Wed May 18, 2022 – 7:21 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — I have been working through Douglas Murray’s new book The War on the West lately, and have been struck once again by the sheer lunacy of the civilizational self-loathing our elites perennially engage in. Has there ever been a society that was led by those who hate so much of it? As Murray pointed out in a previous book, The Strange Death of Europe, there’s nothing wrong with studying, revisiting, and discussing historical injustices — but to say that a nation has done bad is quite different than saying it cannot do good. That, as it happens, is where we are.
The latest example of this stupidity comes to us from Cambridge University, which has just launched a new course titled “Decolonizing the Ear.” The purpose of this course is to strain our musical inheritance through the sieves of imperialism, colonialism, and class — leaving, one suspects, not much left over. According to The Telegraph, the course purports to examine how “Empire … affected our understanding of what constitutes ‘music’” and also how “genres like opera seem particularly susceptible to racialized representations.” Additionally, classical music specifically
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