Racism and Multiculturalism.
It should be said that I consider race and culture to be fundamentally separate. Though there has always been a practical reason to consider race and culture to be the same thing, lumping them together as ethnicity, that has always been an imperfect assumption. Making broad generalizations for the sake of argument, we can take "black culture" and "white culture". A black person born to/migrating to/adopted into white society will grow up with the cultural norms and in effect culture of the whites around it. A white person similarly immersed in a black culture will develop in line with their society. Traditionally the different races had been limited to different regions and developed separately or with occasional interaction for thousands of years.
That all changed as trade and exploration expanded, and as empires rose and fell. As different races mingled to share their cultures and ideas, inventions and superstitions. Technology improved over the course of time from the first rugged animal powered carts and wagons to naval vessels and eventually the modern airplane. In today's world the chances of having multiple races in any given society are dramatically increased.
And that isn't a problem.
Within the machine.
Every human being is a machine, a vehicle for human will. Whether you consider your true self to be your mind or your soul is for you to decide. What is common to every person is that we ride in our bodies the same way we drive a car. Our brains are our most important and fundamental organ. There are as many variations and nuances among the brains of people of the same race as there are personalities among people of the same race. The biological differences between the races are negligible, overridden by force of will.
We must look for those that are similar to ourselves in the ways that it matters, in their personality and culture. A skin deep assessment of another person is a shortsighted and ultimately foolish appraisal. Do you want to build a successful society that offers everyone that conforms to expectations a solid chance at happiness? If you do, do you intend to bar black people? Tanned people? Brown people? Tattooed people? A common soul, a common desire, a common standard of decency and conduct is infinitely more valuable than a common skin tone or specific assortment of genes.
Every citizen that contributes to the glory of our nation deserves a share of that glory. You are obligated as a citizen to see the greatness and potential in your neighbors and to help them minimize their weaknesses.
It's like cooking, kinda.
Building and maintaining a functioning society lends itself to many metaphors and analogies. The term "melting pot" for multiculturalism springs to mind. We've all done our fair share of cooking, so we can all appreciate a few basic lessons from it. The most relevant lesson is that mixing ingredients needs to be done at a certain rate. Unchecked or lax immigration is a recipe for disaster. Can you imagine simply dumping any ingredient no matter how good into something you were trying to make? I'm going to use a salad as an example, because hopefully that will avoid bringing racial colors into things.
If you have a bowl full of lettuce, you have lettuce. If you want to make a salad because salad is better than plain lettuce you need to add ingredients. Let's pretend that you wanted to add carrots. Ideally you want to add a limited amount of carrots. You don't want to fill half the bowl with carrots, you don't want to fill the bowl 90% full of carrots. You want to add a reasonable amount flavored to taste. Then you add peas, radishes, red onions, apple slices, oranges, etc etc. The point is that you add ingredients in a limited amount in order to build something better than what you started with. Each of these ingredients will of course need to be cut and washed.
We can build something better through racial cooperation then what we started with. Each nation that adopts the process of structuring its demographics with a set plan should use its most abundant demographic as a base and expand from there. For us in North America that is whites, but in other nations it will be black people, brown people, etc.
This isn't about racial subjugation, it's about forming a unanimous united culture. I don't want any of us to stand apart like lumps in pancakes - unmixed ingredients. I don't want anyone to stand apart and say things like "I am african-american". Every citizen of the nation needs to be integrated under a single set of values and be willing to conform to them heart and soul. Remember, the war against multiculturalism requires that YOU be willing to set aside racism!
Saturday 23 August 2014
Thursday 21 August 2014
Science and Religion
Faith.
We are confronted by a paradox in modern times where faith is both the attacker and the victim. Faith in science pitted against faith in religion. Parallels can be drawn between things like the origins of God and the Big Bang theory. The average person's interest in religion tends to dwindle when confronted with specifics of dogma, those weird rules like what color you can wear on a certain day or the types of materials that can be worn together. Similarly, a person will often become confused or disinterested when fed the outlandish but overall communally accepted statements of science. Few people can truly appreciate the gravity of millions or billions of years, or the intricacy of advanced physics, with theories reaching out into the seemingly metaphysical.
Universally the message is the destruction of faith. Do not believe in religion, do not believe in science. Do not believe in the state, do not believe in the self. I want you to believe whatever you feel is true. My goal is to show you what I believe and reveal to you the truths I see. If you come to share my faith then we can work together, and if not, we'll go our separate ways.
My belief.
I believe the state and its citizenry are not abstracts, but in fact very real. The state is the land, the people, and their shared identity. At the core of this idea is the old wisdom, "you are what you eat" and "the circle of life". Each and every person is somehow connected to the earth, ashes to ashes and dust to dust. The land beneath your feet is real, you can reach down and touch it right now. That same land you've walked over your entire life grew the food your parents ate, fed the animals that gave them milk and cheese and butter, surged with the flow of rivers that would supply power and drinking water. Your parents breathed the air of the nation and metabolized the fruits of the nation and eventually conceived you. Your connection to the place you were born in is not an abstract societal construct, it is an undeniable physical fact.
