PoliticalChic
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....all of the past and history, all learning, all enlightenment. Dark Ages underway.
1.Western Civilization is based the spiritual from Jerusalem, and the rational, from Greek culture.
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
But for the Left, whose promise is to replace God with man himself, they need to eradicate all history, and as they attempted via the French Revolution, to begin history all over, with the present as year one.
“The Revolutionary Convention established the calendar on October 5, 1793, setting its beginning (1 Vendémiaire, year I) to a date nearly a year prior (September 22, 1792), when the National Convention had proclaimed France a republic.” Britannica.
And such has been the aim of every totalitarian revolution.
2. At one time, this would have been shocking to educated folks….but a vastly different ethos has taken hold.
“5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)
1. The Family
2. Individuality
3. Eternal Truths
4. Nations
5. The Past”
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3. In deciding that the past is undeserving of being studied, and honored, all sorts of corollary demands come with it, including the very basis of America’s creation, and the inspirations for our system of law. This is what they demand be erased:
“ The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as “That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.”
This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden.” David Mamet
4. What is the result when our courts assume the Left’s values, that the works of ‘old dead white men’ need not be valued?
“There are additional costs inflicted on the society by the Court’s systematic departures from the actual Constitution. Among them are anti-intellectualism, selective nihilism, a loss of the sense of the sacred, and the destruction of taboos.
… the nihilism is selective: those who deny moral truth frequently simultaneously take uncompromising positions on their own versions of such truth, and those positions are invariably to the left of the American center.”
Robert Bork, “A Country I No Longer Recognize”
And fully half of American citizens no longer recognize this nation.
1.Western Civilization is based the spiritual from Jerusalem, and the rational, from Greek culture.
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
But for the Left, whose promise is to replace God with man himself, they need to eradicate all history, and as they attempted via the French Revolution, to begin history all over, with the present as year one.
“The Revolutionary Convention established the calendar on October 5, 1793, setting its beginning (1 Vendémiaire, year I) to a date nearly a year prior (September 22, 1792), when the National Convention had proclaimed France a republic.” Britannica.
And such has been the aim of every totalitarian revolution.
2. At one time, this would have been shocking to educated folks….but a vastly different ethos has taken hold.
“5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)
1. The Family
2. Individuality
3. Eternal Truths
4. Nations
5. The Past”
5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property) | Jon Miltimore
Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted...
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3. In deciding that the past is undeserving of being studied, and honored, all sorts of corollary demands come with it, including the very basis of America’s creation, and the inspirations for our system of law. This is what they demand be erased:
“ The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as “That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.”
This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden.” David Mamet
4. What is the result when our courts assume the Left’s values, that the works of ‘old dead white men’ need not be valued?
“There are additional costs inflicted on the society by the Court’s systematic departures from the actual Constitution. Among them are anti-intellectualism, selective nihilism, a loss of the sense of the sacred, and the destruction of taboos.
… the nihilism is selective: those who deny moral truth frequently simultaneously take uncompromising positions on their own versions of such truth, and those positions are invariably to the left of the American center.”
Robert Bork, “A Country I No Longer Recognize”
And fully half of American citizens no longer recognize this nation.