{"id":26506,"date":"2015-05-08T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26506"},"modified":"2015-05-03T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:51:27","slug":"qotd-the-barbarians-in-our-midst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/qotd-the-barbarians-in-our-midst\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The barbarians in our midst"},"content":{"rendered":"

… possibly the most dangerous barbarians live in the West. These, by being born there, assume they are Westerners by inheritance or osmosis. They also regard Western civilization as \u201cfound\u201d, its goodies a stash waiting to be used or distributed. Nor do they trouble themselves as to its provenance, for there has always been plenty more where the stash came from.<\/p>\n

For these barbarians Western civilization and its associated quest for God or Truth are a bothersome impediment, a \u201cwhite man\u2019s culture\u201d, a hundred year old relic ideology nobody bothers with, some irksomely judgmental superfluity that gets in the way of fun and spreading the fruits to arrivals at the border and various victim groups.<\/p>\n

For the barbarian the only reality is appearances. Cargo cultists<\/a>, for instance, believe that function comes from form<\/em>. If they build something which resembles an airport<\/em> then gift giving airplanes will arrive there to bring goodies. The 21st century barbarian completely lacks the attitude of Roger Bacon, who lived in the 13th century. Bacon knew that the truth was not a \u201cwhite man\u2019s\u201d culture \u2014 in fact in his day nearly all learning came from the East \u2014 but believed the truth was nature\u2019s culture; baked into reality; another word for what used to be called God. Of barbarian ignorance Bacon wrote:<\/p>\n