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Posted on 04/17/2020 7:33:31 AM PDT by karpov
Suicide of the West. James Burnham. 1961, IIRC, 1963 at the latest.
It’s deliberate.
Cultural Marxism
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Dead white males
This is closing the barn door after the horses have gone. Somehow our “great thinkers” and activists on the Right have failed to effectively fight back against 60 years of attacks on Western Civ. The only organization I know of that’s making any positive moves is the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). Lynne Cheney was one of the movers and shakers in getting the organization rolling but it’s vastly underfunded and overpowered by the academic Left.
"Another Sort of Learning" by James Schall
My Columbia—the college of the 50s and early 60s required two years of study in Western Civilization (Contemporary Civilization) with a year invested in philosophy, religious texts, political movements and changes, etc and a final year in the humanities and arts and music. What a wonderful education it was and each Columbia graduate had a broadly similar base of education to draw on in discussions into his future decades.
I hear all that was wonderful in learning about the glories of our common past from which a distinct cultural ethos of America was born is gone now. Replaced by negative deconstruction of every facet of human endeavor in the West for the past 3000 years. It is the work of “little” men to destroy “giants” because they were part of their time and culture, overlooking the good that they did to become worthy of their titles and honors.
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