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Pan-Europeanist | Western Civilisationist | Board @AveEuropae | Founder @PanEuropeanJrnl

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"What is civilisation?" Contemporary political debates often deem decisions based on instinct rather than rationality illegitimate or even outright dangerous. The truth is that, while civilisation, nation, and region can obviously be explained theoretically and conceptually, many right-wingers do not need such explanations to understand who they are, both politically and ethnoculturally. Many right-wingers run into difficulties during debates with leftists who often seek to deconstruct and thereby delegitimise ethnocultural identities in the West. Leftists will frequently attempt to ridicule the idea of exclusive ethnocultural identities by asking questions such as: “When is someone truly German?” or “What is German culture, anyway?” Culture, heritage, and the behaviours associated with them cannot, however, be fully rationalised in this dialectical manner. By engaging on those terms alone, one has already accepted a framework that puts the odds against them in a debate. For many on the left, subconscious realities of the human condition, such as an innate in-group bias, are not considered legitimate arguments. Instead, they tend to attribute such behaviour exclusively to social norms and learned social dynamics. Yet evidence from developmental psychology shows that in-group biases emerge very early in life and are not the product of later socialisation. This understanding of the human condition forms the basis of a broader disagreement. Many left-wing ideologies seek to minimise or overcome inherited norms and hierarchies, while it is clear that such hierarchies and group attachments are natural features of human societies. The violence committed by socialist regimes is the destructive consequences that follows left-wing political movements which attempt to radically reshape human nature. This is why attempts to rationalise instinct entirely, or to explain identity solely through abstract concepts, are unnecessary when dealing with those who deny obvious realities. Civilisation is not merely an intellectual construct. It is something lived, inherited, and recognised long before it is formally defined. So to answer the original question ("What is civilisation?") in the words of Kenneth Clark: "I don't know. I can't define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I'm looking at it now."

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