MB, I think that Hibernia might be asking the wrong question. I don't think that the Eiltes hate Mono-Culturism. I think that the Elites subscribe to Political Correctness and PC demand Multi-Culturism.

This may sound like a small semantic argument, but I do think it is an important distinction. People (most, at least) care about power. And ataining power with Politically Incorrect ideas is very difficult. So, you must subscribe to the PC Religion.

For me, the question is, "Why is Multi-Culturism PC and Mono-Culturism Un-PC?".

And I think that the answer has to do with Intelligent, Sensitive people knowing the consequences of loving traditional Mono-Culturism.

For instance, did all cultures add equally to the World's best Literature, Architecture, Political Science, Art, Sculpture, Music, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering and Mathematics over the last 600 years? Well, Charles Murray doesn't think so.

This is not a perfectly fleshed out theory. But, I think that the Intelligent, Sensitive People (i.e. the Elites) are able to see that it is difficult to be sensitive to everyone when everyone is not the same (and not equal in all ways).

Just think of some Teacher/Coach saying to some 5'6" 18 year old that it is extremely unlikely that he will fulfill his dream of playing in the NBA. Many people, especially girls/women, find this mean or possibly even cruel.

Yet, that Teacher is probably thinking about the boys' best interests. But his direct and honest approach with giving the kid advice is seen as bad. He is the bad guy.

"Follow your heart", "Never care what anyone else thinks", etc. This is the advice that he should have been giving. Yes, it is meaningless, but, well, that is the point. Each person is allowed to interpret generic advice any way they want.

Specific advice is built from specific ideas and values. Some ideas and goals are valued higher than others.

Most people I know seem to have no problem with America (or Canada) being influenced by, say, traditional British, French or Italian culture. The literature, music, science, engineering...you name it. Most seem to have no problem being influenced by traditional Japanese culture, even though it feels more "foreign".

But most do not look at Mexico and long for the day that we have a more Mexican culture. And, for this, they must be racists. Why? Because they value some more cultures than others.

Well, with more and more Multi-Culturism, we will not need to worry about this.

Posted by: Ian Lewis on March 5, 2008 4:45 PM

Multiculturulism is simply the most aggregated level of the systematic destruction of mediating social structures practiced by political systems (and their intellectual toadies) throughout the twentieth century. Family? Weaken it, fragment it, shrink it, and make its members that much more isolated, atomized and controllable. Clan? Tribe? Locality? Same thing. Same outcome. Destroy everything between the naked individual and the state and you've got the perfect controllable mass of subjects, wide open and shivering in the flattened wind-blown social landscape, so bare, so empty now that they've cut all the trees down. And eager for someone (anyone!) to look after them, give them some...what? Warmth? Togetherness? Security, certainly, since they're not going to find it anywhere else in the dead flat world power has made for them.

The bureaucrats, technocrats don't hate mono-cultural societies. It's precisely genuine multi-culturalism that they hate, and a pulverized, atomized mono-culture that they want to impose EVERYWHERE.

Christ, I'm sounding like John S Bolton. I need some valium.

Posted by: PatrickH on March 5, 2008 6:34 PM

Spot on, PatrickH! No-one should assume that the chaos brought about by unchecked immigration, and state-funded multiculturalism, is accidental; rather, one should assume our elites know all too well, what they are doing, and that they are pursuing a deliberate policy of "dissolving the people", and "electing another", to borrow from Bertolt Brecht.

Posted by: Will S. on March 8, 2008 7:08 PM






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