Who Destroyed Western Civilization? Paul CRaig Roberts
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:13 am
Paul Craig Roberts on the destruction of Western Civilisation. I enjoy Paul Craig Roberts despite him being a right-wing conservative. He's an anti-neocon and wrote the "Neocon threat to the world".
A fascinating character to follow during the era of Western descent into pure barbarism - he was in the Reagan government as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Unlike most of the rightoids who blame Western decline on "cultural marxism" and the "march through the institutions". Whilst true to some extent - the revisionist euro-communists, whining academics and Rockefeller funded psyops that decided to take Lenins concrete analysis of oppressed countries within the imperialist world system and extend this into the "oppression olympics" in Western societies who gave up on class struggle is to some extent true.
The point I feel he is missing is made by Dugin that liberalism trends to ever more the "cult of the individual". The obsessession with postmodernist "deconstruction". Ie. everything is a social construct. Forgetting of course that social constructs are what separate us from animals.
The end point is the "deconstruction" of the human identity itself.
The individuals rights become sacrosanct (over the community.)
This inevitably leads to atomisation of society to the point you see bizarre phenomena like Hikkokomori culture in Japan (this phenomena now exists in the West as "incels"). When rights of the individual are elevated they start believing in identities constructed by hollywood (gay identities etc). As well as the trend toward deathcult - the so-called "right to die" and the euthanasia cult.
Canada is the prime example of this. A country of snooty cunts who consider their southern neighbours unenlightened, uncultured and backward compared to forward thinking Canada which allows men with prosthetic breasts like this to teach in schools and pretend this is normal and not an autogynephillic sexual fantasy.
Yet, it is Canadian euthanising poor and disabled people whilst inviting Waffen SS officiers into parliament for standing ovations.
A fascinating character to follow during the era of Western descent into pure barbarism - he was in the Reagan government as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Unlike most of the rightoids who blame Western decline on "cultural marxism" and the "march through the institutions". Whilst true to some extent - the revisionist euro-communists, whining academics and Rockefeller funded psyops that decided to take Lenins concrete analysis of oppressed countries within the imperialist world system and extend this into the "oppression olympics" in Western societies who gave up on class struggle is to some extent true.
The point I feel he is missing is made by Dugin that liberalism trends to ever more the "cult of the individual". The obsessession with postmodernist "deconstruction". Ie. everything is a social construct. Forgetting of course that social constructs are what separate us from animals.
The end point is the "deconstruction" of the human identity itself.
The individuals rights become sacrosanct (over the community.)
This inevitably leads to atomisation of society to the point you see bizarre phenomena like Hikkokomori culture in Japan (this phenomena now exists in the West as "incels"). When rights of the individual are elevated they start believing in identities constructed by hollywood (gay identities etc). As well as the trend toward deathcult - the so-called "right to die" and the euthanasia cult.
Canada is the prime example of this. A country of snooty cunts who consider their southern neighbours unenlightened, uncultured and backward compared to forward thinking Canada which allows men with prosthetic breasts like this to teach in schools and pretend this is normal and not an autogynephillic sexual fantasy.
Yet, it is Canadian euthanising poor and disabled people whilst inviting Waffen SS officiers into parliament for standing ovations.
Paul Craig Roberts
I think it was white liberals who deracinated the white ethnicities and destroyed Western civilization. I think civilization was destroyed because liberals based their demands for reforms on denunciation of existing society. Decades of denunciation undermined confidence.
I once offered this explanation:
The liberals’ stress on social purification flows from an inconsistency in the intellectual foundation of Western civilization. The Enlightenment had two results that combined to produce a destructive formula. On the one hand, Christian moral fervor was secularized, which produced demands for the moral perfection of society. On the other hand, modern science hammered epistemology into a critical philosophical positivism that is skeptical of the reality of moral motives. From the one we get moral indignation and from the other, moral skepticism. How can two such disparate tendencies be reconciled?
The answer seems to be that this inconsistent combination is held together by their joint attack on existing society. One pre-empts existing society’s defense, while the other focuses moral indignation against it. Together they support a social and political dynamism that seeks to achieve progress by remaking society.
Affirmations of society’s achievements run into this dynamism, which mows them down with skepticism and indignation. People who are motivated by moral purposes find that they have a safe outlet only in accusations of immorality against existing society, and the West’s morality becomes immanent in attacks on itself.
Others, such as Richard Knight, believe Western civilization was destroyed by German Jewish cultural marxists whose march through the institutions discredited every institution of Western civilization. https://www.unz.com/article/jews-and-th ... r-thought/ I don’t disagree that this has occurred, but I think Cultural Marxism is itself a product of the inconsistency in the Western intellectual foundation that I described.
It seems unlikely that the West’s intellectuals can escape the destructive dynamism of moral indignation and moral skepticism. When civilization is destroyed, nirvana is not standing ready to take its place. The replacement is barbarism into which we are already descending.