Pop-Pop Music: ‘The Wellerman’ Sea Shanty TikTok Phenom Offers Hope for Future

This song is part of the best from history.*

Taking the best of history and improving on/adding to it is the means to genuine progress. If “progressives” were actually interested in progress we would be able to work with them. The cult of post-modern Neo-Marxist leftism isn’t interested in bringing mankind together to ever higher achievements. They prefer destruction, they are the dark side of the human condition, the Crazy Eddy burn-it-all-down facet in the character of mankind.

When you see so many people of such diverse backgrounds all cooperating and enjoying something like this you have good reason to share Bill’s hope. I think there’s more of that in the world yet than the insane rush to self-destruction. We just don’t see it as proportionately as it should be represented and that is something we can all work to change. Like Bill and Co. did with this video..

*The song, not the activity it describes. Because whaling was a harsh, hard, dangerous, massively uncomfortable way to make a living. I admire the kind of people it took to do that job and would like to think had I lived back then I’d have done something like that but … Today you couldn’t pay me enough to go out on frigid seas in a leaky, rat and roach infested rotting wooden ship, powered solely by wind and human muscle with virtually zero sanitary facilities — So I could risk life and limb sticking the biggest animal on Earth with what amounts to needles with strings on them — And then let it tow me around for days and sometimes weeks until it died of exhaustion, internal hemorrhaging and blood loss. Once that was done again using human muscle you had to drag it up out of the water, strip it of hide, cut the fat off and boil it over open fires to render a highly flammable product while trying to avoid burning up the ship that kept you alive in the process. This all just doesn’t sound like a lot of fun to me.