Weatherall on Nostr: The West in its current state is not a civilization at all. A true civilization has ...
The West in its current state is not a civilization at all.
A true civilization has as its sine qua non an orientation around a Transcendental Principle and vertical focus.
Western man is fallen. He has dropped his gaze from that immutable eternal unchanging pole in the Heavens, to the horizontal. To the dust. To the contingent. The ephemeral and temporal.
The Sun may rise in the East, but it sets in the West.
A true civilization has as its sine qua non an orientation around a Transcendental Principle and vertical focus.
Western man is fallen. He has dropped his gaze from that immutable eternal unchanging pole in the Heavens, to the horizontal. To the dust. To the contingent. The ephemeral and temporal.
The Sun may rise in the East, but it sets in the West.