#western-civilization — Public Fediverse posts

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

We’ll keep trying to go for some timely comedic takes in these dark dark domestic times. I will say it’s heartening to know most of the rest of #WesternCivilization is looking at what’s happening here ,putting down the cheese and crackers… and heading for the door. No thanks seems to be the message. They’re gonna keep #Democracy going in the #EU even if the lights go out here. That is the most heartening thing to have seen in recent weeks. Also that #BillyCobham #TimeMachine video. Fresh air

Suicide of the West: How Western Culture is Being Eroded

https://beitmenotyou.online/suicide-of-the-west-how-western-culture-is-being-eroded/

#Politics #PrivacySafty #Censorship #CivilLiberties #EUDigitalPolicy #FreeSpeech #GovernmentOverreach #MigrationCrisis #OnlineSafetyAct #Surveillance #WesternCivilization #WesternValues #WorldEconomicForum

Why #Christianity Is Losing Ground in the West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7crDu7meg

#religion #westerncivilization #USA #atheist

The #Myth of #WesternCivilization EXPOSED

We’ve been sold a lie: that “Western #Civilization” is the pinnacle of #humanprogress, #reason, and #morality. But that’s #propaganda talking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtJcXrpVZsA
#USA

have you ever wondered why all the big cryptocurrency companies are run by chinese nationals from offices in china even though the PRC banned crypto 5 years ago?

#changemymind #capitalism #china #prc #communism #crypto #cryptocurrency #meme #memes #uspol #uspolitics #capitalist #greed #westernciv #westerncivilization

#Christian #Morality Is a #LIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHInILUxFM
https://www.thekaysemeloneshow.com/p/016-christian-morality-is-a-lie

"We often hear that #WesternCivilization was built upon #Christianmorality, but is that actually a good thing? In fact, is that actually a real thing? I would argue that no, Christian morality is not as set-in-stone as the #religious leaders in power would like their everyday #congregation members to believe."

"#Western #Values"? "#Christian #Morality"? Give me a break.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il5tJE5XlY4

"I respond to the #myth that #Protestant #Christianity built all that is good, #moral, and just in the world.
Spoiler alert: it didn’t.
#Westerncivilization wasn’t shaped by #Christianvalues—it was built on #exploitation, #colonialism, #whitesupremacy, and #capitalism."

#exchristian #christianvalues #westerncivilization #westernvalues #deconstructingchristianity

"#Christian Morality" Is Bullsh*t!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdr7mfQ5NQ

#christianvalues #morality #westerncivilization

What do people really mean when they talk about “Christian morality”? From the myth that #Christianity invented Western morality to the violent, #patriarchal history it conveniently forgets, we need to stop pretending that #organizedreligion owns the #moralhighground.

Waking Up From The Nightmare Of #WesternCivilization

https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/waking-up-from-the-nightmare-of-western-civilization-9e09691a5932

"For All We Know" by Mike Fiorito (@mike3fio) is a thought-provoking novel exploring life's big questions through a young protagonist navigating a chaotic "World of Wonder." The book blends music, psychedelics, and existential themes, encouraging readers to reflect on reality and consciousness.
Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204866973-for-all-we-know

#ForAllWeKnow #MikeFiorito #BookReview #Goodreads #ThoughtProvoking #Consciousness #Philosophy #BookRecommendation #WesternCivilization #RealityAndWonder #UFO #Psychedelics
#authorinstagram #UAP #phenomenon

Been called a hardened Jew hater today by an account that promotes #GenocideDenial around #Israel's killings and destruction in #Gaza.

Surprise finding myself thrown in with Jewish #HolocaustSurvivors who call the slaughter in Gaza for what it is.

But that's where Netanyahu has taken the state of Israel. smh
cf Trump, Biden, Orban, Starmer, Johnson, Brexit, Putin, Morrison, Dutton, Luxon

#WesternCivilization #EthicalBankruptcy #Principles #RealPolitik #HumanRights

🎤🥔 New Statesman serves up yet another steaming take on the "Yoko Ono problem," because apparently we haven't dredged that well dry enough. Spoiler alert: Yoko's still being blamed for everything, including the decline of Western civilization. 🌍💥
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/03/the-yoko-ono-problem #YokoOnoProblem #NewStatesman #WesternCivilization #MediaCritique #PopCultureAnalysis #HackerNews #ngated

We found the beheaded babies again and again. They were Palestinian. The West said nothing and only sent more bombs

#Netanyahu, children slaughterer, leads #Israel to continuing the 2023-2024 #Genocide in #Gaza into 2025.

With the help and support of USA, Trump, UK, Germany and Australia.

s/
But don't worry, they've got #ClimateChange handled.
/s

#AustralianValues #WesternCivilization

Thinking about the #AmericanExperiment and #WesternCivilization.

It's produced some wonders. (See below.)
And horrors and brutality beyond measure.
The #USA was meant to be progressing to a #MorePerfectUnion.

The #Marketing of #Spectacle by the #CorporateMedia has something entirely different to a more perfect union being cemented today.

To what extent has the good stuff functioned to distract from the basic brutality of our civilzation?

#RalphWilliams #Oresteia
https://youtu.be/97C60exFH6A?si=YztiQEz1VDvpnprv

Hermead Epic of Philosophers
Book IV Alphabet Of Kadmos
http://tinyurl.com/HermeadEpic

#Poetry #AmericanPoetry #Epic #AmericanEpic #GreatAmericanNovel #Cinemism #MetaModernism #HistoricalFiction #FolkLore #Cadmus #Alphabet #WesternCivilization #Philosophy #Linguistics

The idea of "Western Civilization" is often seen as a cohesive lineage, but it’s more myth than reality. Historically, European culture borrowed heavily from Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world, making the "West" a blend of global influences. This narrative of Western superiority oversimplifies a complex history and overlooks contributions from diverse cultures.

#History #CulturalHeritage #WesternCivilization #GlobalHistory

https://lithub.com/why-the-idea-of-western-civilization-is-more-myth-than-history/

#WesternCivilization ain't very civilized.

#StopWhitewashing

Some of the subjs are of mixed ethnicity…& insist they don’t embrace the #racist agenda of… #MAGA…, even if they keep hyping the #superiority of “#WesternCivilization.” Nevertheless, #Homegrown doesn’t fawn or flatter its subjs. We also see them participating in #violent *protests* & eventually, in the case of one named #ChristopherQuaglin, …the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection. Premo himself…#films Quaglin from…the middle of the crush, as the mob tries to enter the #Capitol bldg.

#Trump #Terrorism

Hermead Day 16 July 2011
Science of Hermes
Epic about Philosophers
http://TinyUrl.com/HermeadEpic

Hermead of Surazeus
presents lives and ideas
of 26 ancient philosophers
in development of science
over 600 years of western civilization
in 126,680 lines of blank verse.

#Poetry #Epic #Philosophy #WesternCivilization

#World #Voters #westernCivilization only need 3 words to make most react like Pavlov dogs and become extreme right wing supporters
#Crime #Immigrants #Islam