Don't Pin Your Hopes on Team Save Western Civilization

5/21/2022

A triple-pecked colleague of mine recently lauded the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Budapest over the past couple of days. The event attracted conservatives from all over the world to the Hungarian capital where they outlined how they would to protect “God, homeland, family” from the insanity of leftist ideology.

My triple-pecked colleague declared the conference to be a good omen – a sign that a turning point had been reached. As far as he was concerned, the conference proved that Western Civilization could and would be saved after all.

This triple-pecked colleague of mine is – as Dr. Charlton has so memorably put it – married to the Psycho Hose Beast; he has zero awareness of the 2020 satanic global totalitarian coup:

. . . it is clear that most people did not recognize the 2020 coup at the time - but instead wholly accepted the birdemic cover story as a complete explanation for sudden, instant, universal totalitarianism.

And having failed to notice the biggest event in world history (i.e. the silent international coup to install a world government) - these people naturally do not take any significant action to disengage psychologically and spiritually; they fail even to remember 'what it was like'.

And indeed they have ended-up married to the Psycho Hose Beast that is The System.

People like my birdemic “immunity”-card carrying, Fidesz-voting, conservative-minded colleague are blind to the obvious – after decades of terminal decline, Western civilization has died. It died in 2020 when nearly everyone in the world “accepted the birdemic cover story as a complete explanation for sudden, instant, universal totalitarianism.”

I offhandedly mentioned this to my colleague, citing the Orbán government’s oppressive policies during the height of the birdemic, policies which trampled all over “God, Homeland, Family” and other supposed essential characteristics of Western civilization. My colleague looked at me as if I had suddenly begun speaking a different language, and it was at that moment that I realized how utterly irrational and pointless it was to speak of such things with people who are remain firmly committed to remaining married to the Psycho Hose Beast.

True to System form, people like my colleague continue to pin their hopes on Team Save Western Civilization. They truly believe that “conservative” politicians and organizations will ultimately right the ship while at the same time remaining ignorant of the reality that the ship has already sunk to the bottom of a deep, dark, and cold ocean.

More bluntly, people like colleague continue to invest hope into the hopeless.

Western Civilization ended in 2020. We have entered System Civilization. The peculiar thing about System Civilization is that it does not qualify as a civilization at all. Sure, it possesses the external characteristics of civilization – large population centers, written language, systems for administering territories, monumental architectural and “unique” art styles, social classes – but unlike conventional civilizations, System Civilization is steadfastly committed to using these external civilizational characteristics to destroy itself and inflict mass death and damnation upon its population.

During the course of our informal conversation, I happened to vaguely point this out to my triple-pecked conservative colleague. He responded by falling back upon the cui bono position. Who, he wondered, could possibly benefit from mass, civilizational-level destruction and death?

Who could benefit? I didn’t bother to provide an explanation because the explanation would not have made sense to him, and I very much doubt that the explanation would make sense to most people in the West, which is precisely why the West has died.

So, let’s forget about pinning our hopes on Team Save Western Civilization for the simple reason that Western Civilization is dead. What parades around as Team Save Western Civilization is merely an appendage of System Civilization, and despite all rhetoric to the contrary, System Civilization is anti-God, anti-Creation, and, ironically, anti-civilization.

On the one hand, the death of Western Civilization could be interpreted as an unsettling reality. On the other hand, it also offers the only real worldly hope we can nurture during these times – the possibility of resurrection.

However, physical resurrection must begin as a fundamentally spiritual act – raising a civilization from death requires raising the spirit of the civilization from death first.

Since the spirit of any civilization comprises individuals, the resurrection of individuals must precede the spiritual and physical resurrection of a dead civilization -- and this is where the focus should be.

This is no longer about stopping the destruction. It’s too late for that. The death has already occurred. The most Team Save Western Civilization can do at this point is protect the corpse from further mutilation.

As far as I can tell, that is all they aim to do because the “team” lacks the spiritual motivations needed to raise the civilizational “body” from death.

And that is why it is pointless and misguided to pin any hopes on Team Save Western Civilization.

