Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

RESTORING CIVILIZATION

I am just barely old enough to remember victorian houses. Farms and farm animals. The quiet of rural life without the constant rumble of cars and trucks. When the sound of a bell miles away could be used to call volunteer firemen. When parks, cemeteries church yards, government buildings, and great houses were adorned with trees, shrubs, and flowers, and our sculptures were of men of achievement.

This was taken from us on purpose. We were denied the intertemporal transmission of our history, traditions, myths and values in a multi-generational attempt to destroy aristocratic civilization.

We husbanded each other, animals, plans, and the earth herself.

We can do so again. With three simple actions.

1) Change from a monetary to stockholder economy, wherein dividends are distributed annually, the minimum wage is eliminated, and wage earning is a matter of preference for consumption.

2) Building materials must be capable of being carried by manual rather than machine effort once again.

3) Now that we know what ‘bad’ art is, we can prohibit it. We cannot know good art, but we can know bad art.

4) Train a nation of gardeners, arborists, landscapers, and to build a beautiful intertemporal world, not a cheap and transitory one.

Beauty is a good in and of itself.