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  Lilies, the Devil, and Rainbow Colors A Brief History of Our Sacred Symbols Vuk Bačanović Sarajevo’s first Pride march in which took place on 8 September 2019. Participants are marching under the slogan “Ponosno zajedno” (Proudly Together). Photo credit: Antonio Balic This year’s Sarajevo Pride produced exactly what contemporary politics increasingly specializes in: a symbolic scandal. A participant dressed as the Devil marched at the front of the parade, another wrapped Bosnia’s medieval lily emblem in rainbow symbolism, and within hours social media was flooded with warnings about sacrilege, national humiliation, and moral catastrophe. In a country that has survived war, ethnic cleansing, state capture, mass corruption, deindustrialization, and the systematic looting of public wealth, it was apparently a young man with a rainbow flag who finally crossed the red line. Let us set aside, for a moment, the fact that the struggle against discrimination based on whom people share the...

  The Vice of Kings Socialism, Occultism, Child Abuse, and the Sexual Revolution Harrison Koehli I recently finished reading Jasun Horsley ’s 2019 book, The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse (VoK). Given the subject matter of some of my most popular articles here, I’m fairly confident my readership will appreciate it. So if you liked any of the following, I encourage you to buy Jasun’s book and read it: The Friendly Face of Child Rape Harrison Koehli · January 9, 2025 Read full story It's Darker Than You Can Imagine Harrison Koehli · July 10, 2025 Read full story "A Different Species": Epstein's Pseudo-Elite Psychopathy Harrison Koehli · Feb 23 Read full story The Franklin Cover-up Harrison Koehli · September 13, 2023 Read full story If you’re not already familiar with Jasun’s work, he’s also on Substack, where he has kindly had me on his podcast twice now. We talked about weird and dark things. Children ...