I think I've figured out the idea behind Western Culture. It's a synthesis native to Europe only, which explains, at least to me, the massive cultural gaps between the Russian "plain" attitude and the transcendentalism (for lack of a better word) of India.
There's three basic ideas - Greek creativity, Roman discipline and the Gothic Will to Power.
How I managed to put Greek creativity in there is obvious, it drives European culture. Roman discipline and self control underlies our ethics, how we conduct ourselves, defend ourselves, our families, our honour and way of life - the idea of Imperium Romanum never really died - it moved on to Charlemagne, the First and Second German Reich's, the British Empire, Napoleon, and the Third Reich, Fascist Italy.
The third and last element is the Gothic Will to Power. A bit of historical information might be worth putting here, in case people think I'm referring to the subculture of western youth.
The Goths were divided into two massive tribes/clans. They were a Germanic population. The Visigoths, or the Western Goths smashed the Roman legions, flooded into France, Italy and Spain, torched Rome and crossed the Mediterranean into North Africa, and then faded. The Ostrogoths did the same to Hungaria, Greece and Turkey - before Anatolia was taken over by the half-breed Muslim creatures we see occupying German cities.
I say the Gothic will to power because I think the term Gothic rather than Aryan should be applied to Western Civilization - there is little in common between the Faustian west and the handful of Aryans left over in India or the Iranians. The Goths, at least as how I see it, could be seen as the spark of the Faustian west, although this drive was supressed under Christianity for several hundred years, the drive to conquer infinite space still remains - though now combined with the Greek drive to create and the self discipline of the Roman legions.
I'd be interested in seeing what others, particularly Moody Lawless, think about this idea.
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