The Birth of Venus

Boticelli, 15th century

Crucifixion

Giotto, 14th Century

Is Education Even a Good Idea?

There is more than one side in the ongoing debate about education in today. School vouchers, private schools, charter schools, No Child Left Behind, even private school access to government grants for safe playgrounds have aroused the defiance of secular groups. Yet these subjects are not always easily divisible into for/against arguments. The knights ask, very seriously, is education even a good idea?

This may sound like a shocking question. Pop culture has so permeated and saturated the present political and cultural landscape that most people simply consider education one of Plato's Goods which are good to possess for their own sake.

But is that really the case?

Disclaimer

The title of this article is meant to provoke rather than entertain a negative answer. We do not mean to suggest that it might be a god idea to forswear education and raise a generation of unlettered fools. There are already third-world countries doing this and the results speak for themselves.

Obviously, it is good for children to learn how to read and write and apply mathematical knowledge to

real-life problems. The question is whether the modern education establishment is even useful for anything.

This article is particularly aimed at men who are just coming of age and at those who are now well into their manhood and considering spending time and money on education.

If you want to become a highly-skilled professional whose work will have visible and lasting effects on the real world, then the answer is most-likely affirmative. Future engineers, doctors, computer programmers and others need access to great minds and the certification apparatus which universities and associated organizations can provide.

The problem with taking that route is that you will inevitably expose yourself to an Orwellian culture managed by thought police. As long as you are choosing to study some sort of applied science, your exposure may be limited since the type of person sustaining PC culture is generally unfit to handle the intellectual requirements of these fields.

That is why you absolutely msut avoid a university if you have a desire to "study" English, history, philosophy, etc. Humanities-based fields have been compromised by PC culture. In such environments, you always find yourself "learning" things which are completely incongruent with reality and common sense.

What Is Even Being Accomplished in College?

In the interest of full disclosure, I had a classic, All-American college experience and enjoyed it immensely. I graduated from the University of Arizona in 1995.

I always expected to have to join the army to get my education but I was blessed with scholarship offers after scoring particularly well on the SAT. I got to to a four-year state college with help from parents for rent but my tuition and books were paid for. I stayed in a dorm my first year, lived with buddies in crappy apartments for the next three and graduated with a fairly useless degree in the Humanities but which I definitely did not regret earning.

But I have to wonder if it might not have been better for me to learn something useful. I enjoyed writing and had taken a lot of writing courses. This led to me ending up as a semi-miserable teach for more than a decade.

When I finally left teaching, I did so after googling how to make a living on the Internet. I became a content writer. I worked for pennies at first but eventually earned the equivalent of my teacher pay after a couple years. Not only that, I actually learned how to write clearly and concisely.

The experience left me wondering: what was the purpose of my college education? I had learned much more in just a few months of writing for a living than I had as a student.

Now, I certainly understand that I learned much more in college. I took a wide variety of classes in pursuing my liberal arts degree and I really enjoyed most of them. But the content of a lot of these classes was actually available to me in the real world. For example, my humanities classes showed me a lot of art which I could see in museums and learn about by reading encyclopedias. Had it really been necessary to take out four years of my life to "learn" in a college classroom?

Today, with the Internet available to everyone, this question is even more pertinent. While I am willing to debate the necessity or value of my college experience in the 90s, I cannot imagine an argument which would convince me that taking four years out of your life to learn about art and literature makes sense when you could just do it in your free time while you plied a trade.

So, I have to wonder what kids in college today are doing if they are not studying the hard sciences. Philosophy can be learned and discussed on the Internet (though one wonders if that is actually happening anywhere). The same goes for Art, English and many other fields of study.

Take foreign languages for an example. I learned Spanish in middle school, high school and for two years in college. I still couldn't speak it. I ended up in Juarez, Mexico after college and was speaking fluently within a matter of weeks.

Sure, my college learning did provide some foundation for my fluency. It was clear to me, though, that some things in life are best learned by simply doing them rather than "studying" them,

What Should a Man Do? 

