Thursday, February 24, 2011
The larger trend
Qaddafi's theory that Sheikh Osama is behind all the Arab unrest is logical, whether based on facts or not.
As I noted last month about Egypt, the direction of these uprisings is away from secular Western-favoring rulers and toward more serious Islamic governance. Toward rulers that fit the native culture. This is precisely what Sheikh Osama has been working for. Killing infidels is only a tactic, not the ultimate goal.
This Arab-world unrest and the moves toward nationalism in many Euro countries are parallel, fitting into a larger trend. Each country is moving toward a government that satisfies the natural culture of THIS COUNTRY'S PEOPLE, not the dictates of some distant and abstract empire.
In the Arab world, the distant empire is America and the natural culture is Islamic.
In the Euro world, the distant empire is the EU and the natural culture is Christian.
In all cases, we're seeing the death of the arbitrary nation-state with artificial borders, and the rebirth of the real nation defined by a single people with a single culture and a single language. And that's a goddamn good thing.
Will it happen in America? No. We're the abstract empire that everyone is abandoning. We're the original model of the artificial nation-state that is now repudiated. Under the current trend our fate is to collapse into dismal Haitian chaos with no rebirth.
The Feds no longer want to use real weapons against foreign invaders, but they will unquestionably drop a hundred megatons on the first hint of secession. Both parties worship the bloodthirsty madman Lincoln, and both parties will follow his demented bloodlust into final national suicide. ¶ 5:46 PM
As I noted last month about Egypt, the direction of these uprisings is away from secular Western-favoring rulers and toward more serious Islamic governance. Toward rulers that fit the native culture. This is precisely what Sheikh Osama has been working for. Killing infidels is only a tactic, not the ultimate goal.
This Arab-world unrest and the moves toward nationalism in many Euro countries are parallel, fitting into a larger trend. Each country is moving toward a government that satisfies the natural culture of THIS COUNTRY'S PEOPLE, not the dictates of some distant and abstract empire.
In the Arab world, the distant empire is America and the natural culture is Islamic.
In the Euro world, the distant empire is the EU and the natural culture is Christian.
In all cases, we're seeing the death of the arbitrary nation-state with artificial borders, and the rebirth of the real nation defined by a single people with a single culture and a single language. And that's a goddamn good thing.
Will it happen in America? No. We're the abstract empire that everyone is abandoning. We're the original model of the artificial nation-state that is now repudiated. Under the current trend our fate is to collapse into dismal Haitian chaos with no rebirth.
The Feds no longer want to use real weapons against foreign invaders, but they will unquestionably drop a hundred megatons on the first hint of secession. Both parties worship the bloodthirsty madman Lincoln, and both parties will follow his demented bloodlust into final national suicide. ¶ 5:46 PM
