Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Race... Religion... Culture... (Homocidal vs. Suicidal Tendencies)



Steve Sailer writing in Taki's Magazine

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In the spirit of Aristotelian moderation, allow me to suggest that an emerging danger of the 21st century is that the non-Western world could get overly right-wing.

Ironically, a major cause would be that white Western liberals are focusing all of their firepower — using as cat’s paws flagrantly illiberal non-whites such as Muslim immigrants — upon the second-most progressive group on earth, white Western conservatives.

* ILLIBERAL IN THE SENSE OF A CULTURE THAT HADN'T GONE THROUGH A RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION...

In a world where Western whites are an increasingly tiny minority, falling from roughly 19% of the world’s population in 1950 to perhaps 9% today, this divide is dangerous. The internecine status war among the people who built the modern world looks increasingly likely to embolden the rest of the human race to regress into bad old habits, such as religious dogmatism and bellicose tribalism.

As Tom Wolfe entitled his last novel, the world seems to be headed "Back to Blood."

For example, ever since the Paris massacres, American liberals have been engaged in a collective nervous breakdown over their insistence that their War on Islamophobia is the most important value imaginable. The respectable opinion has become that whites cannot morally allow themselves to recognize that Middle Eastern Muslims tend to be the most violently reactionary people. Noticing would be, we are lectured, “un-American.”

* AGAIN... I'M A BIT MORE NUANCED IN MY DENUNCIATIONS. I'D GO MORE WITH "THIRD WORLD PEOPLE..."

(*SHRUG*)

But that raises the question: Why should Muslims in the West bother to behave better if rewarding the bad behavior of Muslims with visas has become the acid test of gentility among Western whites? What’s the incentive?

For a long time, Westerners have provided the moral leadership of the world by emphasizing objective principles rather than humanity’s default nepotism and opportunism.

(*THUMBS UP*)

* ANGLO SAXON CULTURE! NORTHERN EUROPEAN CULTURE!

But Western whites have now upped the ideological ante with one another over their new highest standard: Never, ever perceive the faults of non-whites.

Thus the most liberal institutions in America, colleges, are presently self-destructing during the Black Autumn. They are paying the price for encouraging their lowest-IQ denizens, football players and other blacks admitted under affirmative-action standards, to act out in tantrums of racial animus against white liberal administrators.

* PLENTY OF HIGH IQ, LOW-COMMON SENSE WHITE KIDS AS WELL; INDEED, I'D VENTURE THEY'RE THE MAJORITY OF THE KNUCKLEHEADS.

But why would blacks self-discipline themselves when they are rewarded for infantile outbursts?

* WHILE I FIND THE TONE DISTASTEFUL... THE POINT IS... "BLACK AMERICA" IS LARGELY DYSFUNCTIONAL.

Therefore this has been the year of shrieking young black women: at a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle, at Yale, and now at Princeton. (Here’s a striking video.) A small number of angry black coeds occupied the office of the college president and extorted an agreement to consider going all Taliban on Princeton’s various memorials to its onetime leader, Woodrow Wilson.

* WILSON WAS A PIECE OF GARBAGE.

Of course, Wilson, whether for good or bad, was the epitome of the white progressive reformer. But in 2015, all that matters is tribe.

* NO. NOT TRUE. IT'S MORE ABOUT PARTISAN IDENTITY THAN TRIBE.

Likewise, the Democrats are increasingly abolishing the name of their traditional annual fund-raising occasion, the Jefferson–Jackson Day dinners, due to racial hostility toward the two great white Democrats. Jonathan Martin wrote in The New York Times in August that the abandonment of the names of the Democratic Party’s founders underscores one of the most consequential trends of American politics: Democrats’ shift from a union-powered party organized primarily around economic solidarity to one shaped by racial and sexual identity.

* NOW THAT'S CERTAINLY TRUE!

A few years down the road, we can expect to see Democrats dynamiting Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the theory of America’s foremost public intellectual, Ta-Nehisi Coates, that the problems of black people today are due to racist redlining by FDR’s Federal Housing Administration.

Coates’ low-brow hate is, of course, deified as liberal simply because his racism is anti-white. His apotheosis (National Book Award, MacArthur genius grant) is perhaps an extreme case of the current regression away from reason and toward primitive emotions.

If you look around the non-Western world, you can see conservatism in ascendance with little need for this kind of pretense of progressivism. The Muslim Middle East, of course, is beset by the furious holy men of ISIS, who have displaced al-Qaeda by being even more maniacally bigoted. In much of the rest of the world, fortunately, more responsible leaders hold sway. Paradoxically, the contemporary clamor for diversity is more fulfilled by nationalism than by the homogeneity of globalism.

China has rehabilitated Confucius and looks to Singapore’s late rightist ruler Lee Kuan Yew as his modern oracle.

The Japanese are increasingly outspoken about their appreciation for their own culture under Shinzō Abe.

India is ruled by the Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi.

Turkey is controlled by a populist conservative party of Islamist and Ottomanist leanings.

The Russian government has revived some aspects of Czarist ideology to give its people a philosophy after the disastrous failures of secondhand Americanism in the 1990s. In Ukraine, all the fighting spirit is on the extreme nationalist right (although the state is saddled with a cabinet of itinerant globalists and oligarchs).

Without anybody especially noticing, the world has been trending toward the editorial line espoused by Lord Copper, the newspaper baron of The Daily Beast in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical masterpiece Scoop: “The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere.”

Of course, one danger is that strong mutually antagonistic governments can get into shooting wars with each other, much as, say, Russia and the Ottoman Empire did 101 years ago. Their descendants could slip into doing that again after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday.

Putin and Erdogan are rulers of vaguely similar views, so it will be illuminating to see if they can avoid conflict.

Israel is not a large country, but it’s a politically sophisticated one in which much of its top talent eventually goes into politics. So it’s a bellwether. Israel’s first eight general elections were won by Socialists, but either Benjamin Netanyahu or the late Ariel Sharon has captured most of its contests for the past two decades.

Because of Israel’s public obsession with fertility, it’s clear that the Jewish Right has been out breeding the Jewish Left. But that’s a general pattern: The more conservative the culture, the higher the fertility.

For example, the highest-fertility country in the world is the extremely backward Islamic state of Niger just south of the Sahara, with a total fertility rate of 6.76 babies per woman. Likewise, the highest fertility in Asia is in Islamic fundamentalist Afghanistan (5.33 children per woman), followed by other throwback places like Iraq and Yemen.

The combination of Third World backwardness — such as lack of education for girls — and Western medicine generates huge surplus populations, who naturally clash over power and resources, with the losers increasingly trying to flood into the advanced West. The U.N. predicts there will be 3 billion more Africans by the end of the century. So the West will be stressed to avoid being more overrun by flash mobs of the indigent like the one Chancellor Merkel foolishly invited into Germany this year.

The leading writers of the age are growing concerned about this central challenge of our time. Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, Submission, envisions a future France where the white Left and Center, simply for the satisfaction of frustrating the white Right, barter the presidency to the Muslims. Even more disturbingly in Houellebecq’s insidious plot, disloyal, deracinated men of the Right then find justifications to welcome their new Iron Age overlords.

In reality, of course, advanced countries such as France, Germany, and the United States enjoy all the material resources we could need to protect ourselves from demographic inundation. The question of the century will be whether we Westerners can set aside our self-indulgent resentments of our fellow citizens to bond together in self-defense.

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