25 Comments

edwin

5/21/2022 18:35:17

I think of civilization as related to its Latin root meaning a city. It is the external expression of the internal state of culture, which in its turn is related to cult - that is, worship or venerated foundational belief. To think that one can preserve a civilization when its culture has collapsed is, as you point out, an illusion. But this putting one's faith in external structures illustrates a profound misunderstanding about the existence and nature of the soul. As a civilization is the expression of culture, the perceptible human personality is the expression of the soul, which can be oriented toward spiritual truth but, in our epoch, is usually not. Once the soul is eliminated from the understanding of personality, the individual loses his value and becomes determined by environment or base appetites and has no lasting existence: he becomes entirely co-extensive with the physical body and thus doomed to utter extinction with the demise of the body. Western civilization is Christianity, although few are willing to see them as synonymous. And this reluctance to acknowledge the connection between cultus and civis is what makes the Team efforts so useless. The soul is central and the soul participates in the Divine reality. To ignore this and devise a plan for saving Western Civilization - Christianity - is absurd.

Francis Berger

5/21/2022 19:43:16

@ edwin - Thanks for the great comment. It plumbs the depths of what I touched upon in this post.

"the individual loses his value and becomes determined by environment or base appetites and has no lasting existence"

Yes, that is spot on. I refer to this as despiritualization, and the West is effectively despiritualized. Without spirit, without the understanding that the soul is central and participates in Divine reality, people essentially become slaves to base appetites and external forces.

The problem with Team Save Western Civilization is they address nothing but the external -- this applies especially when they bring Christianity into their rhetoric.

Max Denken

5/21/2022 23:52:38

I think you are wrong and I wrote a 500-page book about it [https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-camp-of-the-sane-and-the-camp-of-the-saints-poland-and-the-erosion-of-western-sanity-2015-2020]. Western Civilization did not die in Hungary or in its Visegrad-4 allies; it did not die in the Baltics or the Balkans or ex-Yugoslavia; it's hybrid EurAsian form is alive and well in Russia and may yet take root in Ukraine. The problem is that Russia's war on Ukraine scrambled the brains of the largest country in that block, Poland, and out of fear too, of Czechia, Slovakia, and the Baltics. By scrambling so deep under the NATO/EU/Bidenstan umbrella all those countries that were until so recently the hope for Western Civilization are now now married to the satanic camp that's determined to do away with it. Hungary alone will not be able to sustain our civilization so ultimately your opinion may yet be borne out by reality.

5/22/2022 10:48:14

@ Max - Believe me when I say I wish I were wrong. My move to Hungary in 2015 was partly motivated by the impulse to situate my family in a country that was more resistant to the leftism that had overtaken the West. For a few years, it very much appeared that I had made a good choice, but everything changed in 2020.

The tepid revolt in the West in 2015-2016 -- highlighted by Trump's election, Brexit, the negative reaction against the migrant crisis, etc. -- spurred the Establishment into action in 2020. The global coup, driven by the birdemic, ended Western Civilization.

Hungary and the rest of the V4 countries fell in line with the birdemic immediately. Hence, any hope this block of nations may have offered is now null and void. See today's post for further details.

5/23/2022 23:39:50

Indeed, the Covid hysteria infected V-4 as strongly as any other country, though in a less fascist form than, say, Australia. Your sense of what's going on in Hungary is more valid than mine but, still, if there is hope maybe it's only in Hungary. See how the Covid hysteria was followed by the Putin hysteria; only Hungary resisted.

Serhei

5/22/2022 00:35:23

A man gets drunk, gets behind the wheel of a truck, and drives off a cliff, scattering pieces of the truck across the valley below, to the raucous delight of whatever demon suggested this reckless course of action. Cui bono?

Substitute 'world leaders' for the man, 'civilization' for the truck, and Ahriman ('the spirit of bureaucracy') for the comparatively more benign alcoholic spirits. Not everything that happens necessarily benefits anyone.

5/22/2022 10:53:39

@ Serhei - Yes, that's a great analogy. Unfortunately, this level of understanding requires access to certain spiritual resources -- resources that are in very short supply at the moment. Hence, the need for the materialism-based "who benefits" line of thinking.

