Fish Eaters: The Whys and Hows of Traditional Catholicism

``Where the Bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be;
even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church'' Ignatius of Antioch, 1st c. A.D

Culture Jamming


  



The Left has been using "culture jamming" techniques for a long time. Much of what they do is illegal or immoral, and much is plain ridiculous (read about some of the "happenings" of the 1970s, for ex.). But the basic idea is sound, and it's time traditionalists and conservatives got busy. We are the new counter-culture, so act like it. But do it the Christian way: start any project with prayer, obey the law, never do anything immoral, clean up after yourselves, show the love of Christ, etc. Also, dress well -- not fancy, but well. Look "cool"; don't be dowdy-looking.

Always have literature, business cards with URLs printed on them, etc. to give to people so they can get real information that'd guide their thinking toward sanity.

Film and photograph whatever it is you're doing so it can be put on Youtube, Rumble, Twitter, and other social media and make a greater impact. Remember that the goal is to change minds and hearts -- but not necessarily just those of the people immediately around you: be aware of the the minds and hearts of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who might be watching things online later.



Artivism:

Use art to shake things up and get people thinking or feeling. Leftists have been doing this for years. On the Right, we have a street artist named Sabo. Look into what he does, and do your own thing. Some examples of his work:





Memes:

You know what memes are. Make them, use them, spread them around!


2-minute Videos:

Make short, powerful, well-made videos that pack a huge punch. Spread on Youtube, Bitchute, Rumble, Twitter, Gab, Facebook, Odysee, Tik-Tok (but do not hang out on Tik-Tok!), etc.

Ex. While an appropriate bit of music plays and old pictures of happy families are being shown, a voice-over says "I know some things were bad before, in years past. But I've heard old people talk about living through the Depression, saying that though they were poor, they were happy, and that they wouldn't have changed a thing about their childhoods. People grew up, got married, had nice, big families. They sat around the same table at dinner, they had fun, they traveled. They were able to buy houses. They didn't die alone. What's happened? Everything feels so -- crazy. Nothing's making any sense. I'm afraid." The video ends with a URL. The URL is posted also underneath the video, in the video description, when possible.


Jam pronouns:

Refuse to play the pronoun game, and make it hard for those who do. Don't go along with the "pronoun agenda"! Don't use others' special pronouns (at least not non-satirically), and don't give yours as the normal ones if asked what your pronouns are. Both of those things amount to acquiescence, to compliance. Do these things instead:

If you are asked your pronouns, make up something ridiculous or hard to pronounce -- and change them periodically as your "non-binary, varying queer identity" meanders at whim. Feign anger when your pronouns are misused or ignored. Threaten to report those who refuse to use your pronouns. Do report them. Cranks things up to eleven, and use their own rules against them!

Another option: use the pronouns "I/Me/My" so that whoever speaks about you is forced to sound as if he's speaking about himself and sounds illiterate in the process (for ex., your opponent wants to tell others that you're a fascist tool, but is forced to say "I is a fascist tool." Or he wants to say to someone else about you "Don't talk to him; he's a Nazi," but is forced to say "Don't talk to me; I is a Nazi."

Or use "preferred pronouns" that are politically incorrect: e.g., "My pronouns are AllLivesMatter/CommunismKills."

Try this if you want to be annoying: use your interlocutor's name as your pronouns. E.g., Jenny asks you your pronouns. Tell her your pronouns are "Jenny" and "Jennyself."

Or, when asked for your pronouns, simply reply with "I am a man" if you are a man, or "I am a woman" if you are a woman. If they ask again, repeat yourself: "I am a man" or "I am a woman." Force them back to reality.

When asked to use someone else's special pronouns, use that person's name instead as a replacement. Ex. someone named Andrew Brown says his pronouns are "Xir and xim." Instead of saying "Xir was at the store and lost xim's wallet" say "Andrew Brown was at the store and lost Andrew Brown's wallet." Use full names whenever possible to make it more annoying. Do this in writing as well if you're told you must submit to "the pronoun thing."

