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| Sarah Hoyt: We Don't Need A Lullaby |
| 2014-09-05 |
| We'll start at the beginning, with the Telegraph asking if the west can reinvent itself in time to meet what's coming. It's a question I've asked here myself, but they're asking it the wrong way. It's not the west, by and large, that has lost civilizational confidence. What it has lost are elites that are on its side. Anywhere, in any country, you find the people quite sure they... better than any other people in the world. This is stupid, wrongheaded and absolutely right. Humans are tribal creatures, and who should they identify with but their own tribe? It is easier to negotiate relationships between tribes and try to find what's best in an imperfect world than to make humans non tribal. But our leaders don't get that, and even when the "tribe" is mostly a consensual one of belief, our elites think this must be broken up in various ways, so as not to let the people on the street think they're better. Apparently the labor party in England engineered mass immigration so as to "rub conservative noses in diversity"- because in their minds these "conservatives" are those of the nineteenth century who believed color of skin was a marker and not those of the twentieth century trying to keep a culture in which women aren't treated as chattel. The difference between -- and here we chance wording, because the British system is different but these underlying groups are the same -- vile progs and sane people who live in the sane world, is that sane people would never encourage more Rotherhams in order to rub the vile progs nose in it. Which is why the west is losing the narrative, and its elites are in the end completely cut off from reality, free to do things like tell the rubes there is a human-life-threatening crisis which they ignore in their every-day behavior. ...It's time for the rest of us to start the alarm clock. It's time to stop discounting people just because they don't fit the credentialism which picks mostly for ideology. This means, yes, respect indie writers, read to blogs, and maybe consider politicians who didn't go to the best universities -- or to university at all. In a world where the past keeps changing, all an "excellent education" signals is an ability to either be gullible or double think. That we can't afford. Stop the lullaby. Read, think, create, make yourself heard. For a century we could afford to let our elites go emo and wallow in their own self-blame and the hatred of their own nations. We were that rich and that insulated. And there were enough even in the elites that retained a modicum of sanity. That safety margin is gone. It's time to wake up. The question, it turns out, is not whether the future is queer. The question is whether the future is medieval. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |