Appendix
I
As it
plays a critical part in the story, I must comment on the purposeful destruction of Western Culture,
best explained by Antonio Gramsci (emphasis added):
While firmly committed to global
Communism, [Gramsci] knew that that violence would fail to win the West. American workers (proletariat)
would never declare war on their middle class neighbors as long as they
shared common Christian values. So the Italian communist
— a contemporary of Lenin — wrote an alternative plan for a silent revolution. The main weapons would be
deception, manipulation and infiltration. Hiding their Marxist ideology, the
new Communist warriors would seek positions of influence in seminaries,
government, communities, and the media.
Gramsci himself rejected Christianity and all its transcendent
claims. Nevertheless, he knew Christian culture existed…. For
that was the force binding all the classes… into a single, homogeneous culture.
It was a specifically Christian culture,
in which individual men and women understood that the most important things
about human life transcended the material conditions in which they lived out
their mortal lives.
The first phase in achieving “cultural hegemony” over
a nation is the undermining of all elements of traditional
culture.
He has a thing for Christian
culture, don’t you think?
What does this
have to do with my theory of history? Disallow others from
controlling. Common culture provides governance with
much less government. Destroy common
culture and you inherently invite more government, more control.
But why
the focus by Gramsci (and others, continuing to this day) on Western, Christian culture? Why not African
culture, Chinese culture, whatever?
From which culture came
forth the idea of liberty, from the earliest days of the Middle Ages?
Where was the highest level of liberty achieved (over a meaningful population)
by man on earth?
That’s why.
