Letter
The Enlightenment betrayed
For anyone who truly values our civilisational legacy from Athens all the way to the Enlightenment, the absence of a moral compass in the vast bulk of our current political and intellectual leadership class is a damning footnote to our civilisational decline.
That they feel comfortable in daily witnessing and participating in the wilful and deliberate destruction of a culture far older and far more civilised than ours, with a moral certitude that defies description, is a clear marker of the judgment which history will pass upon us.
The cultures we have spent the last 500 years looking down upon, and which constitute the vast bulk of the human species, are unanimous in believing that we lack any claim to represent anything like the best of humanity.
History will quite rightly judge us as the most violent, destructive and damaging culture ever to have infested the planet.
— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041