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Another day, another article written in response to an act of desecration and vandalism perpetrated by those who seek to spoil whatever is left of that thing we once could call “Western Civilization.” Honestly, I was reluctant to write this. After having typed thousands of words on the exhausting farce that was the recent European Cup, perhaps I can be forgiven for not having the muster to write about yet another attack on our race, our culture, our traditions, and our senses. As I wrote in my essay on EURO 2024, life in the West today is like fighting on the parapets of a fortress as wave after wave of enemy soldiers relentlessly scales the walls.
As you might have already surmised, I am talking about the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics. I didn’t watch the thing live. I’ve never been very interested in opening ceremonies, half-time shows, or anything similar, but despite my indifference, it was impossible to avoid being exposed to this ocular assault.
The opening ceremony was almost a parody of extreme liberalism. I don’t think the artistic director responsible for creating the performance, Thomas Jolly, could have filled it with more transvestites, drag queens, obese women, negroes, and circus freaks, simply because he had used up all the supply.
Rather than having the opening ceremony take place within the confines of a stadium, Jolly had the admirably ambitious idea to have it performed all over Paris, while the nations of the world’s athletes floated by on boats down the Seine. This meant that there were many jump-cuts from one standalone act to another, and it only served to heighten that sense of being under unabated barrage.
The opening ceremony opening act set the tone immediately. After some tricolore fireworks, we were transported to the Conciergerie where Jolly and Co. had a macabre sight waiting for us: an actress depicting a decapitated Marie Antoinette, holding her head in her hands while standing at a window of the very place where the real woman was held captive before her execution, sang the opening lines of a song by heavy metal band Gojira.
From that ghoulish “celebration” of murderous bloodlust, the next act was a troupe of shuckin’ and jivin’ blacks contorting their bodies while a French military band looked on with faces that seemed to betray an innate disgust.
Right from the first minutes of the opening ceremony, it became clear what we were in for, but even the most battle-scarred veteran of the culture wars was not prepared for the full might of the “woke” onslaught that was about to be unleashed.
Having already treated them to the “culture” of France’s African interlopers, Jolly gave the global audience another not-very-subtle display of the modern liberal’s negrophilia and fetish for replacing whites with blacks. This time, an afro’d African woman apparently meant to represent Marianne belted out La Marseillaise.
But that was nothing compared to the coup de grâce. As darkness began to fall over Paris, a seemingly endless parade of people so ugly that even Federico Fellini would have grimaced upon looking at them strutted their stuff on stages designed to look like fashion-show runways, until the camera ultimately descended on what would become the most talked about “vignette” of the night. I am, of course, describing the “Last Supper mockery.”
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I know you’ve seen the pictures, if you didn’t already see the live presentation. It was grotesque, and intentionally so. It was an ostentatious adoration of the ugly, the unhealthy, and the repulsive. In other words, it was yawningly predictable from the modern liberal left. That’s the thing people like Thomas Jolly and the hilariously-named Barbara Butch, the woman “portraying” “Jesus,” still haven’t understood: They’ve already crossed all the boundaries of decency. There are no more envelopes to push. Intentional attempts at provocation are cringe nowadays, and especially if your target for provocation is Christians. There is nothing — absolutely nothing — brave or avant-garde or rebellious about mocking Christianity, at least not in the way that liberals do it.
I must say, however, that I’m disappointed and frustrated that the “Last Supper” has become the central focus of the negative reaction to the opening ceremony. Yes, it did look rather like Da Vinci’s famous fresco, but it also didn’t. For starters, there were well over 13 actors on stage to represent, if we are to believe the Christian outcry, Jesus and the apostles. Jolly and Co. claim that it was not a depiction of the Last Supper, but of a festival of Dionysus. Maybe you’re not inclined to believe them, and that’s within reason, but the appearance of a queer, blue-painted freak with laurel wreaths around his head and his waist seems to confirm the professed intentions of the people behind the performance.
Christianity was mocked, because decency, higher ways of being, beauty, and divinity in general were mocked. Whether or not the Last Supper was tastelessly parodied, Christianity was mocked indirectly, and not just because Christian sensibilities were attacked throughout the ceremony, but also because Europe itself was mocked. And that is why I’m annoyed that all the attention is on the insult to Christians.
The Olympics are the creation of pre-Christian Aryan Greeks. The very essence of the Olympics was insulted. Indeed, if Jolly’s argument in defense of his production is true, the deity actually mocked was not Jesus, but Dionysus, who was reduced to a ridiculous caricature. Few are the practitioners of Greek paganism these days, but I suspect they were offended, too. But no thought was given, has been given, or will be given to them and how they felt about seeing the Olympics used as a vector for the promotion of woke filth, and one of their pantheon treated as some sort of circus act.
