Download PDF Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham
It will believe when you are visiting choose this publication. This motivating Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham book can be read entirely in certain time depending upon just how usually you open as well as read them. One to bear in mind is that every book has their own production to obtain by each viewers. So, be the great viewers and also be a much better individual after reviewing this book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham
Download PDF Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham
Do you assume that reading is a crucial activity? Find your reasons adding is necessary. Reviewing a book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham is one part of pleasurable activities that will certainly make your life top quality a lot better. It is not regarding simply just what kind of e-book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham you read, it is not simply concerning the number of books you check out, it's about the routine. Checking out behavior will be a means to make e-book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham as her or his close friend. It will regardless of if they spend money as well as invest even more publications to finish reading, so does this publication Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham
This letter could not affect you to be smarter, but the book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham that we offer will certainly evoke you to be smarter. Yeah, a minimum of you'll recognize more than others which do not. This is what called as the top quality life improvisation. Why must this Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham It's considering that this is your preferred motif to read. If you such as this Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham motif about, why don't you check out guide Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham to enhance your discussion?
The presented book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham our company offer here is not kind of common book. You understand, checking out now does not mean to handle the published book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham in your hand. You can get the soft data of Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham in your gadget. Well, we suggest that the book that we proffer is the soft file of the book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham The material and all points are same. The distinction is only the kinds of guide Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham, whereas, this condition will precisely be profitable.
We share you also the means to get this book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham without visiting guide shop. You could continuously visit the link that we give as well as ready to download Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham When lots of people are hectic to seek fro in guide shop, you are very simple to download and install the Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham here. So, exactly what else you will go with? Take the inspiration right here! It is not only giving the appropriate book Suicide Of The West: An Essay On The Meaning And Destiny Of Liberalism, By James Burnham yet additionally the right book collections. Right here we constantly give you the most effective and most convenient way.
James Burnham’s 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world today by putting into focus the intangible, often vague doctrine of American liberalism. It parallels the loosely defined liberal ideology rampant in American government and institutions, with the flow, ebb, growth, climax and the eventual decline and death of both ancient and modern civilizations.
Its author maintains that western suicidal tendencies lie not so much in the lack of resources or military power, but through an erosion of intellectual, moral, and spiritual factors abundant in modern western society and the mainstay of liberal psychology.
Devastating in its relentless dissection of the liberal syndrome, this book will lead many liberals to painful self-examination, buttress the thinking conservative’s viewpoint, and incite others, no doubt, to infuriation. None can ignore it.
- Sales Rank: #133141 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-11-25
- Released on: 2014-11-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
''This somber, brilliantly written book attempts to fix the blame for the suicidal 'contraction of the West' over the last fifty years upon Liberalism, chiefly in the United States . . . It is at the same time a venture into the philosophy of history and an indictment of those responsible for the present disastrous plight of once triumphant Western civilization.'' --National Review
About the Author
JAMES BURNHAM (1905-1987) was an American popular political theorist and a noted author, lecturer, editor, and commentator. He was the founding editor of the National Review, founder of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and director of the Free Europe University. He was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Ingersoll Foundation's award for his contributions to the conservative movement. His books include The Managerial Revolution, The Machiavellians, The Struggle for the World, and many others.
Most helpful customer reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Burnham, with echoes in Orwell and Lewis
By Richard L. Centner
Despite its age, this 1964 work holds up extremely well, offering an insightful analysis of modern Liberalism's appeal and its inherent flaws. With the benefit of hindsight it's almost a key to understanding how the years immediately prior to, and following, WWII saw so much interest in totalitarianism marching under the flag of liberalism. Burnham's book, and those of George Orwell for example, demonstrate why so many used idealistic words to mask totalitarian goals and platforms. Studying the political analytical works from this period are a worthwhile exercise for education and for inoculation against the evil movements that revisit humanity periodically and to remind us that C.S. Lewis was correct when he observed, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." It seems to me that Liberals, more than any other political faction, insist on telling the electorate how good for the citizenry its decisions are.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Violating these principals is much like trying to add one and one to make three
By Rodolf Velicky
The book confirmed ideas expressed in to family and friends in the enclosed disertation
Tyranny is the Legacy of a Nation Without God
Rodolf W. Velicky
Education does not make an intellectual nor does an intellectual make truth. In the 1960's a cultural revolution, grounded in the philosophies of European Age of Enlightened thinking reached our Nation as the common knowledge of intellectuals; declaring that the world's Christian heritage is a manifestation of superstitious ignorance. Overnight, virtually everyone claiming the status of an educated modern suddenly became an intellectual with the freedom to create a vision of reality providing a permissive moral order defining truth as a variable, limited only by a political correctness, encouraged and legalized by political power. Prior to this intellectual revolution truth was simply a fact that conformed with reality. Under this new paradigm, truth becomes a versatile construct, developed for the convenience and advantage of political power. Modernism’s call to Multiculturalism, Religious Diversity and Moral Relativism rejects the law of cause and effect and the law of non-contradiction along with the nature of justice that every child know instinctively by the time he reaches the age of seven, when the Church would prepare him for Holy Communion with God. Violating these principals is much like trying to add one and one to make three. It is impossible unless the mind is conditioned in double-think to achieve a predisposed result. When motives are taken into consideration, this is the definition of lying and when governments participate in the promotion of such lies, you can bet your last dollar that the Common Man’s constitutional freedoms are the target. This is an example of “Creative Ignorance” that revealed the relationship[s] of contempt, held by pseudo-Intellectuals for the common man; his rights to self-governance and the grounding of these rights found in the faith, hope and love of God, as proclaimed and defended by the Catholic Church, consistently for two thousand years. Modern snobs, pretending to an intellectualism in support of ignorance are deserving of ridicule for allowing their passions to think for them, under the legal and public pressure of political correctness. Sexual license and crumbs from the table of political power come at the extremely high price of our democratic freedoms within this life and, more than likely, an eternal regret for a life lived selfishly.
America’s Cultural Revolution is not and never has been a search for truth. Man is a social animal, dependent on each other for survival, however he dies as an individual and in justice should answer for how this life was lived. There always have been Culture Wars designed to organize a segment of the population to prey upon the rest of Mankind for pleasure and profit. This modern attempt is a brilliant manufactured excuse to deny the justice owed individually and collectively to Mankind, as grounded in the doctrines of the Catholic Church and hinted at in our Nation’s Declaration of Independence—allowing individuals and governments to Choose a world-view as if the universe were designed for one's personal pleasure and comfort. Modernism has provided a self-serving excuse for the pompous autonomous individual to feast at the table of political power under the security of public law and public approval. America’s Cultural Revolution is a creation of a dog-eat-dog world in which there is no one to trust or love but ones self—a world in which Culture functions as a vulture feeding on the carrion of Western Civilization; symbolized as a snake feeding on its own tail.
My life experiences, examined through the simple common sense of a common man, revealed that intellectual genius has absolutely no relationship to mankind's hope for happiness. This mysterious thing called happiness is the driving force for human existence—everyone wants it, however, if its true nature is not recognized substitutes can result only in misery and unhappiness. Instinctively, every-man comprehends God-like attributes of divinity within himself, manifested as the gift of intellect and free-will. If this gift is to be appreciated properly it must be loved correctly: that is with a love for the Gift-Giver that must be shared with others with the same generosity it has been received. It follows if there is any reality to the spiritual concept of happiness it must be locked into the nature of love that can only be received if freely given away. The hope of being happy is unobtainable when love is turned inward by the self into the self. This insight is experienced as Common Sense and is an instinctive inheritance of the common man, passed on generation to generation through the traditions of the family structure where the concept of sacrificial love can be nurtured to become the foundation for happiness to the degree possible in this world.
When the common man and these traditions are held in contempt, denigrated and mocked by a snobbish culture it turns this concept of love into hate and can only be grounded on the foundation of creative stupidity intended for a devious purpose. The consequences are so disastrous for human kind that every civilization throughout the history of the world that have pursued such philosophies have all come to an ignoble end. America's cultural revolution of the 1960's is not the product of any reasoned system of logic; it is a pseudo-religious belief, grounded on ancient Pantheism or Atheistic permissiveness; modernized with a facade of pseudo-science on a foundation of modern psychology, euphemisms and philosophical double-speak for which no one is willing or able to provide a reasonable explanation.
