The Western Christian Paideia (WCP)

 The Western Christian Paideia (WCP)

 I’ve been watching some of the ceremonies commemorating the 80^th 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