How to Save a Culture
Confronting the Catastrophic Downfall of Western Excellence
Henri-Frédéric Amiel’s quaint adoration of the Western spirit, “le culte de la chose bien faite,” is laughably naive and outmoded in today’s context. Let’s get real here: the Western obsession with efficiency and precision, once the backbone of its superiority, has degenerated into a farcical shadow of its former glory. Amiel, trapped in the 19th centur…
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