Whatever your station in life, you should carefully consider your next step if you are contemplating higher education.

• If you are going to work in medicine, science, nursing or some technological field, you need to go to school. 
• If you are planning on studying the liberal arts, you would be ultimately happier if you learned a trade and studied these things on the side. By the time your peers are graduating with their worthless philosophy or communication degrees, you will be earning plenty of money and able to set aside plenty of time for reading and trips to the museum. And you will not be less educated than a bunch of overgrown kids who have spent four years sitting in classrooms and taking multiple choice tests.
• If you want to become a lawyer, psychologist, teacher or work in a related field, you might complain that you need the seal of approval that a college gives. I would simply counsel you to not pursue these dreams. Lawyers are scum and psychology is bullshit. As for teaching, it is not a profession that a man should expect to provide him a living nor is it respectable.

It is long past time for educators and learners to embrace technology. Most of what we need to learn, after a modicum of early instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic, is available for free on the Internet. If you have a hankering to learn more about the Renaissance, Google it. Don't waste your life and resources on attending a course taught by someone who has a piece of paper declaring his worthiness to "reveal" information that is easily discovered otherwise.

The Last Supper

15th century, Leonardo Da Vinci

Godfrey of Bouillon, Advocate of the Holy Sepulcher

16th Century, by Colin Nouailher

Godfrey led the crusaders who liberated Jerusalem in 1099. When offered the crown and title of King of Jerusalem, he humbly refused to rule as king in the land in which the Son of God had walked. He took the title of Advocate of the Holy Sepulcher. He died of battle wounds in 1100.

Godfrey, pray for us.

The Habit of Prayer

In ages past, prayer was both a natural routine in a man's day as well as a refuge during moments of distress.

Today, most Western men have been robbed of their birthright. It is not so much that we do not know our prayers. Memorizing the Lord's Prayer, the Angelic Salutation or the Apostle's Creed requires but a few minutes of effort even for a man completely unfamiliar with them. Rather, it is that we have lost the habit, the instinct, for prayer.

Yet, we assure you that all is not lost. You need not despair that the habit of prayer is beyond you. Somewhere in Scripture, Saint Paul says that all men know God on some level, in some way. Even if you have never once said a prayer in your time on earth, you have indeed prayed. At innumerable moments in your life, when you have mourned or feared some terrible outcome or event, you have unknowingly reached out to the Lord with your sighs, with the groans of your spirit.

Even in empty, godless despair, you have spoken to Him.

Do not discount the value of these wordless supplications in the eyes of the Lord. They have kept you grounded in metaphysical reality, in the tacit understanding that this universe seems arbitrary and cruel and that you and yours live only by the grace of God.

How Else Might We Pray?

But there are other purposes to prayer outside of these spontaneous bursts of existential alarm. Otherwise, the Lord would not have taught a specific prayer to his apostles, nor would they have continued to mark the hours of the day with specific prayers.

Thus the church has always utilized a formal liturgy to recite prayers throughout the day, outside of those individual prayers which we send up to God in the form of brief verbal petitions or cries of anguish. These prayers are communal, shared by the brethren in company with one another or physically alone but in spiritual communion.

These prayers of the liturgy are an excellent treatment for the spiritual disease which has brought about a prayer famine in so many men's lives today. If you have been repelled from typical modern church settings by feminized environments and an infantile approach to worship, then this formal approach may be the ideal way to ease you into a fruitful life of prayer.

Why Should the Knights Pray Anyway?

It is easy today to discard prayer as a useless endeavor when there appears to be so much to do in the "real" world. Praying, from that perspective, might seem like a household chore that can wait while we keep the house from burning down.

However this viewpoint ignores the knowledge which we all possess about the present maladies of society: they do not truly stem from failures to fight communism or the proliferation of pornography and sexual perversion. Those things are but symptoms of the social malady which overtook Western civilization in the 20th century as men stopped worshiping God and began worshiping themselves.