The rules of logic, as developed in Platonic philosophy and used in Catholic Theology must be undermined to persuade the gullible that science has made the existence of God unnecessary for explaining ours. This is an intentional dumbing down of the culture by those with the talent, intent and opportunity to do so. The concept of happiness and God's unconditional love for mankind is inexplicable without His revelation of Himself as one God in three Persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is a deep mystery, examined with the same logic science uses to penetrate physical mysteries such as light simultaneously being a particle and wave; as strong, weak and gravitational forces are postulated to deal with mysteries of time, space and the singularity of the universe at its beginning. Subverting the rules of logic to deny the existence of God destroys the tools of reasoned thinking and the road to science.
As I continue to reflect on the concept of Love I recall Jesus' command to, Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect and Love one another as I Love you. These statements define an awesome relationship between God and Man; especially when it is realized that God is offering to share His divinity with us. In John 17; 21-22 Jesus says, I pray not only for them [the Apostles] but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they all may be one, as you Father, are in me and I in you, THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE IN US.... This relationship is grounded on God's ineffable Love for Man: a Love that is reflected in the relationship among three persons in God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So that Pope Benedict XVI can say with authority, God is Love and has Loved Mankind into existence.
Modernism is the antithesis of sacrificial love. Whatever it wishes to call itself, that is, Liberalism, Socialism, Secular Humanism, Communism or Fascism, it is an artificial construct designed to use the inherent selfish gullibility of mankind to enhance and perpetuate political power. When the substance of modern thought is boiled down to its essence there is nothing left but the autonomous individual—a poorly educated common man, intentionally persuaded to visualize the self as the center of the universe in order to become willing participants in a modern version of ancient paganism. The modern autonomous individual becomes a convert to a Secular Civil Religion by simply denying the reality of evil and redefining vices as virtues, thereby transferring the moral authority of God to themselves under the control of political power. Votes are substituted for prayers with the hope for all good things confiscated and distributed through that power to the faithful. It is a false religion grounded on wishful thinking that reinvents ancient pantheism flavored with a dose of atheism to deify each pompous ego with the authority to define the meaning and purpose for ones personal existence. Modernism is a fantasy grounded on wishful thinking allowing the ego to worship The Self in a no holds barred competition with all other Selves—a recipe for anarchy and barbarism, a universal divisiveness of all against all, that is noticeably accelerating toward this logical end around the world and in our Nation. There is no Happiness, in this world or the next, for winners or losers driven by selfishness, envy and hate, through a world-view well described as a snake feeding on its own tail.
Modernism has an extremely long history of failures and disasters for humanity. It began with the Renascence about five hundred years ago. It was followed by a Post-renascence era that gave us the Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, World War I & II, Fascism, Communism, the Cold War and a cowardice that allows today's Islamic Terrorism. The common denominator among all these roads to Utopia is the belief among pseudo-Intellectuals that it is possible to make truth and with a good line of bulls... to restore the absolute power enjoyed by ruling classes throughout the ages. The fruits of these ideologies are and always have been a disaster for the common man and as always the intelligentsia have given him evermore clever ways to suffer evil, experienced as reality under the misnomer social justice.
The autonomous individual promoting a world defined by Moral Relativism, Multiculturalism and Religious Diversity without an intellectual rationale for doing so is setting up the world for Political Tyranny. Digesting evil to justify personal lusts fosters a world of chaos that can only be controlled by economic coercion and physical force—a legacy of oppression defined as Tyranny.
Rodolf W. Velicky
April 16, 2015
111 Ridge Road, Factoryville, PA 18419
rodolfw@epix.net
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Written in the 1960's, this book has a contemporary ...
By Jeffrey N. Mccollum
Written in the 1960's, this book has a contemporary feel to it. (Since I was in college in the 60's examples which are familiar to me may not be so familiar to younger readers but they are still relevant.) This is the clearest explication of the liberal/progressive ideology that I have read. Although I disagree with much of what President Obama has done, I put this book down feeling that I understood his actions as consistent with the ideology described by Burnham. Secretary Clinton seems cut from the same cloth. By laying out the left's ideology, Burnham helped me get clearer on my own which are center-right to libertarian.
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham PDF
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham EPub
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham Doc
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham iBooks
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham rtf
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham Mobipocket
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, by James Burnham Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar