Posted on 09/03/2025 2:24:39 AM PDT by Salman
A civilization confident in itself reads the Iliad. A civilization in decline denounces it. Guess which one we are.
A confident civilization does not quake at the sight of Homer. It does not avert its gaze from Pericles or issue trigger warnings before mentioning Caesar. It does not treat the Iliad like some toxic spill to be cordoned off by hazmat crews. Yet ours does. As Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath warned in Who Killed Homer?, the gravest threat to the classics is not public indifference but professors themselves—men and women who, having ceased to teach Homer, now cower before him.
The new orthodoxy insists the ancients are perilous. Donna Zuckerberg, sister of the better-known Mark, solemnly warns that the “alt-right” is mainlining Plato as a gateway narcotic to fascism. Curtis Dozier and Patrice Rankine join the chorus: To admire Achilles is apparently to goose-step straight to Charlottesville. Mary Beard, once a formidable scholar, now devotes her days to rebuking anyone rash enough to suggest the West owes anything to Greece and Rome. Donald Kagan, who for decades taught Yale undergrads their Thucydides, foresaw this decay—the impulse to regard antiquity not as civilization’s accumulated wisdom but as an ideological contaminant, a cultural bat virus to be locked down and quarantined.
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Make no mistake. The Ivy League are multi billion dollar institutions, and ideology follows interest.
They’re nuts. Homer bad, Tren De Aragua good, invite them in. You don’t have to go all the way back to Homer either. The so called “modern Democratic party” would have called Washington and Lincoln a Hitler and as we know, Trump is part of that esteemed company.
George Orwell, 1984
Anything beyond neolithic paganism is bad.
History is merely a reminder of how important men—that is, white men— are.
BTTT
Bkmk
They want us to forget the old so they can insert themselves as the new gods.
When I clicked, I thought someone was angry at a Homer Simpson meme.
life on earth is a giant buffet. My kind built the table, weaved the table cloth, fired the plates in the kiln, smelted the cutlery, brought the entree, dessert and drinks. We’ve served up the feast, and wait on tables. There are some peoples who have literally done nothing but eat. Maybe the gift of the occasional stabbing or hair/weave-pulling. Zero contributions, bringing nothing to the table. Just think of the thousands of technologies, theories, the mathematics the sciences necessary to make a concert with hologram Tupac. I say—- You’re Welcome.
**Tren De Aragua good**
The high seas. The MSM won’t get to spin it. Hopefully it’s true they were drug mules. The boat looked too small to make that journey.
With Emily Wilson, they now have a woke Homer to teach.
They want to eradicate all evidence of the greatest minds to ever walk the Earth....because their own minds are so inferior and our only possible salvation is for thinking people to put their minds to work with the wisdom of the centuries. Thinking minds are their nemeses.
“...The so called “modern Democratic party”...”
The American Democrati party died a long time ago.
Their name has been successfully “politically appropriated” by rabid, anti-American, domestic communists. They’ve used it’s name in an attempt to hoodwink its previous supporters, working-class and low-IQ folks to continue supporting it by via of the historical “name”.
The reality is it’s a vile, godless communist party hellbent on the total destruction of the USA as we know it.
Trump has managed to”pulled the veil off” to some extent, but it’s only a matter of time before the communists are back in power as rulers over us....it’s gonna be ugly because they now know that their facade is over and must rule with force to fulfill their agenda of destruction.
D’oh!
Orwell’s description is oo very true today ... and has the very real potential of “going supernova” in the post-Trump Era that will come to our fragile Republic.
Exactly.
There will always be the rulers and the ruled.
That is why politics is ultimately about who not what.
Next, they’ll be banning Moby Dick because of the chapters describing the Black Cook on Board. Literature is Literature.
I know. I’m just Preachin’ to da SHARKS.
Western Civ, it is explodin’
We’re on the eve of destruction.
Apologies to P F Sloan and Barry McGuire for messing with the lyrics.
What is it about Wilson’s Iliad translation that you think is woke?
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