In medicine, it is foolish and often futile to treat symptoms and not the root cause of those symptoms. Just so in the spiritual world. While there is great need for strong, virile men to stand up and fight today, there is a greater need for those men to realign their souls with God through proper worship and prayer.

That is why the Knights of the Resurrection have crafted their own divine office. They do not mean to disparage the liturgy that the church as a whole uses. Instead, these texts and prayers are meant to nourish a charism particular to men's needs today.

When to Pray 

The beauty of the divine office of the Knights of the Resurrection (DOKR) is in its flexible structure. It assigns hours to prayers but also allows for the interruptions of men who are, naturally, busy working to support themselves and their families.

The traditional divine office of the Church is organized similarly but with more assigned hours of prayer. The prayers of the DOKR are more limited in number and length because it is expected that knights are busy. In fact, only the prayers of Lauds, Vespers and Compline are required, though knights are strongly encouraged to pray Matins.

• Matins

Traditionally, the hour of matins was prayed by monks in the middle of the night. They woke from their rest and prayed for long periods before returning to sleep before dawn came and they resumed prayers and heard mass.

This is an ideal but many knights may find it difficult to manage. Nevertheless, you may think of this opportunity to stand fire guard for your loved ones, rising from sleep to briefly pray and be alert to the voice of the Lord. 

If you cannot manage to pray at this time, try to at least read the scriptural passages from this hour at some free point during the day. They are specifically chosen from the Word of God to inspire you to lead a christian life.

• Lauds

Pray this hour when you rise, at whatever time that you normally wake. It is best to rise early in the morning before sunrise. However, a man's need to work may interfere with this if he works nights or evenings. 

This is particularly complicated for a man who works nights and wakes in the afternoon. The knights recommend that you still pray lauds in the morning but you may appreciate praying this hour of the office when you actually wake. We leave it to each man to do as he sees fit, keeping always in mind that perfection is to be strived for even if it cannot be achieved. 

The prayers of Lauds and Vespers are chosen from martial episodes in scripture, so that a knight may see how a man of God deals with confrontation and conflict.

• Vespers

A most excellent prayer of the Church. So excellent is it that many Protestant churches continue to recite these prayers and hymns, at least in Sunday evenings. Some call in evensong.

You should pray this hour of this DOKR when evening has come or when it is near. Make sure to keep it separate from the prayer of Compline.

• Compline

A minor and more individual hour in most versions of the divine office, the hour of Compline holds great importance for the knights because the prayers are those passages from scripture which remind us of our mortality and God's greatness.

Where to Pray

The Lord warns us not to pray ostentatiously, making a show of our piety in public. The best place to pray will often be in private for a knight. Should he find himself working alongside another knight as the time of prayer arrives, by all means they should try to find a private place to pray together. However, in many situations, a knight will be physically alone when the time of prayer arrives.

When possible it would be good to pray these hours in a church, ideally in front of the body of Christ on the altar.

How to Pray

A knight is not restricted to the words given in the texts here. Those are the minimum which must be said. Petitions and requests for intercession are always allowed and recommended.

Instructions are given in each hour for how to posture oneself during prayer. Sometimes, there are options but it is important to remember that, no matter what the text seems to indicate, we ALWAYS stand for any gospel reading.

The Purpose of Preparedness

The Knights do not share the hysteria and sense of immediacy found on many websites that cater to "preppers." It is always easy to lose sight of one's true purpose when trying vainly to understand conspiracies and prophesies.

One need only recall the Y2K scare as a lesson. On the first day of January in the year 2000, many people woke up disappointed because they realized that they still had to go to their crappy jobs and that they had spent a lot of their disposable income on mountains of ammo and canned food in their basements.

 Nevertheless, preppers actually encourage activities that are beneficial to men and their families whether the world is coming to an end or not. Learning how to grow your own food is valuable even if you are not going to be a farmer.

The Intrinsic Value of Prepping

The average prepper may have a myopic view of disaster and recovery, in that he imagines rebuilding a stone age world in which we do not even have matches to light fire.

