An Allegory For Western Civilization

[PoliticalChic]

1. Somehow, the success of Western Civilization has given rise to a barbaric culture unsupported by logic, history or our own experience.

Somehow....Leftism, covered in blood, survives and even thrives.




2. Seems many....government school grads, no doubt, missed the century of slaughter, with over 100 million men, women and children slaughtered by the scions of the French Revolution......the Communists, Nazis, Fascists, Socialists.....

...yet millions of clueless American voters continue to support ideoologies that stand for nearly all of what the above tried to institute: Liberals and Progressives.



3. The anti-establishment artist, Banksy, produced an allegory for Western Civilization under the sway of Leftism:

"Banksy has played what could be one of the most audacious pranks in art history, arranging for one of his best-known works to self-destruct after being sold at auction for just over £1m.

Girl With Balloon was the final item in an auction at Sotheby’s in London on Friday night and its sale price equalled the artist’s previous auction record of £1.04m.

Shortly after the hammer came down on the item, however, the canvas began to pass through a shredder installed in the frame.

Banksy posted an image on Instagram of the shredded work dangling from the bottom of the frame with the title “Going, going, gone … ”
Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds

 

[Sahba]

Reminds me of the Wiemar Republic. There was such decadency in Germany, sex tourism and debauchery in the streets that gave rise to 'the brown shirts' genesis. At first it was just a small group of men who, with their fists, exerted a measure of conservative order to the streets. The average citizen embraced them as heroes and their ranks grew.... The eventual machinations of this startup is history, as their vision was harnessed and diabolically steered by a man with a mustache. Kind O reminds me of Antifa...

 

[PoliticalChic]

Reminds me of the Wiemar Republic. There was such decadency in Germany, sex tourism and debauchery in the streets that gave rise to 'the brown shirts' genesis. At first it was just a small group of men who, with their fists, exerted a measure of conservative order to the streets. The average citizen embraced them as heroes and their ranks grew.... The eventual machinations of this startup is history, as their vision was harnessed and diabolically steered by a man with a mustache. Kind O reminds me of Antifa...

Absolutely!

For the Left, the attitude is, either we will get the totalitarian nation we desire, or we will destroy it.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The aim of the French Revolution was to erase religion and morality.....also true of the Communists and the Nazis.

And, the same hostility to religion and morality is evident in our Liberals and Progressives.


Sadly, this erases, as well, the good graces of humanity....
Dennis Prager has called gratitude the second rarest of graces, after courage.


Along those lines, our pal, ODDBALL provided this article:

"The Reason So Many Americans Are Ungrateful
Psychologist David Reynolds says that gratitude "is a natural response" for people with a realistic understanding of the world.

...why aren’t more of us realists?

Psychologist David Reynolds has written extensively on gratitude. In his book A Handbook for Constructive Living, he writes, “Gratitude is a natural response to taking a realistic look at the world, including our place in it. We aren’t realistic enough to gain the benefits of gratitude often.”

“Gratitude and neurotic suffering,” Reynolds observes, “seem to be antagonistic.” Neurotics, he explains, exhibit “self-centeredness.” In contrast, gratitude “is other-centered. It carries with it the desire to serve others in repayment, even if it causes some inconvenience to oneself.”

There seems to be little in the way of gratitude these days; neurotic self-centeredness seems prevalent. Is there too little desire to serve others? Is there too much desire to bend reality to meet our demands for how the world ought to be?

Why are there so many grievances and not more gratitude in America?"
The Reason So Many Americans Are Ungrateful

 

[2aguy]

1. Somehow, the success of Western Civilization has given rise to a barbaric culture unsupported by logic, history or our own experience.

Somehow....Leftist, covered in blood, survives and even thrives.




2. Seems many....government school grads, no doubt, missed the century of slaughter, with over 100 million men, women and children slaughtered by the scions of the French Revolution......the Communists, Nazis, Fascists, Socialists.....

...yet millions of clueless American voters continue to support ideoologies that stand for nearly all of what the above tried to institute: Liberals and Progressives.



3. The anti-establishment artist, Banksy, produced an allegory for Western Civilization under the sway of Leftism:

"Banksy has played what could be one of the most audacious pranks in art history, arranging for one of his best-known works to self-destruct after being sold at auction for just over £1m.

Girl With Balloon was the final item in an auction at Sotheby’s in London on Friday night and its sale price equalled the artist’s previous auction record of £1.04m.

Shortly after the hammer came down on the item, however, the canvas began to pass through a shredder installed in the frame.

Banksy posted an image on Instagram of the shredded work dangling from the bottom of the frame with the title “Going, going, gone … ”
Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds

How is that worth 1.4 million.....?

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. Somehow, the success of Western Civilization has given rise to a barbaric culture unsupported by logic, history or our own experience.

Somehow....Leftist, covered in blood, survives and even thrives.




