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Entry: Declining "The West" Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/declining_the_west#24663 Post contents: What about, say, 'Christendom' ? Monks, knights, Kings, and farmers built the greatest civilisation the world has ever know; the puffed-up intelligentsia destroyed it. We continue to idealise the beginning of the descent as that moderate and happy time when order, good customs, and grand liberal ideas of saecular government and economic growth flourished simultaneously. This is empty mythology. It never existed but is re-packaged every four years to excite the portion of the population of latent sanity. It never more than a transitional period. The good aspects of the past were simply not yet retired to the ruins of an abandoned Christian civilisation. Opening doors for women, corporally punishing one's children, sexual morality, the traditional family, female modesty, etiquette, care for tradition -- these are all remnants of a society based on Altar and Throne. The new society based on capitalism and classical liberal social philosophy is pliable, inconstant by design. Its principal is novelty; indeed, novelty gave it birth and is the very foundation for its existence. Bless the poor souls who, alarmed, attempt to suspend the progress of man who jumped from a cliff to the impending abyss of certain doom below. It cannot be done. He will either die a bloody death or we will, being given a second chance by God, return to the sturdy heights of yesteryear for good. One can polish the brass on the Titanic if he likes, but I do not think it properly addresses the issue of the giant hole in the side of the ship that allowed all of the foreign forces of destruction to compromise the vessel in the first place. Sent at: 2008 09 06