Ancient Wisdom vs. New Nonsense
December 22, 2020
ALAN writes:
IN 1963 the philosopher Anthony Ludovici wrote:
“I was alone [ in 1918 ] in pointing out that the dominance of women must culminate in an era of ramping anarchy, and I made myself extremely unpopular for so doing. I saw this dominance increasing long before Parliament granted women the suffrage. …..That feminine dominion must consequently lead to a general decline in discipline, law and order, should have been recognized by all well-informed leaders of society. Yet we have seen the era of indiscipline and laisser-aller come about, with all its accompanying symptoms of increasing crime, raging juvenile delinquency and general social anarchy in all classes of the community….
“Over two centuries ago, Montesquieu certainly maintained on historical grounds that….‘Where women set the tone, a nation is lost.’ But who today pays any heed to ancient wisdom?…”
Mr. Ludovici wrote these observations in an essay aptly titled “Feelings Masquerading as Thoughts.”
Half a century later, feminists are working overtime to prove Mr. Ludovici was right and to help advance the Revolution by doing their part to weaken Western Civilization. Stay tuned because it will get much worse if Harris becomes president.
In 1958 he wrote:
“…if there were today in England such an unlikely phenomenon as a wise man, a sage, his time could not be better employed than by wandering through our cities, towns and villages, and doing nothing else than stating the palpably obvious about the simplest matters; because modern civilized humanity has fallen into a condition of such complicated and consistent error in regard to every subject under the sun, that long before he would be called upon to propound a New Wisdom, he would have to reiterate truths which a Greek of the early 5th century B.C. would have regarded as little short of platitudes….”
Mr. Ludovici was writing specifically about the significance of racial differences. His argument was that interracial marriage was an extremely bad idea that would have terrible consequences. I agree with those judgments and would suggest only that his words may apply equally well to “complicated and consistent errors” of thought in which Americans are (still) so deeply entrenched.
The burden of that hypothetical “wise man” would be not merely (!) to point out the many mistakes in thought that modern Americans persist in making, generation after generation, but also to illuminate many things Americans imagine they know but that are not so. The Great Flu Fraud of 2020 provides us with numerous examples.
Laura writes:
Thank you for sharing.
By my count, you have committed at least three serious thought crimes in these comments.
Thank you for putting me one small step closer to being burned at the stake. : – )