Roger Buck

A very silly 60 seconds on a very serious subject. (The real thing should be out in a few hours. Pulling an all-nighter to get it edited . . . )

youtube.com/shorts/EjYPbJe9l2...

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 5

Roger Buck

I tried—and I failed to get a big episode out this weekend. But I still managed a preview/'short version'.

I’m actually happy with it! It’s completely WHACKED—like *nothing* you’ve ever seen from me!

Although those who enjoyed the humour of the Gentle Traditionalist may recognise something similarly madcap here . . .

It's both ridiculous—yet paradoxically very serious . . .

https://youtu.be/H_AYarZXysg

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

Roger Buck

Just to say I gave up this community section when I started tweeting. Or rather seriously tweeting like never before . . . (See here if you're interested: twitter.com/CorJesu )

But I'm considering re-invigorating it.

Three things to say now. 

1) I am sorry that my upcoming big new episode on Ireland "Towards an Irish Counter-Revolution" will not, as I announced on Twitter, be ready this weekend. More time is needed to get it right.

2) I'm *particularly grateful* for the comments on these Irish videos and am trying to respond more promptly to nearly all of them.

3) For those of you interested in my Irish videos, I want to point to an episode that is very relevant to the Abolition of Ireland.

Except it doesn't look like it! 

Because it *looks* like another of my Tomberg episodes. In part, it is. But it's very, very diverse and wide-ranging. There's a lot of autobiography in it—including material about Ireland, as well as Europe and America and the forces trying to destroy Ireland.

What I call the MACHINE in the episode . . .

Increasingly, I start to think this could be one of the most important episodes I've done. I've now included a Table of Contents with Timestamps.

So, if you wish, you can easily skip to what interests you most. Here it is:

https://youtu.be/T2d7c-Gu-h4

1 year ago | [YT] | 4

Roger Buck

Perhaps people have wondered what's happened to my work on this channel. And I'm sorry as perhaps I should have said something earlier.

But it's just that I've been dead, you see.

Murdered by HTML and the WordPress Block Editor — as instead of the channel, I've been engaged in a massive  revamp/relaunch of our almost 600-page website, which has been old, creaky and failing in various ways for years. 

An expert friend offered to help, opening out a huge window of opportunity. I had to **drop everything else** and seize the day! 

The entire format will be very different and I've had to break down every page and rebuild it. There's been considerable rewriting too (as I often cringed at things I said fifteen years ago!)

But it's taken seemingly never-ending, round-the-clock work for months now.

There have also been some other more personal difficulties—such as we all have! Yet the latter are but mere trifles compared to the relentless, murderous intensity of the Block Editor!

Kidding . . . ; - )

I just want you to know I should be returning to life soon. And there is much I hope to do with this channel. There are now three unfinished videos that I hope to complete ere long. (One on the New Age, one on Tomberg, one on Chesterton).

And as exhausting as the still-not-quite finished website relaunch has been, it has been worth it! I am excited by the results, which will hopefully be visible in the next week or three.

The new website will allow me to do so much the old one couldn't do easily, including showcasing/promoting the videos. 

This seems increasingly important to me, as I can hardly bear to promote them in the old ways I tried on increasingly dreaded social media, eg. Facebook, which I find ever more difficult. (Although I do mean to return to Twitter.)

Apparently, the new site should also work far better on mobile phones. (I wouldn't know, as I dread those things too.)

Anyway, just a little update. As I say, I do mean to return to Twitter soon (twitter.com/CorJesu) and if you want to see the final, creaking days of the old website, you can go here: corjesusacratissimum.org/ .

2 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 17

Roger Buck

Coming soon. Hopefully, very soon. My take on "Keep your head (or mind) in hell and do not despair"—St. Silouan the Athonite.

2 years ago | [YT] | 11

Roger Buck

Coming soon. (Believe it or not.)

3 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 14

Roger Buck

Friends, at the end of the last episode, experimental ventures were announced. Here is word on how these are going—as well as how I am going.

First, I mentioned being active on Twitter for almost the first time in my life. I was sceptical, conflicted about this—but am truly startled to find it more congenial and significant than I ever imagined. This experiment, then, has been a surprising success! You can find me at Twitter here: twitter.com/CorJesu

Another thing I was conflicted about was going on Patreon. I still am. Given present circumstances, I may have to try something like "Buy Me a Coffee". But we shall see.