Another option is to use their pronouns only with a certain tone in the voice and with literal "air quotes."

Consider using the third person singular verb conjugation when expected to use "they" to refer to a single, known individual -- e.g., "This is Elliot. They is the head cashier."

Yet another option is to insert the word "not" before the pronoun someone's demanding you use (e.g., "I gave it to not xim"). If you live in a place where the law dictates using others' preferred pronouns, adding "not" is a work-around (they can't fine you for saying "not," can they?)


Jam Land Acknowledgments:

If you're expected to make one of those land acknowledgments, tell everyone you're speaking on lands once known as Pangaea, home of the Pangaean people, ancestors of us all ( Pangaea is the original supercontinent whence the other continents came).

Or go through a true litany of land-owners: "this land was once the land of the X people, who got it from the Y people, who conquered the Z people, etc."


Flash Mobs:

Use art to get people's attention in out-of-the-blue ways. Ex., get a group together to randomly sing Gregorian chant or sacred polyphony on a campus. Have business cards ready with URLs to relevant websites where they can learn more about traditionalism.


Happenings/Invisible Theater:

Though these two things are supposed to be different, they're really not. Think of them as street drama with a purpose.

Ex. On a busy day on a college campus, with no announcements or warning, have a group of people slowly stack shoe boxes in an exacting manner, as if they are laying bricks to make a large wall. If possible, use at least two differently-colored shoeboxes and lay them in an artistic way -- alternating colors, etc. All the while, against a backdrop of medieval music or Gregorian chant, someone reads text about how the great cathedrals were built, the amount of time it took, the labor and creativity involved, and describes the beauty of some of those cathedrals and their art. Once the wall is built, have someone else come by and quickly knock it all down. Everyone shouts: "It takes years or even centuries to build; it takes seconds to destroy. Treasure what you've been given!" (It goes without saying that all the boxes should be cleaned up afterward.)

Ex. Free Compliment Booth: Set up a booth with a sign that says "Free Compliments." When someone approaches, give them a (true) compliment, and end with "and you're a child of God whose life has deep meaning and purpose." Then hand them a card with a URL that leads to a website that explains what that very Catholic meaning is.

Ex. Emulate Steven Crowder's "Change My Mind" segments on college campuses, in parks, etc.


Jam identity politics:

Shake people out of their complacency about identity politics. As an example, look at what the comedian Alex Stein does by assuming a leftist persona and showing up at City Council and school board meetings and being completely ridiculous by taking leftist premises to their logical conclusions, all with a straight face.

Ex. Make a "happening" by getting Catholics and other traditionalists or conservatives of various ethinic backgrounds and skin tones -- Asian, African, European, Latino, continental Indian, etc. (an ethnically-varied cast is crucial; the stunt won't work without it!) -- and having them dress in a garbled mish-mash of culturally identifiable articles of clothing -- e.g., an African person might wear a sari, sombrero, and cowboy boots while a white person might wear dred locks, lederhosen, and a Chinese coolie hat, etc. Have them hurl good-natured, hilarious ethnic jokes at each other which are received with laughter (the jokes have to be funny!). At the end, hold up signs that read "Learn to laugh at yourself"; "Humility!"; "Humor!"; "Love isn't blind"; etc., while singing "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." And make the singing of the sweet but simple kid song about Jesus beautiful; use harmony and give it a beat.


Advertising and Billboards:

As an example, a group called "Citizens for Sanity" have run the following ads and billboards:
  • "With great age comes great wisdom. And Joe Biden is old enough to know that men get pregnant too. Stand tall for progressive values this fall.” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ad)
  • “Don’t let the radical right put our neighborhood street gangs behind bars. Support Joe Biden & Progressive Candidates.” (Phoenix, AZ Billboard)
  • “Biology is bigotry. No one is born a woman.” (Milwaukee, WI Billboard)
  • “Violent criminals deserve our compassion and respect. This fall, stand strong for progressive values.” (Philadelphia, PA Billboard)
  • “Restore Voting Rights for gender fluid shapeshifting pansexuals.” (Greensoboro, NC Billboard)
  • “Vote to keep our borders, jails, and bathrooms open. Vote Progressive.” (Albuquerque, NM Billboard)
  • “Real progressives support violent criminals in their hour of need.” (Phoenix, AZ Billboard)
  • “If you don’t like being mugged then YOU are the problem.” (New York, NY Billboard)
Make up flyers, print business cards with informative URLs on them, buy a QR code people can scan to get to important URLs and put the code in busy spaces, rent a pilot to do sky-writing for you, etc. Get creative!


