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2006-06-01 Europe

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Posted by ryuge 2006-06-01 07:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It'd be dandy if Europeans actually came around, in public AND in private, to recognizing that their Utopian blueprint is delusional. It won't mean a thing, however, until they give up the biggest delusion of all-that there is no such thing as evil and that you will never have to fight or wage war against it. This is their gargantuan Achilles heel. With their horrific losses from WWII, they should know it better than anyone.

Posted by Jules 2006-06-01 09:31|| 2006-06-01 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 The road to hell is paved with _______________.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-01 10:45|| 2006-06-01 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Heartless?

If someone works better, longer and harder than me then it's a problem for me, BUT much better for everyone else (and they know it).

The main reason for anti-individualism is envy (the main motivation for socialism).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-06-01 10:58|| 2006-06-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The notion of a "paradigm shift" after WWII to discard nationalism and embrace so-called "transnational progressism" is IMHO very apt.

The Enlightened Elites (socialists and freemason seculars) were already toying with that idea between the wars, and this was probably encouraged by the USA too.
In Europe today, nationalism is something to be ashamed of, except perhaps if reduced to soccer chavinism (its last refuge?), and patriotism is too... except that there a deliberate try to manufacture an "european patriotism", and it is being built with the USA as the counter example (I remember reading about how the massive european demonstrations right before OIF were the sign a true european identity was being born).

This is what our Enlightened Elites want, I believe... a post-national Europe, built on a truly imperial model, with top-down power, and an aloof, irresponsible oligarchy building a social-democrat paradise, as the people just cannot be trusted (remember, about 70% of the french used to vote FOR the death penalty in opinion polls, so now they don't even bother to ask).

Add the fact that the EU (not the ECC) is probably a truly socialist post-democratic construct (see this, and try to find his book, called EUrss in english I think), that the Eurabia project may be a reality (I'm a 50% believer, this would be so suicidal), and add all the negative factors (the two most harmful being PCness, itself an hugely successful marxist memetic war machine, and the loss of will to live, as demonstrated by the below-remplacement level birthrates everywhere), and you've got something bad in the making, something bad i'm not sure we'll recover from.

The main reason for anti-individualism is envy (the main motivation for socialism).
Bright Pebbles, this is the exact conclusion of Jules Monnerot, the main theorician of antimarxism in France, who concluded that the driver behind communism was envy and resentment. Note also he called communism the "islam of the 20th century" and noted the similarities between thoses two religions.
See this catalog page in french for his "sociology of communism" (in english here).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-01 13:34|| 2006-06-01 13:34|| Front Page Top

#5 --This is what our Enlightened Elites want, I believe... a post-national Europe, built on a truly imperial model, with top-down power, and an aloof, irresponsible oligarchy building a social-democrat paradise, as the people just cannot be trusted (remember, about 70% of the french used to vote FOR the death penalty in opinion polls, so now they don't even bother to ask).--

Going back to what they've always been, serfs and masters.

They haven't evolved.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-06-01 19:02|| 2006-06-01 19:02|| Front Page Top

#6 "PCness, itself an hugely successful marxist memetic war machine"

50 extra points for this phrase. I'll use it often from now on.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-06-01 20:22|| 2006-06-01 20:22|| Front Page Top

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