It has become clear to everyone here that as you dramatically prognostigate the profound it turns out you're just summarizing every debate about the Founders we've all had here over and over. You're basically like the movie trailer voice of the Debate Board....
I am uncertain but moreover doubtful that you can speak for everyone, but you definitely speak for some. And since I have only participated in research on these topics for 6-7 years now I admit that I do not understand everything and for that reason I am not in a position to offer a political program or to make specific recommendations. But the recommendation I do make is to *keep studying* and keep reading. But I said this even years ago: there is no clear path here, and no political action possible, so the first order of business is in a) self-education and b) communicating with others.
And as to previous conversation (I doubt they were actually conversations) you and other may have had where you went over everything, I was not around since I only have about a year+ here on this forum.
Well until you can offer a good argument for why white supremacy shouldn't be destroyed you're going to continue to lose that battle. Come up with anything yet?
Well, I do make many different arguments, or put another way open up conversation into many different areas, and taken on the whole or as a whole the ideas I work — that is, our ‘epistemological categories’ — definitely show themselves as worthy of preservation. And the battle which you seem to define and articulate is a unfettered, violent, resentment-laden attack against not only ‘The Founders” and what they created specifically, but also an attack against their ‘epistemological categories of concern’.
Now the term ‘white supremacy’, as you and I discussed (quote/unquote) when I referenced Lothrop Stodard’s (A.M., Ph.D. Harvard)
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920) was at that time not a negative term, but a realistic one, and one understood by all to be valid and to express sound view and sound reasoning. What interests me, personally, is as I have said many times: in the transvaluation of values. How a thing positive is turned into a thing negative.
So, what I do (again personally) is to linger over that issue, that question, because I have a philosophically-inclined mind, and not an artivist’s personality. I want to know how it comes about that values shift, or are shifted, so abruptly, and I want to know what arguments and structures of ideas support the shift, especially when something *good* (for example heterosexual normativeness) is
transvalued into something questionable, debatable, and then negative and undesirable; while another valuation such as homosexual perversion is turned upside-down, and made to seem the *good* thing. (Take for example the scene in American Beauty where
the homosexual couple visits their new neighbor).
It is my view that in order to understand what has happened and where we are now, that we have to *backtrack* into prior causation. But most people, certainly many people, do not have much of an historical perspective, they exist in *immediacy* and in the *mutable present*. And this ties in to my ideas about people who do not live in and through ‘metaphysical categories’ but through ‘mutable experience’ and of course sensation.
What I do — what I am doing — is responding to what I learn from people, in this case a philosopher, such as Richard Weaver. Because what is ultimately proposed by his ideas is a refashioning of relationship to eternal categories in the most important sense (hence the relevancy of the Christian revelation), but in more specific senses rediscovering a *truer* foundation on which to construct our relationship to more quotidian categories. So there are two phases: One, beginiing to develop a sense of what those eternal categories are, and two then turning one’s eyes, one’s capacity to analyze and to see, to the actual on-going affairs.
You see my entire argument is that we must focus on a) renewal within ourselves as a starting point, which really means connecting with eternal springs that nourish being, and simultaneously initiating a renewal process within our culture and civilization. I truthfully say that I regard all this as *sacred work*, and this is why I cannot, as you can and do, separate myself from moral and ethical categories in the sense of imperatives and mandates.