Hitler & Nazism have come to dominate the West. Not directly, of course. They were defeated in 1945. But in the West's pathological overreaction to them.
Our immune system, having destroyed the evils of Nazism, in overreaction to them, then turned on ourselves.
The Nazis were pathologically xenophobic, took ethno-nationalism to criminally insane extremes, & exploited German tribalism for their own evil purposes.
In overreaction to this, western academia (incl. many traumatised Jews) embraced an ideology of extreme xenophilia.
What harm could there possibly be in that, one asks.
A great deal, as it turns out, when weaponised by #BigBrother & his minions as an instrument of socio-political rewards, intimidation & control, which is what happened.
Warm feeling towards foreigners is good, but to invite millions of them to come & join you & your nation in your own country is to commit national suicide, which is what, in the West, we are in the process of doing.
We are committing national, racial & civilisational suicide.
We have a strong, natural tendency to reject what does not seem credible, & it does not seem credible that our own elites would commit us to national, racial & civilisational suicide.
This, however, is what they are doing, although clearly they do not realise it.
Most people mean well. It is only ignorance which causes them to pave the way to hell with their good intentions.
Xenophilia seems like a great idea. But not when weaponised by Big Brother & his minions, in whose hands it has already paved the way to an Orwellian nightmare.
Returning to my initial tweet: The West is dominated by a pathological overreaction to the evils of Nazism.
Because the Nazis manipulated & exploited German tribalism for their own evil purposes, academics demonised human tribalism itself, which again, Big Brother weaponised.
Human tribalism is even more essential to being human than is human sexuality. To demonise it is madness. We need to study & develop an understanding of it, so that we can learn how to control & harness it, in a civilised fashion, for good, rather than for evil, as the Nazis did.
Evolved human nature & tribalism can only be understood from an evolutionary, i.e. socio-biological, perspective, which in overreaction to Nazi #SocialDarwinism, academics also made a taboo of. It a taboo that urgently needs to be lifted.
If Constantine had known anything of jesus's teachings he would called the battle off & sought to negotiate a peaceful settlement with his enemy.
But while on the subject of dreams, I recently had one that made a strong impression on me & which I will now relate.
I awoke from it last Tuesday morning, having spent the night at my sister's place:
Two cars in a chase coming towards me, one trying to overtake the other. As they passed one of them hit & slightly dented my car, a white Fiat Panda. They both pulled up a little further on.
"One aspect of wokeness which is overlooked is that it has no stopping point. There is no norm, value, idea, concept, standard, moral, or theory wokeness will not dissolve." @wokal_distance
A society needs a shared moral authority. Otherwise it will just tear itself apart, which is what America & the West in general are currently doing.
The moral authority of the medieval church was imposed on society, which is what others are now also attempting to do.
The most pernicious of these alternatives is the Orwellian & moral-supremacist ideology of post-racial multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & AntiRacism, which has already come to dominate the West.
#DavidAaronovitch & the media outlets he works for, which includes #TheBBC & @thetimes, have an AGENDA, which they never talk about, at least, not publicly, & I'm pretty sure that if one broached the issue with any of them they would deny it.
Maybe they are not consciously aware of it themselves. I have no way of knowing. Most of what motivates us lies in the subconscious, which censors what it allows to become conscious.
This agenda is the ideology of post-racial multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & #AntiRacism.
It's an ideology that arose in misconceived, #NeverAgain, response to the evils of Nazi ideology of racial purity & supremacy, which it goes to the opposite but equally insane extremes of. It's a self-destructive ideology of White racial self-denial, self-contempt & self-hatred.
This is bizarre, & quite Orwellian that so little is made of it in the media, by politicians or academics, & not just in America, but everywhere in the West.
Why? because they are all terrified of being called RACIST, like the authorities in Telford & other English towns.
Anti-racist ideology has turned the West into an Orwellian nightmare.
If we don't get a grip on this soon, it will destroy our civilisation as surely as climate change will if we fail to get a grip on that too.
Both represent failure on the part of the social sciences.
It is imperative we understand how & why the social sciences are failing us, themselves & society at large, & offer the following two threads as starting points:
I usually agree with much of what #DavidAaronovitch says in his Briefing Room on BBC Radio 4, but not in his latest one on the UK's presumed need for "economic growth".
David is also keen on UK "population growth" through immigration, criticism of which he deems to be RACIST.
If I'm right about David's attitude to economic & population growth being genocidal, which I'm pretty sure I am, it is of no small consequence, because his views are pretty much those of Britain's & the West's ruling elites, in journalism, politics & academia.
Societies have always been dominated by their elites via a strategy of divide & rule, & although they pretend to be, Western "democracies" are no different. It is just more subtle than in earlier times & in non-democratic countries.
Allow me to explain HOW we're divided & ruled:
I think it was #WinstonChurchill who famously said that British democracy was deeply flawed, but better than any other system yet devised, or words to that effect.
I agree with him, but while he saw it as a reason for maintaining the status quo, I do not.
Churchill wanted to maintain the status quo because it served him personally extremely well, as it does many others.
However, the status quo is inherently unjust, inhuman & - most importantly - unsustainable on our finite, vulnerable & overpopulated planet, SpaceshipEarth.