China, then, is extending its reach accross the world, eager as any other technologically advanced nation for resources to sustain itself and feed its greater ambitions. They have a great advantage over the West of being able to do this quite shamelessly, uninhibited by concern with the morality of exploitation – something the West’s university educated class have come to believe is all that really matters.
Our elites would like us to put up with an increasingly regressive culture just so long as we can’t be accused of the (alleged) sin of exploitation. While China wins the future we will win“the huddled masses yearning…” for a First World life. While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.
“While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.”
The “rewilded environment” is merely the ‘bait’ while acres upon acres of solar panel and wind farms will be the ‘switch’. And still there will not be enough energy for the UK huddled masses under Net Zero.
“While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.”
The “rewilded environment” is merely the ‘bait’ while acres upon acres of solar panel and wind farms will be the ‘switch’. And still there will not be enough energy for the UK huddled masses under Net Zero.
N Satori
8 months ago
China, then, is extending its reach accross the world, eager as any other technologically advanced nation for resources to sustain itself and feed its greater ambitions. They have a great advantage over the West of being able to do this quite shamelessly, uninhibited by concern with the morality of exploitation – something the West’s university educated class have come to believe is all that really matters.
Our elites would like us to put up with an increasingly regressive culture just so long as we can’t be accused of the (alleged) sin of exploitation. While China wins the future we will win“the huddled masses yearning…” for a First World life. While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.
Last edited 8 months ago by N Satori
David McKee
8 months ago
Caplan avoids the Orientalism of Clinton, Blair, Bush and Obama, in that he refuses to map Western political structures onto the Global South. He knew, before Bush and Blair found out the hard way, you cannot drop democracy from a bomb-bay door at 30,000 ft.
However, he embraces the Orientalism of seeing the Global South as an irredeemable shambles, unable and unwilling to better itself. He denies the people there any agency to choose and work for the future of their choice.
If we want to help, we should do it with knowledge and humility. If we are tempted to offer our opinions, we should zip our lips.
Well, I guess that’s now the popular image of the 2003 Gulf War – particularly among those who have always been itching to put Tony Blair on trial for war crimes [that includes one or two grubby Lefties of my unwelcome acquaintance].
It would be more true to say that one of the West’s great delusions is that all the peoples of the world are yearning for democracy and would grasp it with both hands if they could. We just need to help them out by ousting the tyrannical regimes which prevent them from fulfilling this alleged yearning.
Unfortunately, democracy is not looking too successful, even in our own backyard.
democracy is not looking too successful,
If you assume that we are in fact living in a democracy which is highly debatable .However,it still beats theocracy ,autocracy and anarchy!
That depends on your beliefs hopes and aspirations:
If you believe that God has given us firm instructions on how we should live then theocracy is the way to go. If you hope for an orderly world run with a firm hand then autocracy holds some appeal. If you aspire to freedom from the authority of other men then anarchy must be tempting aspiration.Democracy means settling for the tyranny of the majority (in theory at least), Of course you really have to worry about how intelligent and well informed that majority is.
I’ve seen how intelligent our experts and elite are and on balance I think large parts of majority are a good deal better informed than many might think.
Or, a constitutional democracy that limits the powers of the governing majority and protects everyone including those not in the majority from outrageous acts.
I’ve seen how intelligent our experts and elite are and on balance I think large parts of majority are a good deal better informed than many might think.
Or, a constitutional democracy that limits the powers of the governing majority and protects everyone including those not in the majority from outrageous acts.
That depends on your beliefs hopes and aspirations:
If you believe that God has given us firm instructions on how we should live then theocracy is the way to go. If you hope for an orderly world run with a firm hand then autocracy holds some appeal. If you aspire to freedom from the authority of other men then anarchy must be tempting aspiration.Democracy means settling for the tyranny of the majority (in theory at least), Of course you really have to worry about how intelligent and well informed that majority is.
The demise of democracy was accelerated by the arrival of Covid 19, though the infection of Marxist doctrine within the western democratic body politic has been steadily sapping its vitality since the 1950s.
democracy is not looking too successful,
If you assume that we are in fact living in a democracy which is highly debatable .However,it still beats theocracy ,autocracy and anarchy!
The demise of democracy was accelerated by the arrival of Covid 19, though the infection of Marxist doctrine within the western democratic body politic has been steadily sapping its vitality since the 1950s.