Regrettably, Christians made it all about them. I say regrettably for several reasons:
- This wasn’t exactly Piss Christ. Christians getting upset about something that arguably had nothing to do with them just keeps Christians in the position of easy prey.
- There was so, so much more to rain righteous anger upon. Lost amid the glut of complaints about the mockery of Jesus and the Last Supper is the fact that there were multiple displays celebrating the replacement of the native French, and by extension, native Europeans, with foreign races. Alongside a black woman as Marianne, there was also the blatant symbolism of 100-year-old former French Olympian Charles Coste passing on the Olympic torch to two black athletes representing France. No one is talking about this side of the opening ceremony, no doubt because it’s far easier to play the scandalized Christian and get lots of engagement on your social media posts decrying the attack on “billions of Christians worldwide” than it is to touch the racial third rail.
- Christians banned the Olympics for 1,500 years because, like their Judaic cousins, so many Christians cannot stand the existence of anything that is not devoted to the worship of the singular god of Israel. Even though I wince and frown every time I see Christianity being insulted by gutter-dwelling freaks, I find it difficult to sympathize entirely when Christians have a history of deserving it, frankly.
- The reason subversives such as Thomas Jolly and Barbara Butch attack Christianity is because they want to attack Europeans, and they are lazy, so they choose the easiest European target. They must maintain the fantasy that they are always the oppressed underdog, therefore they still imagine that the Church oppresses them. They can only admit by accident that the Church is rather on their side these days, when their mask slips and they gloat about how many churches are festooned in rainbow flags, how gay marriage is sanctioned, how women are priests now, and how the Pope is a “refugees welcome” ally. But if European pre-Christian faiths were hegemonic, these same people would be motivated to subvert “paganism.” In fact, they already did many, many years ago.
The Spirit of 1789
The 2024 Olympics opening ceremony is not the first to see the words “satanic” and “demonic” used to describe it. The opening ceremonies of both the 1992 and the 2012 Olympics have garnered fame amongst the conspiracy theory wing of the Internet for their occult, “demonic” symbolism. This year’s opening ceremony “occulted” very little, but I’ll concede that there was a “demonic” element to it. I sensed it when I saw the depiction of the headless Marie Antoinette. The evil spirit of 1789 still possesses France.
You might scoff at this idea. Indeed, my friend Millennial Woes did. He stated on Twitter/X:
It is absolutely moronic to say that the Paris Olympics debacle is “French” or “is because of the French” or “stems from French history [the Revolution]”. Don’t be fucking ridiculous. Do you seriously think it wouldn’t be exactly the same were it staged in some other European country? Of course it would. There’s a reason these events are like this everywhere in 2024, but similar events held in France 20 years ago WEREN’T like this. JFC, stop wasting everyone’s time with drivel.
It is absolutely moronic to say that the Paris Olympics debacle is “French” or “is because of the French” or “stems from French history [the Revolution]”. Don’t be fucking ridiculous. Do you seriously think it wouldn’t be exactly the same were it staged in some other European…
— Millennial Woes (@MillennialWoes) July 27, 2024
He’s not entirely wrong to scoff. Certainly, his final point is completely spot on. However, there was a direct line to the French Revolution, and not only did the choice to gruesomely revel in Marie Antoinette’s execution demonstrate this, Thomas Jolly’s own words in defense of his production did, too (emphasis in italics, mine):
In France, we have freedom of creation, artistic freedom. We are lucky in France to live in a free country. I didn’t have any specific messages that I wanted to deliver. In France, we are republic, we have the right to love whom we want, we have the right not to be worshippers, we have a lot of rights in France, and this is what I wanted to convey.
It is thanks to the revolution that gremlins like Thomas Jolly get to rub their fetishes and politics in our faces. I’m not drawing that connection. He is. And Jolly is only parroting what so many French liberals, conservatives, leftists, and intellectuals have stated ad nauseum for over 200 years. The blessed Republique is sacrosanct, no matter the pools of blood that were spilt to establish it or the ruin and misery it caused for so much of its existence.
At the end of the day, monarchy and aristocracy are bad and democracy is good. So what if the people who dismantled the aristocracy in order to impose a democracy did so by slaughtering hundreds of thousands of their kinsmen? So what if France under the Ancien Regime was better off than this modern French republic, according to several objective metrics? The victors write the history, and shape the narrative in the present. In fact, the modern French establishment gives so much importance to maintaining this myth of the righteous revolution that even a minor film that dared to tell the story from the Royalist perspective was seen as a significant threat to their hold on the national narrative.
Liberté, égalité, diversité. The so-called values of Republican France, on display for all the world to see. And how proud Thomas Jolly and friends must have been! Emmanuel Macron certainly was, giddily logging onto his Twitter/X account to proclaim, “This is France!”
