Posted on 07/03/2019 3:50:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Western civilization was founded on a set of philosophies that focuses strongly on the sanctity of individuals and their power of logic and reason. This belief led to a desire to trust things that could be proven to be true or legitimate, from government to science. Judeo-Christian morality has formed the basis of most Western notions of ethics and behavioral standards. Thus, the attack on Western civilization must begin with the attack on the church and Christian values, and, just as important, the family unit. The reason why the church, Christian values, and family are targets of the left is they want people's loyalty and allegiance to be to the state. The church, Christianity, and the family stand in the way. Let's look at some of the left's agenda.
Joe Biden, criticizing sexual assault, said, "This is English jurisprudential culture, a white man's culture," adding, "It's got to change." The Western world's culture isn't perfect but women fare better under it than any other culture. Just ask yourself: If you're a feminist, in which countries would you like to live? Would it be Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, China or countries on the African continent, north or south of the Sahara? In those countries, women encounter all kinds of restrictions on liberty. Plus, in at least 30 countries on the African continent, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, female genital mutilation is practiced. You might ask Joe Biden what part of the "white man's culture" needs to be changed.
In 2012, 2014, and 2015, an ACTA-commissioned survey found that less than 20 percent of college graduates could accurately identify the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. Less than half could identify George Washington as the American general at Yorktown. One-third of college graduates were unaware that FDR introduced the New Deal. Over one-third of the college graduates surveyed could not place the American Civil War in its correct 20-year time frame. Nearly half of the college graduates could not identify correctly the term lengths of U.S. senators and representatives.
The left in our country often suggests that people who stand up for Western civilization are supporting a racial hierarchy. The fact is that the history of the world is one of arbitrary tyrannical abuse and control. Poverty has been the standard fare for a vast majority of mankind. America became the exception to what life was like. That exceptionalism inspired imitators, and our vision of freedom and liberty spread to what has become known as the Western world.
Many do not appreciate the fact that freedom and competition in both the marketplace and idea arena unleashed a level of entrepreneurism, risk-taking, and creativity heretofore unknown to mankind. Look at the marketplace of ideas. The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 860 people since its inception in 1901. The prizewinner distribution: Americans (375), United Kingdom (131) Germany (108), France (69) and Sweden (32); that's 83% of Nobel Prizes won. The large majority of other Nobel winners are mostly westerners. I might add that Japan has 27 Nobel Prize winners, but their first winner was awarded in 1949, after WWII led Japan to become more westernized.
There's a reason why the West leads the world in terms of scientific innovation, wealth, and military might and it has little to do with genetics. Instead, it's the environment of freedom, both in the market for goods and in the idea marketplace. Rigorous competition brings out the best in mankind. Leftists and would-be tyrants find Western values offensive.
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I admire Walter E. Williams, except, of course, when he defends Lost Cause ideas. ;-)
Progressive Leftism is revamped and revised mystical pantheism, thus the State is divine because it is a large aggregate of the earth’s divine soul, or Goddess Gaia. Thus the Holy Triune God, Creator of heaven, earth, life, and all else, cannot be allowed to exist because impenitent men and women, like dogs returning to their own vomit, have returned to ancient pagan and pantheist ways of thinking that in secular terms take the forms of science (actually occult science) and evolutionary materialism. For pantheists matter is divine spirit or psychic energy while for strict materialists it is either physical stuff (Atomism) or energy-—mereological nihilism.
And then, came the baby boomers. Reprobate, lazy and spoiled. Never an original thought. They revived such outdated superstitions such as astrology. "This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius", and all that.
Any generation that simple minded was destined to do incredibly stupid things, and our plight today is proof that they didn't disappoint.
An important realization about socialist-progressivism, is that its underpinnings are based on a very corrupted, atheistic version of Christianity.
That is, if you eliminate all references to God in The Bible, and substitute government in his place, you have a rough outline of socialism.
Most socialists are not well read, and yet time and again, without knowledge of each other, they fabricate the same failed ideas. This is not coincidence, because the one thing they have in common is The Bible.
And they are essentially atheists.
The left took over the radio networks under FDR. His management insisted on Progressives at the networks.
The radio networks became the television networks.
The television networks programed the baby boomers.
We became a mediacracy about 1963-1968.
It proved its power with the media coup known as Watergate.
I hadn't seen anything from you for awhile. Was beginning to worry about you. Good to see you're still up and doing your thing.
Walter E Williams is right about virtually everything he writes, including his efforts to correct the record about what the Civil War was actually fought about.
You must eat your educational spinach. Even if you don't like it.
Otherwise, you will continue to be weak and flabby in your thinking.
You don't want to continue to be weak and flabby in your thinking.
Have a great Independence Day. And be sure to read Jefferson's bilateral Suggestion of Independence if it is still legal to do so where you live.
Correct.
Inevitable after the disaster at Appomattox.
Walter Williams's comments on the rebellion are the historical version of Cheese Whiz. Satisfying to some but with no real benefit or value.
Don't write things like that; even in jest.
Someone might read and take your comments seriously.
Anyone who has read Williams's articles on the rebellion would know I'm serious.
History has taught that command and control economies always fail.
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Anyone who has read Williams’s articles on the rebellion would know that he isn’t serious.
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