{"id":216,"date":"2011-05-28T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-05-28T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T23:32:35","slug":"echoes-from-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/28\/echoes-from-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes from the West.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s an excerpt from the American Nihilist Underground Society which we&#8217;re reproducing here because it quite realistically depicts the situation in Lebanon (and similar third world countries with a rich past) from a cultural point of view:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Decline of society is a symptom of our decline as people, as a culture, as an idea.<\/p>\n<p>Decline originates in the collision between our wealth, and our resentment of anyone who has more.<\/p>\n<p>It makes us passive, and instead of thinking toward creation, we think toward parasitism.<\/p>\n<p>This is how most of the world thinks, and it&#8217;s why they live in poverty, have low IQs and are beset by disease and warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our prole revolt in the west, we are joining them. They have almost won; liberal democracy is their triumph.<\/p>\n<p>They have one big task left: destroy heritage, and make us all citizens  of the global shopping mall, fresh for imprinting without whatever  trivial trends obsess them&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hoping this inexorable nightmare vision doesnt come to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s an excerpt from the American Nihilist Underground Society which we&#8217;re reproducing here because it quite realistically depicts the situation in Lebanon (and similar third world countries with a rich past) from a cultural point of view: &#8220;Decline of society is a symptom of our decline as people, as a culture, as an idea. Decline &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/28\/echoes-from-the-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Echoes from the West..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}