While this very fundamental approach to preparedness has its strengths, there is little point in merely preparing to live at the hunter-gatherer level with your family and maybe a few friends. Anthropological studies have shown pretty conclusively that societies smaller than several hundred have almost always been wiped out. There is a minimum number of people needed to provide all the various skills needed to live in an organized fashion, even at a stone age level.

Some preppers, though, have definitely seen the value in expanding their horizons with regard to necessary items and skills in the event of a societal collapse. This has caused many people involved in prepping to increase their knowledge base and acquire new skills.

Are the Knights of the Resurrection Preppers?

No. Again, no. The prepping movement is home to many theological errors and focuses too little on solving the problems of modern society.

While many preppers may be even-keeled and earnest individuals, you cannot deny that there are plenty of people with a disturbed vision of the future and, indeed, a latent desire to see the edifice of society crumble. Despair is a sin and despair breeds dark visions for which some people feel a type of lust. Just as some men seek out porn to satisfy their bottled up desires, others seek disaster-porn in the form of prepping websites in order to satisfy a sick rage against a society that they feel has overlooked them.

Why Are the Knights Interested in Prepping?

We include an entire page on prepping because there are several aspects of prepping which make a man better, and it is our mission to make our knights better men in this world.

• Prepping requires analysis and forethought. Prepping men have to review their own lifestyle and habits. They also try to prepare themselves responsibly for sudden changes in circumstances. This is a big improvement over living paycheck to paycheck or using credit cards to survive.
• Readiness involves acquiring new skills. In an age in which many men only have keyboard
  
  skills or cash register skills, it is good for them to try to learn something about more down-to-earth occupations to add to their arsenal of skills.
• Preparedness also focuses a man's mind on his true responsibilities: his own survival and that of his family or clan. Too many soft males are rotting away on front of computer screens, easy prey for enemies of our society. Prepping would at least make men out of males.
• Quality prepping sites have keyed in on advanced issues in prepping, such as the restoration of society. Since the knights ultimately desire to take over present society and heal it of its many evils, knowledge about things such as computer science and government organization are of high value.

  

  We will include a post on coding and how you can learn it for free.

We take as our example Saint Paul the Apostle. Though called to a "soft skill" in his preaching, he continued to ply his hard-skill trade as a tent-maker when it was possible. Like St. Paul and like preppers, knights of all background should cross train in different skills and become better men.

What Are the Great Books?

If you agree with us that we need to start reforming our educational system in the West, you may very well not agree on the way to do it. Even prominent supporters of the Great Books have stark disagreements about which books to preserve in the canon.

 A famous edition of the Great Books came out mid-20th century and has been controversial since, Hard-core, traditional Catholics would remove a lot of the post-enlightenment philosophy and leave Aquinas as the sum of all things. Certainly they would punish Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire with banishment for its excoriation of early Christians.

Those with a more lenient view of modern works would drop a lot of medieval books as forgotten and replace them with great authors of the 20th century who were not recognizable as great when the first edition came out.

In fact, a second edition of the Great Books was eventually published with just such changes. Thanks to the Internet, it is not really necessary to ever publish another expensive edition of the books. We are still left, though, with the question of inclusion. Which books are great?

Ancestral Memory

While we are somewhat educated and possess degrees, we are none of us in possession of doctorates which would give our opinions on the matter some weight. There do seem to be some characteristics of great books, however, that would appeal to most if not all proponents of instruction in these texts.

The original compilation of texts certainly meant to appeal to some sort of ancestral memory. In other words, the books should be those that we once told around the fire and still do in one respect or another.

At the time of original publication, these were all books that were still being studied in colleges. The idea of creating and publishing an official canon was to reduce the entirety of a liberal education to its core and provide that core to the general public. The editors never intended this to be a list of forgotten works which we must all rediscover.

This makes it difficult to make the Great Books relevant today. The modernists were clever and actually removed most of these texts from college education. Few educated adults and fewer children are even cognizant of the names of these books, let alone their contents.

