Death Of The West

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Not to honor Dr. King today is intolerable. When Arizona voted not to have a holiday for King, the state was theatened with loss of the Super Bowl and convention boycotts, and berated by the national press. The pressure and abuse were so unbearalbe that the state overturned a popular vote and ratified the holiday. Only then was Arizona permitted to rejoin the Union." Millions have begun to feel like strangers in their own land. They recoil from a popular culture that is saturated with raw sex and trumpets hedonistic values. They see old holidays disappear and old heroes degraded. They see the art and artifacts of a glorious past removed from their museums and replaced by the depressing, the ugly, the abstract, the anti-American. They watch as books they cherished disappear from the schools they attended, to be replaced by authors and titles they never heard of. The moral code that they were raised to live by has been overthrown. The culture they grew up with is dying inside the country they grew up in.

When Cornwallis's army marched out of Yorktown, the fife and drums played "The World Turned Upside Down." Now our world has been turned upside down. What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. When was immoral and shameful- promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide- has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues." In The Disuniting of America Arthur Schlesinger cites a character of Milans Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Nor is America immune to the forces of separatism. A sense that America, too, is pulling apart along the seams of ethnicity and race is spreading. Moreover, America has just undergone a cultural revolution, with a new elite now occupying the commanding heights. Through its capture of the institutions that shape and transmit ideas, opinions, beliefs, and values—TV, the arts, entertainment, education—this elite is creating a new people. Not only ethnically and racially, but culturally and morally, we are no longer one people or “one nation under God.” The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was."Here is the difference between our culture today and the civilization which started on the downward path in 1939. Before the second half of the twentieth century, everyone thought of "posterity." Hardly anyone does today, even among those who cherish our civilization. And therefore women are not having children.

The spokesperson added that before distributing bona vacantia to charities, the duchy allocated money to a late claims fund in case any surviving relatives make future claims to their inheritance. “The cost of administering bona vacantia and any costs associated with the upkeep of public buildings and those of architectural importance, is also deducted.” But when the income tax rate for the wealthiest was above 90 percent in the 1950s, America, by every moral and social indicator, was a better country." two of every three pregnancies in Russia are terminated before birth." (Buchanan, Death of the West, Russia)

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Buchanan argues that the United States has a " nation within a nation" already. The population of 30 million foreign born (of which 11 million are "illegal aliens") is larger than the entire population of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

Sex, fame, money, power - those are what our new America is all about. ... The new hedonism seems unable to give people a reason to go on living. ... Now that all the Western empires are gone, Western Man, relieved of his duty to civilize and Christianize mankind, reveling in luxury in our age of self-indulgence, seems to have lost his will to live and reconciled himself to his impending death." (Buchanan, The Death of the West, Introduction) Patrice Guillamaud is a philosopher. His latest books include Le divin et l’Etat, essai d’ousiologie théologico-politique sur la co-existence ( The Divine and the State, an essay of theological-political ousiology on co-existence), and La Nation, pour une définition philosophique ( The Nation, for a philosophical definition). He has been working for many years on a new philosophical science, “usiology.” This article appears through the kind courtesy of La Nef.

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Chapter 7 and 8 touch upon how the American nation state is being destroyed: through the undermining of its historical figures and the Christian religion on which it was founded upon. Why is this happening? Socialism, the beatific vision of European intellectuals for generations, is one reason. 'If everyone has the promise of a state pension, children are no longer a vital insurance policy against want in old age, ' argues Dr John Wallace of Bologna's Johns Hopkins University: 'If women can earn more than enough to be financially independent, a husband is no longer essential. And if you can also have sex and not babies- and this seems to be true now of Catholic Italy as it is of secular Britain- why marry?" However, under a custom that has its roots in the medieval period, two hereditary estates, or duchies, belonging to the royal family can collect bona vacantia from people who die in two regions in England. They also collect leftover assets owned by companies at the point they are dissolved.