Brive1987 wrote:
The basic starting point is:
"can, or should, countries reflect distinct cultural milieus that correlate to shared values arising from history, tradition and shared aspiration all coloured by the unique element of 'place' "
This really isn't a issue for Japan or China. It becomes an issue with porous borders, the mirage of first world nirvana and SJ mentalities.
And like sexism, it has become a conversation impossible to have in a considered fashion.
For SJWs and the like, it's not an issue for ANY country or ANY ethnic group - other than whites. (Although the occasional outcrop of anti-Israel bias seems to be an odd exception.)
And yet (seemingly) strangely, it's mostly whites who are loudest to condemn whites. There are a few noisy ethnics at universities in the SJW crowd, sure, but it's still majority whites that are supporting this bullshit, and mostly I think blacks, hispanics, etc., just look in bemusement (since the multicultural message, which is aimed solely at whites, means nothing to them - to them it's ok to be black, or to be hispanic, in fact it's ok to be
proud to be black or hispanic). But also, while all this stuff is incubated in academia, the insanity has spread so much that it's now even affecting commercial corporations to the extent that they're putting
being holy above making a profit (e.g. recently the NFL thing. Or cf. Apple recently firing a black HR woman for daring to talk about intellectual diversity.)
Tearing each other apart in orgies of "holiness spiraling" over ideas and moral principles is a particularly white thing to do. It's sublimated Protestantism. (Or, Protestantism was a Christian version of this general white European/American trait, as SJW-ism is now a secular version of it. Caveat: we're talking about broad overall tendencies and averages here, obviously there are exceptions. But it's hard to point to anything else in the world historically that's like the kinds of internecine conflict over ideas that has characterized European history. One might think Islam is a counter-example, but that seems to be actually more to do with ethnic group violence - e.g. Turks vs. Arabs. However, while you do occasionally get flare-ups of that kind of thing elsewhere, Europeans have always been
particularly prone to fighting over ideas - like honor, equality, liberty, or which side you should tie your sash.)
So again, here's the beef: we have this situation because certain key Jewish intellectuals and fellow-travelers in the 20th century thought that the best way to prevent anti-Semitism in the future would be to weaken the ethnic social solidarity of white Europeans/Americans, and the best way to do that would be to weaken the central pillars of traditional white European/American culture (including especially the family), and the best way to do that would be to promote what became known as "multiculturalism" and "political correctness." To make the world safe for Jews was the
purpose of Critical Theory, just as it was the purpose of Boasian anthropology and Freudian psychology before that (and even before that, it was a large part of the reason why Jews tended to support the Left in Europe).
One of the Alinsky principles is "make them live up to their own ideals." Cosmpololitanism, meritocracy and "fairness" were always strong tendencies in white European culture anyway, and multiculturalism could be easily disguised as those. So all these people had to do was to wind up whites and watch 'em go.
Again, this is all quite mechanical and most people involved aren't necessarily being particularly bad or evil as individuals: it's a
parasitic memetic group evolutionary survival strategy versus the dying remnants of a
conquering memetic group evolutionary survival strategy. Just as women are unconsciously hypergamous, just as we can't help our sweet tooth in a world of abundant cakey, so Jews will unconsciously work to subvert their host culture, and so whites will unconsciously seek social brownie points by policing each other according to whatever moral standard is put before them as a shiny object.
At the bottom of the barrel,
this is what's really going on in the Western cultural world at the moment. And I should think troubles in Eastern, African, etc., cultures have their own peculiar syndromes revolving around other particular racial/ethnic tendencies and biases.
Depressingly, race is king,
and it always has been.
However, threading through all that is the key philosophical principle that
ideas stand or fall on their own merits.
This is the light at the end of the tunnel. There's actually probably some grain of truth to many SJW ideas, as there is to some ethno-nationalist ideas. There's a grain of truth to patriarchy theory, just as there's a grain of truth to MRM theories about gynocentrism. Cosmopolitanism is a hardy perennial idea, and not just in European culture. Left wing ideas and Right wing ideas all have their points of consideration. It all just has to be worked through patiently and carefully, and according to the evidence.
But when you add unconscious racial tendencies and biases on top of (or rather underneath of) the usual things canvassed by sceptics (cognitive bias, etc.) as potentially messing up the fine balance and precision necessary to think things through clearly, it gets to be fairly overwhelming and there's the potential for a lot of trouble in the meantime.
The only real counter-balance to all the bullshit, is the fact that most people, of all races and ethnic groups, are focused on their day-to-day lives and don't take much heed of the memetic wars going on over their heads, and don't have much scope to do much damage with their own biases. Most people in their heart of hearts only assent to the principles touted by the great and good of their culture for the sake of a quiet life. Most people forget the rubbish they learned at school and university fairly quickly (unless it's their profession). Most people cut some slack for others and their foibles and mistakes, most of the time. Moral panics come and go. It's just a shame that there are always innocent victims and collateral damage.