Yes, it is. That’s the problem.
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25 comments
Thank you for posting this and especially the link to the study of the French Revolution. Very useful and confirms my intuition about the French Revolution.
The FREEMASONIC Revolution.
Actually, it was a jewish revolution, their first success. The jews first attempt was the English Civil War.
Indeed Freemasons and their lodged were, for a period of time, only the tools of subversion in the hands of the ultimate subverters of order and decency.
Yes, Illuminati. Freemasons could be good, positive and national. But Illuminati subverted them.
I must respectfully demur. I believe in “the jewish master conspiracy,” the illuminati and all the other secret societies and subversive movements were manipulated and controlled behind the scenes by the jews. Be it: the illuminati, the French Revolution, Jazz music, Soul music, school integration, pornography, etc., etc., etc. Read Nesta Webster’s “Secret Societies And Subversive Movements”; Douglass Reed’s “The Jewish Controversy” and many others I will not attempt to list now. Got to go, Thank you.
@ Peter Quint
Absolutely! History is full of conscious and unconscious instruments which have been used by them in their eternal struggle against civilization. Some obvious (like psychoanalysis) and some less so.
People who nowadays propagate the conspiracy theories about Freemasons, Illuminati, the Royal Family, and my favorite “the Elite” are either simpletons or knaves trying to muddy the waters.
They deliberately forced the French military to stand there and be humiliated by that display. It is a wonder how much longer it will be taken.
What we are being forced to live through is the Weimar of the entire West. We are being mocked. We are being humiliated. We are being shamed and denigrated. How long before some serious men ask, “Look at us. Now look at that dance troupe. What will happen if we take the dare?” Better not wait too long. Because I am certain the 20 year plan is a completely ethnically cleansed military looking upon a scene like that painting they put beneath the Eiffel Tower as a premonition. They would love nothing more than to broadcast that live to the world.
“It is a wonder how much longer it will be taken.” Yes, it is a wonder. Why do we tolerate this? Surely, at some point there’ll be a backlash at the very least. If not, we will walk off the stage of history. Unimaginable.
Is Thomas Jolly related to Maurice Joly who wrote Dialogues aux Enfer, which was either a source for or drawn from the same source as the Protocols of Zion ?
Jolly is a very common name in France.
It would be interesting to know this Thomas Jolly real ethnicity. I checked but found nothing. Because ( though France is in total racial rot ) , this hideous guy looks way more to a north African jew or even an Arab than a french man – Mediterranean or not.
It could explain his visceral hatred of everything European.
The Wikipedia entry suggests he’s a gentile, (son of a printer and a nurse, grandfather taught the catechism?!). Whilst not quite Sam Francis, I’m no oil painting myself and perhaps less fit to judge than a lady, but he looks pretty typical of a gallic-nosed, swarthy frog and actually has quite an amiable smile. I suspect he’s just fallen under the spell of the liberal heresy. Maurice would be so proud.
It must feel nice to play act as the rebel while being the tool of power.
I’m half ” frog ” and I know Mediterranean french types even if I am from the north ( google Guy Marchand for a good exemple ) and this guy has nothing Gallic. If he doesn’t have Sephardic or Algerian ancestry, I’m afraid that he is another exemple of the severe dysgenic tendancies that affect the Europeans since the 2 world wars.
Btw, thanks for your kind reply.
Sorry for the multi posting, but I feel personally provoked when this Thomas Jolly gargoyle is compared with the Gauls.
( The irony, “ jolly “ means pretty in french )
Here’s a younger Guy Marchand (the phenotype is less clear when very old), a typical Mediterranean and aimable Frenchman.
https://www.melody.tv/artiste/guy-marchand/
This recent post on Big Country Expat shows a screen shot of a photo of Thomas Jolly and identifies him as a 42 year old Jewish gay man. One must scroll down part way to find it.
https://bigcountryexpat.com/index.php/2024/07/28/faggot-infested-france-and-various-things-usually-left-unsaid/
Thank you Pilgrim.
And so the obese tranny in the parody of the Last Supper is also Jewish. Ok.
May want to hold your horses there — at least for the time being. Many media sources are claiming that while he is a gay man, Thomas Jolly is not in fact Jewish.
Actually, it’s a little bit confusing as to what the deal is, exactly. There seems to be some back-and-forth on the topic online. Jolly’s Wikipedia entry describes him as being the son of Sephardic Jews, but when I followed the source URLs for that claim, I did not find confirmation on this. (Admittedly, one of the linked articles is partially hidden behind a paywall.)
