Who were the Pilgrims?

I had forgotten that I followed @Senghendrake on Twitter for some reason. Hmmmm. I’ll bet this was the reason:

16th century: any man can be a priest.
18th century: any man can be a king.
21st century: any man can be a woman.

— ☩Senghendrake☩ (@Senghendrake) September 25, 2016

I’m going to assume Senghendrake is a guy. He describes himself as “The Catholic reactionary your elementary school catlady warned you about. Deus, Rex, Patria. Moose Country”.

He kinda trolled folks on Thanksgiving by retweeting Immortal Duck:

American schools never teach you WHY the pilgrims were so disliked in England, and that there were a lot of really terrific reasons for it

— Immortal Duck (@Jokeocrazy) November 23, 2017

boomer: “they came to America for freedom”
me: “no they came to America because they had murdered the King after a leftist revolution and it eventually got awkward af”

— Immortal Duck (@Jokeocrazy) November 23, 2017

I suppose @Senghendrake+ and Immortal Duck are Russian nerd operatives trying to destroy motherhood, apple pie and the flag, but it’s more fun to imagine real people being this contrary.

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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)

There is no epistemological Switzerland. (Via Mars Hill Audio Journal Volume 134)

Some succinct standing advice on recurring themes.