Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations Poetry_Gift_Guide Imprisoned in the icy north

Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen

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The book travels across geography and time

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Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations Poetry_Gift_Guide Imprisoned in the icy northWestern Self Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self hatred and its cyclical recurrence. Benedict Beckeld explores oikophobia, described by its coiner Sir Roger Scruton as "the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours,'" in its political