Posted on 05/27/2013 3:57:13 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Ping me, please! Thanks.
Are you offering your linguistic services?
Its a beautiful day for Greenfield. Ten new readers today, something of a record.
You are both to be commended for your decision.
Welcome.
Lou
Daniel Greenfield is terrific! Please add me to your ping list. Thanks.
You are now on the list. Welcome.
Lou
Excellent insights.
tnx
Check the Sultan Knish blog site. You will discover Greenfield is substantially grounded in the Torah. His keen insights are clearly the product of deep religious training.
“Only thing I can think of is cold winters. Why, is there something else?”
I was going in the direction of disenfranchised youth with lots of downtime who like to see things burn. I’m inclined to think that MoTown should be getting royalties.
The sikhs are preferable to the moslems, but they're no pacifists, as I understand it.
What makes you think his own perspective is post-tribal? By "native multiculturalists" he is clearly describing Western liberals, not necessarily himself.
<.....Civilization is not a product, it’s a process.....>
<... You can’t export it.... You can ship a bunch of cars to Somalia,... but you can’t ship the process that makes a culture build a car.
......You can hand out PhD’s to them based on knowledge and test taking skills, but you can’t endow them with a respect for ideas.
..... You can set up democratic elections in Afghanistan and Egypt, but you can’t export the process that explains why the elections shouldn’t be abolished after the side with the most guns wins.
That’s just as true of a lot of the second and third generation immigrants who are no more Swedes than the South Africans became Africans or the English settlers of the American Colonies became Indians.
.....They may own iPhones, dye their hair and listen to the same music that you do, but they often don’t have the same assumptions........ They bought the product, but not the process....... They can drive cars and when they get bored, they can burn them, because they aren’t their cars. They’re your cars.
.....And the hair dye and the music and the democratic elections aren’t theirs either...... Those are things they took from you .....and if they get bored with them, they’ll put on Hijabs, ban music and go back to tyranny, because what they have is a product, not a process.
..... They walked into the movie in the middle and they like some of it,.... but it’s confusing and they don’t understand why the hero doesn’t just shoot the villain in the head,... take his woman.... and then raise a dozen children in his lair......>
..And ta boot...they don’t want to understand it!
Fabulous writer isn’t he...I enjoy every article brought here and make a point to read it all....
.....”This is a conflict between cultures that make things and cultures that take them,...... between cultures that live for the moment and cultures that live for the next thousand years of manifest destiny.
.....The Western ideal has been reduced to a personal technocratic utopia built on efficiency and it has collided in the night with an Eastern ideal of the clan and a theocratic utopia built on total purity.....
.... That is the kind of conflict that the creed of good fences for good neighbors was meant for, but there are no fences tall enough to work it out within a single nation....
....Both West and East have their own processes. And both processes are colliding.
.... The Swedes bring their cars and the savages bring their flames. ......The burning cars are a metaphor for the impact of Muslim immigration on Sweden and the West....”
Yep..I agree...especially when they have zip-zero intentions to do so long before they arrive....Moslems have another purpose for coming here....it hasn't changed from the time Islam began and it won't in the future.
“I was going in the direction of disenfranchised youth with lots of downtime who like to see things burn.”
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Gosh, I never would have thought of that;>)
I can’t even stand how GOOD this piece is. Thank you for posting.
There were two sorts of barbarians who sacked Rome: the ones who wanted to be Romans and the ones who wanted plunder. It didn't really matter much to Rome which was doing the job. There were two sorts of Romans: those who would throw down their plow, take up a sword and vanquish the foe, and those who would bewail how unfair the world was. It mattered a great deal to Rome which ones were doing the job.
Part of the problem in Europe, I think, is that for a very long time there was the comforting assurance that there would be peace if only these savage Americans would stop opposing their enemies. That led to the remarkably feckless proposition that unlimited immigration of The Oppressed was a good thing to do to build a world without hate, bigotry, violence. And the real difficulty is the the multicultis for whom that is religious canon haven't learned, even now. And they're still in charge.
And what is sad is that the violence that now seems so inevitable was so very avoidable had the institutional Left not been so fond of their illusions. They invited the monster in, thinking that if they pretended hard enough it wouldn't be a monster. Pretending isn't working anymore. Europe, and America afterward, will have no chance until that is recognized.
Just like they did when Israel traded land for 'peace'.
Oh?
Then where is it posted?
The rest of us do not have the luxury of waiting on history. We have to live with those consequences every day, but he does not.
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