So, what\u2019s the deal?\u00a0 Are we reaching the end of the American Century and should we abandon all hope, we who enter?\u00a0 Or is there any other way to approach the situation we are in?\u00a0 Well, I would be accused of being a hopeless optimist if I didn\u2019t admit that western civilization has fallen off a cliff at this point.\u00a0 Looking around and seeing what passes for leadership and competency it\u2019s impossible not to see a step change down from what existed a generation before.\u00a0 Even the crooks are a couple of standard deviations below the level that used to operate in the last century.\u00a0 Everything is diminished.\u00a0 It\u2019s undeniable.<\/p>\n
Where do we go from here?<\/p>\n
A few years ago, I read a book by a culture critic named Rod Dreher called \u201cThe Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.\u201d\u00a0 Now Dreher is a man of the right but he has had lots of fights with many other folks on his \u201cside of the aisle.\u201d\u00a0 If I remember correctly, he\u2019s not very fond of Donald Trump.\u00a0 Oh, well.\u00a0 But there was much in his book that I found interesting and helpful.\u00a0 He talked about how our era had commonalities with 5th<\/sup> century A.D. Europe during the fall of the Roman Empire.\u00a0 The Benedict in the title refers to Saint Benedict who at that time founded the Benedictine monastic order that began the slow painful process of restoring civilization to the human wreckage that existed after civil authority broke down after the barbarian hordes knocked over the Roman government.\u00a0 Dreher\u2019s point was that we no longer live in a society united under a common culture or religion.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t prevent us from forming our own communities to preserve the things we value and pass them on to our descendants.<\/p>\n And he\u2019s absolutely correct.\u00a0 Now admittedly, the left is doing everything it can to infect all areas of civil life with their Anti-American, Anti-European, Anti-Christian, Anti-western-civilization, anti-white propaganda and agenda.\u00a0 But giving up because it\u2019s difficult is the very definition of weakness.\u00a0 If the things we want to see endure are worth saving then they are certainly worth fighting for.<\/p>\n So, I see this as the alternative to despair.\u00a0 Look at the current state of affairs as a test of fitness for people and ideas.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not willing to fight for the things you value then maybe you don\u2019t actually value them that much at all.\u00a0 It certainly is a shame that the elites in this country valued the monetary advantages they could gain from globalism over the patriotic loyalty they owed to their fellow citizens and drowned our culture in third world \u201cdiversity.\u201d\u00a0 But just giving up is weak and defeatist and now that the globalists have been exposed it\u2019s incumbent on us to support all individuals and organizations that work toward preserving the best parts of our traditional culture and do everything we can to reconstitute that culture and allow it to flourish again in this country.\u00a0 Start rebuilding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, what\u2019s the deal?\u00a0 Are we reaching the end of the American Century and should we abandon all hope, we who enter?\u00a0 Or is there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1263,2860],"tags":[3574,225,869,194],"class_list":["post-36135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","category-reclaiming-the-family","tag-cultural-revival","tag-rod-dreher","tag-the-benedict-option","tag-western-civilization"],"yoast_head":"\n