The strange thing about "who benefits" is that the people who harbor such views also tend to insist that everything in life is largely random, accidental, and meaningless.

bruce charlton

5/22/2022 08:21:46

Save Western Civilization is a (designedly) tempting red herring. It may include lesser-evil elements such as populism or nationalism; and seems to offer the possibility of a broad alliance of decent and sensible people; who will address the issues in a respectful and polite way.

It is an attempt not to divide between real Christians and The Rest; to assert and maintain the possibility of 'neutrality' - by starting with assumptions such as "we all want indoor plumbing and low levels of violence and theft" and trying to develop a strong and courageous motivation on the basis of such abstract and remote utilitarian considerations.

Meanwhile the immediate personal motivations of evil-doers are orientated towards the destruction of Western Civ; and towards the scapegoating, exclusion/ suppression, and demonization of opposition to the agenda.

Not only is the Save WC idea futile; but it accepts the materialist - hence anti-Christian perspective - by trying to work from this-worldly and hedonic assumptions. It is therefore bound to lose - not only from its feeble and incoherent motivations, but from its ultimately being on the same side as the enemies of WC.

5/22/2022 10:55:17

@ Bruce - I agree. Not that it needs doing, but I will post an addendum to this piece today. It has to do with science. I think you will get a kick out of it.

Skyler the Weird

5/22/2022 14:12:05

All you have to do to see what's happening is look in 2 Kings or 2 Chronicles in the Bible. In Judah you'd have a good King like Asa or Hezekiah who followed the LORD but their kids used to the Blessing would rebel and prostitute the nation to Molech, Ishtar, and Baal. God would turn away and they'd be overrun by Amorites, Syrians, or Assyrians til they repented. The West is towards the end of that progression. We've had our Josiah a d we're waiting for Babylon.

Tony Brock link

5/22/2022 16:05:41

We can go further back in time and realize that western culture was Catholic culture. In those times kings and their governments were obliged to give obedience and respect for Divine law. Luther put an end to that and separated Church and State. Since then our culture has been bleeding out slowly and now is dead.

5/22/2022 17:16:55

@ Tony - As someone who was raised Catholic, I don't disagree. For many centuries western culture was Catholic culture, and that culture was much superior to what we have now. Having said that, we must acknowledge that it is impossible to return to such a state, especially since most of the official branches of the Catholic faith are all firmly behind the coup and the birdemic response. But even if the Church was not as corrupt as it is, I don't believe there is much motivation in Catholics themselves to return to that state of affairs.

The era of obedience to external authority in the form of a church ended a long time ago. If traditional obedience to a unified Catholic culture is the only hope Christians have, then all is lost. Therefore, there must be another way forward. I posit the way forward lies in personal spiritual responsibility and creativity. I don't think God would be content with us as obedient drones to some external religious authority. He appears to want something more from us. Moreover, it seems he is patiently waiting for us to discover what that something is.

5/22/2022 18:43:25

...or perhaps we are at the end of time.
"Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist", Our Lady of La Salette (1846) and 5 minutes of research into the current pope, Pope Frankenstein, should convince the world's greatest heathen that the man resembles the devil more that he resembles anything human. All things come to an end. It will be entertaining, and indeed it has been!
I do hold obedience to Catholic Popes, dead and gone though, and the Church. At least I try to. I have downloaded and read many hundreds of Catholic books from the archive.org so the information is available. God knows that the books were not available since my youth, I am 62, as I have been searching used book stores all my adult life. It's all good now. At forgottenbooks.com you can get hardcopies - what a great time to be alive! God has the infinite power and does what He wants.

5/24/2022 23:46:59

Have you considered that what is happening to us may be because we have misinterpreted Christianity according to its antiquated theology? using Oriental concepts as a short cut: Jesus appeared in apex of Yang in the history of Western Civilization. Properly, he prescribed Yin remedies. Now we live in the apex of Yin of Western civilization. The churches, the great majority of observant Christians aske themselves "What would Jesus do?" But who is to say that if Jesus appeared today he would prescribe the same Yin remedies to our Yin poisoning? Our civilization now lacks testosterone -- maybe that would be Jesus' contemporary remedies. The French New Right, people like Guillaume Faye, Alain de Benoist, and Dominique Venner have moved close to Euro-paganism, probably for that reason.

peter y connor

5/22/2022 17:04:00

2020 was indeed an epochal year here in America..Not only did most of the population accept the birdemic dictatorship (my State was somewhat of an exception), but clearly what was left of American democracy died in the early morning of Nov.4...At this point, my guiding principle is sauve qui peut...

