I had this fun pet theory, that the real bad influence in the West came from the peoples that brought Rome down, and expanded and ate everything (whereas the Greeks, Romans, and Celts are ok in my book). Germanic tribes, the normans, the "Holy Roman Empire", those that ended up pushing protestantism, the idolatry of trade and industry, all the way to today.
I had this fun pet theory, that the real bad influence in the West came from the peoples that brought Rome down, and expanded and ate everything (whereas the Greeks, Romans, and Celts are ok in my book). Germanic tribes, the normans, the "Holy Roman Empire", those that ended up pushing protestantism, the idolatry of trade and industry, all the way to today.
I had this fun pet theory, that the real bad influence in the West came from the peoples that brought Rome down, and expanded and ate everything (whereas the Greeks, Romans, and Celts are ok in my book). Germanic tribes, the normans, the "Holy Roman Empire", those that ended up pushing protestantism, the idolatry of trade and industry, all the way to today.