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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

WHY?

9/4/2018

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“The task of the civilized intelligence is perpetual salvage.

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Why has Western man lost his nerve and his sense?  That is really the only important question of the day.  Everything else  that is happening in the world is merely a by-product of forces occupying the space made by the shrinking of the West.

Or I should say “HOW  has  Western man lost his nerve and his sense?”   The Why is always in the deep mystery of God’s time.  The only way we can approach it is in describing the How.  We might then hope to understand a little or even to  find a way  back.

Every  thinking person has observed aspects of the phenomenon and doubtless has ideas of what  are  major  causes of the West’s terminal state.  I can but describe what strikes me, in some cases perhaps things not illuminated by other diagnosticians.

To  call on empirical facts.   It seems to be established that in all Western countries the level of intelligence and the level of testosterone in the  white male population has been declining.  No doubt as an effect of urbanism, easy living,  the increasing impotence of the European ethnic core, and the feminization of culture.  I noticed in my last years of teaching that not only young women but young men  in South Carolina were starting to speak like Valley Girls---tentative and trivial.

It is easy to find wimps, thugs, and con artists in the U.S. today.  Much harder to find those who would have been regarded  in  earlier  ages  as fully realized men.  And even harder to find  among  those who have risen to the highest ranks of politics, bureaucracy (including the military), religious government,  and culture.  What used to be ordinary integrity is increasingly scarce.   A lot of our people cannot even muster the normal male instinct to protect the home territory from interlopers but seem to delight in raining down death at remote control on distant people who have done us no particular harm.

How is it that  so many Americans have become abnormal indifferent to the slaughter of the unborn and  passive in the face of immigrant invasion?

​Is this phenomenon a cause or a symptom?

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Jon link
9/6/2018 07:35:11 am

Good question. I tend to think it is a symptom of something else. Just what I've not completely pinpointed, but I tend to think the Koine Greek word "Malakoi" has something to do with it.

"But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who are splendidly clothed and live in luxury are found in royal palaces! Luke 7:25

Luke contrasts the Malakoi (described here) with John the Baptist (a man's man if there ever was one). The Apostle Paul condemns the Malakoi in 1 Cor. 6. Usually the word is translated as "effeminate."

The West has become effeminate and it has something to do with easy living (made possible today by material wealth and technology) and a rejection of male distinctive.

Behind all of it is something religiously rooted.

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Paul Wilkes
9/9/2018 10:34:54 am

The "West" includes Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, and the Frankfurt School. I would say that a corrosive, socialist, anti-Christian element has gotten control of the schools and the media and, under the guise of promoting freedom and tolerance, parlayed that into control of corporations and politicians. They have installed sufficient taboos, censorship, and punishments to make all but the most feeble opposition unthinkable. With current information technology it will be much harder to oppose them in the future, since everything everyone says or does will be kept on file to use against them at the appropriate moment. I guess there's a chance people will see the writing on the wall and react. It's the old "boiling the frog" problem. Another idea is to introduce chaos on the theory that the left's dynamic is a form of artificial order that requires simultaneous control of a number of elements and losing control of any one of them could destroy the process.

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Thomas Bryant
9/11/2018 03:37:42 pm

The corrosive element was Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist who helped Mussolini create the original Italian Communist Party, before IIl Duce broke to create his “socialism in one country “ party, the Fascists.

Gramsci was influential on the Frankfort school, and on Saul Alinsky, who basically stole Gramsci’s “Long March through the Institutions” idea in full.

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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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