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Radnorian

Jac sees Globalism and Wokeness as alien to Western culture, but is this true? The Russian philosopher Dugin sees Fascism, Bolshevism and Liberalism as three Western isms that fought out the twentieth century leaving Liberalism as the victor, which now seeks to impose its values on other civilisations – Orthodoxy, Islamic societies, China (the CPC owing far more to Confucianism than Lenin) India etc.

Further Dugin sees Wokeism as the logical outcome of Liberalism, which places the individual above the wider community. If the individual can choose or reject their religion, nation, sexuality then why not their gender or ultimately their very humanity (transhumanism). Just like Fascism and Bolshevism Liberalism will use the organs of the state to impose its world view. This is what is happening to the West and which it seeks to impose on societies which hold to different paths of modernity – the multipolar world.

While Jac sees Wokeism as a Bolshevik imposition, isn’t it part and parcel of the nihilism inherent in Liberalism, the rejection of traditional values – the family, the nation and community?

Where does this leave Wales, as part of a West hurrying to throw everything on the bonfire? I don’t know, localism or perhaps Saunders Lewis was ahead of his time with his ideas of perchentyaeth and a revised Catholicism. White nationalism certainly doesn’t fit the bill.

MR DAVID HASKELL

Utter Chaos – the writings on the wall

They say every cloud has a silver lining and thus Storm Gerrit must be the ‘writing on the wall’ for weather dependent offshore wind generation disciples. Indeed, supporters such as Dr Jonathan F Dean, Director of the charity Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) and who champions large scale offshore wind generation, must surely be reassessing their position in the light of over 30,000 having lost power in Ceredigion, Wales – many others across the UK also lost power. In Ayrshire the blades were torn off a wind generator, which then burst into flames in high winds – as my wife (daughter of a Welsh sea captain) and any mariner will tell Dr Dean and CPRW, worst things happen at sea.

Where we live in Ceredigion we not only lost our mains electricity for a while, but at breakfast time there were no digital (DAB) radio services, although FM was still available.

It takes little imagination to recognise the utter chaos that would result if the UK was predominantly reliant on weather dependent electricity generation, and the horrors that would be inflicted on our modern society. Additionally, large scale wind generation will require more pylons, which will make the electricity network much more susceptible to solar storms such as the 1989 Quebec power outage.

For the foreseeable future we should be employing the relatively cheap, quick to build gas-fired and efficient power stations of the CCGT type, complimented with hydro and tidal schemes. There should be a 10 year plan for electricity from orbit to complement existing television from space – of course fusion being the holy grail of power generation. Let us hope Dr Dean and CPRW see sense in 2024, and may I wish readers a Happy New YEAR.

Wynne

Thanks for all your excellent blog posts in 2023 Jac. Have a well-earned break over the Christmas period. Look forward to future articles in 2024.

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.