Posted on 09/08/2015 7:56:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Elites who are exempt by virtue of their money and influence from the consequences of living among millions of displaced Africans, Arabs, or Latin Americans berate ad nauseam their less-well-connected, supposedly illiberal fellow citizens.
But note that no elite Westerner wants to face the cause of the malady: namely, that the failure in the Third World to adopt Western ideas of consensual government, equality between the sexes, free-market capitalism, individual liberty, and transparent meritocracy logically leads to mayhem and poverty.
Westerners are afraid to explain why the non-West suffers and what it might do to end its own miseries. To do that would be imperialistic and neocolonial.
But it is worse than that: Western elites deny their own exceptionalism, and deny any reason for their own privilege other than the easy private guilt of citing the Holy Trinity of “race/class/gender.”
They dare not associate Islam with the self-professed Islamists of ISIS who wreck the world’s archaeological treasures and who behead, burn alive, drown, and dismember Christians and supposed heretics. Indeed, Western op-ed writers go so far as to offer heated advisories that we must not confuse the source of this nihilist furor with radical Islam
a New York Times columnist or an EU apparatchik who will never give up his own 1 percent lifestyle, but will castigate the values that ensure its continuation — on the understanding that such invective will assuage his guilt and never be taken too seriously. Surely 100 Hondurans will not be sleeping in the halls of the former’s Upper West Side co-op, and 500 Somalis will not camp out on the veranda of the latter’s Portofino estate. Could not Harvard and Stanford invite Central American illegal-alien youth to spend their summers in the shelter of their empty dorms and unused basketball arenas?
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VDH - If your buddies at NR and others continue to support the GOPe at all cost, America will soon be dead.
The World, not just the West, is heading into a new Dark Ages, where everything is set in motion on the whim of a bureaucrat. People will cut the trees to keep warm as the next Ice Age approaches, or at least mini Ice Age, because the bureaucrats will not burn fossil fuels to save the trees. People leave California to flee an over-regulated hell-hole only to wonder how their new locale turned into a sh!t-hole they just left. For these people history only begins with the last election, and, they are doomed to repeat it. The buggy whip will make a comeback, and, the age of innovation will fade.
Gosh, that’s a profound, succinct thought.
Ain't that the truth. I know tons of peoples whose families worked themselves hard to get wealthy; only to see their heirs, who did not have to work for it, fritter it away.
They’re coming to the west for obvious reasons.
To stop them from coming we need to bring the west to them.
Maybe we need to consider re-colonization.
The argument that Hitler made against representative democracy is that no single individual is ever held responsible. When things go wrong it becomes a finger pointing contest, and no one ever pays the consequences.
Of course putting a single person in charge has its drawbacks as well.
That may very well be what it takes.
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