Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Profound observations

From Z Man:
The trouble is, you cannot have a nation without a sovereign identity and there can be no sovereign identity without a nation. This is the core insight of multiculturalism, which was never intended to strengthen the West but to destroy it. To have a multicultural society is to have no culture at all. Once the people’s sense of who they are is destroyed, the nation must follow with it. That is exactly what we see in the West as political classes struggle to perform their basic duties.

The reason for this, is that the people’s sense of who they are is what animates the political institutions of the state. That shared reality of a people is the soul of every nation, just as the soul animates the body. To kill it and simply try to artificially animate the body, is to create a Frankenstein’s monster. The modern Western state is now a collection of cultural parts robbed from graves around the world. It is neither organic nor natural, so it is always at war with normal human sensibilities.

4 comments:

bruce said...

This was the guy who introduced multiculturalism in Australia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Grassby

Back then it seemed mostly about respecting Mediterranean culture more and British culture a bit less. With a massive wave of postwar Med immigrants it had a lot of support. At the same time the Brits abandoned us and joined the EU, leaving us loyal subjects looking silly. It made sense to unite with a our new Italian and Greek friends and go forward together. (Grassby turned out to be some sort of Mafia stooge though).

We knew that Canada seemed to have gone overboard with it, but that seemed to be about all the French there. Other than that I'm not sure what multiculti means any more. Like 'climate change' it's just a buzzword.

rinardman said...

I've always considered adopting multiculturalism to be like giving a nation multiple personality disorder.

And a 'disorder' is not a good thing for a person, or a nation.

RebeccaH said...

"multiculturalism" is a word that, like the word "diversity", lost all meaning when each individual group decided it meant what they wanted it to mean.

Paco said...

"Multicultural" is now merely "counter-cultural".