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For activists, the purpose of literature and art should be to convey positive messages and correct the social imbalances. For example, in a paper published in the January 2021 issue of the School Library Journal, Amanda MacGregor, a Minnesota-based librarian, bookseller and freelance journalist, affirms that “Shakespeare’s works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 65

Based on the awareness of the unresolved, very real, social and racial injustices, discrimination and violence suffered by minorities in the Western world, this new self-righteous culture, referred to as Woke or Cancel Culture, promotes a moral imperative to fight against them, by all means. Diversity is reduced to skin colour, religion, gender or sexual… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 64

For many years in the United States, then Canada, the United Kingdom and now in the rest of Europe, censorship, ostracism, anathemas, threats, destruction or vandalism of works of art, attempts at linguistic and historical revision, and media lynching campaigns on social networks have been spreading, carried out by activists or associations of gender or… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 63

A former Prime Minister of Australia and member of the Ramsay Foundation Board, Tony Abbott criticised modern university education, saying that he believed that “every element of the curriculum … pervaded by Asian, Indigenous and sustainability perspectives. Almost entirely absent from the contemporary educational mind-set was any sense that cultures might not all be equal… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 62

When the founder of Ramsay Health Care passed away in 2014 and bequeathed more than three billion dollars so that Western civilisation could be studies in Australian Universities, who would have guessed that the money would lie idle because those same halls of academia would see such studies as a threat. The vice-chancellor of the… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 61

Some say that such madness emanates from the modern Left and post-modernist thought. Certainly the modern Left have been under the guidance of loopy beliefs including, as Sheridan points out, ‘the dogma that children are not harmed by divorce, that pornography does not lead to sexual crime, that violence on film and television and social… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 60

Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor for Weekend Australian, reported that “at Oxford University last year, the student body at Balliol College banned the Christian Union from participating in the ‘freshers’ fair’ because this might threaten intimidate or ‘harm’ students, because Christianity is associated with Western Civilisation, and Western Civilisation is synonymous with Genocide, Rape, Torture etc.’… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 59

Make no mistake, Western culture, our culture, is under attack. This fact has been noted and discussed by commentators across many media outlets, however these discussions appear to have not been taken seriously.  Perhaps because such a thing is beyond belief, perhaps because there is no one enemy of Western culture. Perhaps it is because… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 58

I’m still pissed off when I watch the legislative bodies in South Africa brawl while the Speaker yells, “This honourable body will come to order. This honourable body will come to order.” And the mêlée continues, and one honourable member throws a punch at another honourable member. The same thing happened in the South Korean legislature in… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 57

Over the centuries, all cultures change, primarily for the better, but many societies are still undisciplined, unprincipled, and uncontrolled. And some of the better cultures have streams of uncouth, unkind, and unlawful behaviour. Even in our day, probably half the citizens are fornicators or adulterers; however, in a moment of honesty, I think most of… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 56