The left is trying to cram the 1619 Project into the public subconscious as the beginning of your history. In response, the Right proposed the 1776 project—a presentation of the greatness that sprung from America’s founding.
Related: Prager U – The 1619 Project is Just Another lame Attempt to Rewrite American History.
And while I’m more 1776 than 1619, I think the real lesson comes to us from 1492.
Joseph Campbell, writing in Myths to Live By, notes that 1492 marks “the end – or at least the beginning of the end – of the authority of the old mythological systems by which the lives of men had been supported and inspired from time out of mind.”
Columbus, Magellan, da Gama. They turned the world on its head.
In attempting to show that there was, somewhere on earth a garden of Paradise, Saint Thomas Aquinas had declared, writing only two centuries and a half before Columbus sailes: “The situation of Paradise is shut off from the habitual world by mountains or seas, or by some torrid region, which cannot be crossed; and so people who have written about topography make no mention of it.”
This evolution of knowledge challenged faith to its foundations. The response to this was a rejection, not just by the institutions but the people who relied on it to center their universe alongside millennia of thought on the relationship between the frail human experience and the unknown.
But where Columbus, Magellan, and da Gama revealed misunderstandings about the physical world (intentionally or not) that impacted religion, myth, and culture, The modern Left, through programs like 1619 and Critical Race Theory, advance upon the first battlefield to erase it.
The first battlefield is to rewrite history.
Their mission is to disconnect you, not just from your past and history, but from yourself. Anything that has a meaning which might distract from narratives that justify the totalitarian accumulation of wealth and power.
A complete reimaging of the world in the image of the political left.
The age of exploration altered the relationship between the physical and supernatural worlds, but it did not insist on the latter being erased. The accumulation of bits we call the human experience is held together by a sense of mystery summarized by the question of how such matter could project personalities, love, form relationships, have fear, love, even risk itself to save others, and then vanish at death.
For all the evil and good in the world, faith in something still mattered. America was founded in part on the idea that it mattered so much that the government should be prevented from defining it, massaging it, or managing it for you. That you should be free to think, believe, worship as you pleased as long as that did not deny anyone else their natural rights.
Throughout all of human history, the mystery is the glue that held societies, cultures, people, even individuals together even when it was not always our mystery.
The Political Left cannot achieve its aims without undermining all of that, and it does not care what price you or the culture or society must pay in the course of their ascension to absolute power.
Their 1492 may begin in 1619, but the goal is neither knowledge nor discovery. They do not pursue truths to expand the mind or inspire debate about culture, science, or faith; they mean to define them.
Refusing to follow the program will have consequences.
