It seems to me it's by design. Leaders know what they are doing and have decided Islam and communism are the best sources for controlling the public. Yesterday 5 British citizens attacked the British army. Let it sink in.
Well said Chico. We still have a Free Palestine table outside M&S here in Worthing. I did try to engage one man about his placard. He walked off on a strop.
There was a quote from White Noise, Delillo's famous eulogy for modern America, where the protagonist comes to a sudden realization of the power and freedom in unreason.
"This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying. Simply stop obeying. Steal instead of buy, shoot instead of talk."
White Noise, Ch. 38
For many years, we thought about this as a crisis of white men losing their sense of identity and purpose, as shown in Falling Down. But I wonder if the culture as a whole is going through it - a kind of spectator nihilism, instead of shooting with guns we shoot the shooters with our phones, but the effect is the same. The power of force, rather than mind or dialogue, becomes primary.
In the inverse of Winston's famous "Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2 = 4, when that is granted all else follows," When you have the freedom to say "trans women (ie men) are women", or "hate not welcome here" or yes, "Queers for Palestine," language fails, all becomes possible.
This isn't the West against itself, it's the fulfillment of "Going West", into the sunset and the silver screen, escaping logic, meaning, and history.
The best writers have seen this. We're wise to listen. Logos, the source of meaning in all languages, is behind us and waits. Time to head home.
There were a minute number of enslaved black people in Europe in the 2 centuries before 1900, and in the sixteenth century the few black people present were free, skilled artisans. They have disappeared because they married in. Calling anyone a slave is appalling but I do sometimes wish that the north American experience of slavery was not assumed to be replicated in Europe or the only slavery there has ever been.
I entirely agree the West is importing its destruction. How we stop it in the face of hatred of the West among its indigenous population, bad actors who appear all over the media saying how bad Europeans, and especially Britons, are, and an establishment which only understands technoctatic governance rather than democratic government.
It seems to me it's by design. Leaders know what they are doing and have decided Islam and communism are the best sources for controlling the public. Yesterday 5 British citizens attacked the British army. Let it sink in.
Um, the men were released. The vans were empty. That's a strange attack.
Spot on. We live in a perilous time made more perilous by a head-in-the-sand populace. Thank you for your thoughtful analysis!
Well said Chico. We still have a Free Palestine table outside M&S here in Worthing. I did try to engage one man about his placard. He walked off on a strop.
There was a quote from White Noise, Delillo's famous eulogy for modern America, where the protagonist comes to a sudden realization of the power and freedom in unreason.
"This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying. Simply stop obeying. Steal instead of buy, shoot instead of talk."
White Noise, Ch. 38
For many years, we thought about this as a crisis of white men losing their sense of identity and purpose, as shown in Falling Down. But I wonder if the culture as a whole is going through it - a kind of spectator nihilism, instead of shooting with guns we shoot the shooters with our phones, but the effect is the same. The power of force, rather than mind or dialogue, becomes primary.
In the inverse of Winston's famous "Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2 = 4, when that is granted all else follows," When you have the freedom to say "trans women (ie men) are women", or "hate not welcome here" or yes, "Queers for Palestine," language fails, all becomes possible.
This isn't the West against itself, it's the fulfillment of "Going West", into the sunset and the silver screen, escaping logic, meaning, and history.
The best writers have seen this. We're wise to listen. Logos, the source of meaning in all languages, is behind us and waits. Time to head home.
There were a minute number of enslaved black people in Europe in the 2 centuries before 1900, and in the sixteenth century the few black people present were free, skilled artisans. They have disappeared because they married in. Calling anyone a slave is appalling but I do sometimes wish that the north American experience of slavery was not assumed to be replicated in Europe or the only slavery there has ever been.
I entirely agree the West is importing its destruction. How we stop it in the face of hatred of the West among its indigenous population, bad actors who appear all over the media saying how bad Europeans, and especially Britons, are, and an establishment which only understands technoctatic governance rather than democratic government.
Great piece, Chico. Perhaps you could look at this project and join the forces
https://thegreatinversion.substack.com/