5/22/2022 19:52:04

@ Tony - Yes, it may very well be the end times, which is why Christians need to use direct personal, inner spiritual discernment based on their experience as it relates to anything external we accept as authoritative, as you appear to be doing. There is much in Catholic tradition that is still authoritative and true -- that is, wholly aligned with God and Creation -- and this tradition can offer much to those who seek it out with the right motivations.

Concerning the Church itself, it is important. Very important. If it weren't, the forces opposed to God would not be expending such effort to corrupt it -- even now.

lea

5/23/2022 09:02:55

Western civilization has managed to save itself from destruction throughout earlier crises, the larger problem is most people's conceptualization of what the term actually means; it is not just the 'fruits of the enlightenment period' by any stretch, while often presented as such. History goes back so much further, has so much more to offer then that, Celtic influences run deep through all of western Europe for at least 5 millenia, and the 'hunebedden' themselves here in the Netherlands are an anomaly that cannot be fully explained from the perspective of a 'pots and pans' level of society.

The people pretending to save Western Civilization are actually deeply disconnected from any of it's significant roots, and probably have no knowledge of them either. Just because the empires out of France and city-state dominance as well as the church out of Italy dominated 'recent' history does not mean that is all there is. The picture presented that all of Europe was a ragtag band of savages before these parties brought order to it all is a complete joke.

It is now coming to light that many Stonehenge-esque setups are, or at least were, in alignment with energetic configurations we had no idea these 'dumb brutes' would be capable of comprehending. Celtic history and druidic tradition, whatever you may think about it, is not comparable to middle-american insanity at all, which was peculiarly periodic too but i digress.

We sell ourselves short accepting these shitty notions of what European history is like, most if not all of them are incomplete or just lies. There is much wisdom to be gained from learning more about how the druids operated, how society worked before the Romans came in, and so on.

The opposing forces are not targeting the church, or Christianity specifically, they are are simply targeting every notion of a meaningful life outside of their notions of 'technological enlightenment'. They are brushing aside the deeper layers of Islam and Hinduism as well as anything else that stands in the way. Any shape or name God might have, basically. Gnostics might argue that this is not half bad for clarifying certain things, but that does not fit the picture either; the idiots pretending to run the show want it all, and recognize no other authority then their own incompetent pipedreams. It's Descartes Angel of domination; which may very well have been a demon. 'Nature should be conquered by man'.

I don't think so.

Ive read the book by Bezos favorite Neal Stephenson (SevenEves). The picture painted is extremely bleak but i am supposed to pine for his odd 'hopeful vision'. All of these narratives are seated in conserving DNA and essence sitting in that. What flagrant nonsense..

5/24/2022 03:13:35

I agree..One reason that those early human groups survived for such long periods of time was that spirit was important in their lives...Stonehenge, which was constructed over centuries with enormous effort, and provided no tangible benefits, but clearly important spiritual ones, demonstrates the importance of spirit in their lives..A civilization without a spiritual life is doomed, because people will have no purpose to their lives, and most will never experience the love that permeates the Universe...

5/24/2022 10:37:49

@ Max Denken - Listen, I know where you are coming from. Before 2020, I was very, very positive about Orbán and Hungary.

https://www.francisberger.com/blog/hungary-needs-all-the-help-it-can-get

But 2020 changed everything. Things came to a point. The veils lifted, and evil became easier to discern.

https://www.francisberger.com/blog/recognizing-and-acknowledging-the-point-was-the-point-of-2020

Hungary's leadership may be better than the leaderships of other countries when it comes to some agenda issues, but that doesn't make Hungary's leadership good. At best they are lesser evil. Here's an example from today's local English-language paper. Think about what the Hungarian Foreign Minister is saying here:

https://hungarytoday.hu/fm-szijjarto-whos-operations-monkeypox-war-covid/

My big point is this -- we need to stop looking outward at externals for hope and solutions. This is a spiritual war. It's time to look inward and take personal responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, and actions. And it's time to get back to Christianity. Not System Christianity, but authentic freedom-based, Christ-following Christianity. Our main task is to be on the right side of the spiritual war. Many of those who claim to be on the right side are not. We need to aware of that lest we fall into error or worse . . .

