Oikophobia and the Sciences

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Does the self-hatred that presently permeates the sciences reflect the broader decline of western civilization?

Science is commonly portrayed as an avatar of knowledge, truth, and progress. Lately, science is more held up as an exemplar of oppression: colonialist, too suffused with patriarchy, too white, too male, too western, its heroes not worthy of admiration. Self-loathing and abnegation seems to have permeated the entire establishment of science: its funding agencies, its journals, its professional associations. What is the meaning of this remarkable cultural transformation? Is it merely political, or something deeper? 
According to <a href="http://www.benedictbeckeld.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Benedict Beckeld</a>, this is a reflection of oikophobia, a “cultural malaise that befalls civilizations during their declining days.” He argues that oikophobia is the terminal state in the comings and goings of great civilizations. The self-hatred that presently permeates the sciences thus reflects the broader decline of western civilization. 
Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, October 13, at 3 pm ET for the next edition of our Restoring the Sciences webinar series to hear more about this intriguing idea. 
This event will feature Benedict Beckeld, a philosopher whose focus is aesthetics, political philosophy, and culture. He is the author of “Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Declines of Civilizations” which traces the “historical apparition” of oikophobia as a “type of social decadence” to which civilizations are prone. This event will be moderated by J. Scott Turner of the National Association of Scholars.

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