Become a whistleblower: record them, get them on film:

If you're in a class with a prog professor, record everything. If you're in high school with a prog teacher, record it all. If you have to attend some woke meeting of some type, record it. If you find something particularly interesting, get it to the O'Keefe Media Group (https://okeefemediagroup.com/), Libs of Tik-Tok (https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok), Andy Ngo (https://linktr.ee/andyngo), Michael Knowles (https://www.michaeljknowles.com/), Matt Walsh (https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog), Tim Pool (https://timcast.com/), Steven Crowder (https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/), and others with megaphones.


Dealing with Leftists in general:
  • Don't try to reason with them; they're unreasonable. Don't expect them to care about their hypocrisy; they're  hypocrites and shameless about it (from Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals": "In the politics of human life, consistency is not a virtue."). Only put real emotional energy into a discussion with them when there is an audience (even if the audience is a camera). Keep in mind that it is the audience you are trying to reach.

  • Know what Cluster B personality disorders are (narcissism, borderline, histrionic, antisocial personality disorders), learn how such characters operate, and don't fall for their games.

  • Never apologize to them, at least unless you truly do something horribly wrong that is an actual offense; it just chums the waters. They don't see it as grace, but as weakness -- as a victory over you, and an invitation to make further attacks.

  • Never try to appease their feelings; they're emotionally disordered anyway; there is nothing you can do to fix them aside from prayer.

  • Use humor. Have a twinkle in your eye. Progs are hilarious. Mock them. (And do call them "progs." It's an ugly-sounding word, short for "progressives").
     
  • Divide and conquer by pitting them against each other. This is an easy thing to do since the Left has been fragmenting into ever smaller identity groups. Pit the "TERFs" against the gender activists, the male liberals against the female liberals, this ethnic group against that one, etc.

  • Use satire to "agree and amplify": feign agreement with one of their premises, then crank it up to eleven. Ex.Someone says "A woman shouldn't have to carry around her rapist's baby!" You say "Oh, totally. We should find all the offspring of rapists and get rid of 'em. Or lock 'em up in prison or something. Keep them off Twitter at least. SOMETHING'S gotta be done with the evil bastards!!" Remember that your goal is to reach the audience, not the person you're arguing with. Make them laugh! Show the utter ridiculousness of prog thought. Try telling a progressive woman that she reminds you so, SO much of (insert the name of a masculine-looking "transwoman"); there's nothing she can say about it without harming her cause.

  • Never try to counter their accusations and slurs outside of trying to reach any audience who may be watching. When they call you names, treat the name-calling like water off a duck's back. It is air. It is nothing. Agree with them even -- ex. If someone calls you a fascist, just say "well, sure, by your definition. But anyway.." and continue on.


  • Sometimes it's necessary to go "gray rock" on them. Play emotionally dead, give them one word answers, do nothing that allows them to feed on your "psychic energy," invites them to keep arguing, or gives them an opportunity to find some "dirt" on you. Don't explain, don't argue, don't question; give them simple one word answers ("yes" or no" or "OK") with no display of emotion whatsoever, not even mild annoyance. 

    "You have to participate in this consciousness-raising session."

    "No."

    "You're racist if you don't attend."

    "OK."

    "You don't care about racism?!"

    "No."

    Give them nothing, not even a sassy facial expression. You're a gray rock. This will annoy and likely confuse them. They will have no way to respond except to get louder and more hysterical and then, finally, get frustrated so that they leave you alone.

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