Liberalism is deeply seated in the psychological constitution of whites. It is also deeply connected to the unparalleled creativity of Europeans. This is the dilemma I am trying to explain: why did the ideology that brought the West its supreme greatness is now responsible for its ethnocidal path? Liberalism is almost epigenetically rooted in the historically evolved psychology of Europeans. Kevin MacDonald is an exception in the dissident right in connecting the weak ethnocentrism of whites today back to the way evolutionary pressures in the northern climes of Europe in prehistoric times selected for weaker kinship networks, leading to the predominance of nuclear families, exogamous and monogamous marriage, and trust with anonymous strangers based on an individual’s reputation.
In Uniqueness of Western Civilization (2011), I traced the primordial roots of liberalism to the aristocratic masculine culture of horse-riding, highly mobile Indo-Europeans, with their uniquely contractual band of warrior brothers, consisting of dignified free men of honor unwilling to submit to despotic rulers, in which the leader was seen as “first among equals”.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world continued to be one of intense kinship relationships, as it had been since early Homo-sapiens days, characterized by a corresponding psychology that was clannish, conformist, and highly context-sensitive, without the ability to detach objects and persons from particular settings, and thus without the ability to generate abstract concepts and think analytically. Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness presupposes indeed a world in which individuals have been “psychologically rewired” with a new set of (liberal) dispositions for reduced ingroup favoritism, for greater fairness and cooperation with anonymous strangers, for analytical over contextual thinking, for impartial moral principles and objectivity, for love of choice and personal fulfillment.
There is an elective affinity between this globalized capitalism and the liberal leftist goal of creating “post-national” citizens. Leftists want “deterritorialized” individuals without “xenophobic” attachments to ethnic groups, “emancipated” from pre-given sexual, cultural, and racial identities, that is, individuals who construct their identities completely out of their free will.
Capitalism in the non-West still operates within a non-liberal ideological order. Accordingly, businesses in the non-Western world, Japan, China, India, Saudi Arabia, have remained rooted to their national communities, ... This is very different from the liberal capitalist West, where the state is envisioned as an association created by individuals with natural rights in abstraction from any prior community ... which grants everyone individual freedom and the possibility to improve themselves through market competition
... Rawls’s liberalism does not call for mass immigration as such, but for equal treatment and fair equality of opportunity for citizens within a nation state. The reality is that, in our globalized capitalist Western world, the “Rawlsian case for open borders” is very popular. Western law does not allow Western leaders to make any distinctions among potential immigrants on the basis of race, religion, and nationality. White-only immigration regulations were rejected across the West as unconstitutional in the 60s/70s.
... after endless conferences, articles, books and millions in government grants, this communitarian liberalism would amount to nothing more than a push for a shared celebration of liberal progressivism, a shared belief that “diversity enriches us all”, promotion of multicultural citizenship, celebration of gay parades, along with a shared commitment to the exclusion of “white racism” as an attitude that no “decent” individual should be allowed to hold in public.
... The result has been that, for all the billions spent by governments on communitarian projects, a higher proportion of citizens across the West are experiencing higher rates of loneliness, stress, anxiety and depression.
The West has no choice but to find an alternative ideology. ... a “fourth theory” for it does not advocate specific principles and policies for mankind as such, but calls upon different cultures/civilizations in the world to find within themselves their own alternative paths to modernity. In the case of the West, transcending liberalism will be an immensely difficult task, however; for this ideology is epigenetically rooted in the psychology of whites, currently ensconced in every institution, advocated by almost every intellectual, and supported by global liberal capitalism. But a solution must be found or Europeans will perish as a world historical people.
In our latest members book club we are joined by Dr. Ricardo Duchesne to discuss his book Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age. We discuss the Indo-European origins of the Faustian spirit, the effects of liberalism and the future of the West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAh_...nel=KeithWoods
In our latest members book club we are joined by Dr. Ricardo Duchesne to discuss his book Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age. We discuss the Indo-European origins of the Faustian spirit, the effects of liberalism and the future of the West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAh_...nel=KeithWoods
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