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A mournful yet grimly poetic comment on a newspaper article captured my attention last week. It was on the Guardian‘s Comment is Free webpage (of all places) and read as follows:
“Europe has been dying for decades with negative growth rates. There are not enough young people to turn the demographic process around. Young Muslim men are being imported to alter the nation. These are the saddest of our days.”
The last line deserves thinking about. One could argue, as I’m sure many other commentators on the article later did, that this kind of talk is hyperbole (and dangerous hyperbole at that). Europe has a very long and remarkably dramatic, often blood-soaked history. To suggest the present day is its saddest era is a statement in need of concrete, supporting information.
Regretfully, that evidence is easily found. As regular visitors to this blog will be aware, Europe is faced with an apocalyptic downward trend. Low birth rates, high Muslim birth rates, low workforce numbers, high immigration numbers. The perfect storm. The end of the European organism seems all but guaranteed.
It’s interesting to note that this was actually predicted a long time ago, including by the mainstream press. Back in the year 2000, the Observer printed an article which has subsequently been forgotten in the wake of events the following year. It was entitled (rather dramatically) ‘The Last Days of a White World’. Here is an extended quotation:
“The past millennium was more than anything the era of the whites. Just 500 years ago, few had ventured outside their European homeland. Then, with several acts of genocide clearing the way, they settled in North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, southern Africa…But now, around the world, whites are falling as a proportion of population. The United Nations collects and produces a vast array of statistics on population… the UN’s State of the World Population 1999 predicted that 98 per cent of the growth in the world’s population by 2025 will occur in lesser developed regions, principally Africa and Asia. The most significant reason for this is lower birth rates in rich countries: in 61 countries, mainly the rich ones, people are no longer having enough babies to replace themselves…In its World Population Profile 1998, the US Census Bureau predicted that by the second decade of this century all the net gain in world population will be in developing countries. ‘The future of human population growth has been determined, and is being determined, in the world’s poorer nations”
The article then went on to muse on the social and economic consequences of this imbalance, with a special focus placed on the issue of immigration: “In Britain the number of ethnic minority citizens has risen from a few tens of thousands in the 1950s, to more than 3 million – or around 6 per cent of the total population. While the number of whites is virtually static, higher fertility and net immigration means the number from ethnic minorities is growing by 2 to 3 per cent a year…One demographer, who didn’t want to be named for fear of being called racist, said: ‘It’s a matter of pure arithmetic that, if nothing else happens, non-Euro peans will become a majority and whites a minority in the UK.”
Utopians like to argue that this doesn’t really matter, insisting that it is the character of a country, and not its biological content, that matters most. I can only partially agree with that. It is certainly true that were the newcomers culturally European, then a semblance of Englishness/Britishness could be maintained without an English/British majority. Alas, the newcomers are not culturally European. They are Pakistani, Afghan, Syrian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Korean and Bangladeshi.
Does the passing of White peoples concern the world? I believe it should, whether it does at present or not. A post-white world – or a world in which White influence is suppressed – would be a much darker world in ways quite apart from pigmentation. As well as the Holocaust, slavery, colonialism, apartheid, communism, and fascism, the White race has invented (and largely still abides by) the most progressive racial attitude in world history.
One could prove this with an experiment. Put a White man, a Persian and an Arab in the same room. Whilst the White man is there, the Persian and Arab will pretend to be modern, evolved human beings, no longer concerned with race, tribe or ancient grievance. If the White man secretly sets a tape recorder and then leaves the room, however, he will record a remarkable and horrifying transformation. The Persian and Arab will tear into each other for reasons buried under centuries of time. A similar result will arise from using Japanese and Chinese, or Turkish and Kurdish subjects.
The idea that modern people are not blamed for the behaviour of their ancestors is crucial to post-racial practice. It is the reason Russians do not wish to annihilate Germans. It is why Spanish people do not wish to annihilate the English. White people judge people of other races on an individual, case by case basis. Even if black people do commit more crimes than other races on average, post-racial whites give every black person they meet the benefit of the doubt, restraining judgement until evidence of criminality or malevolence is provided. After the White age ends, this pleasant sophistication will fade away, unleashing an age of primitive darkness. Racism, which has never faded as a concept in the hearts of non-White peoples, will rise to the surface, causing wars, genocides and general misery.
