Belle-lettrist/French/Attic Greek
The Greeks needed Free Speech as they did not have Press or Mass Media: we need Free Speech because we have Press & Mass Media
It is the Free Market economy alone that democratized leisure with the help of the 'invisible hand,' more likely, than the raised Fist:
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@politico By the time the “science”
reached the public it had mutated into a dogma of orders, mandates with no regard for freedom of conscience.The new social order used coercion and public shaming to downplay individual liberty for the sake of the Common Good:
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@RupertLowe10 What happens to Great Britain should be of great concern to Americans: The reason we have a stake in the preserving of the cultural memory of Great Britain is because you have our spiritual DNA- once that memory is gone we are lost at sea and we sink together. We are watching.
I propose a Council of Western Civilization for Europe.
The Council of Western Civilization.
Europe has institutions for everything – fisheries, semiconductor supply chains, the harmonization of pillow labeling standards. It has no institution tasked with the defense of the civilization that produced all of the above.
This is not an oversight. It is the result of an assumption – that Western civilization was the default, the background, the thing that would simply continue because it always had. That assumption is no longer tenable. The civilization is being dismantled, quietly and less quietly, institution by institution, border by border, curriculum by curriculum. And there is no body whose explicit mandate is to notice, name it, and act.
The Council of Western Civilization would exist for one purpose: to do what no existing institution does. To identify, name, and defend the specific civilizational inheritance that makes everything else possible – the rule of law, individual freedom, meritocracy, the separation of powers, the free market, the family, the cultural memory, the borders that protect the particular against the abstract universal and the civilizationally alien.
Not a government. Not a supranational authority. A council – a body of people who understand what is being lost, who can read the civilizational grammar clearly enough to name it and act on it. Drawn from the nations that still know what they are defending.
Three tasks.
First: produce the map – the honest, complete diagnosis of where Western civilization stands, what is being dismantled, what can still be defended, and what must be rebuilt.
Second: build the counter-framework – the institutions the current system has stopped being, that reward honesty, meritocracy, and the transmission of what is worth transmitting.
Third: distribute the vocabulary – the words that allow people to name what they are experiencing, because you cannot fight a disease you cannot name.
Not a secret Council with secret meetings – unlike the other side, which cannot openly avow what it decides or who decides it.
A public one, fully transparent, whose positions, members, and decisions are visible to everyone. Because the defense of Western civilization does not require darkness. It requires exactly what the other side cannot offer: the truth, stated plainly, in public, without a mask.
And yes – Poland should lead it. Not because it’s perfect – but because Poland is the civilization that paid the full price for losing Western civilization and fought back. Because of its Spirit of Freedom and resilience.
The nation that disappeared from the map and came back. The nation that held the gate at Vienna, rebuilt its capital from paintings, and understands, in its bones, what it means to defend something worth defending.
The West needs an institution that watches after it. It does not have one. It is time to build it.
@alancornett woke alliances of Danton & Robespierre severed (pun intended) Danton sent Robespierre to the guillotine.The same will happen to cancel culture when they can no longer follow their own rules.Those who drop the blade will find themselves under it.
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