Posted on 01/31/2024 4:24:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
It has been said that intellectuals can reduce a city of stone to sand. Unfortunately, this is especially true as today’s “thinking class” wages all-hands-on deck warfare against Western Civilization. The most prominent of these attacks is the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) movement but DIE is not, however, the only assault. Less obvious, but of no less importance, is how “scholars” now attack Western Civilization by celebrating, “indigenous” cultures that had largely been replaced by Western Civilization. These enemies are not romantics wanting to “return to nature” by living off the grid sans modern conveniences. Rather, the enemies of Western Civilization want it replaced.
This animus toward Western Civilization invites reverting to the Dark Ages of Europe. If, after all, any cultural practice is as valid as any other, why spend billions on modern medicine? Hire witch doctors and save a fortune.
This civilizational de-evolution is hardly hypothetical. Over a million Americans now identify themselves as “pagan” or “witches” along with others holding “new age” beliefs that resemble pre-modern spirituality. Salem, MA has become famous as “Witch City” whose annual witch-themed events draw huge crowds. According to a recent Pew survey, 28% of Americans answered “none” when asked their religion. Large numbers of Latinos, especially younger immigrants, embrace brujeria -- a religion that pre-dates Christianity. Read about it in Brujeria: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color.
Americans praising pagan rituals and so on are hardly misguided, according to some academics. For these professors, these “primitive” beliefs as equal or even superior to Western Civilization. Nor are these admirers anthropologists who might sympathetically depict the traditions of the Arctic-dwelling Intuits. Rather, they champion these pre-modern cultures. As one article in Science, circulation of over one million, put it, “Faced with the profound challenges of a rapidly changing environment...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
May a solution is to give these intellectuals a one way ticket to North Korea.
Taste rike pork.
Sorry guys, indigenous cultures have no chance against Islam, at least they have had little success so far.
Islam does not tolerate co-habitation anywhere.
See Nigeria where Islam is actively working to either drive out Christians or kill them
People need something spiritual. If the traditional religions fade they will find something else to fill this need. That is what is happening now.
Good article. I will add, “Thank a teacher.”
Yes, western civilization and its love of facts, evidence based science and equal justice under the law are just so last century!
Get with the program people!
This is the Twenty-first Century!
All of that Colonialist stuff is the past.
Get with the DEI future
It’s not even complicated. For western civilization to survive, the people of the West must embrace their history, language, and culture.
We don't need to assume some dark force is out there trying to destroy America's religious foundations. Communists have openly declared that intent and from the looks of it they are winning.
bkmk
“It has been said that intellectuals can reduce a city of stone to sand.”
INTELLECTUAL (in-ta-LEC-chu-ul): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who, unable to create or provide anything of value to others, pontificates and expects to paid for it, usually from public funds.
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