Posted on 11/29/2012 5:52:20 AM PST by Perseverando
Who were all the great inventors, innovators, and philosophers? Who forged the West? Who birthed democracy? Who gave us our Constitution?
While modern society prides itself on being unbiased, its no exception to the rule that every age has its fashionable prejudices and unfashionable people. Among the latter today are white men, and the closer they are to dead white male status, to use a favored leftist descriptive, the greater the disdain in which theyre held.
Thus do we see sneering at old white men. Earlier this year, Senator Harry Reid one well acquainted through experience with old-white-male machinations complained of angry old white men who bankroll conservative causes. More recently, the old-white-media paper the Guardian published a piece about Americas changing demographics titled, in part, No country for angry old white men . Ah, yes, its not just that theyre old, white, and men, that triad of turpitude. Theyre angry, too. So just dismiss them out of hand, with their agenda born of blinding, irrational hatred. Its another example of projection, from the group (leftists) that makes intellect-clouding emotionalism an art.
If were to define matters based on group identification, however and the left makes clear we will there is an irony here.
You could roughly say that old white men built the whole modern world.
You can precisely say this if you include in the category the budding old white men known as younger white men. Who were all the great inventors, innovators, and philosophers from ancient Greece and Rome up through medieval and modern Europe and the United States? Who forged the West? Who birthed democracy? Who improved upon it, giving us our Constitution and modern republican government? There is a reason why most of the busts and pictures of legendary figures portray
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I believe this as well. All men are spiritually equal. But it does not follow that all civilizations are equal. Observation bears out that Western Civilization is the most successful schema for human living in the history of the world. To ignore this fact is futility.
How does the quote go? “Age and treachery always trumps youth and enthusiasm.” Something like that.
I know but the folks in South Africa in particular are so bad that I bet they will claim the Boers as their “own” one day & claim that the notion that they were a White people is simply White propaganda. Those folks are so blinded by their anti-white perspective. I think they will have to alter the Vortrekker Monument first to cover up the Caucasian features of the murals & statues. I would not put it past them to do so as they like to claim other peoples as we have seen with their assertions about Egyptian civilization.
You need to read Victor Davis Hanson’s book Carnage and Culture for an alternate view of things. VDH’s concept of the Western Greco-Roman free man fighting for his homestead is at odds with Diamond.
See my previous post re: Diamond vs. VDH.
Regarding the apparent lack of inventions and technology in Africa... well, even as a little kid I had the notion that living in a widely varying climate made people innovative. Those who survived innovated ways to stay warm through icy winters and hydrated through hot, dry summers. They survived long enough to reproduce, and their kids improved on the innovative parents’ innovations and they survived long enough to reproduce. After thousands of years of this cycle, the Europeans brought many good things to life. And having the Christian message of love to fill their spiritual needs, meant Europeans got less bogged down in bizarre superstitions that kept Africans and American Indians literally in the dark about real world problems and solutions. Really, there is no reason for humans to waste their energy worshiping mountains and animals.
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I believe that the Egyptians thought of themselves as non-black, and non-african. For one thing, there was a brief dynasty of black pharaohs who were conquerors and seen as outsiders, and if you look at some of the painting that survived in tombs, like the one below from King Tut's tomb, you can see how they depicted forghien warriors that we would clearly identify as black African. What is particularly interesting is that the textile patterns on the Africans that King Tut's charriot is overrunning, are identical to patterns you could find today in sub-saharan Africa.
At some point in thousands of years they must have seen a rock slide and pick up on that fact.
You wouldn't have to be very clever to figure out that ‘round’ might be a better way to move things.
But no, as far as they ever got was dragging things around lashed to sticks.
Close all the grocery stores in the ghetto, thus removing the supply of stolen shopping carts, and you will again see the stick dragging method in common use.
Watched the PBS showed based on his book, massive anti white PC screed.
Thanks for posting.
About time people started defending our ancestors, our history and our heritage.
Rudyard Kipling called them the Gods of the Marketplace.
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all....
No I disagree. The word “boer” with a small b is a Dutch word for farmer but the term Boer [ with a capital B ] came to denote the Eastern Border Afrikaans speaking descendents of the Trekboers. It really matters not one bit whatever the term “boer” meant before it was applied to & adopted by the Boers [ Boer people / Boerevolk / Boer folk / Boer Nation. etc. ] during the 1700s because the term Boer with a capital B denotes a people who were renown for being Africa’s first freedom fighters & having established several Boer Republics [ which history clearly denoted as Boer Republics & the people who created them as Boers ] before being conquered by the British after the second Anglo-Boer War wherein more than 50% of the Boer child population died in the British run concentration camps. The Boer people started out as a pastoral & rustic people but they are not just a bunch of farmers. It would be like pointing out that the term Serb just means “sir” thereby implying that there are no Serbs or that the Serbs are just sirs / men. The Boers have had long hard fought struggles to maintain their distinct identity in the face of strong pressures. Not least of which from the Cape Dutch descended Afrikaners whose leadership routinely tries to co-opt or assimilate the Boer Nation.
Surprised me.
I thought it was intuitive, too.
“Old White Men” is a dog whistle for “Jews”
Actually another point I wanted to make was that, outside some of the Mediterranean coast, Caucasians/Europeans were largely savage and backward UNTIL Rome spread Christianity through it and itself fell. I can’t really account for oriental achievement but whites didn’t do much outside Greco-roman cultures without Christianity.
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