Therefore, efforts to popularize these texts are faced with an uphill battle because these are not works which the elite study and the common people desire in order to elevate themselves - instead, they are forgotten works which must be dredged up from the deeps of time and be read in clunky translations so that people are bored with them immediately.

In the face of this challenge, we must remember to avoid tossing something from the canon just because it seems like a dead letter or that it has no bearing on our world. Perhaps it should have a bearing on our world. Perhaps, in a world that had not gone so far off the tracks like ours did several decades ago, the college boys would still be reading these works and the girls would still be planning on being mothers rather than killing their children in the womb.

An Example

I know that, if it were left up to me a couple years ago, even though I was already a big fan of the Great Books with experience in implementing their instruction in an elementary school, I would have tossed Rabelais into the bin and never looked back. It just seemed like asking too much, I have to rethink that now.

Furthermore, we must carefully consider which books from more recent ties to add to the collection. There were some atrocious additions made to the second addition, simply in an effort to be more inclusive and have more works from women authors. While my own biases would not go in that direction, I could certainly end up adding works that simply appealed to my personal tastes but which had no real bearing on whether it was a work which would be valuable to my descendants in 200 years.

So Which Books Are Great?

For the time being, until society has recovered from this spell of cultural amnesia, we believe that it is best to leave Mortimer Adler's original edition as sacrosanct and to consider judiciously some additions.

Obviously, being a fan of the great books does not mean that you read nothing else. Listing the great books to a small list is an attempt to define a core of Western civilization, something on which we can all agree.

The Great Books and the Knights of the Resurrection


None of us has read through the entire canon and, even if we did, we would not have incorporated it
all into any kind of coherent philosophy. We depend on our liturgy to provide that foundation. However, the canon of the Great Books is the Tree of Knowledge to which we turn to whet our intellectual appetites. We will provide guidance and even curriculum for those who wish to join us in our appreciation of the greatest works known to Western Civilization.

Violence in the Name of the Lord

Over the last several decades, the idea that non-violence is the only true Christian form of expression has become dominant in both Christian and secular, non-Christian schools of thought. All violence done in the name of the Lord is somehow seen as hypocritical in a most fundamental way.

David takes on Goliath in the name of the Lord

Modernism: Everything Right Is Wrong Again

This notion defies two thousand years of Christian history. From the outset, Christ told his apostles to buy swords if they did not have any. That seems an odd remark for the man-God to make if he did not want anyone to defend Christendom with violence.

Of course, if you look back on the history of the last century with open eyes, this reversal of Christian thought makes sense. The late 19th century and early 20th century popes wrote lengthy warnings about the dangers of something called modernism. While we are technically described as now living in a post-modern world, we are still dealing with the destruction that modernism did to treasured institutions such as Christianity.

It is the inclination of a modernist to feel, instinctively, that everything that people did thousands of years ago was wrong-headed. Furthermore, in their view, people from eons past were a little bit stupid. They were also racist and sexist, the two mortal sins of the modernist.

There were, of course, errors in the ways that our ancestors viewed the universe. Geocentrism is a
cosmology which begins with the Earth at the center of the Universe and the rest of the planets and stars in orbit around it. It is erroneous but it works.

It works. Modernists overlook this. Even Einstein, a sort of ur-saint for atheists, admitted that geocentrism works. Of course it worked. People would not have used it for thousands of years if it hadn't worked. The reason we moved on from geocentrism to heliocentrism and then Newton and Einstein and others was that it did not explain why the planets and stars were moving. Nevertheless, you can still use the geocentrism of Ptolemy to predict the locations of planets in the sky.

What is the point of my astronomical digression? That liberals, who are just the philosophical offspring of modernism, are unable to see that the ancients were actually very intelligent and understood a great deal about man's character as well. Men who had no writing or only very rudimentary systems of writing were able to plot star movements, build immense structures and navigate the oceans while most of us struggle to pass high school algebra. If geocentrism was wrong, it was still the best that could be done with the naked eye and a limited technology.