Religious moderation is another gift of the White peoples to the world. One of the reasons Hindu women are no longer tossing themselves on burning funeral pyres is because the English banned the insane practice outright. In the same spirit, Whites are the only race loudly protesting the use of FGM, breast-ironing and forced marriage. Without a global white standard for the third world to aspire to, the old errors and imbecilic traditions will regain prominence.
And none of this is to touch upon the moral question in all this; namely, should Whites – as much as any other tribe – have the right to resist their overcoming? The obvious answer is yes. Like any other, European (and Europe-derived) cultures are the product of thousands of years of evolution, innovation and struggle. To see the work of 3 thousand years vanish in the course of 100 is rightly perceived (by ordinary Whites) as a tragedy without precedent. It isn’t ‘genocide’, as some hot-headedly claim. But it is destruction. Something of value is being destroyed to be replaced by the excess of something that already exists. The Third World already houses and assures the continuation of Third World culture. Only Europe (and its offshoots) can incubate European culture. For the cultures of the Third World to build an annex on formerly European ground represents a loss of something. The world will be impoverished by it, not enriched.
European culture is the undergirding of modern popular culture and has been for centuries. Without European innovation there would never have been television or radio, let alone Hollywood, Disney or any of the other specific glories of the entertainment industry. The political, social and economic stability that results from a White majority supports even minority art-forms. If black people are naturally talented at hip-hop, why isn’t Africa the leading exporter of rap music? Surely the answer is that it is the combination of black talent with White culture and technological expertise that allows the creation of hip-hop, not to mention jazz, jungle, RnB, rock etc… Without it, such minorities might not be as able to express or enrich themselves.
White culture is defined more than anything by its stability. White people are boring. They pay taxes, raise families, rarely take illegal substances and by and large stay out of prison. It isn’t glamorous to be that way. But it is essential to everyone in the West that one part of society bothers to take care of these things; that one part continues to provide the straightened backbone supporting the whole. If Whites no longer worked or paid taxes, the boasted-about riches of rappers, drug dealers and street hustlers would vanish, as would the welfare, healthcare provisions and commercial life of urban minorities.
White civilisation is the only civilisation to share its territory (voluntarily) with imported foreign peoples. There are no black areas in Japan. There are no Pakistani enclaves in China. Multi-racialism (which must always be distinguished from multiculturalism) is a White virtue, exclusively and originally. Whilst we might unimaginatively consider the presence of Afghans in Canada to be in tune with the music of the universe, it is actually absurd. It is absurd for the mountain villagers of Kandahar to nest on the native soil of the Inuit. And had the Inuit retained sovereign dominion over their continental home, we can justly assume that Afghans would never have been invited to settle as they have. It is entirely because of the attitudes of the White colonisers of North America that such people have been integrated into the Western hemisphere.
White majority societies also provide by a considerable distance the world’s most tolerant environments for minority sexualities and lifestyles. Gay villages – areas in which gay men and women can openly and freely congregate – are a fixture in most European capital cities, but remain rare to non-existent in the Third World, where anti-homosexual sentiment is close to universal. In non-White communities within the West itself, anti-gay violence remains a constant feature of life, and has led many gay minority men to flee to the safety of White areas. When Whites are no longer the dominant cultural player in these countries, a renaissance in anti-gay politics seems almost certain to occur.
Whose fault is the decline of Whites? According to the internet, the blame lies squarely upon the Jewish people; specifically, on the liberalising effect of their instinctive political and social bias. Such people argue that Jews, being a minority, are naturally inclined to be suspicious if not hostile to White ethno-centrism (which almost always excludes and/or seeks to persecute them). In this spirit, they have been at the forefront of liberal politics in the Western world for over a century. But this theory (The MacDonald Thesis) is pocked all over with gushing holes. Why would Jews want to fill Europe, currently filled with post-racial Christians and atheists, with race- and Islam-obsessed foreigners? That makes no sense to a reasonable person, and for this reason MacDonald’s ideas remain decidedly fringe.
Other candidates for blame include socialism, the Frankfurt School and the European Union. But in reality the mass import of non-Europeans into European domains is just another unpredicted by-product of international business and free trade. Globalisation, the shrinking of the world and the harmonisation of its peoples, is an irresistible force. Money rules everything. Our governments answer to it, crave it, and attend to its requirements far more readily than to yours or mine.
Even if cannot be resisted, my purpose here has been to show that the end of the White age is not a cause for celebration. No-one is enriched by it. The further the colonisation of Europe progresses, the more desperate and un-civilised the Europeans will become. To defend the ancient lines of their homelands, Europeans will come to resemble (morally and politically) the third world. They will fight with the brutality of Muslims, erect governments alike the authoritarianisms of Asia, and so on. It seems that whatever happens, the unique and invaluable European personality will be deformed, setting the world back centuries.
