THE FALL OF WESTERN CULTURE

 

In place of a type-true people, born and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman. This is a very great stride towards the inorganic, towards the end – what does it signify?’  - Spengler

by Michael X.

 

Western intellectual culture has gone through many eras ranging from the classical, medieval, and renaissance periods, through to the literary and artistic movements of the enlightenment, romanticism, realism, and modernism.

 

Throughout western intellectual traditions there were always three fundamental questions: what is true, what is good, and what is beautiful? There have been many opinions put forward on these subjects by thoughtful people guided by reason and knowledge. Our culture of increasing freedom has allowed for a wide range of personal thought and expression within the limits of an acknowledged and accepted objective reality

 

Then along came postmodernism and critical theory which seeks to liberate the mind from the objective standards of western philosophy. These theories completely undermine our hard won intellectual progress that has come about as a result of our evolving advances in knowledge, ethics, and art. Postmodernist and critical theory advocates (who parade about under the banner of progressivism) seem blissfully unaware that they are the antithesis of progress. 

According to postmodernists all western theories about the nature of reality are nothing more than agreed upon opinions. As a consequence we now find our culture is beginning to slowly unravel as the “progressives" have unwittingly put a halt to four thousand years of advancing western thought. I say unwittingly because I don’t think they have the intellectual “chops” to realise that the logical extension of their theory that there is no objective reality is that the universe is aimless and without purpose.

The view that the natural order of things has no purpose is called nihilism. Postmodernism is nihilistic and Critical Theory is weaponised nihilism. I say “weaponised” because Critical Theory seeks to completely change the existing cultural order. The term “to completely change” means “to completely eliminate the one thing and substitute another thing.” By calling for the complete elimination of western culture and it's core value that there is a knowable objective reality is nothing less than a declaration of war on western civilisation.

 

One can see the preposterousness of the whole Critical Theory enterprise when one realises that they are, in fact, asserting that there is no truth - a self-contradicting idea that is as puerile as it is absurd.