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The western erotic revolution has deconstructed reality, nature, culture, civilization, tradition, authority, the rule of law, the image of the father, morality, religion, truth, good and evil, rationality, consciousness, objective knowledge, individual personality, personal happiness, eternal life, immorality, love of neighbor, friendship, affection. It has replaced reality with sensual gratification, spiritual progress with regression, reason capable of discernment with the reasoning of denial, normal sexuality with perversions, spiritual love with narcissistic love, moral conscience with the unconscious, imagination and sensuality. . . . The cultural fruits of deconstruction have been transformed into global norms during the global consensus-building process of the first half of the 1990s.
—Marguerite Peeters
The Globalization of the Western Cultural Revolution (2012), cited by Rod Dreher in The American Conservative (January 26, 2023)
— Culture — Commonplaces #173 — July/August 2023 —
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