I agree but I think that the whole situation is a double-sided mess and far more complex and there are always just as many dishonest actors on their side as ours; cue the huddled masses beating their breasts for the cameras demanding ‘freedom’, the constant requests for endless money and weapons, all the jockeying for supremacy among rival groups and the siphoning off of funds.
An NGO speaking on the radio who’d spent his whole life trying to ‘help’ said he finally came to the conclusion that 90% of it had been a complete waste of time. But we can’t do nothing supposedly as that would be uncaring and so it goes on. White saviour complex anybody ?
Well, I guess that’s now the popular image of the 2003 Gulf War – particularly among those who have always been itching to put Tony Blair on trial for war crimes [that includes one or two grubby Lefties of my unwelcome acquaintance].
It would be more true to say that one of the West’s great delusions is that all the peoples of the world are yearning for democracy and would grasp it with both hands if they could. We just need to help them out by ousting the tyrannical regimes which prevent them from fulfilling this alleged yearning.
Unfortunately, democracy is not looking too successful, even in our own backyard.
I agree but I think that the whole situation is a double-sided mess and far more complex and there are always just as many dishonest actors on their side as ours; cue the huddled masses beating their breasts for the cameras demanding ‘freedom’, the constant requests for endless money and weapons, all the jockeying for supremacy among rival groups and the siphoning off of funds.
An NGO speaking on the radio who’d spent his whole life trying to ‘help’ said he finally came to the conclusion that 90% of it had been a complete waste of time. But we can’t do nothing supposedly as that would be uncaring and so it goes on. White saviour complex anybody ?
David McKee
8 months ago
Caplan avoids the Orientalism of Clinton, Blair, Bush and Obama, in that he refuses to map Western political structures onto the Global South. He knew, before Bush and Blair found out the hard way, you cannot drop democracy from a bomb-bay door at 30,000 ft.
However, he embraces the Orientalism of seeing the Global South as an irredeemable shambles, unable and unwilling to better itself. He denies the people there any agency to choose and work for the future of their choice.
If we want to help, we should do it with knowledge and humility. If we are tempted to offer our opinions, we should zip our lips.
Ray Andrews
8 months ago
“and without its perennial curse: foreign meddling.”
It seems to me that the Arab/Muslim world has done more that its fair share of ‘meddling’ too.
Ray Andrews
8 months ago
“and without its perennial curse: foreign meddling.”
It seems to me that the Arab/Muslim world has done more that its fair share of ‘meddling’ too.
James Sullivan
8 months ago
Bit of a quibble – the Turks, Greeks, and Armenians may have co-existed under the Ottoman empire, but it wasn’t peaceful – the latter two were subject conquered peoples – as were the Arabs further south. Nationalism may have played a part in cracking that order, but Ottoman caprice and brutality were significant even before the modern concept of nationalism arose.
Exactly,
total nonsense about Ottoman Empire.
Equally applicable to Russian Empire, Greater Serbia and all other European colonial powers.
Whether newly independent countries can govern themselves (Africa anyone?) Is another matter.
Exactly,
total nonsense about Ottoman Empire.
Equally applicable to Russian Empire, Greater Serbia and all other European colonial powers.
Whether newly independent countries can govern themselves (Africa anyone?) Is another matter.
James Sullivan
8 months ago
Bit of a quibble – the Turks, Greeks, and Armenians may have co-existed under the Ottoman empire, but it wasn’t peaceful – the latter two were subject conquered peoples – as were the Arabs further south. Nationalism may have played a part in cracking that order, but Ottoman caprice and brutality were significant even before the modern concept of nationalism arose.
Jürg Gassmann
8 months ago
Am I the only one to find the cloying sycophancy nauseating?
Am I the only one to find the cloying sycophancy nauseating?
Martin Bollis
8 months ago
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads is also very good on this.
Last edited 8 months ago by Martin Bollis
Martin Bollis
8 months ago
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads is also very good on this.
Last edited 8 months ago by Martin Bollis
Simon Diggins
8 months ago
Fascinating article and debate below.
The question is: what do we do about it?
• Lose our illusions ✔️
• Recognise our values are not universal
values✔️
• Arm. Because the truth of the second bullet will not necessarily be accepted by our opponents; ie they will make the same mistake and try and impose their version of ‘universalist’ values.✔️
One might be tempted to quote Sun Tzu about the need to know oneself, before you seek to know your opponent.