D, LDN
It’s terrifying the thought of my children growing up and being here when that pivotal moment comes.
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Hopefully that moment can be postponed by political action. It’s a long shot, but we can try.
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A powerful and troubling article. The future does indeed look bleak for Europe. I remember as a student in the seventies an elderly lecturer saying to the class that he thought Western civilisation was slowly dying. Although he tried to reassure his students that the final collapse would not be in our lifetimes. I think that subsequent events are vindicating his grim prophecy. If I live as long as my father then I have about thirty years to go…what will have happened in that time? I shudder to think. The decline may accelerate and turn into a violent disintegration. Maybe in my dotage I will find myself in the midst of barbarism and anarchy. Sometimes I envy the young, but at other times I think to myself that they are to be pitied for what is to come. Also back in the seventies I saw Enoch Powell being interviewed about the rising non-white population. At the very end of the interview he turned directly to the camera, with those glowing eyes of his, and said simply: ‘It’s coming for you.’ Powell got the timescale wrong but I am sure that his grim prophecies will come to pass.
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He was absolutely correct. It’s appalling to look back and read of the mockery he sustained for saying things that are now self-evidently true.
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Not to be the guy that says ‘Well, they told you what they were going to do’, but…
There is a whole wing of the hard left dedicated to the destruction of Western Civiliization using cultural means, and a return to the ‘superior’ ways of life of the third world. It sound very conspiracy theory, but it is precisely what the Situationists, Surrealists, and late Romantic philosophers said they wanted to do. Seems to be working. It actually is the stated goal of the entire post-modern project.
It can only be won back through cultural means. If the BBC was showing that it was ‘cool’ to be British, have kids, live a good life, and be proud of your work… well, it would reverse in a generation – same amount of time it took to start the collapse.
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The BBC will be a difficult ship to turn around. Leftism is pretty much hardwired in its mission and purpose. More hopeful is the development of alternative media.
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A brilliant piece that sums up he fears many of us native whites have had for a long, long time. I am pretty certain that, unless something really drastic happens soon, then the future you predict will almost certainly come true.
The rise of the right, whilst good in the short term, in that they are highlighting some of the issues involved, can only lead to the break up of a unit d Europe where countries will be left to their own devices to deal with the migrants and their unwanted presence.
I am currently in Vilnius, Lithuania, our third Baltic visit in 3 years, and have yet to see anyone with even a suntan, let alone full on Muslim dress. I am seriously tempted to live in one of these countries where all the inhabitants are white!
On a separate note, you ought to apply to go on question time!!
Cheers.
Art
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Thank you. I’m not sure I’d be any good on Question Time. It’s an interesting thought though.
Yes, Eastern Europe is largely untouched by White decline. However, even in those countries the median age is skyrocketing. This will in time lead to calls for immigration to make up for the shortfall in the workforce.
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Well that was a fun read (not really)!
I hope in any cases that this will not happen. I wish for the European and Western civilization and culture to thrive, not disappear.
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Me too.
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I suppose it was a bit depressing.
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A very sobering read. I agree that politi action; albeit very delicate and nuanced action from the ground up is required to halt a major demographic change in Europe, and to a lesser extent North America other former colonies of European imperialism. I stress the delicate and nuanced approach for two reasons, which I trust are obvious to readers:
1. Defence of white culture (or European culture to be more P.C.) is commonly branded as racism. Demonstrating the benefits of a majority European fertile population is a long hard sell when choruses of leftists will cry that it is racist to even discuss it. This is the big challenge.
2. Actual repressed racist attitudes may arise from interlopers who present themselves as being in your camp, yet hold antiquated views on others based primarily on their skin colour (darker than themselves) and religions.
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It is a long hard sell, but most non-whites realise deep down that they enjoy White cultures in particular. Few Indians or Pakistanis believe they would be happier in China or Turkey.
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That is for sure. There is a pretty obvious reason why the business of people smuggling is all focused on getting into particular countries in EU, North America and to a lesser extent Australia.
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Indeed. There are lots of job opportunities in China. People don’t seem willing to take them up.
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But running with scissors is part of Performance Art. When the art finally becomes real life, they’ll have to come up with a new performance of pulling the curtains down so they can laugh it off like nothing happened… we got front row tickets.
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Indeed.
