- 09 Jun 2020 05:15
#15098751
However...
If the West does not take advantage of mercy and grace, will it return to what it was at it's zenith, minus Christianity?
I think not. For the Western culture arose around 1000 AD after incubating for almost as long a time from roughly the time of the battle of Actium decades before the Incarnation to 1000 AD in Western Europe. Before that, was the Pagan Greco-Roman Civilization, the ''Apollonian'' civilization/culture of Neitzsche and Spengler.
In my opinion, this Pagan Apollonian world was reborn around 1500 AD and slowly grew in strength, (enervating the previous/and post Greco-Roman!) displacing from within the Faustian Civilization to a great degree as more and more people in the Western world ''defected'' from the Western mindset to the gradual building of a society that would be recognizable to Homer or Alexander the Great or even Julius Caesar. And Neitzsche and Cesere Borgia and Donald Trump. To say that this Apollonian culture is ''materialistic'', or ''shallow'' is to say both too little and too much, for in truth Apollonian culture is quite Alien to anyone with even the slightest vestiges of Abrahamic religious thought. Reality to the Apollonian is simply no more than the bounded Euclidian patterns, and accessible to the sensual surfaces of life; otherwise there is no inner ''there'' there. What you see is what you get, but this is not to say that greatness of a sort is not valuable or talent not cultivated.
With my next post, I'll go into more detail about how and why this culture is returning to the fore of it's lands of birth and beyond, and what it means for the rest of us.
If the West does not take advantage of mercy and grace, will it return to what it was at it's zenith, minus Christianity?
I think not. For the Western culture arose around 1000 AD after incubating for almost as long a time from roughly the time of the battle of Actium decades before the Incarnation to 1000 AD in Western Europe. Before that, was the Pagan Greco-Roman Civilization, the ''Apollonian'' civilization/culture of Neitzsche and Spengler.
In my opinion, this Pagan Apollonian world was reborn around 1500 AD and slowly grew in strength, (enervating the previous/and post Greco-Roman!) displacing from within the Faustian Civilization to a great degree as more and more people in the Western world ''defected'' from the Western mindset to the gradual building of a society that would be recognizable to Homer or Alexander the Great or even Julius Caesar. And Neitzsche and Cesere Borgia and Donald Trump. To say that this Apollonian culture is ''materialistic'', or ''shallow'' is to say both too little and too much, for in truth Apollonian culture is quite Alien to anyone with even the slightest vestiges of Abrahamic religious thought. Reality to the Apollonian is simply no more than the bounded Euclidian patterns, and accessible to the sensual surfaces of life; otherwise there is no inner ''there'' there. What you see is what you get, but this is not to say that greatness of a sort is not valuable or talent not cultivated.
With my next post, I'll go into more detail about how and why this culture is returning to the fore of it's lands of birth and beyond, and what it means for the rest of us.