John Wilder recently posted this article: "How The GloboLeft Uses Your Virtue Against You And Why It’s Killing The West." He points out:
... Our culture is one that’s based on guilt, rather than shame, so being just comes from within.
Shame comes from without. In a shame-based culture (which describes most third world cultures) the idea is that cheating an old widow in Iowa out of her family fortune is acceptable unless you get caught. It’s clever, and they feel guilt only in being caught. Ever see any video of a foreigner getting caught doing something wrong on video?
I know you have.
What happens is that the shame kicks in. They can’t and don’t feel guilt over doing evil, only shame for getting caught doing evil. This explains why India looks like India and Nigeria looks like Nigeria. Good actions aren’t valued.
But as he discusses, the very virtues that made the West so great is also manipulated by our enemies. It is guilt--particularly guilt over our success--that lies behind so many liberal projects to destroy the West. To the liberal mind, Africa and the rest of the third world is poor because of something white people did, so we must assuage that guilt by importing them, letting them take our jobs, ignore their tribalism, and commit crimes without serious repercussions. As John explains:
Like Western Civilization, though, cultures that have a large focus on just outcomes are susceptible to propaganda that plays on cultural guilt. Ever wonder why GloboLeftists pimped the 1619 Project? Like the entire Civil Rights movement, it was based on creating guilt in people who had committed no crime or offense.
And it was effective.
On white people. But it wouldn’t be on them.
I think that there still exists a strong fear on the part of white people to say, “Hey, I’d rather live among other white people.” It sounds scary to them. Yet, those same people wouldn’t bat an eye if black people wanted their own dorms that excluded whites.
It’s guilt. Our virtues have been weaponized against us. It’s so effective that even British people feel guilt over slavery, even when they effectively ended the international trade in slaves. Those who do this are, like Epictetus said, using every trick to be Beautiful to try to hide their true ugliness.
If the shame culture remains a minority in the West, they will work to destroy the white European culture. For example, Anonymous Conservative linked to this article today indicating that "Zelensky Announces Plan to Replace Millions of White Ukrainians with African Migrants." (He apparently takes "never again" quite seriously).
And while they may play along with the liberals for a while because the liberals will support more of their kind invading a country, ultimately they will achieve sufficient numbers to elect their own politicians, at which point their tribal nature will resurface. For instance, Instapundit linked to his article from the Small Dead Animals blog, "Diversity Was Their Strength," reporting on Nate Erskine-Smith, a Canadian Member of Parliament who just lost his seat to Ahsanul Hafiz, a Bangladeshi-born business owner who owns 30 Domino’s Pizza franchises. Erskine-Smith probably thought that importing aliens would guarantee his elections indefinitely and is now learning for the first time that immigration has consequences.
That post was one that just took a turn while I was writing it, so, I went with it. I'm pleased with the result.
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