The New Colonialism

Timothy Birdnow

While hunting down a reference to  Erik Kuehnelt-Leddihn for my following post I came across this essay by the great man about Colonialism - and he makes some excellent points that are very pertinent today.

For example he states:

How true, and how very modern. The modern thinking is that we accept the very Western ideas of socialism, of "equity", of neo-paganism, of sexual libertinism. BUT we are at the same time ordered to condemn the roots of our society, the good things that gave us the leisure to do this and the right to chart our own path.

We tear down monuments to Civil War heroes, for example, while hoisting up monuments to people like George Floyd, who was a petty criminal. Why do we do this? Because someone like Floyd represents the New Man, the most post-modern Western Man there can be. He is the ideal we are to strive for; dependent on society to care for him and give his life purpose. His death was portrayed as an act of heroism when in fact it was a drug addict who died with a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. So what was he championing? The post-modern belief system.

There are multiple other examples of how we pick and choose what part of our culture to preserve and what to eliminate. Most of what we are eliminating is the best part. Our religion. Our economic system. Our intellectual traditions. Our faith in the dignity of the individual. Our morality.

And what are we keeping? Like the Third World in Erik Kuehnelt-Leddihn's essay, we are picking and choosing the worst aspects of our culture to promote.

And we hide the truth from ourselves. We pretend it's our culture that is bad when in fact it is the failure to defend our culture that is the problem.

And the Left knows how to play us. They have long since silenced the churches here. Christianity was the backbone of America and the churches used to hold real power over the way people thought. Not now. There was a multi-pronged attack on Christianity here, with efforts made to mock and sneer at Christian thinking in the media and in academia. Christians were portrayed both as ignorant hillbillies and as self-righteous hypocrites (something very distressing to Christians, who have always sought to be genuine since Jesus condemned hypocrisy). To avoid appearing to be what the Rulling Class portrayed them as they either adopted the anti-Christian message or remained silent. The mainline sects have largely been neutered now, terrified of being mocked as hypocrites. Many are jumping on board with all the social justice programs and with other things (like climate change alarmism) to curry favor with the Ruling Class. Christianity was always a counter-culture movement, even when there was considerable amity between princes and kings and bishops and popes. As I argued in an American Thinker piece years ago, it was Christ Himself who instituted Separation of Church and State, and there has always been tension between the two.

Modern Leftists hate that. They seek a monistic world where everything is mixed up with everything else, and the all is under the State. Western civilization was about Science, which is about categorizing things, separating them into their proper spheres. We don't treat heart disease by passing laws, or didn't used to; laws were about regulating human behavior to promote the rights of individuals, not about making society better or fairer. But there are some who would do just that, and if you look at, say Michael Bloomberg you will see a guy who tried to treat heart disease and diabetes and the rest by passing laws that regulated behavior to force good health habits. That is so very post-modern.

In fact, it is what Mussolin meant by Totalitarian. Society intimately involved in every aspect of human existence. Mussolini rightly called Fascism totalitarian, and did so approvingly.

Mussolini famously stated:

"all within the state, none outside the state, none against the state.”

In his 1925 The Doctrine of Fascism he elaborated:

"Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people. No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State"

And the Third World adopted this aspect of things because it was pleasing to whoever was able to seize power. But it applies equally to our time. Increasingly, the fascistic partnership between government and big corporations - particularly the new social media outlets and the arrogant technocracy - is imposing this monism on all of us. They censor what we see and hear in an attempt to control what we think. And it works to varying degrees.

This technology will only get better over time, further limiting the right of the People to think what they will.

Or believe what they will.

Basically, we are being colonized by an alien and very depraved form of pagan thinking. And it will only get worse.

Kuehnelt-Leddihn goes on to say:


Not only do I agree I take it further than that. I would argue that governments hadning out money is a horrible immorality that is destructive to all the ends of charity in the first place.

In The Cruelty of Caesar's Charity I argue that poverty came as punishment to Mankind from God Himself, who could end it any time He chose. The point is, it is not just victory over poverty that matters but the struggle against it, and that struggle is as much for the charitable giver as for the recipient (maybe more so). God did not demand government act to end poverty. He told YOU to do it! It is a personal, individual thing. It is to teach kindness for others, even those we may not like very much. While it has to be implemented throough collective action oftentimes it still is ultimately about giving, not taxing.

Governments steal the good fruits of charity. And they dole out the charity in a way that is beneficial to THEM. Political parties, especially the Democrats, figured out early they could sucker Christians and Jews into funding their political fortunes via "charitable" programs. This way the government taketh from some and giveth to others, and it will then come back to the politician. Who gets the shaft? The taxpayer who does not want to fund this aka the Forgotten Man.

But it is also the kindly taxpayer who simply washes his hands of the matter because he thinks the government is doing the Lord's Work. He is robbed of the opportunity to personally do a kindness. And even the poor who benefit from these programs are hurt, compelled by them into a kind of servitude where they must beg their masters for the scraps being fed to them daily.

It is an evil institution, despite appearing good. One must remember Satan can appear as an angel of light.

At any rate, I've blathered on enough. Do read the essay by Erik Kuehnelt-Leddihn; it is well worth your time and trouble.

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