Yet, because the ancients were wrong about the physical relationship of the Earth to the Sun and stars, moderns think that they were also inept at everything else, such as in ordering society.

Their Method of Robbery

This is how the modernist movement robbed you of your birthright. They have so altered the landscape that, even if you get your head on straight in this world and start thinking logically, you are still unable to create a solid foundation for thought. The first principles have been denied you.

That is why so many young men take the red pill but inevitably just become slightly more aggressive and abrasive versions of their leftist counterparts. The finest things in life have been hidden away and you cohabitate with leftists in an increasingly savage world.

Indeed, they have even convinced you that violence is always wrong. That's one way to keep your hands in your pockets.

When Violence Saved Christianity

As Christianity grew, it was embraced by people across a wide spectrum of classes in Roman society. It included soldiers, who certainly did not lay down their swords and stop defending the frontier.

Christianity became the dominant religion in the Empire after it was embraced by Constantine, a pre-eminent soldier of the late 3rd and early 4th century AD. He seized the imperial throne in AD 311 after seeing Christ's cross in the sky.

Stained window depiction of Roland, hero of Roncevaux

Openly Christian soldiers defended the empire afterward against Persians and barbarians. Emperor Justinian used force to reclaim the Western Empire in the 6th century AD after it had been overrun by pagan barbarians. Charles the Hammer led Christian troops against Muslim invaders in the Battle of Tours in 732 AD. Christian crusaders retook the Holy Land from cruel Muslim Turks who oppressed pilgrims in the 11th and 12th centuries. The list goes on.

No Contradiction

There is no contradiction in being proudly Christian and preparing for battle. Do as Christ commanded: Ar yourself for battle because the time is coming when you will need it to preserve your way of life and your right to teach your children as you please.

Get Furious.

Get Armed.

The Battle of Lepanto

The Miseducation of Western CIvilization

I used to be a high school history teacher. I only did it for a few years before I drifted out of the profession and became a full-time bum.

I think that my divorce probably had something to do with my departure from teaching but I was definitely disenchanted from the get go. I recognized quickly that it was just a conformity factory. I had both positive and negative memories of my own schooling before I got into teaching in my early 30s. After teaching in a high school with adult eyes, I couldn't see how anyone could enjoy their stay in such a hell-hole.

And I am not talking about a ghetto school. This was a decent, middle-class suburban school. But few of us teachers were really teaching anything useful. Furthermore, the principal tolerated scum bags by simply sending them back to class with big grins on their faces after you sent them to the office. Worst of all, no matter how hard I tried to alter the format, class always became a matter of getting everyone to "sit and listen".

Sit and Listen is a learning format for girls and emasculated boys. This is no way to raise young men. Sure, if they want to learn calculus or computer programming, they are going to have to sit still occasionally. But then their minds are active, problem-solving. The average high school is just a prison for young men with high T-levels.

I recognize that maybe I just wasn't a good teacher. Robert was a teacher for much longer than me, mostly in elementary, and claims to have loved it. But we both agree that there has to be a better way to teach young men. As it is, we are just criminalizing their natural behavior by putting them in cages and lowering the T-levels of those young men who submit to this imprisonment.

After I resigned from teaching, I gained an interest in the Great Books and realized that there was another, even greater defect in what students were learning. Or rather, what they were not learning.

We're More Intelligent Now?

Discussing matters historical with my students, one of the girls chimed in that things were different now because "We're more intelligent, We have more education."

I tried not to laugh at this declaration from one of my least-functional students. More educated? More intelligent?

These kids are literate, I will give them that. Facebook and texting demands that one be literate to some extent.

But truly more educated? More intelligent? What makes them think that?

I think that I know. They equate the number of classes passed with actual education.

That's why you hear so-called college-educated women spouting off about their education proudly when all they have really done is attended a bunch of classes about gender or culture in which all they had to do was write papers about how they felt and get the spelling and punctuation reasonably correct.