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I’m a non-White myself, but, I love to live in a liberal & free Western society.
But only in liberal free White Western society.
I would have hated to live in White but Soviet Communist society, White but a openly racist society or a White but ultra-religious societies like Medieval Europe.
So, although I greatly admire White people for their innovation, risk-taking, for their bringing of the scientific revolution, for creating the modern concept of human rights, for the concept of freedom of speech, for the sexual revolution, and so many other great things (which, ironically White leftists try to deny.. I once had a vigorous and at the same time frustrating argument about this with a White leftist in an university campus)
I think it’s culture that I like, more than White people as race as such.
That’s the reason hat although I like Russia very much, I wouldn’t like to live in Russia, even-though Russia is (mostly) White, (I think it’s still a corrupt, autocratic and a slightly ‘crazy’ society). It’s not only because of the inevitable racism that I would face, I think that even other White people would think twice before immigrating to Russia for the above reasons.
Is this liberal free culture only possible when White people are in a majority?
I don’t know.
I wish it is not true.
For then it implies that this free and liberal culture will decline with the decline of the White peoples, and thus bring to end the scientific revolution which is usually the product of a free & liberal society.
I very much hope that East Asia will somehow adapt this culture, but something is holding them back. Is it because their societies are steeped in Confusian values of hierarchy and unquestioning obedience to elders, thus stifling innovation. I don’t know.
However, I have hope for humanity as a whole.
I think the combination of genetic engineering and some sort of brain-computer interfacing and artifial intelligence will blur the differences between the races.
If advances in genetic engineering and other technologies can create a scenario where I’m Black today, White the year next and purple(!?) the year after that, what ‘race’ do I belong to?
If advance in Neuro-Computational technologies make my brain or anybody’s brain a million times faster than what it is now, will any perceptible difference exist between the races, if races are somehow designated?
I think that more that race, it’s culture and political ideology will be the course of conflict in the future. In many ways, it’s already a source of conflict even now.
And finally, I wonder, what sort of changes will a fully independent and a conscious artificial super-intelligence bring to the world?
Ultimately, think the Buddha is correct( as he is in so many other things.)
Everything is impermanent. ANICCA. (The White race was dominant for a few centuries. Probably, the decline is inevitable. It’s in the nature of things in this universe.)
Everything is without inherent independent existence. ANATTA. (Race is just a concept, and therefore an illusion. In reality there is no such thing called race or even colour. Colour is just your brain’s interpretation of wavelengths of photos falling on your retina, converted to electric signals by your optic nerve. Therefore, does race or even colour exist for a person born blind?
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I think White culture is not yet able to fend for itself without Whites. If Whites disappeared from the Earth, White culture would disappear in many places. We must make sure that the best aspects of White culture are adopted by the world as a whole.
Russia is a very backward country in some ways. Russia is also split culturally between Europe and Asia.
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Why was/is Russia so backward eventhough it is mostly a White country?
Is there something to the Nordic idea that the Slavs are a kind of inferior Whites?
Or, does Orthodox Christianity has a stifling effect on culture and free thought?
Is Russia’s history of repeated invasions have something to do with it?
Why did the scientific revolution and a distinct culture we now know as Western(I would say Universal Culture) of the freedom, democracy, respect for human rights and especially the scientific revolution start in Western & especially Protestant Europe in particular?
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I think the Orthodox church has played a role in keeping many conservative traditions going in Russia, even as such traditions have petered out in the West. Communism is the greatest cause. It severely disrupted Russia’s evolution into a modern country.
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Communism. That’s the socialism of the forest, desert, and jungles peoples of Planet Earth. Not everyone is Swedish. The USA is about to find out that the Swedish Method works much better when everyone is actually Swedish. But no one will reveal that, so I am taking it upon myself to make that announcement, ahead of time.
The genetics might not be the #1 issue. The moronic ideas of rainbows, unicorns, and everyone playing together in the mud after adolescence might be more of a culprit. That sort of thing could affect a nation anytime, but if the mentality is already behind-schedule, then you’ll likely see a real clusterf*ck.
Perhaps migration is meant to bring the lesser together with the more-advanced, in order to make corrections and assist in pulling our more backward brothers & sisters along with us, hopefully hurrying the process (or “progress”) of their cultural evolution…
But if you’re in the front row watching this happen, it doesn’t look like it’s working too well, so far. And it’s no offense to point this failure out. It is what it is. This world is very, very far from like-mindedness…
People believing we can achieve some kind of magical equality of all equalities, like a god of all gods, is smoking some real strong sh*t. Electing people who will attempt to pull it off is madness.
People should mix naturally. Not by putting a fire under an entire nationality’s ass. The revenge against white settlers and colonialists and all that International East India Company blah-blah-blah is a bad excuse for what has always been mankind’s struggle to make himself superior over his rivals… looking out for #1.
And besides, all is fair in love and war.
Think about it… we help people out of poverty so they can then look out for whom? For themselves, you hope, right? You shouldn’t have to evict yourself to give someone a place in this world.
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“Perhaps migration is meant to bring the lesser together with the more-advanced, in order to make corrections and assist in pulling our more backward brothers & sisters along with us, hopefully hurrying the process (or “progress”) of their cultural evolution…” – I think that’s the intention. It hinges on the idea that nurture can change nature. Something that is not scientifically confirmed as possible.
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I quite like some aspects of Confucianism. Confucian thinkers were among the first to recommend meritocracy.
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Meritocracy could be the answer. How many public service employees and career politicians are actually the best people suited to the role?
The whole mixing part reminds me of Harrison Bergoran by Kurt Vonnegut, stifling the talented while giving a leg up for those that don’t deserve it.
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Meritocracy could be the answer. how many public service employees and career politicians are actually the best people suited to the role? the whole mixing part reminds me of Harrison Bergoran by Kurt Vonnegut, stifling the talented while giving a leg up for people who don’t deserve it.
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Meritocracy is definitely the answer. It is one of the most underrated principles in modern politics and economics.
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“Why would Jews want to fill Europe, currently filled with postracial Christians and atheists, with race and Islam-obsessed foreigners? That makes no sense to a reasonable person, and for this reason MacDonald’s ideas remain decidedly fringe.”
You haven’t done your research. What makes no sense to a reasonable person is a meaningless argument. Read
https://wideawakegentile.wordpress.com/
http://new.euro-med.dk/
The quote below is from http://traitor666.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-agenda-of-those-who-want-us-gone.html. The article explains the connections between Jewish anti-whites and EU leadership.
“In the long war being fought to eradicate the white tribes of the world, the Coudenhove-Kalergis, Zangwills, Warburgs and Kissingers are the Generals, the Merkels, Blairs, Clintons, Heaths and Churchills are their captains, the Shekh Muhammad Ayeds are the sergeants and the Muslim hordes interbreeding and blending with our girls are the footsoldiers.”
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Churchill was often accused of anti-Semitism.
I understand that elites have often conspired against the people at large. But I don’t believe Jews have been the motivating force behind this. Jews are simply too politically divided as a people to work in concert.
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I agree that Coudenhove-Kalergi should be more well known to the public. He’s had a great influence over Europe’s development. I haven’t hear of the Zangwills and Warburgs, but will look them up.
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Enoch Powell in Britain predicted what would happen to his country and it did.
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I know. It’s very sad. We’ve allowed in people from very ugly parts of the world.
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Why? Who allowed it? What was and is the motive of allowing this?
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Business owners. They want cheap, non-unionised labour.
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“Business owners. They want cheap, non-unionised labour.”
Funny how capitalists and communists (the multi-kulti let’s pretend we’re sharing cult) are actually on the same page when it comes to globalism.
I’m a bit confused on how mingling everyone together is supposed to preserve the things they’ve spent so much time on distinguishing from everything else around them. Someone please explain that phenomenon.
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Indeed. There has always been an overlap between the intentions of neo-liberals and Marxists. Both wish to extend their ideals over the world and dissolve national boundaries.
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At risking of going far off-topic, you mention the Frankfurt School. I’m curious: What, if any, influence do you think neo-Marxist critical theory has on the West?
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Interesting question. I think the influence of Marxist intellectualism is often overstated. Nevertheless, Marcuse’s notions of tolerance played an important role in the formation of modern political correctness. It would have never got past the universities however had it not been supported by the liberal media and business class. Capitalism prefers diversity because it means unlimited labour. Nationalism gets in the way of globalisation.
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See, I’m just starting to study Marxism, so I don’t know many of the the specifics or details of Adorno’s, Horheimer’s and Marcuse’s, etc. views. Yet, I can’t help but see parallels. Social justice warriors espouse “change” and treat it as a good in it of itself as Hegel and Marx did. They mention “right” and “wrong” sides of history which echoes the sort of Hegelian dialectic that Marx adopted in his deterministic and historical materialism. They’re completely obsessed with social strata and substrata, as Marx and his successors were. The popularity of critical race theory in the United States — key words “critical” and “theory” — also raises a red flag, especially taking into account that CRT subscribers consider their project and ideology as emancipatory, which, according to Horkheimer, is one of the crucial differences between a theory being either merely explanatory or critical. Furthermore, when they talk of white cultural power or domination, it’s eerily similar to the Gramscian notion of hegemony.
