Tag Archives: traditional values

  We revisit professor Glenn Diesen’s book Russian Conservatism, which examines how Russia after a century of experimenting with communism and liberalism, has returned to its long conservative history, which dominated before 1917.  The Cold War continues to dominate the West’s analysis and understanding of Russia. From 1917 to 1991, Russia was interpreted through the lens of communism, and since …

  The West has, in recent years, bestowed upon itself an immense weight of suffering from financial crisis, lack of ethics, health and a variety of political crisis. Traditional values, respect for the elderly, tradition, the family and faith has been scrapped from the public narrative. Front and center is the atheist materialist world view that deems the physical dimension …

  The 20th century introduced Marxist, atheist emptiness to the masses in the West. It may be argued that with it came the notion of life as a meaningless burden. With no heaven ahead and no hell to fear, the conscience was deemed an unnecessary relic from the past. Only the empirically observable was to be considered real, eternity regarded …

  Columbia University and many prominent American educational facilities have been cesspools for Marxist radicalization for generations. The Marxist idea has long been to orchestrate revolutions that, in time, will kill capitalism and the classic freedoms of the West. Columbia university professors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven with Bill Clinton. The Cloward Piven Strategy:  When the capitalist system crumbles …

  Former Pope Benedict XVI often pointed out that the secular focus on scientific and technological progress alone has created a moral vacuum in the West. The Declining West: It has produced an atheist culture that suffers from a lack of moral energy and compassion. He deemed the lack of traditional moral standards to be the greatest threat to contemporary …

  Depression is now an epidemic in the West that permeates society with emptiness, sadness, hopelessness, anger, loss of interest in life, and insomnia. One in four Americans struggle with depression, one in four high schoolers identify as LGBT+ with all the sad problems that come for these young individuals who struggle with feelings of not being the sex they …

  The radical Liberal, atheist clampdown on the true meaning of Christmas has never been worse. The Liberal hatred of “Merry Christmas” produces excess focus on the ocean of gnomes, trolls and secularized Walt Disney – Santa Clauses on their endless rides to and from the North Pole. “Merry Christmas” now is rebranded “Happy Holidays,” as if to hide its …

  Pope John Paul II once said that the problem with the current type of Western Capitalism is that it is wrenched off from its original moral foundation. Selfishness has become a virtue and the path to success. There is little regard for the traditional focus on duties and responsibilities. Yet, if “Capitalism” becomes equivalent to the individual’s right to …

  The UK Telegraph on March 31, 2023, reported “Joe Biden’s America is splitting at the seams.”  The article reported results of a new survey of Americans undertaken by the National Opinion Research Center and the Wall Street Journal.  The American collapse of traditional values: The survey finds startling declines in Americans faith in America, their communities, religion, and a sharp …

  The Defenders of the West: Which values are we really fighting for? The historical virtues that once built a world-leading Western civilization or the atheist hedonist relativism that permeates Western thinking today? Which of these values hold the moral high ground? “He who occupies the high ground…will fight to advantage,” wrote the Chinese military strategist and mastermind, Sun Tzu …