Culture is a shared intellectual software that helps people navigate through life. If the software is good - if one is operating from correct first principles - he will find a solidity and constancy to his ideas, continually adding to and refining them.
But if he does not have a firm basis for his ideas, and lacks a foundation, he'll swing wildly from one set of beliefs to another: from libertarianism to fascism, to nazbol and ecofash, amnat to catholicism to french postmodernism and so on. There will be a disorienting impermanence and changeability to his views, as he jumps from hot take to hot take. Adopting entirely different ideologies so regularly means he likely will not be accurately interpreting the world.
The problem with the Western mind is this to some extent has been the issue with our civilization as a whole, ever since the traumatic destruction of classical antiquity, in which we were sundered from our spiritual traditions. Today westerners are spiritual orphans. They lack intellectual and spiritual solidity, and thus wander from ideology to ideology.
Regaining that intellectual center begins with adopting firm intellectual first principles and a solid base of cultural education. You can't call yourself a "proud Westerner," or a "proud European," if you aren't educated in the basic facets of that culture. That means at minimum a familiarity with the Greeks: Plato and Aristotle for philosophy, the Homeric works for poetry. A youth from the upper classes until fairly recent times could be expected to know Greek, Latin, and French, on top of his native tongue - you should at least be competent in a second language. There needs to be a correspondence between your stated values and your actions or else you really are just LARPing.
Once you get this basic foundation, you'll no longer have to worry about where to look for the newest "hot take" — because you won't need any. You'll be perfectly grounded in your own tradition, ready to grow and refine your understanding of yourself, no longer restlessly searching for ideological identities to be discarded every six months.
But if he does not have a firm basis for his ideas, and lacks a foundation, he'll swing wildly from one set of beliefs to another: from libertarianism to fascism, to nazbol and ecofash, amnat to catholicism to french postmodernism and so on. There will be a disorienting impermanence and changeability to his views, as he jumps from hot take to hot take. Adopting entirely different ideologies so regularly means he likely will not be accurately interpreting the world.
The problem with the Western mind is this to some extent has been the issue with our civilization as a whole, ever since the traumatic destruction of classical antiquity, in which we were sundered from our spiritual traditions. Today westerners are spiritual orphans. They lack intellectual and spiritual solidity, and thus wander from ideology to ideology.
Regaining that intellectual center begins with adopting firm intellectual first principles and a solid base of cultural education. You can't call yourself a "proud Westerner," or a "proud European," if you aren't educated in the basic facets of that culture. That means at minimum a familiarity with the Greeks: Plato and Aristotle for philosophy, the Homeric works for poetry. A youth from the upper classes until fairly recent times could be expected to know Greek, Latin, and French, on top of his native tongue - you should at least be competent in a second language. There needs to be a correspondence between your stated values and your actions or else you really are just LARPing.
Once you get this basic foundation, you'll no longer have to worry about where to look for the newest "hot take" — because you won't need any. You'll be perfectly grounded in your own tradition, ready to grow and refine your understanding of yourself, no longer restlessly searching for ideological identities to be discarded every six months.