October 28, 2009

Narcissism and American unreality.

We’re not alone in having a political class and population intent on trifles while enemies build redoubts within our walls.

Europe votes for or acquiesces in the formation of a self-perpetuating, undemocratic European Union and unhappy is he who dares to state what is obvious for all to see about immigration.

Name the EU country that doesn’t set upon patriotic protest as “incitement to riot” or “terribly hurtful to feelings of resentful, subversive minorities.” This with the lagniappe of a firm grip on the testicles of a well-dressed orderly protester as happened in Brussels last year.[1]

And Europe’s blossoming alien populations stagger the imagination. Surely it’s unprecedented in history for nations to import hostile alien civilians en masse to compete with their own citizens or subjects for jobs and housing. (I’m aware of the gradual Roman reliance on foreign military mercenaries.)

But we are certainly not pikers ourselves. The utter madness of leaving borders unguarded and debasing citizenship by throwing it at invaders (among other schizoid enthusiasms) leaves one struggling to comprehend how intelligent and well educated people can positively relish it. The more obviously counterintuitive the political, social, or economic choice, the more ardently it is embraced by elites. The more educated the person, it seems, the more loopy the allegiances.

J.R. Nyquist explains:
Of the many signs of a breakdown, our instincts have become attenuated; we do not know our enemy (as we do not know ourselves); we do not know where we stand in history, as we do not care to know any history - imagining ourselves somehow separated from history, even to the point of being "above" history. This sense that we are excepted from history comes from a corollary sense of unreality.

We do not seem to realize that order is evaporating, or perhaps it has already evaporated entirely.[2]
Notes
[1]  The picture is up somewhere else on Brussels Journal.)
[2] "Prosperity and the Roots of American Order." By J.R. Nyquist, Financial Sense Online, 10/23/09.

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