<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Rubio's call to rediscover the Western spirit was... > Rubio's call to rediscover the Western spirit was addressed to nations facing choices about the systems they are building now. The Greek setting made that call unusually consequential: one of the oldest surviving symbolic centers of the West was being asked to recognize the work of a republic preparing to carry that inheritance into new technologies. I read the address as a bid for confidence in American custody, made in the presence of the people who guard the place where its oldest symbols stand. Such confidence must be earned in the concrete work of alliance and transmission. **Source:** [[articles/America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity|America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Rubio's call to rediscover the Western spirit was addressed to nations facing choices about the systems they are building now. The Greek setting made that call unusually consequential: one of the oldest surviving symbolic centers of the West was being asked to recognize the work of a republic preparing to carry that inheritance into new technologies. I read the address as a bid for confidence in American custody, made in the presence of the people who guard the place where its oldest symbols stand. Such confidence must be earned in the concrete work of alliance and transmission.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-rubios-call-rediscover-work-alliance-transmission ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->