If the state is real, the land itself is very real as we all know, and the connection of the people to it is real, then the citizenry is very real. The citizenry after all is simply the people of the land. We just ascribe rights and responsibilities to those people when we call them citizens, and distinguish them from foreigners who are visiting. This leaves the question of shared identity and unity, and whether that is real or not. To answer that question we need simply look to the family. Is your connection to your family real? Is your shared familial identity real? Of course it is. We all know it instinctively, but can prove through the science of genetics that families are connected. If two families occupy the same space, eating and drinking the same food and water, mingling socially, aren't they connected? Aren't neighbors residents of the same street? Is the street only a societal construct, a figment of the imagination, or is it a palpable unification based on proximity? We have unnamed streets, unpaved roads, spontaneous clusters of people all across the country. Their sense of community isn't diminished due to a lack of title.
Conversion.
A person might read what I have to say and think that I am xenophobic and hate immigrants. I can assure you that isn't the case. I would put forward this analogy - imagine you were having guests over for dinner but you didn't want them to move in with you. Would that be considered xenophobic? I don't think so. We all know that our relations to other people are fluid. It may take time, but that same guest that stays for dinner might one day become a lover, a close family friend, or an in-law. It might one day be that that person IS invited to live in the guest room or the basement or whatever, but that takes time.
Assuming the principle that people are connected to the land through daily activities like eating, sleeping, and recreation, we must assume that a person's citizenship is subject to change. We have established arbitrary bureaucratic goalposts for personal convictions out of necessity. We simply don't have the time to interview every immigrant on a daily basis to see if they've truly melded with society. A person might become a real citizen of the nation while stepping off the boat, like someone struck by love at first sight. A person might spend decades in a place and never truly embrace it, somehow resisting its allure. And a person might even fall out of love with their homeland and seek a new place, and set down roots there. It is an individual decision we strive to verify in the community for practical reasons.
Have faith in your country and your countrymen, as well as yourself. Faith is not flimsy wishful thinking, it is solid confidence in something that is real. You are real. Your love is real. Your patriotism is real. Don't let others erode your will with superficial attacks. Now is the time for strength!
We are confronted by a paradox in modern times where faith is both the attacker and the victim. Faith in science pitted against faith in religion. Parallels can be drawn between things like the origins of God and the Big Bang theory. The average person's interest in religion tends to dwindle when confronted with specifics of dogma, those weird rules like what color you can wear on a certain day or the types of materials that can be worn together. Similarly, a person will often become confused or disinterested when fed the outlandish but overall communally accepted statements of science. Few people can truly appreciate the gravity of millions or billions of years, or the intricacy of advanced physics, with theories reaching out into the seemingly metaphysical.
Universally the message is the destruction of faith. Do not believe in religion, do not believe in science. Do not believe in the state, do not believe in the self. I want you to believe whatever you feel is true. My goal is to show you what I believe and reveal to you the truths I see. If you come to share my faith then we can work together, and if not, we'll go our separate ways.
My belief.
I believe the state and its citizenry are not abstracts, but in fact very real. The state is the land, the people, and their shared identity. At the core of this idea is the old wisdom, "you are what you eat" and "the circle of life". Each and every person is somehow connected to the earth, ashes to ashes and dust to dust. The land beneath your feet is real, you can reach down and touch it right now. That same land you've walked over your entire life grew the food your parents ate, fed the animals that gave them milk and cheese and butter, surged with the flow of rivers that would supply power and drinking water. Your parents breathed the air of the nation and metabolized the fruits of the nation and eventually conceived you. Your connection to the place you were born in is not an abstract societal construct, it is an undeniable physical fact.
If the state is real, the land itself is very real as we all know, and the connection of the people to it is real, then the citizenry is very real. The citizenry after all is simply the people of the land. We just ascribe rights and responsibilities to those people when we call them citizens, and distinguish them from foreigners who are visiting. This leaves the question of shared identity and unity, and whether that is real or not. To answer that question we need simply look to the family. Is your connection to your family real? Is your shared familial identity real? Of course it is. We all know it instinctively, but can prove through the science of genetics that families are connected. If two families occupy the same space, eating and drinking the same food and water, mingling socially, aren't they connected? Aren't neighbors residents of the same street? Is the street only a societal construct, a figment of the imagination, or is it a palpable unification based on proximity? We have unnamed streets, unpaved roads, spontaneous clusters of people all across the country. Their sense of community isn't diminished due to a lack of title.
Conversion.
A person might read what I have to say and think that I am xenophobic and hate immigrants. I can assure you that isn't the case. I would put forward this analogy - imagine you were having guests over for dinner but you didn't want them to move in with you. Would that be considered xenophobic? I don't think so. We all know that our relations to other people are fluid. It may take time, but that same guest that stays for dinner might one day become a lover, a close family friend, or an in-law. It might one day be that that person IS invited to live in the guest room or the basement or whatever, but that takes time.
