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The Left and the Decline of the Moral Community
With the continuing rise of woke progressivism, Western culture and civilisation are regressing to an earlier age. The celebration of amorality and barbarism signals the imminent loss of the moral community. That much is now clear. In the UK, for example, the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London is soon to display a statue of a black Baptist preacher who went from being a pacifist with anti-colonialist views to a brutally-violent rebel against the British in Nyasaland (since renamed Malawi) in 1915.1
John Chilembwe’s grip on sanity might have collapsed under the burden of suffering and oppression, and we can all sympathise with this. But he then incited a violent armed uprising against the British which involved the beheading of a white man, an act all the more barbarous for being carried out in front of the man’s wife and children. The severed head was then displayed on a spike beside Chilembwe’s pulpit as he incited further atrocities against whites in general….
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins