In his book (in 2011), Le Grand Remplacement, Renaud Camus wrote (paraphrase):

Everything is replaced by something else. The original by the copy, the object by its facsimile, writers by intellectuals, stone is replaced by concrete, literature is replaced by journalism, journalism is replaced by information, information by fake news, Venice by Venice in Las Vagas, man is replaced by woman, man and woman are replaced by robots, robots are replaced by cyborgs, and maybe humanity is replaced by post-humanity or trans humanity. I do think replacement is central to the modern society. The fake is at the heart of global replacement. This is a world where everything is the imitation of what things should be.

I don’t agree with everything Camus says, but the above tends to strike a chord when one perceives the external world and the great push for radical, negative, anti-Western Civilization changes, all “for the better of Mankind”.

In 2017, the Irish leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin, said Ireland wants “nothing to do with a backward-looking idea of sovereignty.” This comment followed England’s exit from the EU, ‘Brexit’.

In the video clip of Martin’s unpatriotic comments for change, someone wrote that this is shocking in the extreme, because Ireland spent many years resisting the imperialist conquest by Britain of its territory and people and lost many sons and daughters in the process. Independence was finally achieved (for 26 counties) only for its politicians to cede its sovereignty to the unelected EU. The EU today is very different to that which Ireland originally joined. The comment concluded with, “Time for Ireland to honour all those who died in pursuit of becoming an independent country and to reclaim its sovereignty.”

Ireland, now, is unrecognisable from what it looked like 10 years ago, and its capital city, Dublin, looks like it’s population is 90% non-national migrants, many of whom entered the country with no documentation and were given free housing and welfare, while indigenous Irish citizens are now deemed second-class citizens. The same applies to the UK, France, and most of Western Europe, which have all gone through dramatic changes.

As for humanoid robots changing our lives: Browse through the numerous high-quality, well-researched articles in Mind Matters to witness the push for a world dominated by AI and other hi-technologies.

One of the ways to prime us for changes is the annoying trend of supermarkets regularly rearranging the food stuff in aisles to other sections of the store. Even in most TV adverts, they portray a world that’s fake and not things we hold dear in the cultural traditions of yore.

Then, compared to beautiful buildings, there is the inversion of grotesque Brutalist architecture and giant glass-house structures which trigger feelings of nausea in people with imagination who reflect on the shapes of things throughout cityscapes. Camus was right about stone replaced by concrete jungles. New York City is the exception, with some fine Art Deco skyscrapers, where the architecture fits in and does not obstruct classic stone structures.

Camus’s other observations are laid bare for us to see and hear: Information is replaced by fake mainstream news media and broadcast ‘journalism’; literature replaced by AI slop; man and woman are replaced by robots, especially in the workplace, as well as for lonely hearts’ types who fail to romantically connect with human contact.

In meme culture, when people say everything is “fake and gay”, it refers to some of the above, as well as the bastardization of traditional grammar in the Western world. Sticks and stones might break your bones, but some words can destroy your career or have you killed.

The inversion of everyday language was never so tyrannical and/or taboo. Even when some taboo words are replaced by other words in hidden grammar, a person can be accused of ‘dog whistling’.

As for Modern ‘Art’: A banana stuck to a gallery wall with duct tape, called Comedian, is regarded as a work of art. According to hit-and-miss website Wikipedia, following a highly publicised tour and bidding, Comedian sold at Sotheby’s during “The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction” on 20 November 2024 for US$5,200,000 ($6,240,000 after fees), well above its $1,000,000–$1,500,000 estimate. Comedian (artwork) – Wikipedia.

A lot of this imitation of life nonsense comes from the far left. Intelligent people like traditional culture and are resistant to change. There are various reasons for this, one of which is fear of the unknown and the uncertainty it might bring.

Positive changes are a must, but changes usually bring negative results. We can see this in changes in our objective moral duties and values, especially in the push to normalize twisted gender ideology, good and evil. Isaiah 5:20 nailed it during the 8th century BC:

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Another good example of evil being a good thing is “progressive” Canada’s solution to normal human problems by way of death. If it goes down its slippery slope of euthanasia pathways, it’s only a matter of time that suicide pods will be like vending machines in corporate buildings or street corners where an unhappy, physically healthy person can zap their visa card and sit inside while a female voiceover gives safety instructions before one ‘kicks the bucket’, If you’ll excuse the gallows humour.

Like the devil, the changemakers never sleep. These so-called do-gooders are defined well in a famous quote by C.S. Lewis, when he said:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep; his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.