by KEVIN DONNELLY – ONE of the most disturbing examples of Woke indoctrination is the way indigenous history, culture and spirituality are lauded – while always remaining beyond criticism.
Western culture, meanwhile, is demonised and condemned as Eurocentric, patriarchal, binary and oppressive.
- The school curriculum ignores, belittles or condemns Western culture and Judeo-Christianity.
- Once society turns its back on its cultural memory it quickly loses its defining character and cohesion.
- Western culture is uniquely placed to rectify injustices and wrongdoings.
In Australia’s national curriculum there are hundreds of references to Aboriginal culture and history based on the mistaken belief Indigenous Australians lived in a pristine Garden of Eden devoid of prejudice and conflict.
Such is the degree of infection, teachers are told to teach Aboriginal mathematics and science.
CANNABILISM
There is nothing in the national curriculum telling students that before European settlement Aborigines lived as disparate tribes and the way of life was characterised by tribal warfare, misogyny, infanticide and cannibalism.
Also ignored, compared to Western culture at the time of Arthur Phillip’s arrival at Sydney’s Botany Bay, is that Aboriginal culture was primitive and unsophisticated.
Even worse, the school curriculum either ignores, belittles or condemns Western culture and Judeo-Christianity as irrelevant and guilty of prejudice and hostility towards the “other”. Including people of colour, LGBTIQA+ people, women and anyone else identified as suffering disadvantage and exclusion.
As argued by Anna Krohn in Defend The West: The Culture Of Freedom, once a society turns its back on its cultural memory and inheritance it quickly loses the defining character that ensures cohesion, stability and prosperity and, as a result, division and disunity soon follow.
Examples include ethnic no-go zones in London and Paris, the scourge of home-grown terrorism in the United Kingdom and Europe and the climate of disjointedness, anxiety and lack of identity prevailing in Western nations.
For all it sins and faults, Western culture is unique in that within itself it has the ability to recognise and remediate the injustices and wrongs inflicted on others.
WRONGDOINGS
As argued by Arthur M Schlesinger Jr in The Disuniting of America, it is Western culture that is uniquely placed to rectify injustices and wrongdoings.
It is only Western culture that could produce the King James Bible, the Magna Carta, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, A Vindication of the Rights of Women: with Structures on Political and Moral Subjects, the American Declaration of Independence, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Despite fears about Western culture’s demise Gerard Holland, in chapter seven of Defend The West: The Culture Of Freedom, details why there is cause for optimism and hope.
Globally, the tide is turning as more and more authors, academics, think tanks, media commentators and concerned citizens engage in the culture wars and fight for sanity, common sense and what is best about the West.
BATTLE
Holland applauds the liberating impact of the new digital technologies in providing a dynamic and fertile public space for anti-Woke commentators and academics to engage in the battle of ideas.
Examples include Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Heather Heying who use the intellectual dark web as alternative to the Woke mainstream media.
Holland, as evidence the tide is turning, also cites examples like Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis protecting parents’ rights to stop their children being indoctrinated with radical gender theory, the closure of the British Tavistock gender clinic and President Trump appointing conservative judges to the Supreme Court.
The recent US election result proves people are crying “enough is enough” and why there is cause for optimism.PC
A revised extract from the Introduction to Defend The West: The Culture Of Freedom – edited by Dr Kevin Donnelly.
Excellent comment. We must also ensure that Australian children are not taught confected Indigenous language. All Australian children are blessed by being born in an English speaking country. The internet informs that 1.5 billion people now speak English, more than Mandarin and Hindi. English has become the global lingua franca. It follows that fluency in spoken and written English should be the absolute priority of the education system. Not Indigenous vanity projects teaching children to speak a made-up language only a handful of academics can understand.