| Prophecy | Survival | Healing | Earth Change | UFO / IFO | Myth & Legend | Controversy & Coverup | Hidden History | Artifacts & Ruins |

Translate -Traduzca - Übersetzen - Traduisez - Traduza - Tradurre

WOVOCA.com

Earth Mother Crying!
The Journal of Prophecies of Native Peoples Worldwide

best viewed at 800x600

Wovoca, the Indian Prophet
Home


Site Intro
What's New

Search
- this Site
- prophecies
- the web


Get paid to:
Search the web
Shop

Get Paid to Surf
Spedia
ClickDough

Free Stuff
Lotto
Sweepstakes


Online Casinos

Gaming Club
up to $510 FREE!
Lucky Nugget

$110 FREE!
Orbital
up to $110 FREE
River Belle
GET $25 FREE!
Silver Dollar

English Harbor
Caribbean Gold
Orion Casino
Superslots
Be A Winner

Lucky Land
Vegas USA
Planet Luck
Zantana

Shopping
Auctions@eBay!
Books@Half.com
CDs@Half.com
Games@Half.com
DVDs@Half.com

LinkShare Referral Prg

Divination Services


Personalized Reports
Compatibility Reports
Evaluate Your Lover
Incredible Insights



Free Daily Horoscopes
Career Guidance
Meet Yourself
Predict-your Numerology Forecast

Main:

Prophecy
Survival
Native Prophecy
Hidden Histories
Myths and Legends
Ancient Ruins & Artifacts
Controversies/Coverups

UFO/IFO and Occult

Zecharia Sitchin
Earth Changes
Investigations
Miscellany

$7.95/mo Web Hosting at Addr.com - no credit card needed - be online in 5 minutes!

Antiquities Studies

Sister Sites

Imhotep - who was he?

TribeOfJoseph.com



TorahVoice.org

free message forwarding
You@Wovoca.com
click here to sign up

When Cherokees Were Cherokees

Lost and Found







Our Sponsors



Local

Governments
will not supply
you with 
water for very much longer!
click for cheap 
emergency water filtration as seen in Popular Mechanics Magazine



Water Purification

 


Supplemental


Health Food Store

Native Art Prints

Native Posters

Native T-Shirts

Native Books from Amazon

Native Books from Barnes&Noble

Native Videos from The
History Channel and A&E


Native Music from Amazon.com


Native American Quotes

Web Hosting at Addr.com for $7.95 a month!

Clickbank .. sell online!

$8 - $10  Domain Names

2.9% NextCard Visa

Sitemap

 

Earth Mother Crying - Native Prophecy Netcenter - The Journal of Prophecies of Native Peoples Worldwide

The Christopher Columbus Controversy: Western Civilization vs. Primitivism


 The following BULLSHIT editorial has been produced by the Ayn Rand Institute's MediaLink department. Visit MediaLink at http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/.

Western civilization is under attack by the politically correct who are questioning and attacking the achievements of Christopher Columbus — while glorifying the tribal cultures of American Indians. The reverence for Western civilization should be replaced, they say, with multiculturalism, which regards all cultures as morally equal. This, despite the fact that it is Western civilization, not primitivism, that stands for the values which make human life possible.

The Christopher Columbus Controversy: Western Civilization vs. Primitivism

Michael S. Berliner, Ph.D.

Columbus Day approaches, but to the "politically correct" this is no cause for celebration. On the contrary, they view the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 as an occasion to be mourned. They have mourned, they have attacked, and they have intimidated schools across the country into replacing Columbus Day celebrations with "ethnic diversity" days.

The politically correct view is that Columbus did not discover America, because people had lived here for thousands of years. Worse yet, it's claimed, the main legacy of Columbus is death and destruction. Columbus is routinely vilified as a symbol of slavery and genocide, and the celebration of his arrival likened to a celebration of Hitler and the Holocaust. The attacks on Columbus are ominous, because the actual target is Western civilization.

Did Columbus "discover" America? Yes — in every important respect. This does not mean that no human eye had been cast on America before Columbus arrived. It does mean that Columbus brought America to the attention of the civilized world, i.e., to the growing, scientific civilizations of Western Europe. The result, ultimately, was the United States of America. It was Columbus' discovery for Western Europe that led to the influx of ideas and people on which this nation was founded — and on which it still rests. The opening of America brought the ideas and achievements of Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and the thousands of thinkers, writers, and inventors who followed.

Prior to 1492, what is now the United States was sparsely inhabited, unused, and undeveloped. The inhabitants were primarily hunter-gatherers, wandering across the land, living from hand-to-mouth and from day-to-day. There was virtually no change, no growth for thousands of years. With rare exception, life was nasty, brutish, and short: there was no wheel, no written language, no division of labor, little agriculture and scant permanent settlement; but there were endless, bloody wars. Whatever the problems it brought, the vilified Western culture also brought enormous, undreamed-of benefits, without which most of today's Indians would be infinitely poorer or not even alive.

Columbus should be honored, for in so doing, we honor Western civilization. But the critics do not want to bestow such honor, because their real goal is to denigrate the values of Western civilization and to glorify the primitivism, mysticism, and collectivism embodied in the tribal cultures of American Indians. They decry the glorification of the West as "Eurocentrism." We should, they claim, replace our reverence for Western civilization with multi-culturalism, which regards all cultures as morally equal. In fact, they aren't. Some cultures are better than others: a free society is better than slavery; reason is better than brute force as a way to deal with other men; productivity is better than stagnation. In fact, Western civilization stands for man at his best. It stands for the values that make human life possible: reason, science, self-reliance, individualism, ambition, productive achievement. The values of Western civilization are values for all men; they cut across gender, ethnicity, and geography. We should honor Western civilization not for the ethnocentric reason that some of us happen to have European ancestors but because it is the objectively superior culture.

Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature. They claim that one's identity is primarily ethnic: if one thinks his ancestors were good, he will supposedly feel good about himself; if he thinks his ancestors were bad, he will supposedly feel self-loathing. But it doesn't work; the achievements or failures of one's ancestors are monumentally irrelevant to one's actual worth as a person. Only the lack of a sense of self leads one to look to others to provide what passes for a sense of identity. Neither the deeds nor misdeeds of others are his own; he can take neither credit nor blame for what someone else chose to do. There are no racial achievements or racial failures, only individual achievements and individual failures. One cannot inherit moral worth or moral vice. "Self-esteem through others" is a self-contradiction.

Thus the sham of "preserving one's heritage" as a rational life goal. Thus the cruel hoax of "multicultural education" as an antidote to racism: it will continue to create more racism.

Individualism is the only alternative to the racism of political correctness. We must recognize that everyone is a sovereign entity, with the power of choice and independent judgment. That is the ultimate value of Western civilization, and it should be proudly proclaimed.

Michael S. Berliner, Ph.D., is the former executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute in Marina del Rey, California.




 





www.Wovoca.com

Copyright © 1996-2001 Earth Mother Crying

 


"Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." Amos 3:7

Last changed: 04/04/2001, 13:20:14 -
SITE DESIGN BY: 
Runningbull Web Designs - Website © 1996-2001 William Scott Anderson (c) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED *