Antiquity Out of Fashion

9th Grade Versus 15th And The Western Tradition

========
The lack of credibility suffered by colleges and universities today might be summed up simply by the cultural Marxism which has taken root within them. But there is also their inability to actually educate the students within their walls and beyond the simple job training services they provide at high cost. And by demonizing anyone and anything beyond recent memory, and perhaps by design, they rob their students of the ability to understand their culture, traditions and the roots of Western Civilization.

Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
========
Antiquity Out of Fashion:

“At our universities, the historians like to dump the ancient history course in the lap of the philologists, and vice versa. Here and there it is treated like a poor relation whom it would be a disgrace to let go to ruin entirely. But with the public at large antiquity is completely out of fashion, and the “culture” which is supported by this public even feels hatred for it. Various faults of antiquity serve as a pretext.

The real reason is conceit about modern communication and transport and the inventions of our century; then too, there is the inability to distinguish technical and material greatness from the intellectual and moral kinds; and finally, the prevalent views about refinement of manners, philanthropy, and the like.

But what makes it generally impossible for the present-day average “educated” man to find anything appealing in the ancient world is the total egoism of today’s private person who wants to exist as an individual and asks of the community only the greatest possible security for himself and his property, for which he pays his taxes amid sighs, and who also likes to attach himself to the community in a specific sense as an “official.”

On the other hand, the peoples of the ancient Orient, who lived tribally, impress us as races of which each individual is only a type, with the king as the highest type.

Finally, today’s “educated” men are firmly resolved to make a bargain, with whatever power, for their existence at any given time. There is an enormous veneration of life and property. There is a mass abdication, and not just on the part of the rulers! And there are numerous bargaining positions and concessions against the worst – and all this with great touchiness in matters of recognition and so-called honor.

With the ancients, on the contrary, it was all or nothing, with no fear of disaster. The fall of states, cities, and kings was considered glorious. That is something alien to us.”

(Judgments on History and Historians, Jacob Burckhardt, Liberty Fund, 1999, pp. 5-7)
========
Antiquity Out of Fashion

To Appomattox

Salute of Honor by Mort Kunstler
"On our part not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying, nor motion of man standing again at the order, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead."
=========
"To Appomattox" is an eight-hour television event mini-series on the American Civil War.

American soil is under attack, the nation engaged in its most unpopular war. The population is divided on every political and social issue.

In the White House, sits the most hated President in American history—believed by more than half the citizens to have stolen the election to his first term; when he runs for his second term, he will barely beat a war hero Democrat who campaigns on a popular anti-war platform. Inept generals will make a mockery of predictions of easy initial victory;

In Congress, anti-administration committees will convene to investigate the conduct of this war. As the war drags on over years (instead of months), the United States will lose its overseas allies while introducing the world to weapons and tactics more devastating than ever before seen…

========

This production is honored to have developed a connection between this ultimate American sport with the ultimate American story and is proud to announce an association between select NASCAR™ affiliated drivers and roles that best exemplify this tradition of patriotism and competition in our production.


• Carl Edwards - General John B. Gordon, Confederate General selected by Lee to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, who became one of the two "authors" of "Honor Answering Honor" and, by this gesture, returned the private Southern soldier to the Union with respect and dignity.

========

MUSIC
Rascal Flatts


Via Anita

Easter Bunny Barack

Brian Fairrington, CagleCartoons.com

========

Why would OPEC give money to the American environmental left? Walter E. Williams explains

As gas prices approach $5 a gallon, and some even predict $6 a gallon by summer, the White House has launched an investigation into what is causing the rapid price surge. But on Thursday’s “Mark Levin Show,” George Mason University economist Walter E. Williams said no investigation was necessary since the cause of the spike in energy prices was obviously the fault of Washington politicians listening to “environmental wackos.”

“And actually, you know – collusion, if you look for the source of collusion – it’s in Washington, D.C.,” Williams said. “The federal government is in charge of colluding, you know setting prices and colluding on prices. But the problem with oil – I think it’s a supply problem. The United States, you know off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf and California and then huge oil finds in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and North Dakota – we have more oil than Saudi Arabia has altogether. And so however, what’s the problem? The government listening to Congress listening to these environmental wackos – they’re stopping us from drilling and so the prices are going up.”

However, there is the potential for strange bedfellows in this debate, he said. According to Williams, it would be in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) best interest for the American environmental movement to succeed with its efforts to prevent domestic oil production.

Armistead's Gethsemane, For Old Virginia, For Your Lands, Homes, Sweeethearts, Wives And His Final Request

Armistead's Gethsemane

========

For Old Virginia



=========
"For your lands, for your homes, for your sweethearts,
for your wives, for Virginia!"



========

Final Request from General Armistead

The Knock Out Game

AN OPEN LETTER TO GHETTO BLACK AMERICA

Via American And Proud

Day By Day

Cain/West Best Choice for GOP to Take on Obama in 2012

Via PUMABydesign

Dad who split up fight in McDonald's shot dead

Via Sipsey Street Irregulars

A DAD-of-four who split up a fight in a McDonald’s was shot dead moments after being told he wouldn’t see the morning.

Raymond Mitchell, 34, had only popped into the restaurant to buy a hot chocolate.

But he apparently caused offence after splitting up two men fighting in the queue.

One of them, who had several gold teeth, shouted at Raymond: “You are gonna die tonight, you are not gonna see the morning.”

The thug is then said to have phoned an accomplice to fetch a gun, yelling into his mobile: “Bring me that thing.”

West: We need strong (Spartan) women to raise American men!

========
My mother drilled this in my head.
“Spartan, here is your shield. Come back bearing this shield or being borne upon it!”
========

"He starts by using the example of the Spartans, the most feared army in ancient times:"

But when you understood what made the Spartan men strong, it was the Spartan women. Because the Spartan women at the age of nine gave up their male sons. And their male sons went into a training that was called the Agoge and they stayed in that training for the next eleven to twelve years. And when they were finally qualified, when they were finally ready to join the ranks for the Spartan army, it was not their father who gave them their cloak and shield. It was their mother who gave them their shield. And when the Spartan mother gave that young Spartan warrior his shield, she gave him this basic commandment: “Spartan, here is your shield. Come back bearing this shield or being borne upon it!”

When Queen Gorgo, wife of King Leonidas, was questioned by the Persian emissary and she somewhat spoke out of turn to this Persian emissary, he tried to rebuke her. And she looked at him and said “Persian, beware, for it is Spartan women who raise Spartan men.”