Sunday, October 06, 2019

Instapundit Blog Archive JOEL KOTKIN: Elites Against Western Civilization

JOEL KOTKIN: Elites Against Western Civilization
"JOEL KOTKIN: Teaching youth that there is nothing good about our democratic cultural inheritance, the intellectual class is working to discredit our past and demolish our future.

"The intellectual class across the West—encompassing its universities, media, and arts—is striving to dismantle the values that paced its ascendancy. Europe, the source of Western civilization, now faces a campaign, in academia and elite media, to replace its cultural and religious traditions with what one author describes as a “multicultural and post-racial republic” supportive of separate identities....
...The driving force for these changes has been the ascendant clerisy, which, reprising the role that the Church played in medieval times, sees itself as anointed to direct human society, a modern version of the “oligarchy of priests and monks whose task it was to propitiate heaven,”...
The elites are not just wrong, they’re evil.---Posted by 
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