It's no secret that our lefty friends think that by importing tons of non-white immigrants to the US they will eventually turn America into a "majority-minority" country, where dead-white males no longer rule from the grave. Yesterday I proposed that probably the future won't be that simple, mainly because the old black-white binary is being complicated by yellows and browns -- who often identify as white, or non-black. Today Edward Ring at American Greatness writes that majority-minority will never happen.
Who knows? My view is that tribalism is a movable feast. "Race" used to mean the English race, the German race, etc. But then the Europeans became nations, as in the British nation. And race became Africans vs. the rest.
OK. So all these races and nations are what I call fake-tribalisms. Humans are tribal, so if you are going to do politics you need to enlist your supporters into some sort of fake tribe: fake because the original meaning of a tribe was a tribe of the kindred, people pretty closely related to each other. Then you lead your fake tribe to victory, or maybe oblivion.
But after World War II our global ruling class decided that Nation was a Bad Thing, because Hitler. So therefore "patriotism" good; "nationalism" bad. The dull French president Macron is the latest to croak this ruling-class notion. What the ruling class is saying is that politics and tribalism are fine if the ruling class controls the narrative, but if a chap from the wrong side of the tracks shows up and creates a fake tribe that challenges the divine order of the educated ruling class, well, that is Bad.
Yeah, you gotta point there, Manny (short for Emmanuel). You are telling me that if we deplorables mean to overthrow the rule of the educated ruling class we need to change the tune. We have to send the globalist narrative into the basement and also blow up the globalists' identity politics that provides the ruling class with useful idiots to harass the ordinary non-victim folks that just want to get a job, get married and raise children.
In fact, what we need is a religious Reformation featuring some Luther chap with the balls to tack his "95 Theses" to the university doors and challenge "the priests" of the academy right where they live.
Oh wait. Someone is already doing this with "It's OK to be White" posters and t-shirts triggering our beloved academic bureau-cats something fierce.
But I think that is the whole point. We need to attack our ruling class and its "priests" in the academy and the media and the culture, and make complete fools of them. We need to call out their corruption, their hypocrisy, and above all their vile system of indulgences.
Yes, you too can go to college and cleanse your white and male guilt by appropriate and generous contributions to the Holy Catholic Church of Left-liberalism. But if we catch you pasting up "It's OK to be Male/White" posters then we will hurl you headlong to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains who durst defy th'omnipotent to arms. Or something.
I'm reading Nietzsche at the moment, and he has nothing but bad things to say about "the priests" who get to order us around. Here is Nietzsche fulminating against "the priests" in The Anti-Christ. Who gets to define the "moral world-order", he asks? Who gets to be "everywhere indispensable... at birth, marriage, sickness, death, not to speak of 'sacrifice' (meal-times)[:]" the priest.
Here's a notion. The reason that e.g. wealthy neighborhoods are trending Democratic is that wealthy educated people are predominantly enrolled in the secular priesthood, as teachers, professors, government bureaucrats, government regulators, earning good money and lifetime tenure and paid from the public purse. Much easier than going out and failing with a couple of business startups: because that is hard.
Why do you think that 97 percent of climate scientists believe in global warming? It's because it pays their lunch ticket. More research is needed. And how!
But the thing about cloistered priesthoods and ruling classes and aristocracies is that their sons and daughters revert to the mean. The follow-on generations really don't have the talent and the drive of their founder ancestors. And so ambitious youngsters outside the magic circle start to challenge the eternal truths of the rulers and their priests.
And one fine day, when the rulers find themselves running short of cash...
So all I have to say is let's challenge the elite narrative, and enlist the deplorables in a new fake tribe that includes everyone except illegals and Muslims and the hoity-toity in their wealthy neighborhoods.
Let's call ourselves "Americans."
Who knows? My view is that tribalism is a movable feast. "Race" used to mean the English race, the German race, etc. But then the Europeans became nations, as in the British nation. And race became Africans vs. the rest.
OK. So all these races and nations are what I call fake-tribalisms. Humans are tribal, so if you are going to do politics you need to enlist your supporters into some sort of fake tribe: fake because the original meaning of a tribe was a tribe of the kindred, people pretty closely related to each other. Then you lead your fake tribe to victory, or maybe oblivion.
But after World War II our global ruling class decided that Nation was a Bad Thing, because Hitler. So therefore "patriotism" good; "nationalism" bad. The dull French president Macron is the latest to croak this ruling-class notion. What the ruling class is saying is that politics and tribalism are fine if the ruling class controls the narrative, but if a chap from the wrong side of the tracks shows up and creates a fake tribe that challenges the divine order of the educated ruling class, well, that is Bad.
Yeah, you gotta point there, Manny (short for Emmanuel). You are telling me that if we deplorables mean to overthrow the rule of the educated ruling class we need to change the tune. We have to send the globalist narrative into the basement and also blow up the globalists' identity politics that provides the ruling class with useful idiots to harass the ordinary non-victim folks that just want to get a job, get married and raise children.
In fact, what we need is a religious Reformation featuring some Luther chap with the balls to tack his "95 Theses" to the university doors and challenge "the priests" of the academy right where they live.
Oh wait. Someone is already doing this with "It's OK to be White" posters and t-shirts triggering our beloved academic bureau-cats something fierce.
But I think that is the whole point. We need to attack our ruling class and its "priests" in the academy and the media and the culture, and make complete fools of them. We need to call out their corruption, their hypocrisy, and above all their vile system of indulgences.
Yes, you too can go to college and cleanse your white and male guilt by appropriate and generous contributions to the Holy Catholic Church of Left-liberalism. But if we catch you pasting up "It's OK to be Male/White" posters then we will hurl you headlong to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains who durst defy th'omnipotent to arms. Or something.
I'm reading Nietzsche at the moment, and he has nothing but bad things to say about "the priests" who get to order us around. Here is Nietzsche fulminating against "the priests" in The Anti-Christ. Who gets to define the "moral world-order", he asks? Who gets to be "everywhere indispensable... at birth, marriage, sickness, death, not to speak of 'sacrifice' (meal-times)[:]" the priest.
Supreme Law: 'God forgives him who repents' -- in plain language: who subjects himself to the priest. --Are not our liberal and lefty friends now "the priests" at whom Nietzsche railed? Do they not everywhere interpose themselves in our lives, forcing us to pay tithes and obtain indulgences and support them in the manner to which they wish to become accustomed in divers offices and sinecures?
Here's a notion. The reason that e.g. wealthy neighborhoods are trending Democratic is that wealthy educated people are predominantly enrolled in the secular priesthood, as teachers, professors, government bureaucrats, government regulators, earning good money and lifetime tenure and paid from the public purse. Much easier than going out and failing with a couple of business startups: because that is hard.
Why do you think that 97 percent of climate scientists believe in global warming? It's because it pays their lunch ticket. More research is needed. And how!
But the thing about cloistered priesthoods and ruling classes and aristocracies is that their sons and daughters revert to the mean. The follow-on generations really don't have the talent and the drive of their founder ancestors. And so ambitious youngsters outside the magic circle start to challenge the eternal truths of the rulers and their priests.
And one fine day, when the rulers find themselves running short of cash...
So all I have to say is let's challenge the elite narrative, and enlist the deplorables in a new fake tribe that includes everyone except illegals and Muslims and the hoity-toity in their wealthy neighborhoods.
Let's call ourselves "Americans."
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