Now, do I think, for example, Jonathan Butler and Concerned Student 1950 at the University of Missouri are full-blooded Marxists? No, at best they’re unwitting Marxists because I seriously doubt they have any conscious understanding of Hegel, Marx, dialectic, etc. that one needs to be a Marxist. They’ve unknowingly incorporated the concepts that best serve their purposes but have left much of the theoretical baggage that comes with it. In my view, all the banal talk of “privilege,” “systemic racism,” “microaggression”etc. indicates a thin objective veneer to mask their subjective will to power.
Anyway, I’ve belabored the point long enough.
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“. They’ve unknowingly incorporated the concepts that best serve their purposes but have left much of the theoretical baggage that comes with it. In my view, all the banal talk of “privilege,” “systemic racism,” “microaggression”etc. indicates a thin objective veneer to mask their subjective will to power” – I think this is perfectly accurate of our elite in general. Marxism has been heavily diluted over time. Modern liberals (especially the pro-immigration lobby) have no time for the larger goals of Marxism (overthrow of capitalism etc…). They agree with Marx on a few things but discard the fundamentals.
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Modus, you sound too smart to be a real, contemporary human. Can we pinch you?
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@RGB
Lol. I’m just as real you. Nor am I particularly smart. I just think more deeply and longer about things most people reasonably pass over.
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Re Jews. Without the Jews – and by extension, without that Jewish rabbi Yeshua of Nazareth, founder of Christianity – ‘western civilisation’ as we know it would simply not exist. Jerusalem redeems Athens and Rome, not the other way around; Jerusalem can survive without either, but without ‘Jerusalem” Athens and Rome would have died … indeed, at the time of the birth of Christ there was a real sense in which they were already dead (and the human-sacrificing slave-keeping wild tribes of northwestern Europe from whom you and i descend, worshippers of Odin Glutter of the Crows, performers of the Blood Eagle, berserkers, had no particular monopoly on virtue and sweet reasonableness… far from it; Aristotle was not born in the dark forests of the North and it was not until the people from those dark forests had been Christianised for *centuries* that they were able to engage with Aristotle).
Read G K Chesterton, “The Everlasting Man” but, in tandem with it, read Tom Cahill, “The Gifts of the Jews”; and read, too, David Bentley Hart, “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies” (I recommend also his longer and denser work “The Beauty of the Infinite”).
This article, too, is interesting – Joshua Berman, “God’s Alliance With Man”, for it reveals just how sui generis – how *revolutionary* in their original ‘middle eastern’/ ancient-world context – are certain core episodes in the *Hebrew* Bible, the ‘Old Testament’; read together with Hart and Chesterton, one sees that the ‘Christian revolution’ – which really *is* a revolution – rests upon and is an outworking of the ‘Sinai revolution’; it could *not* have happened without it.
http://www.azure.org.il/article.php?id=131
I quote – “Whereas much scholarly discussion has focused on the idea of the people of Israel as a collective, and the covenant referring to an entire nation as such enjoined in a covenantal bond with God, I will argue in what follows that within the covenantal narratives human kingship is bestowed not only upon the entire Israelite polity, but upon each individual member of that polity as well.
“God is a king who enters into a treaty not only with the Jewish people as a lesser king, but with each individual Jew, subordinate yet possessing honor and standing in his own right.
“The implications of this claim- that subordinate kingship devolves upon the individual no less than the people-may extend far beyond the scholarly debates.
“The idea of covenant may in fact be indicative of a profound revolution which biblical thinking represented in the ancient world, a revolution which is with us to this day….”.
The other book that reminds westerners of what they owe to the Book – the Book that they did not write themselves, the Book produced by that strange people, the House of Israel, the Book that dethroned the dark gods of the Levant and the god-kings of Egypt and Babylon and Assyria just as insistently as it would in time dethrone the gods of the forests of the North – is a book by an Indian convert to Christianity, Vishal Mangalwadi, “The Book That Made Your World”.
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I agree. Without Christianity, the current conception of the ‘West’ would be nonsensical. Something needs to bind the peoples together.
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