The West is not falling, it has fallen. But as the world turns ineluctably Eastward, as new powers take up the mantle, what is it that we leave behind in the rubble? Let us glance back, if only for a few minutes, to consider what it is that the West really was. I invite you, dear readers, to stop and move aside the dirt and debris, to see if there are not treasures here that we ought to pick up and take with us.
I had been teaching a Western Civilization course for college credit at my high school for 10 years when the University decided I needed more graduate course work to maintain credentials. In returning to academia I learned something interesting. Western Civilization hadn't fallen because it never actually existed. To suggest that it had was quite racist. Armed with this revelation I made sure to double down on my effort to keep this class alive until I retired.
What mattered about Western Civilization was Truth, which the West has completely and perhaps irrevocably parted ways with. Your vision, while tragic (and true) is also hopeful because it provides hope and a path.
Heartbreaking to remember what was and that it’s gone; hopeful for the future generations that can learn from the best of the West and take it with them! And we who are here now have a responsibility to pass down what we know (as you are doing here) for the torch to go forward
This was a magnificent and very insightful piece! To see how far off course modern western society has fallen from traditional western society is heartbreaking, but it highlights everything going wrong today. After reading this, I am considering what modern eastern places are best to raise a family.
Have you read any Julius Evola, in particular Revolt Against the Modern World and Men Among the Ruins? I view Evola as a capital "T" Traditionalist, for whom truth comes from the vertical dimension (the realm of myth), not the horizontal dimension (the realm of history). Evola might be worth a read if you haven't come across the same already. (Interestingly, both "myth" and "history" come from words meaning "story", but in my opinion it is the stories that we repeat that make a difference.)
You have described yourself as an unhinged elitist. Somehow I hadn't noticed that elitist identification. It didn't sink in at first glance. Must have thought it was meant ironically. But this piece promoting the idea that we have fallen to secularism and should grab onto the relic of Christian individualism from its ruins makes me afraid that I've been drawn into an enemy camp.
Laurent Guyenot over at Unz.com has a different, more critical take on Christianity's revolutionary thesis that "what avails a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul."
There was one metaphor early on that upset me. Made me wonder what your agenda really was. "Pharaoh whipping the slaves." It seemed to have been plucked out of the Ten Commandments - the Hollywood movie not the Bible. You wanted to trash what was arguably the greatest civilization of all time w/ a quote from Hollywood's cheesy slant on Israel's supposed captivity in Egypt.
Shame on you for all your distortions like the notion that Medusa was a pagan goddess. As if real pagans once worshiped her. They didn't and I'm sure you know that; so why write it except to promote the superiority of Judeo-Christianity. Them Hebrews didn't worship no graven images did they, Megha? Oh, no. And how do you feel about the NT passage that states "salvation comes from the Jews"? I bet you'll warm to that sooner or later. I think that's where you're coming from.
I'm not defending Medusa. I'm pointing out that she changed status from literal gorgon to pagan goddess as you, or someone else writing as you, took a shot at paganism.
I had been teaching a Western Civilization course for college credit at my high school for 10 years when the University decided I needed more graduate course work to maintain credentials. In returning to academia I learned something interesting. Western Civilization hadn't fallen because it never actually existed. To suggest that it had was quite racist. Armed with this revelation I made sure to double down on my effort to keep this class alive until I retired.
What mattered about Western Civilization was Truth, which the West has completely and perhaps irrevocably parted ways with. Your vision, while tragic (and true) is also hopeful because it provides hope and a path.
Heartbreaking to remember what was and that it’s gone; hopeful for the future generations that can learn from the best of the West and take it with them! And we who are here now have a responsibility to pass down what we know (as you are doing here) for the torch to go forward
This was a magnificent and very insightful piece! To see how far off course modern western society has fallen from traditional western society is heartbreaking, but it highlights everything going wrong today. After reading this, I am considering what modern eastern places are best to raise a family.
Have you read any Julius Evola, in particular Revolt Against the Modern World and Men Among the Ruins? I view Evola as a capital "T" Traditionalist, for whom truth comes from the vertical dimension (the realm of myth), not the horizontal dimension (the realm of history). Evola might be worth a read if you haven't come across the same already. (Interestingly, both "myth" and "history" come from words meaning "story", but in my opinion it is the stories that we repeat that make a difference.)
You have described yourself as an unhinged elitist. Somehow I hadn't noticed that elitist identification. It didn't sink in at first glance. Must have thought it was meant ironically. But this piece promoting the idea that we have fallen to secularism and should grab onto the relic of Christian individualism from its ruins makes me afraid that I've been drawn into an enemy camp.
Laurent Guyenot over at Unz.com has a different, more critical take on Christianity's revolutionary thesis that "what avails a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul."
There was one metaphor early on that upset me. Made me wonder what your agenda really was. "Pharaoh whipping the slaves." It seemed to have been plucked out of the Ten Commandments - the Hollywood movie not the Bible. You wanted to trash what was arguably the greatest civilization of all time w/ a quote from Hollywood's cheesy slant on Israel's supposed captivity in Egypt.
Shame on you for all your distortions like the notion that Medusa was a pagan goddess. As if real pagans once worshiped her. They didn't and I'm sure you know that; so why write it except to promote the superiority of Judeo-Christianity. Them Hebrews didn't worship no graven images did they, Megha? Oh, no. And how do you feel about the NT passage that states "salvation comes from the Jews"? I bet you'll warm to that sooner or later. I think that's where you're coming from.
Are you really defending a literal gorgon, Medusa and the idea of slavery? Lmfao you need to get your priorities straight.
I'm not defending Medusa. I'm pointing out that she changed status from literal gorgon to pagan goddess as you, or someone else writing as you, took a shot at paganism.
Please point out to me where I wrote that Medusa was a “pagan goddess”. I wrote that she was an evil demon/Gorgon
One of the sculptures in the centre of the West, New York City, is of a pagan goddess celebrating women's’ “rights” to murder their unborn children.
This was Medusa you were referring to. What was a demon in your previous article became a goddess in this one.