Last edited 8 months ago by Simon Diggins
Brooke Walford
8 months ago
In a wonderfully succinct book — The Tragic Mind- Kaplan plunders the Greeks and Shakespeare to help us fully comprehend the difference between tyranny and chaos.
William Brand
1 month ago
It is interesting that Moslems are outraged at Israel but have no problems with how China treats its Moslem minority. The Houthis have proclaimed that Chinese ships are free to sail past their blockade of the red sea. Even Turkey has no problems with genocidal treatment of Turkish speaking minorities in China. They even deport exiles to China.
Daniel Lee
8 months ago
“This tendency to view the world as an extension of the United States is simple, and simplistic.”
The reality is that in its role as melting pot, it’s much more that the United States is an extension of the world – which gives it the duty extend the mechanisms of its own success back to its antecedents. Yes, it’s “cultural imperialism,” and is not only a good thing for the world, it’s the mandatory thing for the world. Or we can leave them endlessly murdering each other to their hearts’ content – which was going on long before modern imperialism.
Albertus Magnus, the 13th century sage, polymath, and saint, associated a very white complexion with effeminacy, barbarianism, and slow intelligence.
Albertus Magnus, De animalibus, ed. Hermann Stadler (Münster: Aschendorff, 1920), Lib. XX, Tract. 1, Cap. 11, 1305
I see you’ve decided to bring race into it. I didn’t. I’m talking about culture. Look at the direction in which world population flows and you’ll find the successful culture. Unfortunately, we can’t solve world poverty by evacuating the Third World to the First. What we can do is export First World culture to the suffering Third World. That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated. Perhaps you disagree and have chosen to vote with your feet for the Third World?
“That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated.”
I agree. However, note that the woke refer to First World culture as ‘whiteness’ so it’s them bringing race into it, not me. Still I do think race is a factor. Is it just a coincidence that FWC and a white population are so tightly coincident? I suspect that the race shapes the culture and then the culture shapes the race so that the two things become soft-linked. In the same way, we see that all Arab countries share a certain similarity and that everywhere that Blacks rule — from Zimbabwe to Detroit — the same sort of dysfunction will prevail — as useful generalizations!
“That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated.”
I agree. However, note that the woke refer to First World culture as ‘whiteness’ so it’s them bringing race into it, not me. Still I do think race is a factor. Is it just a coincidence that FWC and a white population are so tightly coincident? I suspect that the race shapes the culture and then the culture shapes the race so that the two things become soft-linked. In the same way, we see that all Arab countries share a certain similarity and that everywhere that Blacks rule — from Zimbabwe to Detroit — the same sort of dysfunction will prevail — as useful generalizations!
Albertus Magnus, the 13th century sage, polymath, and saint, associated a very white complexion with effeminacy, barbarianism, and slow intelligence.
Albertus Magnus, De animalibus, ed. Hermann Stadler (Münster: Aschendorff, 1920), Lib. XX, Tract. 1, Cap. 11, 1305
I see you’ve decided to bring race into it. I didn’t. I’m talking about culture. Look at the direction in which world population flows and you’ll find the successful culture. Unfortunately, we can’t solve world poverty by evacuating the Third World to the First. What we can do is export First World culture to the suffering Third World. That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated. Perhaps you disagree and have chosen to vote with your feet for the Third World?
And who said satire was dead. The US is no kind of example to the rest of the world. Not on any level.
Daniel Lee
8 months ago
“This tendency to view the world as an extension of the United States is simple, and simplistic.”
The reality is that in its role as melting pot, it’s much more that the United States is an extension of the world – which gives it the duty extend the mechanisms of its own success back to its antecedents. Yes, it’s “cultural imperialism,” and is not only a good thing for the world, it’s the mandatory thing for the world. Or we can leave them endlessly murdering each other to their hearts’ content – which was going on long before modern imperialism.
Ian Johnston
8 months ago
Go to a region and decide: who are the victims? Who are the oppressors? Who is black, who is white? Often, the categories are not only irrelevant but unhelpful, and even dangerous.
With your simplistic maunderings on the topic of Ukraine, this really is the pot calling the kettle black, Mr Patrikarkos.
Ian Johnston
8 months ago
Go to a region and decide: who are the victims? Who are the oppressors? Who is black, who is white? Often, the categories are not only irrelevant but unhelpful, and even dangerous.
