The New Dark Ages

by Paul Jones

Since there have been cases of old yearbooks having been found to contain examples of political incorrectness, as was the case with the Virginia governor who allegedly had Blackface in a picture in his, I thought I’d look at my yearbook from 1960 since maybe it might show me either to have been guilty of some such affront myself or else something in it might express ideas that would be an affront to the Social Justice Warriors of the present times.

In reality, the exclusive all boys, private school near Los Angeles, California that I attended as an 8^th grader back then was politically incorrect by virtue of the fact that up until 1960 the policy of the school was to not accept Jewish students. It was a real novelty to see the first small group of Jewish students who arrived from Northern California that year. Having seen “Dead Poets Society” starring Robin Williams a number of years later, I saw the school setting in that movie as fairly close to the private school I had attended as a youngster.

As most private schools of those times on the West coast, such as Cate, Thacher and Webb, and in the northeast such as Andover, Kent and Exeter, there was a common bond with the fading W.A.S.P. Establishment of the time. This lasted up until the counter-culture revolution of the 1960’s. These schools were until then bastions of Western Civilization, with many great teachers in the mold of the one portrayed in the film, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” though with a more modern, American tone.

In the opening of my yearbook it states, “Learning is pain. But acquisition of the civilized skills is incumbent upon us. It is the purpose, not only of our schooling, but of our youth, to base us in the methods, attitudes and specific facts which must presently serve us.”

My memories of my time at that school-before I transferred to a large, public high school in Los Angeles-was a sense that Western Civilization was still alive and well, and that the main goal of education was similar to a baton race, where the “runners” in the previous generation, made up especially of great teachers but other cultural figures as well, need to pass on the “baton” of the greatness of that civilization to us, the students, and we in turn are supposed to do the same for the following generation. However, the “baton” was dropped in the 1960’s with the counter-cultural revolution of those times, and so in the year 2019 little is left of what I was taught back in 1960 as an 8^th grader, the greatness of our heritage, from the Greeks and Romans through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment and all the great achievements and developments in Liberal Arts, Science and Mathematics to the present.

The other day I went to the little visited Classics section of one of the large public libraries in New York City to look for and check out one of the British novels of the 1700’s called “Tom Jones,” by the writer Henry Fielding. Like many of his peers of the time, he had been educated at Eton, famous for the saying “The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” I could hardly put down this almost 1,000 page novel as I got caught up in the brilliance of the writing and the deep insights into human nature.

On reflecting some after having finished it, I realized that just as the Greek and Roman Classics had been lost for centuries during the Middle Ages in Europe until the Renaissance began a new appreciation of Classical learning, so too since the 1960’s in the United States and all over the West we began to move into a new “Dark Ages” which has gotten “darker and darker” as each decade has rolled along.

What is the key reason for this? What happened can be understood when one realizes that the Jewish Power Structure, in control of our culture since the 1960’s in the U.S. and all over the West, does not like most of the “dead white males” who make up the bulk of Western Civilization since most of them are now considered anti-Semitic and politically incorrect by today’s Cultural Marxist standards. For example, about half way through “Tom Jones” there is a negative comment about Jewish merchants. In the case of the writer Joseph Conrad, whom I consider the greatest writer in the English language, he used the term “niggers” in “Lord Jim.” Rudyard Kipling speaks of “the white man’s burden” so he’s out, unless he’s used in a negative way to show how “racist” our ancestors are supposed to be. T.S. Eliot, brilliant poet of “The Waste Land” and other poems, is now taboo because he also made anti-Semitic references. The American classic, “Huckleberry Finn,” can’t be read anymore by students since the word “nigger” appears in that work. “The Merchant of Venice,” by Shakespeare, is definitely out because Shylock, the Jew, is seen as a “money grubber.” I could go on and on, but my point is made.

Present day higher education, unfortunately, is beyond redemption at this point so it is going to take a new society to permit us to rediscover Western Civilization so that our rich cultural heritage can make a comeback. The process is not going to be easy and will likely come only after white ethno-states become eventually established. Hopefully at that time there will be enough “Book People,” like in those in “Fahrenheit 451,” who remain to bring forth again such great works and allow a new generation of white youth to marvel again at our presently lost cultural heritage.

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