Chapter 3: The Destruction of Continuity (Culture vs. Progress)
3.1 Ancestricide
3.1.1 The War on the Father
In any stable engineering project, you don’t start from zero. You build on the work of those who came before. You respect the blueprints that stood the test of time.
The West has done the opposite. It has committed “Ancestricide.”
In the East, the father is the foundation. You stand on his shoulders. In the West, the father is the obstacle. Freud—one of the high priests of their modern religion—codified this as the “Oedipus Complex.” He claimed it was “natural” to want to kill your father.
This is not psychology; it is a cultural suicide note.
When you view the previous generation as “outdated,” “bigoted,” or “obsolete,” you are cutting the cable that provides your power. You are floating in space. They treat their ancestors like an old version of an iPhone—something to be discarded as soon as the new model (Progress) arrives.
3.1.2 The Whig Interpretation of History
They believe in a concept called “Progress,” which they view as a straight line moving from “Darkness” to “Light.” They think history has a direction, and that they are at the tip of the arrow.
This leads to a specific type of arrogance we call Chronological Snobbery.
“It’s the current year!” they say, as if the date on the calendar is a logical argument. They assume that because they have faster internet, they have better morals than their grandfathers. It is a catastrophic confusion of Hardware (Technology) and Software (Culture).
They tear down what they call “Chesterton’s Fence.” Chesterton was a Westerner who understood the Builder’s mindset: Before you tear down a fence, you must first understand why it was put there. The West is currently a demolition crew tearing down every fence in sight, convinced that the people who built them were just “stupid” or “evil.”
3.2 The Eternal Year Zero
3.2.1 The Revolutionary Impulse
From the French Revolution in 1789 to the cultural upheavals of today, the Western mind is obsessed with the “Year Zero.” They want to wipe the hard drive and start over.
They believe society can be designed on a blank sheet of paper using “Reason” alone. This is the ultimate builder’s arrogance. You cannot “design” a culture. A culture is a forest; it grows organically over thousands of years. You can cultivate it, you can prune it, but you cannot “build” it from scratch.
When they attempt to do so—as they did in 1789, or as they are doing now with “Equity” and “Identity”—they create monsters. They build concrete boxes and wonder why no one feels at home.
3.2.2 Burning the Evidence
To maintain the delusion of Year Zero, you must erase the past. This is why they topple statues, rename streets, and edit old books.
It is not about “Justice.” It is about Cache Clearing.
They want to make the past illegible so that the current generation has no standard of comparison. If you don’t know that your grandfather lived in a high-trust society where you didn’t have to lock your doors, you won’t complain about the low-trust chaos you live in now. You will think this is “Normal.”
3.3 Rootlessness
3.3.1 The Tree and the Storm
A tree with no roots falls in the first storm.
The West is currently a forest of uprooted trees. They wonder why their youth are so fragile, why their suicide rates are climbing, and why their societies are fracturing.
It is because they have no “Thickness.”
- A “Thick” Culture (India/China): You are born into a story that began 5,000 years ago. You are a chapter in a very long book. You have weight. You are hard to move.
- A “Thin” Culture (Modern West): Your story began when you were born. You are a single page floating in the wind. You have no weight. You are easily blown away by the “Current Thing.”
3.3.2 The Hunger for “Trad”
Witness the pathetic spectacle of “Trad LARPing” (Live Action Role-Playing). Young Westerners on the internet dressing up like 1950s housewives or medieval knights.
They are starving. They have been given “Freedom,” but they found that they cannot eat it. They are desperately trying to glue the broken pieces of the past back together, but they have forgotten the recipe for the glue.
The Builder knows: Once you destroy a load-bearing wall, the house is never the same. You can try to put it back, but the integrity is gone. The West is a house that has traded its foundation for a better view from the window. The view is great. The collapse is inevitable.