Via
Tedmund Chan
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 European ‘we’ does not exist,” writes French
philosopher Pierre Manent, assessing the damage. “European culture is in
hiding, disappearing, without a soul.”
The increasingly “woke” values of the educated upper classes reflect,
as Alvin Toffler predicted almost half a century ago, the inevitable
consequence of mass affluence, corporate concentration, and the shift to
a service economy. The new elite, Toffler foresaw, would abandon
traditional bourgeois values of hard work and family for “more aesthetic
goals, self-fulfillment as well as unbridled hedonism.” Affluence, he
observed, “serves as a base from which men begin to strive for post
economic goals.”
