Posted on 08/07/2021 5:12:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
For decades now, it has been fashionable to condemn, discredit, or deconstruct anything generally understood to be Western. Most recently, this has been accomplished by associating racism with whatever aspect of Western civilization is under scrutiny. Classical music, literature, grammar, and even gardening have all been attacked for being tainted by the colonialist enterprise or for being suffused with white supremacy.
I want to take a look at a seemingly trivial example of this phenomenon in order to consider what it reveals about our historical moment and its intellectual underpinnings. While this example of cultural demolition hails from Britain and concerns a cultural practice considered fundamentally British, what we can glean from it has social implications for all Western nations that find themselves face to face with today's Visigoths.
Since 2009, with only one short interruption, the BBC has produced a children's comedy television series under the title Horrible Histories, featuring the crude, the cruel, and the revolting in history. Naturally, at least among the younger demographic, the show was quite popular. It also won numerous awards, including the BAFTA children's award. In 2020, to commemorate Brexit, it offered an episode composed of a selection of sketches from previous years' episodes. One of them, featuring a song first aired in 2009 titled "British Things," generated quite a bit of controversy this time around. The sketch was intended to lampoon English assumptions about their inventions and "Britishisms" by pointing out that there really aren't any. And the central British cultural practice targeted for erasure in the sketch is "British tea."
In this skit, "Queen Victoria" asks her butler for tea, only to be enlightened regarding the ugly realities associated with this seemingly innocuous custom while he serves it.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How civilizations disappear.
Surprisingly, that was a very interesting article. And the point is made.
How civilizations are destroyed from within...
They want to burn down Western Civilization and replace it with — what?
The native culture we see in South Africa? Zimbabwe? Baltimore?
They have nothing. What we see is jealousy and hatred of those who have a culture worth having.
Good post.
Pretty soon minstrel-show black-face makeup will be the standard cosmetic for formerly supremacist "white" women. And the Al Jolson look for liberal-leaning men, too.
Property rights, rule of law, the industrial revolution and more are why the West took off relative to the rest of the world.
The 6 killer apps of prosperity TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity
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