Posted on 09/12/2023 12:52:23 PM PDT by Heartlander
In 1948, American scholar Richard M. Weaver published a book entitled Ideas Have Consequences. In it, he argued that the decline of Western Civilization was rooted in the philosophical rejection of the notion of absolute truth. This worldview ultimately had devastating effects on western art, education, and morality.
Five years earlier, the Oxford Christian academic C.S. Lewis wrote a book called The Abolition of Man, in which he discussed the consequences of higher education rejecting objective value and natural law. He likened the self-destruction of society believing such ideas to the removal of the very organs of our humanity. “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
It seems the modern “woke” university is a perfect case study for this universal truth of consequences as students grow up to become the next generation that dominates the culture.
American higher education has been indoctrinating students for decades to believe that Western Civilization (and by extension, America) is actually a fascist system of racist white supremacy with conservatives likened to Nazis and their leaders likened to Hitler (sometimes, they even say, “literally Hitler”).
When the hegemonic media aids this paranoid conspiracy theory and its mass formation psychosis, it is a logical consequence that we have a rise in violent mobs of domestic terrorism by groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa who promote insurrection, destroying billions of dollars of private and public property, and murdering scores of innocent people in the name of “equity.”
When they tell themselves that they are being victimized and oppressed by “Nazis” and “Hitler,” historical symbols in the genocide of other races, then of course they will justify...
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What Blather. Western Civilization was rooted in the Idea of Absolute Truth. And, it flourished when we decided that every person had a spark of the divine within them. Plus, Western Science began with the idea that God ordered the Universe in observable ways.
Yes – that is one of the points the article is making - I think you might have misread something…
Bkmk
Despite two generations of adults brought up to remain pajama boys, Men Without Chests, the embers of public virtue still glow. Candidate Donald Trump fanned these embers and brought forth a counter-revolution to decades of Leftist degradation of all that is wonderful, good, and Natural in the American tradition.
I concur -
Weaver makes a lot of good points in Ideas…
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