The cultural contradictions of modernity

Modernity carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. Modern society, with its technology, ease, mobility, and wealth weakens the sinews of tribe, religion, family and tradition that have been the bonding elements of human society over many millennia. One of the chief sources of internal rot in modern society is multiculturalism. Multiculturalism arises out of a number of factors, including (a) the lack of understanding and instruction about how our bountiful time was created; and (b) the guilt of Western elites. Multiculturalism both creates internal rot, and finds itself easily intimidated by and unable to deal with pre-modern societies with deep tribal and belief structures such as the sharia societies of Islam.

The Multicultural World War

Please read the excellent thought piece by Fjordman at Gates of Vienna. He says about our recent troubles:

I fear this is a world war. Maybe future historians will dub it the Multicultural World War. Just as WW1 was caused by Imperialism, WW2 by Fascism and the Cold War by Communism, this one will be caused by Multiculturalism. The term “the Multicultural World War” has been coined by Fjordman. I find this to be more accurate than “The Islamic World War” because what will cause this world war is Western cultural weakness, through Multiculturalism and Muslim immigration, rather than Islamic strength.

This is a very interesting point, that it is Western weakness of Multiculturalism, rather than the particular strengths of militant Islam, that is causing the severity of the current strife. But he has hope this will change:

It should be noted that a revolution doesn’t usually come when the oppression is at its worst, but when the grip of the authorities and their totalitarian ideology, in this case Multiculturalism and Political Correctness, seems to be slipping. This was the case with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, and it will be the case with the European Union now. I see increasing signs that the idea of Multiculturalism is on the retreat.

We have been less successful in discerning the retreat of Multiculturalism, though we surely hope it is on the way.

Multiculturalism as an aspect of misunderstanding the modern world

We think that the West is choking on the modern world we have created. We have created in the last 130 years a world totally unlike anything that has existed in human history, where the average man in the West lives far more lavishly and longer than potentates throughout history. We wrote about this in our iPod article. And yet the West has put precisely zero resources into educating young people about the world we have created and the world we have lost in such a short time, and so we have created a mystery for young (and older) people. Out of this mystery come various utopian fantasies, as if this technological world, so hard in the making, had been here all along. Rubbish like multiculturalism, with its soft Marxism and undervaluing of liberty and achievement, serves the governments, corporations and universities that create and sustain it. Its flaws are many, but none is greater than its inability to cope with the authentic man of violence.

Is it any surprise that the nonsense of Multiculturalism is no match for militant Islam? We have seen that sharia societies are backward in technology and other areas of Western life, and have brutal and primitive practices, but this is their strength: these societies are pre-modern, and are unburdened with all the claptrap falsely taught in our schools and society. They produce youth who burn with belief and certainty, sorely missing in the West.

Nietzsche predicted it

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