4/ And in fact the entire industry and racket of classical studies, the study of antiquity, has been almost entirely hijacked by this group, especially in America. You see it in big ways and small, for example the fraudulent sentantiq account that poses as a neutral archivist...
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5/But in nearly every area of commentary, historical writing, academia, and popular "culture" where the classics or Greco-Roman antiquity is touched upon, this group is attracted like flies to the milkpail in springtime...so then the question is why?
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6/ This thred may go on for a while, and mayb I only start it tonight. There are many reasons this happened, including the motivation of this group to get a stranglehold on the interpretation of antiquity, about which they are EXTREMELY touchy. But this isn't the whole story....
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7/A big reason why this happened is the inadequacy of Anglo scholarship in this area. Around 1900 nearly ALL the scholarship of any note was in German, and if you were a scholar at Oxford you generally had to work in German if you studied anything Greek.
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8/ The Germans in the 19th Century considered themselves spiritual and maybe even physical descendants of the Hellenes. Before German unity, the Hellenic ideal was felt even to be reflected in the political arrangement of the German states, and of every aspect of the culture
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9/ Anglo-American scholarship generally had nothing to add, and I believe 19th c German philology is still unmatched in its erudition, insights, methods and science of study of texts. This died out for a number of reasons and after 1950 there was nothing to replace it in America
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10/ There are many interesting tangents to this, but the point is that much of mainstream commentary was boring, moralistic, and somewhat stupid. It was designed to promote a Whig-Protestant view of historical progress and was quite naive. This weakness was easily exploited
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11/ As to the left-wing reinterpretations, I won't spend too much time on them, because their program of subversion is obvious to you already. They are all intellectually derivative off Marxism. Marxism sees all ideas, all culture as superstructure of economic conditions...
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12/ It hardly matters if replace "economic" with some other underlying condition or even motivation; race, gender, class is the famous trio, but the interpretation of culture in terms of sexuality and so on is just a restatement of Marxism, "Marxism by other means"...
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13/ And you must understand that Marxism isn't itself fundamentally about economics or history or dialectical materialism or any of things it claims to be about. It is as Lowith said, a secularization of Judaism and attempt to overturn Western civilization (see also esp. Cuddihy)
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Why would Judaism seek to overturn Western civilization, itself such an integral element and beneficiary of said civilization? Asking to learn
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