Y' been here a month.
Your previous posts are not out to lunch...mebbe a little too sunshiney??
So, you're either a patient troll, or your Delphi-ed engrams are kicking into "kill the messenger" phase: I'm guessing you're still in college...or a very recent graduate.
Assuming the latter...benefit of doubt.....welcome; and please continue in deprogramming mode: it surely sucks having your responses to things dictated by others.
And one such Pavlovian trigger is obviously showing itself when you read "western culture". Whatever weighted, negatively charged emotional response your having...."gosh, racist!" ......grab the nearest water pipe and discharge that virus to ground.
Simply put, Western Culture is that which defines a person as sovereign of themselves...allowing one's self to be governed by consent....not coercion. No groupthink. No caste. No servitude based upon birth. (we're talking ideals, here....don't go all boinky again) The belief in free ideas, markets...the superior plan of the 'unseen hand'...the benefit of 'natural aristocracy'....etc.
It has nothing whatever to do with your programmed response. Shake it, man!
Nice post....brilliant i might say!
If you don't know what Delpi Technique is....do a little googling. The road to recovery is recognition of what has been done to you.
And, to be sure, your query is an unintended exposition of exactly why we find ourselves...caretakers of the ideals of the Republic... in the bad place about which the author writes: reason has been corrupted by the black arts of mass manipulation. Huxley's term 'herd poisoning' is apt.
Think for yourself. Our common interests...freedom, liberty, and prosperity....rest upon that ability.
Wow! I’m getting thumped for what I said. Tell me. What does western civization mean? Is Iran a western civilization? Is Mongolia? Please explain what it is and who lives there. Was I wrong to qoute Savage and make an assumption as to why that paragraph was written?
Thanks for the welcome.
Others do not dictate what I say or how I think, but thanks for your valuable thoughts. I did not intend was not to kill the messenger or try. If you can explain my mistake please do so. There was a paragraph written that had lead me to believe the author was separating cultures. It would ‘suck’ to have others dictate my thoughts. Happily they are my own. But thank you for your heartfelt opinions. thank you and thank you again