Then there was the matter of these new Community Posts. Unsurety reigns here too!

Still I take the opportunity, between episodes, to say something of myself. Right now, I am occupied by a longer term project to do with the legacy of Valentin Tomberg. 

Here, too, I have conflicted feelings! For large parts of me would rather not do these Tomberg videos. They confuse parts of my audience and upset others! Still, I have things to say about Tomberg that few others are in a position to say. Here a sense of responsibility is inescapable, like it or not.

Is there anything, then, I am unconflicted about ; - ) ?

Why, yes! I am unconflicted in my wish to say more, far more about the great Hilaire Belloc. It is not for nothing that I say that Episode 32 on Belloc, on France, on Ireland is the one closest to my heart. Link: https://youtu.be/-X0gaFtklgI

Truly, videos on Belloc, France and Ireland are where my heart most lies.

Right now, though, Tomberg takes precedence. If you know little about this still rather obscure Russian sage, this short trailer video may be the best place to begin:

3 years ago | [YT] | 5

Roger Buck

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose . . . Wisdom for today from #HilaireBelloc, the beloved friend, mentor, guide I never knew. He stands closer to my heart than words can ever tell.

3 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 15

Roger Buck

The more I search . . .

The more I struggle . . .

The more I see how much these men have been profoundly wronged.

And my life, at least it seems to me in prayer, has something to do with trying to right that wrong.

At least, a little.

There will be a little (but only a little) relating to this in a wide-ranging new episode coming this weekend. Hopefully, today.

#PatrickPearse #EamondeValera

3 years ago | [YT] | 9

Roger Buck

I'm not sure I've ever shared a music video online before. I'm not sure I ever will again. 

But, for reasons I attempt to explain, this one's *different*.

I've been hit, mysteriously HIT by it—like no other music video in my life. As though the course of my life were forever subtly altered by it . . .

Why? Truly, I think the answer lies in what Jung called a Numinosum, described by him as:

“a dynamic agency or effect not caused by an arbitrary act of will…. The numinosum—whatever its cause may be—is an experience of the subject independent of his will…. The numinosum is either a quality belonging to a visible object or the influence of an invisible presence that causes a peculiar alteration of consciousness.”

No adequate answer is possible, then. 

Still, partial indicators lie in the imagery of this beloved land, in the slowly-building music that slowly grew on me after repeated listenings and in how the whole evokes a most mysterious sense of my own future and future work (on this channel and elsewhere).

(The lyric about "Their sons, these days, are found in US and Britannia Care" is also a small, but truly *very small*, indicator here.)

No the sense of the evocation of my own future is deeper . . . deeper and stranger than that.

The future . . . my future . . . I stammer. 

Yet this is a song of the past. The video speaks of Irish cultural nationalism but also Catholic Ireland. 

The lead singer Kevin Rowland was an Irish kid piteously ripped out of Ireland, taken to England, at age four and trying (all his life, it seems) to come to terms with his Irish national identity.

The lyrics are often impossible to make out, so are pasted in below. I also take the liberty of tagging ‪@maolsheachlannoceallaigh4772‬ , ‪@michaelmartin8681‬ , @richardrmwd and   ‪@thecatholicman‬ .

 I will just add: we may each be called to our own unique vocation by the most unusual of means.

Lyrics:

I've often thought about
The men where I came from
And times ago
Their sons, these days, are found
In US and Britannia care
And as I think about
In my mother's eyes I look and see the story there
It's a knowledge of beauty in these days rare
Go west, go west young man
West of hollow words and all that lies there
Go west, I'II sing an air
For all the previous
Wild black curly hair
For what use is anything
If I don't have the wisdom and warmth
Of my past generations
If I need strength
To take bad on
I just look back to
Where I came from
I look back where I came from
I've had respect, money and love
I've denied my beautiful heritage
Gone away from my roots and come back home again
I gave away my individuality
And listened to the "now" generation
When really I'm not one of those
But love has brought me closer to the truth and right now
I couldn't be any closer
To love your father is a fulfilling thing
My national pride is a personal pride

3 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 7