The Western
Christian Paideia (WCP)
I’ve been watching
some of the ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of
D-Day. Some of the participating
soldiers are still alive. These soldiers
of the 1940’s were 18 and 19 year olds, led by 21 year old lieutenants and 24
year old captains.
Now, this age
group, consisting of seemingly intellectual and educated students and
professors, wrap keffiyehs, shemaghs and Palestinian flags around themselves
and take part in antisemitic protests. And
this is just one manifestation of an anti-American, anti-establishment,
anti-religious movement that has corrupted our youth and American life in
general. Ask many modern “twenty-somethings” about their beliefs and interests,
and their response is some vacuous paean to progressiveness-based selfishness
and self-absorption.
Major Pete
Hegseth writes about how our educational systems have been hijacked by
so-called "progressives", who knew that they could not remake America
in their own image until they had radically reshaped the culture of the nation.
They could secure themselves key positions in Washington, the media, the major
industries, and even the universities, but if they could not find a way to
seize the reins of education at the grade school level, they would never be
able to accomplish their long-term agenda.
But to do that,
to take control of K-12 education, they would first have to remove the one
obstacle that could stop them: the Western Christian Paideia (WCP).
Paideia, a Greek
word that means both instruction and enculturation, was invented by the ancient
Athenians who knew that they could not preserve their democracy without passing
down their culture to morally self-regulating citizens who could think logically
and act nobly. They accomplished that goal through an educational system
steeped in tradition that shaped its pupils in accordance with universal
standards of reason and virtue.
Hegseth posits
that our American Paideia, or WCP, that sustained us through Normandy and WWII
into recent times has been eroded away by this modern secular progressivism,
that has led to the vacuous selfishness of modern young adults.
Ray Gruszecki
June 6, 2024
