxpayer has to get frisked down and treated with disdain by a rabble that otherwise would be idling on a street corner. They get a guaranteed job and a cushy retirement awaits at 55.

In 2005 or 2006 when they introduced the express line for the business traveler - the ones who could pay to skip the line I knew we were headed for this evil split society. We were in the midst of the Great War on Terror yet there was no shared sacrifice. It was clearly a farce. Yet none of us rose up in outrage. We kicked the ground and accepted our place, thinking it would be the worst of it.

An airport is a humiliation ritual, for those whose heart is driven by the Faustian spirit, who holds a healthy defiance and is filled with the desire to walk with dignity and maintain the nobility of their God given soul. Still, it is better to be humiliated and maintain a defiant scorn than to be so degraded as to not mind the security theater line and happily indulge in the bliss of Designer Duty Free.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Theodore Kaczynski was the prophet to all of this dehumanization. The "crazy" ones are always the ones who voice the truth against what the system is.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Lovely post. I too am old enough to remember what air travel was like before 9/11. The time at the airport, wandering around the Duty Free or buying your suncream - no one in Northern Ireland called in ‘sunscreen’ and no one in Northern Ireland bothered using it except for going on ‘foreign holidays’ - it was all part of the experience. If we were travelling to mainland U.K., we’d make use of the airport cash machine that dispensed Bank of England notes as the retailers in England never wanted our weird Northern Irish banknotes. After 9/11 it all changed. It was dehumanising and atomising; everyone was treated as a suspect. All the little moments of pleasure were sucked out of it. I have to travel from Australia to the the U.K. later this year; I’m dreading the airports. It will have also been the first time I’ve flown internationally since we non-Covid vaxxed were permitted back into that world. I can’t face putting myself and my children through it, but I’m also aware that the next lockdowns will be climate lockdowns - how much longer will they even allow us access to this globalist cathedral? The airport has become a place where the ugly face of globalist power is stripped bare.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Yes to jelly in the pork pies

No to fat Asian men staring at my nipples

This is my campaign platform

Thank You

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Morgoth

I've come to the conclusion that modern travel is deliberately designed to make you not want to travel. Passing through Manchester airport last summer that was the only logical explanation I could come up with for the incompetence of the staff I witnessed and the conditions they made travellers endure. They want you to see travel as such an ordeal where anything could go wrong at any moment that you decide the weekend away just isn't worth the hassle compared to staying at home.

But for that reason it's imperative that we continue to travel despite the ritual humiliation and I salute you for doing so and hope you enjoyed your trip to my homeland!

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Mar 3, 2023·edited Mar 3, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Brilliant essay! The Orwellian and the Huxleyian often work in mutually reinforcing cahoots in our increasingly insane world.

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I am now flying with a little toddler and the inhumanity multiplies. I’ve had my daughter crying scared trying to scape for her mum while a fat Muslim woman wrangled with her to scan her for explosives. Then my father instincts kicked in and I also began to shout at them so I could go to my kid to console her and even security had to come in. I’ve never felt such rage and fedposting would not cover what I wanted to do at that time.

That time I began to not just despise but hate. If the Chinese, the Russians or even the Mulahs come I’m not going to care one bit as long as human decency is restored.

We’ve reached the point where I no longer want to save this. I want it gone. What’s worth saving is already in museums. Whoever comes first trying to conquer this, I’m siding with them out of spite.

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This touches on something we often wish to forget, that even we antimoderns are suckers for advertising, we're just another niche to be accommodated. "Suave men in Barbour Jackets" are all it takes to genuinely grip my interest and likely some of my money.

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I flew out of Boston the first day it was reopened after 9/11, Boston being the airport the hijackers departed from. I had flown out recently prior to 9/11 but that day? The lines were hours long and men with rifles were standing in the terminal like we were in a third world banana republic. Air travel was unpleasant before but after 9/11 it became intolerable.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Morgoth

I have not on airplane traveled since 2010, I couldn’t take the humiliation anymore. Try traveling with a disabled person. You’ll see all kinds of abuse.

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Tony Blair will not be halted, death cannot stop him, until every place is the the airport.

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A good read, thanks. I was a regular Atlantic crosser until the psy-op slowed me down. I recognised all your points, not your nipples, no, your points😀 it's the slow drip-drip-drip of Agenda 30, designed to drive us away from air-travel etc.

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I started to like small to tiny airports. Sometimes they try very hard to fit in with the homogeneous mass of modern airports, but they never quite manage. You walk through the door promising security screening, and see the same guy who five minutes before was opening the barrier to the parking, and there is nothing but force of habit stopping you from just walking past it in the first place. The ramp workers double as customer service. The airport cafe is just a cafe.

The whole thing feels like the mask is slipping a bit, making the 'normal' airport experience that much more pointless and surreal.

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I don't do all the accoutrements of the modern liberal metrosexual man, so I have zero interest in all the faux glitzy outlets.

I find the whole flying thing a bit off-kilter.

I am just grateful the fucking thing takes off and lands in one piece and my luggage doesn't end up in another country.

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Mar 7, 2023Liked by Morgoth

I'm just travelling through Bangkok Airport and I've never seen so much shopping glaring in my face sheer white glow drawing you in. Also the seating is an absolute joke and haven't seen anything like it. One level is all shopping discricts then the level below is meant to be seating but instead is just executive lounges ranging from 30 dollars to god knows what for the top range one.

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Prompted me to wonder if getting blind drunk during this process is a way sticking two fingers up at the non -place. Perhaps the great unwashed are truly great.

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