Assuming the principle that people are connected to the land through daily activities like eating, sleeping, and recreation, we must assume that a person's citizenship is subject to change. We have established arbitrary bureaucratic goalposts for personal convictions out of necessity. We simply don't have the time to interview every immigrant on a daily basis to see if they've truly melded with society. A person might become a real citizen of the nation while stepping off the boat, like someone struck by love at first sight. A person might spend decades in a place and never truly embrace it, somehow resisting its allure. And a person might even fall out of love with their homeland and seek a new place, and set down roots there. It is an individual decision we strive to verify in the community for practical reasons.
Have faith in your country and your countrymen, as well as yourself. Faith is not flimsy wishful thinking, it is solid confidence in something that is real. You are real. Your love is real. Your patriotism is real. Don't let others erode your will with superficial attacks. Now is the time for strength!
Wednesday 20 August 2014
One man's dream is another man's nightmare.
Neo-fascism.
Immediately one might be overwhelmed at the very suggestion of a political ideology such as this seeing a resurgence, if its even regarded as such. The term fascist has been transformed into a dirty word and misapplied to a variety of individuals. It is feared to be an ideology of hate and destruction, another catchall term thrown around with "capitalist" "communist" "democracy" and "freedom". I seek to return this word to its proper use and context. Language is fluid, and today's shifts in communication with mobile devices and the internet illustrate how quickly our understanding of English can be morphed. Though the task may seem insurmountable there are many precedents. Look to the words "nigger" and "gay" and you can see how easily public use and conception of a word can change.
Why? Who? How?
Why.
I believe that we human beings have been built by god to thrive under certain conditions. Whether that god is a divine personalized entity or simply the totality of existence I do not claim to know. I simply see that great strides in human advancement and quality of life are made when a sole leader ushers us fearlessly into the future. I see that democracy and debate are valuable tools that should be used to supplement a powerful authority, not undermine it. I see that as we all search our own lives we see a healthy deference to those who know better and mean well, and the fruits of that obedience. Whether its children who obey their parents, students who pay close attention to their lessons, or citizens who operate within the scope of the law - we are better when we do the right thing.
Who.
One of the hardest things to overcome when digging something up from the past is its prior associations. There are old grudges and misconceptions still alive today about the people who would have once been regarded as fascists. I'll make no apologies or excuses for the actions of individuals who did the world wrong, those rest on them. The fascists of today are you and me, regular people. They are just like the Conservatives of today, the Liberals of today, the Kings and Queens of today. They are no more responsible or aligned with the past than modern political parties or figureheads are responsible or aligned with the worst of their predecessors.
How.
The first and easiest thing a person can do is decide for themselves and embrace their identity. Take an inventory of your personality, your views on the world, and your political leanings. If you find that you are a fascist at heart you've taken the first step in the fight to join the cause. Secondly, you might consider "coming out" to others. It doesn't have to be scary and given its a political ideology most people will probably just shrug it off. Feel free to say "This is who I am.", and if they try to connect you to causes or people you don't support or associate with, tell them "That's not who I am, THIS is who I am."
Immediately one might be overwhelmed at the very suggestion of a political ideology such as this seeing a resurgence, if its even regarded as such. The term fascist has been transformed into a dirty word and misapplied to a variety of individuals. It is feared to be an ideology of hate and destruction, another catchall term thrown around with "capitalist" "communist" "democracy" and "freedom". I seek to return this word to its proper use and context. Language is fluid, and today's shifts in communication with mobile devices and the internet illustrate how quickly our understanding of English can be morphed. Though the task may seem insurmountable there are many precedents. Look to the words "nigger" and "gay" and you can see how easily public use and conception of a word can change.
Why? Who? How?
Why.
I believe that we human beings have been built by god to thrive under certain conditions. Whether that god is a divine personalized entity or simply the totality of existence I do not claim to know. I simply see that great strides in human advancement and quality of life are made when a sole leader ushers us fearlessly into the future. I see that democracy and debate are valuable tools that should be used to supplement a powerful authority, not undermine it. I see that as we all search our own lives we see a healthy deference to those who know better and mean well, and the fruits of that obedience. Whether its children who obey their parents, students who pay close attention to their lessons, or citizens who operate within the scope of the law - we are better when we do the right thing.
Who.
One of the hardest things to overcome when digging something up from the past is its prior associations. There are old grudges and misconceptions still alive today about the people who would have once been regarded as fascists. I'll make no apologies or excuses for the actions of individuals who did the world wrong, those rest on them. The fascists of today are you and me, regular people. They are just like the Conservatives of today, the Liberals of today, the Kings and Queens of today. They are no more responsible or aligned with the past than modern political parties or figureheads are responsible or aligned with the worst of their predecessors.
How.
The first and easiest thing a person can do is decide for themselves and embrace their identity. Take an inventory of your personality, your views on the world, and your political leanings. If you find that you are a fascist at heart you've taken the first step in the fight to join the cause. Secondly, you might consider "coming out" to others. It doesn't have to be scary and given its a political ideology most people will probably just shrug it off. Feel free to say "This is who I am.", and if they try to connect you to causes or people you don't support or associate with, tell them "That's not who I am, THIS is who I am."
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