2. Seems many....government school grads, no doubt, missed the century of slaughter, with over 100 million men, women and children slaughtered by the scions of the French Revolution......the Communists, Nazis, Fascists, Socialists.....

...yet millions of clueless American voters continue to support ideoologies that stand for nearly all of what the above tried to institute: Liberals and Progressives.



3. The anti-establishment artist, Banksy, produced an allegory for Western Civilization under the sway of Leftism:

"Banksy has played what could be one of the most audacious pranks in art history, arranging for one of his best-known works to self-destruct after being sold at auction for just over £1m.

Girl With Balloon was the final item in an auction at Sotheby’s in London on Friday night and its sale price equalled the artist’s previous auction record of £1.04m.

Shortly after the hammer came down on the item, however, the canvas began to pass through a shredder installed in the frame.

Banksy posted an image on Instagram of the shredded work dangling from the bottom of the frame with the title “Going, going, gone … ”
Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds

How is that worth 1.4 million.....?

The point here is the destruction of the painting, as the Left is about destroying Western Civilization



But....how about de Kooning's $310 million brush-cleaning????

 

[night_son]

Reminds me of the Wiemar Republic. There was such decadency in Germany, sex tourism and debauchery in the streets that gave rise to 'the brown shirts' genesis. At first it was just a small group of men who, with their fists, exerted a measure of conservative order to the streets. The average citizen embraced them as heroes and their ranks grew.... The eventual machinations of this startup is history, as their vision was harnessed and diabolically steered by a man with a mustache. Kind O reminds me of Antifa...

Hells to the yeah.

Wherever social and cultural rot has been not only accepted, but praised until the decay has become the norm, millions have been killed in the name of perpetuating and protecting their newly founded, newly putrescent religion of debauchery. Reminds me in cold sweat of the degree to which celebrated American Pop Culture has devolved into branded moral nihilism. And now, now today, here in our America, so many young people believe in their RIGHT to be as morally bankrupt as their every desire requires, and expect to be absolved by radical leftist moral relativism from any and all consequences of their behavior. How long, my fellow Americans, until history repeats her regular cycle of bloodbath amoral revolutionariness in our own streets, along our own back roads?

 

[PoliticalChic]

The aim of the French Revolution was to erase religion and morality.....also true of the Communists and the Nazis.

And, the same hostility to religion and morality is evident in our Liberals and Progressives.


Sadly, this erases, as well, the good graces of humanity....
Dennis Prager has called gratitude the second rarest of graces, after courage.


Along those lines, our pal, ODDBALL provided this article:

"The Reason So Many Americans Are Ungrateful
Psychologist David Reynolds says that gratitude "is a natural response" for people with a realistic understanding of the world.

...why aren’t more of us realists?

Psychologist David Reynolds has written extensively on gratitude. In his book A Handbook for Constructive Living, he writes, “Gratitude is a natural response to taking a realistic look at the world, including our place in it. We aren’t realistic enough to gain the benefits of gratitude often.”

“Gratitude and neurotic suffering,” Reynolds observes, “seem to be antagonistic.” Neurotics, he explains, exhibit “self-centeredness.” In contrast, gratitude “is other-centered. It carries with it the desire to serve others in repayment, even if it causes some inconvenience to oneself.”

There seems to be little in the way of gratitude these days; neurotic self-centeredness seems prevalent. Is there too little desire to serve others? Is there too much desire to bend reality to meet our demands for how the world ought to be?

Why are there so many grievances and not more gratitude in America?"
The Reason So Many Americans Are Ungrateful

"Obscure Holiday Known As 'Thanksgiving' Apparently Celebrates Obsolete Custom Called 'Gratitude'
November 27th, 2019

U.S.—With so many different cultures melting in the pot, it's hard for Americans to keep track of all the different customs and holidays everyone celebrates.


But a little-known holiday celebrated this Thursday apparently celebrates an obsolete, archaic custom called "gratitude."

"Apparently, people used to be thankful for things," said Dr. Fred T. Mann, who wrote his dissertation on the obscure holiday. "They would say what things they were happy to be blessed with, thanking some kind of deity or outside force for giving them things. It's unclear why. There's not much to be thankful for. And who are we supposed to thank, anyway? Everything good in our lives is our doing, while everything bad in our lives is someone else's fault, obviously."

Mann believes we've evolved past the need to give thanks, and so the holiday fell out of favor. "You can still see some people practice gratitude once in a while, but these people are backward and obviously privileged."

According to researchers, Americans would gather around a table, eat food, talk with family members, and carry out a strange tradition called "prayer" where they would thank somebody named "God" for "blessings" in their lives.

The holiday was eventually replaced with our more advanced, cultured holiday known as Black Friday, where we beat people to death to save $20 on a television set."
Obscure Holiday Known As 'Thanksgiving' Apparently Celebrates Obsolete Custom Called 'Gratitude'

 

[JimBowie1958]

The moral rot of the West began with the French Revolution and secular humanist idealism, and until we purge it from our culture we will never be free of that rancid rot.