{"id":3081,"date":"2020-06-22T16:02:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/22\/southern-heritage-american-heritage-western-heritage\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:02:31","slug":"southern-heritage-american-heritage-western-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/22\/southern-heritage-american-heritage-western-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Heritage, American Heritage, Western Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

You thought the thugs were out to tear down the first. Then their actions made it clear that American traditions and values as a whole were in their sights. But it goes deeper still: they oppose our entire Judeo-Christian, Graeco-Roman legacy. <\/span><\/p>\n

And now comes the existential question: are you willing to fight to defend it?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Was du ererbt von deinen V\u00e4tern hast,<\/em><\/span>
erwirb es, um es zu besitzen!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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What from your fathers you  received as heir,<\/span><\/div>\n
Acquire if  you would possess it. <\/span><\/div>\n
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(Goethe's Faust<\/em>, Part I, Night, lines 684-685, tr. W. Kaufmann)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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But to possess<\/em> it, you must be prepared to defend it.  Is that a crossbow I see in the picture below?<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"Faust<\/a><\/p>\n

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You thought the thugs were out to tear down the first. Then their actions made it clear that American traditions and values as a whole were in their sights. But it goes deeper still: they oppose our entire Judeo-Christian, Graeco-Roman legacy.  And now comes the existential question: are you willing to fight to defend it? … Continue reading “Southern Heritage, American Heritage, Western Heritage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}