Here at the fall of Western civilization, it’s more important than ever to preserve memories of history’s greatest culture.
I’m old enough to remember when the manufactured outrage against Columbus Day started to gain traction. I also remember the anemic response from BoomerCons, who couldn’t conceive that the institutions and traditions they took for granted could ever be cast down. This, despite the fact that many in their generation fought tooth and nail to do just that.
If this be the end, then so be it. But let younger generations take warning. Our ancestors, who built the world we enjoyed in childhood, now task us with keeping and handing down its memory.
It won’t be easy. Because the ruling regime of Death Cultists pushing the West toward the End of History will gaslight, nudge, and coerce everyone into not just forsaking the old ways, but denying they ever existed.
One lesson attributed to Columbus provides a salutary reminder. Upon his return from his first historic voyage, the Admiral was being feted at the Spanish court. One wag at the table was heard to remark “Aren’t we making a lot of fuss over a rather modest deed?”
“Could you have done the same?” another dignitary asked.
“Anyone could have,” said the first. “It seems a simple matter of sailing west until one reaches land.”
At that, the Admiral took a hard-boiled egg from a dish and held it between his thumb and forefinger. “Can you – any of you – stand an egg on end?”
The whole august gathering took the Admiral’s challenge. Not one of them succeeded. Eggs flopped and rolled across the King’s table.
When the other guests had given up, the Admiral cracked his egg against the table, flattening one end, on which he stood the egg upright.
Blushing, the other dinner guests repeated his feat.
“Of course it is simple for you to do,” the Admiral said, “now that I have shown you how.”
Most people see pride as the besetting sin of great men. But it is a vice of mediocrities.
The great suffer no shortage of ankle-biters and hecklers. But they are great because they hold to their vision through adversity.
Deny the mediocrities their revenge.
Hold and hand down your great ancestors’ achievements.
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