By Paul Krause July 25, 2010
The final battle lines for America are the history wars. Conservatives are losing.
There have already been two fundamental revolutions that have reshaped, reconstituted, restructured American society. The first was Abraham Lincoln and the subjugation of the primacy of the states, Northern and Southern alike, to the dictates of executive fiat and the federal government. The second was Franklin Roosevelt and the subjugation of civil society to federal bureaucracy. The first was a political revolution, the second a social revolution. The third revolution is the ongoing cultural revolution, a revolution that includes factors such as immigration, the teaching and reception of European and North American history, and our own self-understanding as a people with an inheritance and a future.
Culture is the product of man's care and praise. Culture, from the Latin word cultus, means care and praise. What one cares about is ultimately what one praises. To care for and praise something presupposes something to scorn and mock. That which one does not care for he loathes, lets rot, and ultimately disintegrate. Look no farther than the University of Notre Dame's decision to cover up murals of the great hero Christopher Columbus and recent decisions in California to destroy murals of George Washington.
History is not black and white. That much is true. But the complications and messiness of history don't, shouldn't, preclude the veneration and respect owed to ancestors as part of the general cult of filial piety..............To Read More....
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