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Category Archives: Culture war
Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Past & Present:’ How The Decline of the West Started Centuries Ago
The War on Beauty posted this 23-minute video. And writes in the description:
“Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Past and Present’ is one of the most unique books I have ever read. It is a prophetic look at the root causes of what was beginning to tear down the core of specifically English, but ultimately European, society. With growing atheism, idleness and Dilettantism, and mammon-worship, Europe went from Heroic and True to Un-Heroic and living in a “sham,” in just a few short centuries–a reality which is only just coming into full fruition now.”
See also: Thomas Carlyle for Beginners: Where to Start (35 minutes).
Antonio Gramsci’s long march through history
This article contains this:
In Gramsci’s own words, he viewed the task thus: “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”
That however is somewhat of a misrepresentation of what Gramsci said, according to this article. A quote from this:
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The fake Gramsci quote (on “capturing the culture”) is often combined with a real Gramsci quote (on Christian socialism). I’ve bolded the real portion:
Any country grounded in Judaeo-Christian values can’t be overthrown until those roots are cut. [….] Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. [….] In the new order, socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.
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The Corpse of the University: A Review of Peter Fleming’s Dark Academia
Article by Len D. Pozeram, a review of the book ‘Dark Academia: How Universities Die’, by Peter Fleming.
Interesting that the author concludes that universities are unreformable. That’s what Jordan Peterson has said for a while, which is why he founded his own university.
On Resisting Evil
Article by arch-libertarian Murray Rothbard.
The Basis of the Culture and Institutions of Britain
Article by Michael Wood.
Excerpt:
How many of us know, for instance, that in the year AD37, the Church at Jerusalem sent one of the Seventy Apostles, named Aristobulus, to Britain as our first Bishop, landing at Hengist Head in company with several others? That he established the Christian faith to grow in this country from that time? This has been acknowledged by several Councils in Rome as making the British Church older than either the Church of Rome or the Church of Greece.
More on Aristobulus of Britannia here.
There’s a Revolution Happening You’ve Never Heard Of. It’s Called “The Great Feminization”
Helen Andrews in a video interview with the Daily Signal.
From the description:
For the past half decade or more, conservative intellectuals have tried to answer the question: Where did woke come from?
Some believe it is rebranded cultural Marxism. Others say it came from academia with the postmodern rejection of objective truth ultimately leading to the weaponization of culture. Maybe it came from the global corporations because woke is the ideology of the new managerial elite in late-stage neo-liberalism.
But perhaps “woke” and its offspring like “cancel culture” came from something called “The Great Feminization.”
Helen Andrews, author of “Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster,” recently wrote an essay called “The Great Feminization,” a term borrowed from the pseudonymous online writer J Stone, that explains how “woke” is “an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.” She joins “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss.
“We had a big fight called feminism in the 1970s over whether or not we thought women could be lawyers. And we decided that they could, and that’s great,” Andrews explained. “But it took a long time to go from token representation of the kind that was achieved in the heyday of second wave feminism to what we have now.”
See also this videoed talk: Overcoming the Feminization of Culture.
In short: The two ways to overcome feminization is to remove the pro-women bias in recruitment and to remove the need for two-income households.
See also this CompactMag article ‘The Great Feminization‘.
See this response by ‘The LOOPcast’. The woman there says Andrews doesn’t go deep enough. This speaker emphasises motherhood.
Surprised By Leftwing Radical Rhetoric? Look Closer at the Climate Movement
Article by Chris Johnson.
3 Things Christians Must Do to Rebuild Culture
Touchstone talk by Jonathan Pageau. Video here (prompted at the right place).
From the video description:
I explore how our modern world—built on endless disruption and self-expression—has reached its breaking point. We’re witnessing the collapse of a culture that forgot its source, but that’s also at the beginnings of renewal. From art and architecture to worship and storytelling, I share how Christians can remember, celebrate, and create once again—recovering beauty, meaning, and participation in the divine order. This is a moment of opportunity: to rediscover Christ as the pattern of reality and rebuild culture on that foundation.