And what are they literate in? I looked at what the English teachers were having them read. Granted, there was a core of good American literature being taught. But the approach even to that is so nauseatingly politically correct that any value is really lost.

As for "world" literature, it is some of the most shallow tripe you have ever seen. After a snippet of real classics such as Homer or Dante, the teachers indulge themselves in tripe pushed out largely by modern authors (modern because outside of Western Europe until a century or so ago, you didn't even have anything resembling literature).

What's the Big Deal?

Some of you reading this may wonder what the big deal is. Many people today, cut off from their cultural birthrights by the educational excisions of the past few decades, have come to believe that it is enough to learn to read, write and do math. History and culture are extraneous, in their opinion.

It is this mental rape of the present generation that is leading us to our downfall. People do not know what they are being robbed of because the past is practically a blank slate for them. They have a PC-skewed version of the history of the last few generations in their head and ignore the preceding millennia because that was all "just a bunch of racist, sexist stuff." Or so their teachers told them.

This is true even for young men who think of themselves as libertarians or alt-right. They have been raised on a history so revised that, even after they rebel against political correctness, they still do no understand what is missing from their perspective.

The knights wish to preserve, at the very least, the racial memory of our finest moments. These include historical works and accounts that remind us of just how strong, and how weak, we can be. This includes the most gossamer delicate poetry as well as the martial beat of the psalms given in our liturgy.

So What Would the Knights Do?

The knights wish to retain all of the beauty that posterity has passed on to us in the Sistine chapel, Westminster Abbey, the plays of Shakespeare, the poetry of Ovid and Virgil, the wisdom of Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, even the philosophy of the men who questioned our own sacred beliefs, such as Hegel or Kant.

The West has been having a very satisfying conversation for the last few thousand years. This conversation begins with Sumerian tales such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Jewish collection of scriptures known as the Old Testament.

Today, though, we are threatened with the loss of the entire thread of the conversation as ignorant, weak men have turned away from confrontation with ideas and have acquiesced to the women in their lives. Now everything is acceptable and nothing is contested because potentially good men fel that they have no basis from which to begin an argument.

Why Should We Expect Opposition?

This goal is apparently modest. After all, we are simply talking about the preservation of a small collection of books and a body of artwork that could all be captured easily on a flash drive. In addition, there is all the architecture of Europe and America.

But you would find, had you the opportunity to implement an education in any school today, that teaching these things would cause a firestorm of protest.

Robert has already encountered this protest, even from people who are ostensibly on the "right" side
of these matters but act like shrieking liberals. Teach Latin in a Catholic school? He found that did not go over well.Yet all of our recent ancestors, both Protestant and Catholic, found Latin to be an indispensable part of a real man's education. Even the Greek Orthodox taught Latin, spiteful as they are against all things Western.

You see, these texts and paintings and buildings and ideas derived from our rich past offend modernists on a very fundamental level. Subtly or not, they expose the lies and reveal truths known since the beginning of time:

• Men are not equal one to another, nor are women. 
• Valor and strength are positive qualities.
• The family is the root unit of a nation
• A nation consists of a people, and is not defined by political borders
• We were meant to shape this world to our liking

There are many other things that you will learn from reading the Great Books. Most of the are repellent to a population of people that are changing their sexes and abusing their children with drugs, hormones and the filth spewed out by Hollywood.

You do not need this website to do so but we hope to provide a guide and some resources to make it easier to read the Great Books. It is unlikely that you have the time to dedicate to familiarizing yourself with your birthright like you did when you were young. 

This is another great crime of our time. In his late teens and early 20s a man has plenty of time, absent family and responsibilities, to learn in depth about his ancestors and their beliefs. If you are past that time, working and/or supporting a family, your opportunities to study are reduced.

But you must take every opportunity. Allow yourself to read the Odyssey or passages from scripture and you will soon find yourself drawn into this tapestry that includes you and every one who has ever existed.

Most importantly, fight against those who would take it away from you and your own posterity. They are waging a war against you and your children.

Get angry.

Read.

Stay angry.