5/25/2022 06:23:36

@ Max Denken - I know this comment wasn't addressed to me, but I would like to respond.

"Have you considered that what is happening to us may be because we have misinterpreted Christianity according to its antiquated theology?"

That is one of the overarching themes of this blog. Jesus's message was complete - to use your imagery, he preached both the yin and the yang. We got the yin part, but have not understood or risen to the yang part.

It is no accident that the decline and corruption of the West mirrors the decline and corruption of Christianity. The decline occurred because of a terrible turn in the development of Western consciousness in the past 500 years -- but especially the past two centuries. Instead of tackling the "yang" of Jesus's teaching, people in the West either remained committed the yin or abandoned Christianity altogether.

The West is now a despiritualized civilization. It has lost its connection to reality. It will destroy itself unless it re-spiritualizes. Paganism is certainly better than atheism, and I can understand the "testosterone" appeal of Greek, Roman, or Norse paganism, but we must ask ourselves, do we really think that modern de-spiritualized Western people would be willing or able to embrace such forms of religion? And even if they were, would these religions lead to anything good for the West? Is this the West's destiny?

This is same sort of retrograde thinking that marks the views of those who espouse a full return to traditional, medieval style of Christian society, which, though much more "testosterone laden" is also impossible).

I understand the "Christianity is too weak to solve today's problems" argument. There is a great deal of truth in it. What defines itself as Christianity today is indeed too weak to resist the onslaught of evil, to the point that most official Christian institutions have willingly sided with totalitarian evil.

But this does not imply that Christianity itself is weak. Think about this. The pagan Roman Empire executed Jesus. In terms of worldly power, the pagan Roman Empire with all of its testosterone intact was much more powerful than Jesus. But who proved to be more powerful in the end? Christ or Caesar?

Moderns tend to regard Jesus as primarily a moral teacher and lay far too much emphasis on humility and tolerance. Nietzsche labeled it slave morality. But contra Nietzsche, Jesus also revealed much about power -- authentic spiritual power, which is a positive concept and value. Christianity is a religion of power, and not of powerlessness.

All material/worldly power is a manifestation of spiritual power. The only power the world and West recognize today is coercive violence, which is spiritually diabolical and, ironically, a sign of powerlessness.

States and civilizations fall apart when they are ruled by diabolical coercive violence because contrary to appearance, this is not true power. Oppressors and tyrants rule over nothing.

Our attitude towards power needs a radical and spiritual transformation in both awareness and action or we will remain in a condition of servility and ultimately destroy ourselves. Paganism may appear to offer a viable solution, but it would likely only shift the coercive violence from one end of the spectrum to the other.

Real power resides in awakening the human soul and leading it towards its destiny. Power is drawn forth from the inner depths and fortified by true alignment with God. Power is not a given. It is not received externally.

5/25/2022 07:55:13

Comment was addressed to you, and thanks for your analysis that I agree with -- with one reservation. The one good in paganism whether European or American or Japanese Shinto is the recognition of a divine presence in nature -- in trees, water, animals, even stones. This reverence and love for one's native soil and its natural features protects a people from accepting such ruses of the rulers like "immigration, "refugees" and other modes of population replacement, multiculturalism, paving-over much land so that developers can make a profit, allowing big business to pollute, etc. The Church extirpated much of that in Western Europe before the 10th century but paganism continued in the Baltics, including The Baltic part of Poland (i.e. erstwhile Prussia) and parts of eastern until the end of the 14 century. All those latter peoples have a much stronger will to survive and reject dilution and replacement than , say, the Dutch or English.

5/25/2022 09:16:27

@ Max - My metaphysical assumptions -- that is my deepest understanding of reality -- includes a belief in animism, that Creation consists of beings that are all alive, aware, purposive, right down to supposedly dead things the mineral level.

