History: The Anchor of Civilization
Some who think of such things will say that they feel the weight of history, and they deplore it. This view makes the very legacy of the ages of civilization nothing but mere oppression of the present, and perhaps a danger to the future. You may have guessed that those who hold this view are largely of our modern “liberal” class who point accusingly to the past from the velvet cushions of their gilded lives and cry injustice. For these — the haughty, self-centered, pampered, and tamed of the elitist class — history is to be overcome at first and then erased at last as a necessary step in the construction of a future Marxist paradise.
Contrary to this unpleasant and despicable viewpoint, the reality of history is that it is much more like gravity, anchoring our perceptions to the unshifting ground of truth while holding together the planetary systems of our families, the galaxies of our culture, and the universe of our civilization. For the Marxists, this — the ultimate power of history — must be obfuscated at the least, or overturned entirely within the minds of men, so that the blasphemous utopia of their dreams might be built of the cold iron and steel of the now.
Ironically, if our present Marxist “liberal” intelligentsia has its way, what they will deliver to the world is not the new earthly paradise that figures both in their yearning propaganda and in their fever dreams, but a new dark age of despair and destruction. The curtain was pulled aside on this in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, when the demonic rage of the Marxist barbarian mindset was loosed in a torrent of terror, fire, and destruction on the innocent cities of the Republic.
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