Steve Sailer writing in Taki's Magazine
* * *
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.
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