Any form of Christianity that refutes this reality is still effectual, but is focused almost entirely on its salvific mission. It regards world as essentially dead, evil, or mechanical. Christian living is reduced to preparing for the next world and disengaging entirely from this one. I don't subscribe to this.

One's native soil and its natural features are important. So too are culture, language, heritage, race, etc. These are all crucial features of mortal life on this earth. Since I regard the purpose of mortal life on earth to be spiritual learning, I believe individuals agree to be placed in circumstances and conditions that are most conducive to the spiritual learning they need to achieve. Worldly features such as geography, culture, social class, language, etc. are all important here. They often demand sacrifice and must not be callously dismissed as merely things of this world.

By the same token, I think it is an error to worship the things of this world. Many fall into the trap of idolatry. They make gods of their soil, land, culture, race, etc. and become enslaved to abstract notions rather than concrete realities.

It is also an error to over obsess about worldly survival. We must do everything we can to survive, but we must also understand that entropy is an inescapable feature of our mortal lives. We will all die. And given enough time, all the people we love will die. The people who desire to destroy us will also die. Our cultures and civilizations are destined to crumble or fade or change. This is a potential breeding ground for alienation, nihilism, and despair.

Once again, the answer lies in Christ. Jesus obviously loved the land, people, and culture into which He was born, but He was not spiritually attuned to the zeitgeist of His day.

As the Messiah, He was expected to assume worldly power and deliver the Jews from the pagan oppression of the Roman Empire. He ended up doing something much greater. Jesus chose a different mission. He obviously loved the land into which He was born and lived, but He did not idolize it or become enslaved by it. His mission forever altered human consciousness and made Heaven a reality for all. But the reality of heaven depends on the quality of the learning we achieve here on earth given our personal, individual circumstances and our decision to follow Him.

The decision to follow Jesus fortifies our will to survive on earth, but also demonstrates the strongest will to survive because it transcends everything worldly and extends into heaven, where we can continue to work creatively without being touched by death, evil, and entropy.

5/25/2022 22:29:42

Since you mention Jews, Jesus meant to free them not so much from Rome's pagan oppression ("Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's") but from their own theocracy's mutated and soulless Judaic monotheistic oppression. And, I address the issue not of our survival but of Earth's survival. That we shall all die should not prevent us from caring for what will happen to our descendants and to the Earth we inhabit but for a brief period. Christianity inherited without examination the Jewish Bible's precept of "dominion" over every other living species. But for people of European descent that is an obvious fallacy. The Jews who wrote the Bible lived in a barren land devoid of forests or much water and dependent only on sheep herding and other small livestock. They could not have possibly appreciated the magnificent richness of Nature. But we who inherited Christianity from Semites, Middle Eastern Greeks, and African desert Berbers hail from a continent that was covered with thick forests, lakes and rivers, with a stunning array of flora and fauna. We were hunters and gatherers, not shepherds. We killed to survive but we revered and ask forgiveness of the animals we killed. Major difference there yet in our approach to the natural world we follow the Jewish model rather than the Euro-pagan model of our ancestors.

5/25/2022 23:17:20

@ Max - It all comes down to a matter of metaphysical assumptions. There is much error in tradition, which is why one must take personal responsibility to examine metaphysical assumptions. I have my spent much time contemplating mine. You appear to have done the same, and it is quite apparent that your metaphysical assumptions are much different from mine.

As far I as I have been able to determine from your comments, you are not a Christian. Your metaphysical assumptions, your understanding of the fundamental nature of reality, seem to be attached to and constricted by land, race, history and some form of Euro-paganism.

This is all fine and well, but I'm certain that you can appreciate why this severely limits my interest and motivation to continue engaging with your particular set of metaphysical assumptions.

5/27/2022 07:42:34

Thanks fyr reply. Actually I am a born Catholic and still believing Christian except I've put Christian history and dogma under the magnifying glass of years of study and examination so that I could reject the false from the true. By now I adhere to CS Lewis's "mere Christianity" and that's enough for me. But you are right, our outlook is much different and so I bid you adieu.

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