Friday, March 11, 2016
Can we avoid the doom of the West?
The American Founders understood (as
the ancient Greeks did) that democracy requires a majority of
virtuous citizens. A majority of Americans may still be virtuous but
the elites and big lobbies who now control democracy are not
virtuous. How do the actions of virtue work within a moral tradition
when there is no respect for the moral tradition?
Could this mean we are doomed? We could
have civil disturbances and even civil war as what is left of moral
traditions battles with a post-Christian society. Those disturbances
could lead back to virtue within a moral tradition---the most natural
state of man---but will it be the tradition of Christianity, Judaism, Islam? Will
science come up with religion from science?
I think conservatism is the healthiest
dynamic to follow for any social change, where the best of the past
is retained but transformed for the future. So I accept a
Christianity transformed by theological materialism (the inward God
transformed in the material evolution to outward Godhood), which then
leads to the virtues of ethnopluralism (the constitutional separation
of powers and states into ethnic regions).
I don't see a better way to show Spengler as mistaken and avoid
the doom of the West.
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