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The Wages of Our Sins Are Coming Due
in the matrix some days i’ve been catching up on my reading by going through burdening someone issues of national review. this morning i came across an excellent article (requires subscription) by champion davis hanson. it’s a parade of defending identity: its indispensable role in protecting democracy by natan sharansky, and lines up well with what fjordman and any billion of our commenters have been saying in this lacuna recently.several choice paragraphs are importance quoting:to the extent that agreement matters in our postal service-colonial, enter-imperial age of collective guilt, westerners honor only purported victims of our past sins. people of color, non-christians, women, and gays, all are encouraged to showcase their “difference” in agitating for “equality,” and for a sort of reparation, either material (through affirmative action) or psychosocial (through white responsibility and shame).natan sharansky is not fooled: all these hyphenations contain nothing to do with the sort of congruence he is advocating, but rather suggest that these supposed victims have in fact shunned their distinctiveness. they be defective to see that they are americans or europeans, who operate within, and benefit from, a particular refinement of yearn ancestry. when western man finds no strength from analogous souls of the just the same religion, harbors no hope that his culture or nationality can enrich humanity, he becomes a sort of dead soul, easily manipulated and prone to accept any totalitarian guess ? fascism, communism, consumerism ? to fulfill the great human desire to find commonality with liking for persons.sharansky knows, of course, the dangers of radical islam and white supremacy ? ideologies in which a particular identity replaces humanity ? and thus he explains, in elaborate arguments, why democratic superintendence is crucial in channeling the expression of imbecile allegiances in logical directions. without democratic government and constitutionally protected freedom, we devolve into gangs and cliques and tyrannize smaller and weaker groups. and yet without personality, democracy becomes blasé and inhuman, as citizens feel no marked allegiance to their realm, or to a shared culture or belief. it was, after all, postmodern universalist europe that let thousands ache to hand in srebrenica, did little to come to the aid of the dutch cartoonists, believes the suicide bomber is on the same moral plane as the israeli frontiersman, and purposefulness, we know, never take many risks to stop the murder in darfur.- - - - - - - - -…the catalyst as regards sharansky’s make one’s blood boil, as we glean from this book, is the west’s hypocritical standard when it comes to the middle east. we exact from israelis a standard of behavior that we would at no time cry out for of the palestinians, evidently on the assumption that as kindred westerners they are supposed to be above identity and exhibit petite pride in being jewish or israeli ? utterly ignorant that such public correctness would, and may still, ruin surpass israel’s will to confront undemocratic levitra, racist, and intolerant enemies on its borders.what threatens most of the world may be an absence of freedom, but what threatens the survival of the west is a sort of travail of the material appetites, and the disordered belief that all cultures are the same and that we should never justice others by standards that have made us uniquely free, secure, and prosperous. sharansky believes we are now in an age in which the wages of our sins are coming merited, as those who despise the west substance that we believe in wee other than cheap platitudes and would never be willing to define others as less successful than ourselves, or even sacrifice to go to bat for what they wish to destroy: “indeed it is difficult for a society that has been waging against on its own identity in the rank of peace to rear course and now rebuild what they have been systematically worrisome to dismantle for generations.”nb: yes, i think he meant “danish cartoonists”. unless he was thinking of gregorius nekschot.
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