tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post4006450686962041078..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Changing the Canadian FlagMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-15886676142991453352009-12-19T01:56:19.714-06:002009-12-19T01:56:19.714-06:00The trouble starts, I think, with Academia. Since ...The trouble starts, I think, with Academia. Since the mid to late 19th Century, there has been a Trend in Academic Circles to incorporate Enlightenment thinking into nearly every subject, and to liberalise the Academic world. The wiole grounding Philosophy of Modern Academia takes as its base the assumptions of the Enliughtenment, and the later developments to this idesl made in the 19th, and later 20th century. <br /><br />The Enlightr=enment wqas, of coruse, based upon the creation of a world of equels, in which all Kings where abolished in favour of the new, superior Republican system of Governance. It also suggested that the past was enturley abotu the subjugation of people under the rule of elite forces far removed fom their daily lives. <br /><br />This assumption, that the old order was oppressive, and wrong, and the new is good, leads to a hatred and violent rejection of the old order, in favour of the new. <br /><br />Karl Marx, who greatly shaped this ideological movement in the 19th century and whose writtings, along with Ingles, forms the bedrock support for the modernist trends we see today, even called for open revolution against the past. This marks a difference between American Revolutionary forces, which initially saw no actual shame in their psst, and the French Revolutionaries who insisted on depicting the past as the Dark Ages. Marx, a European with affinity for the French Revolutionaries, obviously borrowed form their narrative but refined it as a class struggle betwen the workers and hte Capitolists, and recast basically anyone not a worker into he role of a Capitolist oppressor.<br /><br />Modern Academics follows the same basic pattern, in part because its part of the overall mythos. Besides, you can't get peopel to accept the new order wihtout firts gettign them to let go of the Old. Making it somehow shameful to be British whilst Canadian, or to remember the old days of Empire makes it far easier for then to let go of it in the name of what is called progress.<br /><br />Without this shame, you won't find it easy to convince others to change.ZAROVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668854596329493360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-26110165136134277012009-12-17T00:33:12.550-06:002009-12-17T00:33:12.550-06:00I often do as well, mostly because all of my books...I often do as well, mostly because all of my books as a boy were printed in the 50's. I'm afraid if Canada was the only country ashamed of it's heritage things would not be so bad. Unfortunately it is a problem that is spreading. There seems to be an arrogance of the present afflicting the world.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-10798764852319418872009-12-16T23:18:40.716-06:002009-12-16T23:18:40.716-06:00I've been chided often for calling Remembrance...I've been chided often for calling Remembrance Day, Armistice Day and Canada Day Dominion Day. If we forget or amputate our history, we loose vital parts of ourselves. I don't see any other country in the world that is so embarrassed about it's heritage.<br />God Save the Queen.Sargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630643790867607815noreply@blogger.com