With your simplistic maunderings on the topic of Ukraine, this really is the pot calling the kettle black, Mr Patrikarkos.
China, then, is extending its reach accross the world, eager as any other technologically advanced nation for resources to sustain itself and feed its greater ambitions. They have a great advantage over the West of being able to do this quite shamelessly, uninhibited by concern with the morality of exploitation – something the West’s university educated class have come to believe is all that really matters.
Our elites would like us to put up with an increasingly regressive culture just so long as we can’t be accused of the (alleged) sin of exploitation. While China wins the future we will win “the huddled masses yearning…” for a First World life. While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.
Excellent point, well made.
“While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.”
The “rewilded environment” is merely the ‘bait’ while acres upon acres of solar panel and wind farms will be the ‘switch’. And still there will not be enough energy for the UK huddled masses under Net Zero.
Excellent point, well made.
“While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.”
The “rewilded environment” is merely the ‘bait’ while acres upon acres of solar panel and wind farms will be the ‘switch’. And still there will not be enough energy for the UK huddled masses under Net Zero.
China, then, is extending its reach accross the world, eager as any other technologically advanced nation for resources to sustain itself and feed its greater ambitions. They have a great advantage over the West of being able to do this quite shamelessly, uninhibited by concern with the morality of exploitation – something the West’s university educated class have come to believe is all that really matters.
Our elites would like us to put up with an increasingly regressive culture just so long as we can’t be accused of the (alleged) sin of exploitation. While China wins the future we will win “the huddled masses yearning…” for a First World life. While China benefits from the use of natural resources wherever it can find them we will “benefit” from a rewilded environment bringing joy only to privileged (and deluded) latter-day Romantics.
Caplan avoids the Orientalism of Clinton, Blair, Bush and Obama, in that he refuses to map Western political structures onto the Global South. He knew, before Bush and Blair found out the hard way, you cannot drop democracy from a bomb-bay door at 30,000 ft.
However, he embraces the Orientalism of seeing the Global South as an irredeemable shambles, unable and unwilling to better itself. He denies the people there any agency to choose and work for the future of their choice.
If we want to help, we should do it with knowledge and humility. If we are tempted to offer our opinions, we should zip our lips.
“you cannot drop democracy from a bomb-bay door at 30,000 ft.”
An excellent metaphor, I thank you.
It is not, alas, an original insight, but thank you for the compliment.
It is not, alas, an original insight, but thank you for the compliment.
Well, I guess that’s now the popular image of the 2003 Gulf War – particularly among those who have always been itching to put Tony Blair on trial for war crimes [that includes one or two grubby Lefties of my unwelcome acquaintance].
It would be more true to say that one of the West’s great delusions is that all the peoples of the world are yearning for democracy and would grasp it with both hands if they could. We just need to help them out by ousting the tyrannical regimes which prevent them from fulfilling this alleged yearning.
Unfortunately, democracy is not looking too successful, even in our own backyard.
democracy is not looking too successful,
If you assume that we are in fact living in a democracy which is highly debatable .However,it still beats theocracy ,autocracy and anarchy!
That depends on your beliefs hopes and aspirations:
If you believe that God has given us firm instructions on how we should live then theocracy is the way to go. If you hope for an orderly world run with a firm hand then autocracy holds some appeal. If you aspire to freedom from the authority of other men then anarchy must be tempting aspiration.Democracy means settling for the tyranny of the majority (in theory at least), Of course you really have to worry about how intelligent and well informed that majority is.
I’ve seen how intelligent our experts and elite are and on balance I think large parts of majority are a good deal better informed than many might think.
Or, a constitutional democracy that limits the powers of the governing majority and protects everyone including those not in the majority from outrageous acts.
I’ve seen how intelligent our experts and elite are and on balance I think large parts of majority are a good deal better informed than many might think.
Or, a constitutional democracy that limits the powers of the governing majority and protects everyone including those not in the majority from outrageous acts.
That depends on your beliefs hopes and aspirations:
If you believe that God has given us firm instructions on how we should live then theocracy is the way to go. If you hope for an orderly world run with a firm hand then autocracy holds some appeal. If you aspire to freedom from the authority of other men then anarchy must be tempting aspiration.Democracy means settling for the tyranny of the majority (in theory at least), Of course you really have to worry about how intelligent and well informed that majority is.
