Wake up to the revolution
by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:
Decay. The West’s preoccupation with material wealth and economic growth is a sign of its moral decadence and spiritual poverty. The recent history of the West is a tale of moral decline, in which those robust virtues needed to build a civilisation have been slowly corrupted by materialism and complacency.
Our nations have become geographical areas without purpose where our governing class, in Wilde’s words, ‘know the price of everything and the value of nothing’. The shallow Left who control our media and politics have abandoned the intellect in order to shelter in emotion. For them the greatest sin of all is disagreement, which they term ‘hate’.
Revolution. We have undergone a revolution in which only one side fought. Progressives have seized control of most of our institutions, fomenting grievance, division and discord, trashing our culture, sacrificing our economy on the altar of woke. How did it happen that a culture which contributed so much of value to human development, intellectually and materially, should become hollowed out?
One side knew what they were doing, deliberately changing Western culture to remake it in their own image. They eradicated the foundations by atomising society. A sense of shared culture and history was replaced by a power struggle between groups who were taught to deeply mistrust each other. Post-modernism, which saw all of life as a struggle between the powerful and the powerless, left a corrupting legacy. We have been encouraged to see ourselves as victims of those with whom we share a society.
One result has been the corruption of society where even the basic building blocks of social cohesion were undermined. Alternative family structures were lauded, same-sex parents, unmarried parents, single parents all were praised and used by the media. Whenever the media do a vox pop on the latest social scheme they wish to highlight, the person interviewed is liable to be a single mother of three living in social accommodation.
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