It could be that Jolly really isn’t Jewish at all; but on the other hand, it could be that the mainstream media is merely asserting that Jolly does not identify as Jewish. To us, this line of thinking is bullshit, because a person’s genetic background is far more pertinent than is his religious identification. In other words, he would only be white in the “Hello, fellow white people” sense. But that’s how rational people (i.e., race-realists) see things. As far as clown world is concerned, a person isn’t Jewish if he claims not to be so.
Either way, at this point my take on Jolly’s Jewishness is that it is unconfirmed.
(Still, I gotta admit, based on the pictures I’ve seen, phenotypically he looks like he could be Jewish. He definitely looks more like Adrian Brody than he does Rutger Hauer, that’s for sure.)
Yes, faux rebels. See my comment under Mark Gullik’s article.
Your writing is really getting good. Not just the construction of arguments, but the turns of phrase. I’ve borrowed/stolen a few to make it look like I have witty repartee in real life.
Good writing about a subject that truly requires our attention. However, I don’t understand the nitpicking about the Christian outcry. I am not a Christian (I claim the title is apostate in honor of Emperor Julian) but I think the attack was quite obviously was targeted at Christians (and more, as the author successfully demonstrated). They hate Christianity because it was The European religion for centuries.
school integration, pornography, etc., etc., etc.
Forcefully imposing of electric cars, tattoos, climate hystery with St. Greta, BLM, democracy, freedom, tolerance, drug consumption, alcoholism, rock music, abortion, Maydans and other color revolutions, deindustrialisation of the West with industrialisation of China, abandoning of the peaceful nuclear energy use, and many more phenomena of the modern times.
[L]ike their Judaic cousins, so many Christians cannot stand the existence of anything that is not devoted to the worship of the singular god of Israel.
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Sounds right.
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…Even though I wince and frown every time I see Christianity being insulted by gutter-dwelling freaks.
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Did not you just insult Christians and their Jew cousins, Angelo? Surely you are no gutter-dwelling freak.
Don’t frown. Forget Olympics lies, forget Christians’ lies, forget about anti-White Jews queering the current Olympic Games. There’s nothing you can do about that.
Here’s an eye-opening piece about racial lying at Olympic Games from an honest, racially loyal White man, written 40 years ago: “The Big Lie About the Berlin Olympics” at nationalvanguard.org.
https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/athletics-germanys-neugebauer-leads-after-three-events-olympic-decathlon-2024-08-02/
A prime example of the destruction of a once proud and powerful. Fortunately, he was defeated by a bright young Norwegian. Much like the “French” NBA star Wembanyama, this guy is certainly no German. Proven so by his inability to push through in the final event.
Saw a few minutes of the men’s and women’s rowing events. Weird how there were no blacks on the teams. Maybe because there is little individual glory to be found and a strong dependence on years of monotonous training with little reward. One thing I have noticed is how beautiful France appears in the surrounding countryside. Of course there is no exposure of the local color to ruin the mood.
I think the anti-White provocations that were part of the opening ceremony look like what you would expect to see in a state-subsidized play in France. Nobody wants to see those plays.
Quote: [the artistic director Thomas] “Jolly is only parroting what so many French liberals, conservatives, Leftists, and intellectuals have stated ad nauseum for over 200 years.”
I hope French intellectuals don’t like the idea of slaughtering queens. Besides, in 1789 there wasn’t any propaganda for the racial replacement of White people. Today it is mainly the Jews who push for racial replacement in the name of the revolutionary ideals of 1789. I think the glorification of 1789 went into eclipse for most of the 19th century. It came back as the Jewish population and influence grew stronger.
A good example of how Jews pretend to perpetuate the ideals of 1789 is the booklet distributed by the Ministry of Education in French schools in 2004. It was called “Abécédaire des mots de la République” (Elementary Book of the Words of the Republic). It’s a list of 29 terms related to the republican idea as seen by the Jews. Each word is the title of a short essay. Most of the 29 authors are Jewish activists, three are Arabs, and the others owe their careers to the Jews. The cover shows an Arab woman holding a French flag. It is intended to help teachers with civic education.
One of the 29 essays is about human rights (droits de l’homme). This is a good example: Human rights are an obsession of anti-racist organizations, which are usually Jewish-led and anti-White. It is not something French or European.
You do not have to read the essays, but you can read the titles on the first page and see the names of the authors. Some of them are anti-revisionist activists. Some of them were involved in deciding the official school curriculum. Some were members of a government committee to promote “laïcité” (religious neutrality). One of them was the president of the Constitutional Council. And they present themselves as the essence of French identity.
The 2004 booklet:
http://circvaldereuil.spip.ac-rouen.fr/IMG/pdf/guideabecedaire.pdf
A more recent version was distributed in 2021:
https://pedagogie.ac-toulouse.fr/lettres-histoire-geographie/le-guide-republicain
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