Notre Dame: Symbol of a Failing Culture

Guest Post by Tom Luongo

Like many I was horrified on so many levels by the news of the fire which engulfed the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

The thing that makes me truly sad is that my first reaction to the news wasn’t basic human safety concerns. My first reaction was to jump to the political ramifications and ask cui bono?

Who benefits from this?

In this hyper-politicized world every act has an agenda. And with so many false flags, failing governments, simmering (or actually boiling) culture wars and rampant ideological insanity it is nearly impossible to dismiss them.

Meanwhile, one of the great symbols and repositories of human achievement was nearly destroyed by either carelessness, neglect, malicious intent or a sinister combination of all three.

And people were cheering this.

While I’m lamenting my cynical initial reaction there were people all across the globe cheering the destruction of an integral part of human history.

That should frighten you.

It shows just how deeply ingrained the current divides are.

It shows how fallen and corrupt of spirit the culture has become.

It’s religious significance is secondary to this. If it was just an expression of the rivalry between Islam and Christianity that would be regrettable if understandable.

What’s worse to me is descendants of those that built Notre Dame cheering this event because they’ve been inculcated to hate religion of all forms by their Marxist education.

They’ve been effectively immunized against feeling anything but contempt for themselves and their history.

History is history. It doesn’t have an agenda. It exists, for better or worse, to remind us that who we are today is the sum total of who we were then.

Marxists fundamentally believe in creating a man without a history, without connection to his past to mold him into the New Soviet Man.

Argue with me about this all you want Bernie Bros, Corbynites and Richard Wolff acolytes, this is the point of this French post-modernist “life is an absurd simulation” nonsense. It’s simply an excuse to justify the inherent envy at the core of all Marxist thought.

And yet, for as much as I despise Marxism in all its forms, if instead of Notre Dame the Gulag History State Museum in Moscow burned up I would feel just as sad.

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The Russians Embrace Their History Rather than Run From It.

I no more want to see statues of Confederate Generals removed or the Stars and Bars wiped from our collective memory than I want to see anyone ever be sold into chattel slavery.

Because a people without a past, incapable of facing the evil they’ve done, is a people on a path to self-righteous crusades that far exceed any horrors previously committed.

Think about the insane atrocities of the 20th century and then remember it was done in the name of creating a better human.

People without history have no context. They are unstuck in time having to relearn lessons which our ancestors built monuments to remind us of what we’re capable of for better or worse.

While the French government took years to raise €12 million to renovate Notre Dame despite having the highest tax rate in the world, private donations to rebuild it topped $1 billion in the first 48 hours after the fire was put out.

This is gratifying in a way that is almost beyond words. And it makes a mockery of the statist arguments for government to replace private charity and private property.

If the French, themselves to birthplace of this post-modern and most sinister form of Marxism, had left even a smidge of capital for their people to enjoy maybe we wouldn’t be mourning/cheering Notre Dame today.

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Anonymous

I like this Luongo guy, he is becoming a staple of mine, glad to read him on TBP.

There was no reason for this structure to burn the way it did, it reeks of incompetence, and that is giving the french the benefit of the doubt.
The only plus side is that now we see what lengths the other side is willing to tolerate, in their quest for open borders and “diversity”. They seem to be following the exact same script in France, as they did in Syria.

First it starts with a little bit of protesting, then, it devolves into street fights, then….
you get the idea.

Pretty scary to think about a group of ghouls like Soros and Macron, making plans with Satan, to take down the entire culture of western civilization, for the sake of cheap labor and profits.

john prokovich
john prokovich

God said don’t bow to idols….

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Whenever anything is changed and leaves its bounds, instantly this brings death to that which was before. LUCRETIUS

We are witnessing the death of western culture and consequently western civilization. What will replace it some have an idea.

What we do know is that there is a directiveness in organic activities that will lead to another cultural civilization of what what we can only surmise.

Our current human political, social and economic problems have become to big for our current failing civilization to overcome. Cognitive confusion is growing and so is mental illness. Governments are becoming so overburdened by their commitments that cracks in their systems of social governing are already showing up. There is no saving the systems.

So does this mean that humanity is doomed? I think not. Does this mean that many will suffer? I think so. What appears to be happening; as has always happened at different times in nature, is a sifting out of the the weak & lame and the unfit in the pattern of human development.

Notre-dame is a symbol of a once dominate culture that has served its purpose for its time. Times have changed and so have people. The spectrum of human intelligence and activity range from Saint to Tyrant with the majority in the twilight zone leading lives of no useful purpose other than consuming and self serving fancies. Western governments are becoming more and more dysfunctional with every passing day.

A new civilization is coming. But not before the current failing one is completely destroyed. In this new civilization will be a new consciousness. I think it will be the Christ Consciousness of love for our fellow man.

At any rate man is destined to become perfect. That is the ones that are sifted out from the tares in the coming fires in human consciousness.

Macron wants to rebuild Notre-Dame with materials sub-standard for an edifice of such spiritual conception and beauty. He is a materialist; not spiritual at all, or he would not have said such a thing. He is a product of the dying western civilization. He will die with it.

Erisa
Erisa

Thank you. Well said.

grace country pastor

“At any rate man is destined to become perfect.”

Genesis 3:5 KJB… “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

There is an antichrist consciousness building across the world which agrees wholeheartedly with you.

Beeshit
Beeshit
NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte

(meanwhile just across the channel….)

Mental Illness: Symbol of a Failed Culture

M G
M G

A most excellent essay!

25 James Joyce Quotes to Teach You the Power of the Written Word

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

and, my personal fave…

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors (coyotes?) busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” Beep beep.

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

I stopped reading when the author denigrated the Stars and Bars as evil. What an ass!

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