The demise of democracy was accelerated by the arrival of Covid 19, though the infection of Marxist doctrine within the western democratic body politic has been steadily sapping its vitality since the 1950s.
What a sheltered life you’ve led
What a sheltered life you’ve led
democracy is not looking too successful,
If you assume that we are in fact living in a democracy which is highly debatable .However,it still beats theocracy ,autocracy and anarchy!
The demise of democracy was accelerated by the arrival of Covid 19, though the infection of Marxist doctrine within the western democratic body politic has been steadily sapping its vitality since the 1950s.
I agree but I think that the whole situation is a double-sided mess and far more complex and there are always just as many dishonest actors on their side as ours; cue the huddled masses beating their breasts for the cameras demanding ‘freedom’, the constant requests for endless money and weapons, all the jockeying for supremacy among rival groups and the siphoning off of funds.
An NGO speaking on the radio who’d spent his whole life trying to ‘help’ said he finally came to the conclusion that 90% of it had been a complete waste of time. But we can’t do nothing supposedly as that would be uncaring and so it goes on. White saviour complex anybody ?
“you cannot drop democracy from a bomb-bay door at 30,000 ft.”
An excellent metaphor, I thank you.
Well, I guess that’s now the popular image of the 2003 Gulf War – particularly among those who have always been itching to put Tony Blair on trial for war crimes [that includes one or two grubby Lefties of my unwelcome acquaintance].
It would be more true to say that one of the West’s great delusions is that all the peoples of the world are yearning for democracy and would grasp it with both hands if they could. We just need to help them out by ousting the tyrannical regimes which prevent them from fulfilling this alleged yearning.
Unfortunately, democracy is not looking too successful, even in our own backyard.
I agree but I think that the whole situation is a double-sided mess and far more complex and there are always just as many dishonest actors on their side as ours; cue the huddled masses beating their breasts for the cameras demanding ‘freedom’, the constant requests for endless money and weapons, all the jockeying for supremacy among rival groups and the siphoning off of funds.
An NGO speaking on the radio who’d spent his whole life trying to ‘help’ said he finally came to the conclusion that 90% of it had been a complete waste of time. But we can’t do nothing supposedly as that would be uncaring and so it goes on. White saviour complex anybody ?
Caplan avoids the Orientalism of Clinton, Blair, Bush and Obama, in that he refuses to map Western political structures onto the Global South. He knew, before Bush and Blair found out the hard way, you cannot drop democracy from a bomb-bay door at 30,000 ft.
However, he embraces the Orientalism of seeing the Global South as an irredeemable shambles, unable and unwilling to better itself. He denies the people there any agency to choose and work for the future of their choice.
If we want to help, we should do it with knowledge and humility. If we are tempted to offer our opinions, we should zip our lips.
“and without its perennial curse: foreign meddling.”
It seems to me that the Arab/Muslim world has done more that its fair share of ‘meddling’ too.
“and without its perennial curse: foreign meddling.”
It seems to me that the Arab/Muslim world has done more that its fair share of ‘meddling’ too.
Bit of a quibble – the Turks, Greeks, and Armenians may have co-existed under the Ottoman empire, but it wasn’t peaceful – the latter two were subject conquered peoples – as were the Arabs further south. Nationalism may have played a part in cracking that order, but Ottoman caprice and brutality were significant even before the modern concept of nationalism arose.
Exactly,
total nonsense about Ottoman Empire.
Equally applicable to Russian Empire, Greater Serbia and all other European colonial powers.
Whether newly independent countries can govern themselves (Africa anyone?) Is another matter.
Exactly,
total nonsense about Ottoman Empire.
Equally applicable to Russian Empire, Greater Serbia and all other European colonial powers.
Whether newly independent countries can govern themselves (Africa anyone?) Is another matter.
Bit of a quibble – the Turks, Greeks, and Armenians may have co-existed under the Ottoman empire, but it wasn’t peaceful – the latter two were subject conquered peoples – as were the Arabs further south. Nationalism may have played a part in cracking that order, but Ottoman caprice and brutality were significant even before the modern concept of nationalism arose.
Am I the only one to find the cloying sycophancy nauseating?
No.
No.
Am I the only one to find the cloying sycophancy nauseating?
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads is also very good on this.
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads is also very good on this.
Fascinating article and debate below.
The question is: what do we do about it?
