Thursday, February 21, 2013

Alain DeBenoist 'The end of the world has happened'


Yes, the end of the world has happened


Alain DeBenoist


Caspar David Friederich “The Abbey in the Oakwood (oil), 1810
Caspar David Friederich “The Abbey in the Oakwood (oil), 1810

(Translated from the French by Tom Sunic) 
The end of the world has indeed happened. It did not happen on a specific day, but has spread out over several decades. The world that disappeared was a world where most children knew how to read and write. A world where we admired the heroes rather than the victims. A world where political machines had not turned into the soul grinding machines. A world where we had more role models than rights. A world where one could understand what Pascal had meant when he wrote that entertainments distracted us from living a real human life. A world where the borders safeguarded those who lived their way of life and a life of their own. ...