The Demonization of Shakespeare Is Part of the Demonization of the West
In the United States my generation began reading Shakespeare’s plays in high school. In universities you encountered Shakespeare in the core curriculum. When core curriculums were abolished, English majors got further into Shakespeare and studied his sonnets. It was the work that was admired and studied, not who Shakespeare might really have been. His use of language was studied and what his plays taught about the human condition. Today if he is studied at all, it is likely to be his alleged homophobia, the extent of his alleged anti-semitism, his alleged racism. In the US some universities exclude him from the curriculum. As for England, what produced the interview below was the report that the English were decolonizing their great poet and playwright.
In the interview I said that the attack on Shakespeare is just part of the decades old white gentile/Jewish intellectual attack on Western white gentile civilization. It is an involved intellectual story that I have told in past times. To keep it simple, the Enlightenment placed moral demands on society, but emerging science denied the existence of morality. So how did the moral demands express themselves? They expressed themselves in attacks on existing society for its lack of morality as exampled by colonies, slavery, class privileges, and so forth.
As time passed, liberals in England and later in the United States, originally just an adjunct of England, pursued reforms by denunciation of existing society, not by emphasizing past achievements and making a persuasive case for another reform. So the practice of denouncing what exists became the avenue for progress.
The result is that denunciation replaced affirmation. Without going any further with this story, the result over time has been to destroy the structure of belief in Western societies. Without a belief structure, a society is weak, and every Western society is week. Jean Raspail described the weakness in The Camp of the Saints in 1973.
For one example, in the United States, meritocracy has been eroded and undermined by the belief that meritocracy is a “white value” that serves white supremacy. To compensate, “affirmative action” reduced white Americans to unconstitutional second class citizenship under law, and the regulations that imposed second class citizenship on white Americans were upheld by US Supreme Court rulings. Affirmation action was institutionalized by the Jewish administrator of the EEOC, the regu
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