Civilization and its institutions are a product of individual choices and voluntary group collaboration. Both are under assault and must be reclaimed. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
Western civilization – the most effective major civilization in human history – has lost its mechanisms of transmission. And that’s a big problem. Civilizations are simply collections of humans who share certain ideas, and if those ideas are no longer passed down, the civilization breaks, degrades and vanishes.
Western civilization had specific and important virtues, like cooperation, initiative, creativity, curiosity, co-dominance, open inquiry and justice. If we lose them we stand in jeopardy, and our grandchildren stand in grave jeopardy.
The Previous Organs of Transmission Have Failed
I won’t spend a great deal of space on the institutional failures of our time; we’ve all watched them become epic.
Over the past few years (this was written in 2022) we’ve seen proud censorship in government, media, in the big tech complex (at horrifying levels), even in publishing. The various “rights groups” surrendered in the process.
Freedom of choice was also trashed. Large swaths of academia and nearly the entire education complex drove this, cultishly. The largest corporations jumped onboard as well, firing or punishing those who refused to conform.
So, none of these can be said, any longer, to be transmitting Western civilization. They have openly opposed it, and are more than likely to defend their choices.