• Lose our illusions ✔️
• Recognise our values are not universal
values✔️
• Arm. Because the truth of the second bullet will not necessarily be accepted by our opponents; ie they will make the same mistake and try and impose their version of ‘universalist’ values.✔️
One might be tempted to quote Sun Tzu about the need to know oneself, before you seek to know your opponent.
In a wonderfully succinct book — The Tragic Mind- Kaplan plunders the Greeks and Shakespeare to help us fully comprehend the difference between tyranny and chaos.
It is interesting that Moslems are outraged at Israel but have no problems with how China treats its Moslem minority. The Houthis have proclaimed that Chinese ships are free to sail past their blockade of the red sea. Even Turkey has no problems with genocidal treatment of Turkish speaking minorities in China. They even deport exiles to China.
“This tendency to view the world as an extension of the United States is simple, and simplistic.”
The reality is that in its role as melting pot, it’s much more that the United States is an extension of the world – which gives it the duty extend the mechanisms of its own success back to its antecedents. Yes, it’s “cultural imperialism,” and is not only a good thing for the world, it’s the mandatory thing for the world. Or we can leave them endlessly murdering each other to their hearts’ content – which was going on long before modern imperialism.
Whiteness: the best thing that ever happened.
Albertus Magnus, the 13th century sage, polymath, and saint, associated a very white complexion with effeminacy, barbarianism, and slow intelligence.
Albertus Magnus, De animalibus, ed. Hermann Stadler (Münster: Aschendorff, 1920), Lib. XX, Tract. 1, Cap. 11, 1305
I see you’ve decided to bring race into it. I didn’t. I’m talking about culture. Look at the direction in which world population flows and you’ll find the successful culture. Unfortunately, we can’t solve world poverty by evacuating the Third World to the First. What we can do is export First World culture to the suffering Third World. That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated. Perhaps you disagree and have chosen to vote with your feet for the Third World?
“That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated.”
I agree. However, note that the woke refer to First World culture as ‘whiteness’ so it’s them bringing race into it, not me. Still I do think race is a factor. Is it just a coincidence that FWC and a white population are so tightly coincident? I suspect that the race shapes the culture and then the culture shapes the race so that the two things become soft-linked. In the same way, we see that all Arab countries share a certain similarity and that everywhere that Blacks rule — from Zimbabwe to Detroit — the same sort of dysfunction will prevail — as useful generalizations!
“That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated.”
I agree. However, note that the woke refer to First World culture as ‘whiteness’ so it’s them bringing race into it, not me. Still I do think race is a factor. Is it just a coincidence that FWC and a white population are so tightly coincident? I suspect that the race shapes the culture and then the culture shapes the race so that the two things become soft-linked. In the same way, we see that all Arab countries share a certain similarity and that everywhere that Blacks rule — from Zimbabwe to Detroit — the same sort of dysfunction will prevail — as useful generalizations!
Albertus Magnus, the 13th century sage, polymath, and saint, associated a very white complexion with effeminacy, barbarianism, and slow intelligence.
Albertus Magnus, De animalibus, ed. Hermann Stadler (Münster: Aschendorff, 1920), Lib. XX, Tract. 1, Cap. 11, 1305
I see you’ve decided to bring race into it. I didn’t. I’m talking about culture. Look at the direction in which world population flows and you’ll find the successful culture. Unfortunately, we can’t solve world poverty by evacuating the Third World to the First. What we can do is export First World culture to the suffering Third World. That begins by admitting that First World culture is more successful and deserves to be emulated. Perhaps you disagree and have chosen to vote with your feet for the Third World?
And who said satire was dead. The US is no kind of example to the rest of the world. Not on any level.
Whiteness: the best thing that ever happened.
And who said satire was dead. The US is no kind of example to the rest of the world. Not on any level.
“This tendency to view the world as an extension of the United States is simple, and simplistic.”
The reality is that in its role as melting pot, it’s much more that the United States is an extension of the world – which gives it the duty extend the mechanisms of its own success back to its antecedents. Yes, it’s “cultural imperialism,” and is not only a good thing for the world, it’s the mandatory thing for the world. Or we can leave them endlessly murdering each other to their hearts’ content – which was going on long before modern imperialism.
With your simplistic maunderings on the topic of Ukraine, this really is the pot calling the kettle black, Mr Patrikarkos.
With your simplistic maunderings on the topic of Ukraine, this really is the pot calling the kettle black, Mr Patrikarkos.