In Hollywood we have a saying: “We’ve seen this movie before.” I realize you civilians have the same saying, but when we say it, it has an added ring of authority because we are Industry professionals and you are the fannies in the seats. Still, when you get right down to it, maybe we have all seen this movie before. Let’s call it No Way Out II: This Time, It’s Really, Really Personal.
In that movie — itself a re-imagining of The Big Clock, which was more or less about Henry Luce and Time Magazine, although nobody ever admitted it — Kevin Costner played a Russian mole inside the Pentagon, madly burrowing and beetling away as, in the guise of a home-grown naval officer, he seduces the Secretary of Defense’s mistress and steals Amerikkka’s defense secrets. Costner’s Tom Farrell is a character in that great tradition of American heels: the “friend” who’s busy both hollowing you out and selling you out, fitting you for the noose as he pretends to take the measurements for your inseam.
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Which brings me to that amazing social equalizer, wealth-spreader, and building-destroyer: multiculturalism, which has been responsible for every cultural advancement and falafel stand north of the Mediterranean since Charles Martel and El Cid fought Osama bin Laden and his Andalusian Moors at the gates of Vienna and thus gave the Western world coffee and croissants. I mean, without multiculturalism, where would we eat?
And yet now you seem to be figuring out the scam. I’m sensing the beginning of a counter-revolution here and I don’t like it one bit.
First you wingnuts get some of your “undercover” minions to entrap perfectly innocent Planned Parenthood patriots — people selflessly dedicated to Margaret Sanger’s noble eugenicist vision of a world without the lame, the halt, the blind, the mentally feeble, and the, um, you know, lesser races — and now you’ve got the vast right-wing Euro-conspiracy of Angela Merkel, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy. I thought we’d long established the constitutional principle that three generations of imbeciles are enough, especially when we’re talking about conservatives, but all of a sudden you’re back up on your hind legs and barking like a seal.
Can it be that the scales are finally falling from your eyes, and that you’re beginning to see us for what we are, and what we’re really up to, which is nothing less than the deconstruction and destruction of your Judeo-Christianist, “Enlightenment,” Adam-Smith/Invisible Hand market-based “civilization” and its replacement with a top-down government of, by, and for the credentialed elites?
No one, not even an imbecile, would willingly vote for such a thing (unless you count us), so we have to dress it up as a feel-good fantasy, a United Colors of Benetton ad in which social justice prevails and all cultures are equal. You can bet there’d be no place in our world for someone like that Nobel Prize winner, Saul Bellow, who was said to have wondered, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?” Who cares if he never really said that? He might have thought it, and that was good enough for us to try and shut him up.
Too bad so many non-religious conservatives have fallen for this propaganda. They keep insisting that "social issues" are a distraction, or a hinderance to "equality" under the law. There is nothing more immoveable than a man who thinks he has the authority of Agnosticism on his side.
It sometimes takes me a half-hour, or so, to get through one of Kahane's articles. His film references tend to befuddle me, and I have to look them up. Maybe I am a Philistine. When, BTW, will we have a Philistinian homeland? We ignorant, anti-aesthetes need love and living space, too.
But, once I sort things out, I end up chuckling for hours. Burt Prelutsky, another credentialed Hollywood elitist, affects me the same way. Dave and Burt probably eat tofu and sushi together while fine-tuning their Diversity Initiative.
It's not that sushi is bad, but it really shouldn't be served at baseball games. Not even to credentialed elitists. Japanese beer is OK. See, even I can be Multi-Culti.
it occurs to me that it's one thing for European countries to wake up to the "multi-cultural" fraud, because they do have some historic sense of themselves as a people, and a certain pride in who they are.
We in America on the other hand have never really had a single overarching sense of ourselves as a single people, and today we are burdened with a segment of the population who think it would be racist if not downright imperialistic for us to attempt to assert our culture (at least, the "melting pot" part of it) as against incursions of people who either don't really want to integrate into this country or who actively aspire to see our country destroyed.
Diversity can only take its rightful place in time and cultural development. I remember "Otis,the Mayberry alcoholic" who was beloved for his intoxicated antics. 50 years later, we view the more global issue of chemical abuse==yes, FIFTY years. As a Catholic, there is a new review of homosexualty and how the Church can best minister. A 12-step program is being developed in the Eastern U.S. to identify the biological anomaly, not pass 'mighty moral judgements', and treat the person from the soul out: something many of us have taken for granted. When it comes to 'diversity', the cumulation and adaptive integration of time and wisdom are hallmarks of genuine diversity. We (Americans) have a unique obligation to allow the pendulum swings until we best understand it. There is a moral component: Judge as thou wouldst be judged. Some issues will be forever wrong, like pedophilia--begging to be recognized as 'normal'--and (as a Catholic, I very sadly get this too,) and the not so hard hit 'egocentric humanism'==which is morally wrong also. Other things need to be better understood from an historical perspective==and may never see the light of day in our lifetimes. Time and enlightenment are an ebb and flow, a swinging pendulum. We cannot force anything from the dark shadows of our own here and now. Not enough to work with...
The absolute best bit in the article was the mixed historical references to the various Muslim invasions and how that produced coffee houses and how that means we need to respect multiculturalism more.
I really think many of my liberal friends see history in this manner. How evil we were to stop all these invasion, how terrible we were to fight to expand our civilization. If we had simply let the mongols take over we could be drinking blood mixed with our horse milk even today! What fools we were!
Thank you sir for a fine, angry, funny article. Well done.
Local and state school boards are the best place to start rolling back multiculturalism. Elections can at least make that happen at the local level.
Getting Governors to be serious about appointing common sense citizens to state school boards and as trustees or board members at state colleges and universities would be a great start as well. Can someone please get the word out on this?
If we are going to be as successful in saving our country as progressives and others have been in undermining it we will have to at least put forth 10% the effort they have. The challenge is in getting conservatives to see the need to act and where to put their efforts.
The multicultis like to trot out how in the middle ages so much of ancient knowledge was saved byislam as well as all the supposed advances in science, math, literature. If you look at the facts most of this scholarship was by Christians. Perhaps with the backing of some muslim potentate but the brainwork was not done by believers in the religion of peace.
"[W]hat we’re really up to [is capitalism's]...replacement with a top-down government of, by, and for the credentialed elites."
Is that what they're really up to? They're doing all this to put the bureaucrats in control? More revealing is that Comrade Obama told Hispanics on Univision in October that they should "punish" their Republican "enemies"; he also said that there would be "hand-to-hand-combat" on Capitol Hill with Republicans; Biden said he wanted to "strangle" Republicans. That rube SEN-A-TOR McCaskill said it was time to get out the "pitchforks" if the Republicans objected to excessive taxation. So they have something more drastic in mind.
Stealing your childrens' future with 1.4 Trillion deficits. Taking care of their Union buddies. Your last hint, "terminal beheadings," provides a hint: They intend to stick it to/put the thumb down hard on that evil middle class bourgeoise America, for all those past insults, evils & moral outrages that they did to Comrade Obama & his followers . . . er, at least for the evils someone, somewhere perpetrated on his ancestors, possibly.
