tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post8592164215972477252..comments2023-11-05T01:45:58.784-07:00Comments on The Hesperado: The Hesperado Book ClubHesperadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-37184615537701059262013-04-03T13:00:32.550-07:002013-04-03T13:00:32.550-07:00Thanks Fiqh, I hope to post a book at least once a...Thanks Fiqh, I hope to post a book at least once a week.<br /><br />Part of the problem with the West is a loss of appreciation for its greatness and in many ways superiority over other civilizations. This has gotten so bad that even the mere mention of "the West" (other than disparagingly, of course) elicits a sneeringly rhetorical question, "What is 'the West'...?"<br /><br />The same person has no problem, of course, glibly referring to that same West he discounted, when such a reference is to compare it unfavorably with non-Western cultures.<br /><br />And the supreme irony is that this attitude has been most copiously and industriously cultivated by Westerners themselves!Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-70239014560924860522013-03-31T11:34:24.984-07:002013-03-31T11:34:24.984-07:00Hiya Hesp,
I’ve been extremely busy with work, an...Hiya Hesp,<br /><br />I’ve been extremely busy with work, and so I haven’t had much time to comment here or at JW, but I thought it might be helpful for you to know that I’ m really enjoying your ‘Book Club’ series. I haven’t had time to acquire what you have so far recommended, much less read the books, but I am definitely taking notes, so your efforts are by no means wasted.<br /><br />Also, regarding this from your post: <br /><br /><i>“It is a profoundly moving, strangely intricate survey and illumination of the deeper consanguinity between Graeco-Roman thought (most of which -- including the Philosophers -- was, indeed, mythopoetic) and Christian theology in its first great era of the first few centuries A.D.”</i><br /><br />I think that this is a very important point. If we, as anti-Islam fighters, are to convince our fellows in society that Western Civilization is unique, superior to all others, and essential to fight for, (it is a sad commentary on our times that this would even need to be explained) then obviously we are going to need to provide a definition of what Western Civilization is. And we must be able to explain its lineage.<br /><br />In my conversations with people, I’ve taken to explaining it as a confluence of the Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman traditions. As a talking point, I find that this is a simple way to make a light bulb go off over the head of some, and get an anchor into the discussion, establishing a foundation upon which to build up and contextualize the global jihad and how vital it is that we fight back, and how much we have to lose if we don’t. Sadly, I don’t think most people even ask themselves this question ‘What is Western Civilization?’ today.<br /><br />And, of course, the Left wants to ‘end history’ altogether, so to speak. Which is ironic, given that Socialism is a mutant offspring of the very tradition the Left so despises. <br />Fiqhnoreply@blogger.com