Diversity: A Civilizational Nightmare
Feb 25, 2016 18:29:39 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Feb 25, 2016 18:29:39 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
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Diversity: A Civilizational Nightmare
It is currently considered good manners to regard all cultures as equally meritorious, but let us see this idea as what it is—perhaps good manners, but political idiocy. Suppose that Jimmy Joe McWhilliker in Lost Hope, Tennessee genitally mutilated his daughters, refused to let them go to school, forced them to wear funny black bags, didn’t let them go out alone, made them marry smelly elderly Pakistanis against their will, and killed them if they weren’t virgins. That’s equal? To what?
But that’s what we are importing, boys and girls. And if you don’t think this thirteenth-century nightmarish subhuminism is just peachy, why…you are…Islamophobic!
As any decent person would be.
But here we come to the heart of the matter—fairly tales. The foundation of American political thinking, if that is quite the word, is that we should all love one another and therefore do, when in fact all of us don’t, and those who say we should carefully avoid those who they think the rest of us should love.
(Simple declarative sentences are the soul of good writing.)
It might be a good idea for us to use such minor rational capacity as we have to avoid doing stupid things that will have a heavy price. The world is what it is, not what we want it to be. Mixing even civilized peoples is not a good idea. Put thirty million Japanese in America, or Americans in Japan, and trouble will result. This, even though the Japanese are an advanced and well-behaved people, and Americans are reasonably close. But Somalis, for God’s sake? Syrians?
The human animal is hard-wired to be hostile to other groups, to strangers, to intruders. It is the dog-pack instinct. This limbic paranoia manifests itself all through life. If a Russian recon plane comes near the United States, the Air Force frantically scrambles fighters to go intercept it, though the likelihood that Russia would send an ancient prop-job to attack the US is zero. When a strange dog passes in front of our house, our three mutts dash to the front fence to bark in witless territorial fury. They lack the hands to be pilots, though.
When people have no cause for conflict, they invent it. For this we have football teams in which armored felons having no connection to us attack somebody else’s felons—and we become deeply involved emotionally. In the cities street gangs, often though not always of different races, fight for territory as idiotically as countries. Always it is us and them, and we can always find thems. Movies are largely about forces of good—us—against forces of bad—them.
Diversity? Spare me.
fredoneverything.org/diversity-a-civilizational-nightmare/
Diversity: A Civilizational Nightmare
It is currently considered good manners to regard all cultures as equally meritorious, but let us see this idea as what it is—perhaps good manners, but political idiocy. Suppose that Jimmy Joe McWhilliker in Lost Hope, Tennessee genitally mutilated his daughters, refused to let them go to school, forced them to wear funny black bags, didn’t let them go out alone, made them marry smelly elderly Pakistanis against their will, and killed them if they weren’t virgins. That’s equal? To what?
But that’s what we are importing, boys and girls. And if you don’t think this thirteenth-century nightmarish subhuminism is just peachy, why…you are…Islamophobic!
As any decent person would be.
But here we come to the heart of the matter—fairly tales. The foundation of American political thinking, if that is quite the word, is that we should all love one another and therefore do, when in fact all of us don’t, and those who say we should carefully avoid those who they think the rest of us should love.
(Simple declarative sentences are the soul of good writing.)
It might be a good idea for us to use such minor rational capacity as we have to avoid doing stupid things that will have a heavy price. The world is what it is, not what we want it to be. Mixing even civilized peoples is not a good idea. Put thirty million Japanese in America, or Americans in Japan, and trouble will result. This, even though the Japanese are an advanced and well-behaved people, and Americans are reasonably close. But Somalis, for God’s sake? Syrians?
The human animal is hard-wired to be hostile to other groups, to strangers, to intruders. It is the dog-pack instinct. This limbic paranoia manifests itself all through life. If a Russian recon plane comes near the United States, the Air Force frantically scrambles fighters to go intercept it, though the likelihood that Russia would send an ancient prop-job to attack the US is zero. When a strange dog passes in front of our house, our three mutts dash to the front fence to bark in witless territorial fury. They lack the hands to be pilots, though.
When people have no cause for conflict, they invent it. For this we have football teams in which armored felons having no connection to us attack somebody else’s felons—and we become deeply involved emotionally. In the cities street gangs, often though not always of different races, fight for territory as idiotically as countries. Always it is us and them, and we can always find thems. Movies are largely about forces of good—us—against forces of bad—them.
Diversity? Spare me.