Tuesday, May 31, 2016
No, it's not nationalism
As Europe drops instantly and cheerfully into total book-burning censorship*** ... coming soon here .... one absolute lie continues to resonate louder and louder.
EU monsters constantly blame NATIONALISM for starting both WW1 and WW2.
WW1 started because three big empires had lasted beyond their pull dates. Britain, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman. All were tired, all should have given way to nations a hundred years earlier. Nationalism became ferocious because it had been PUSHED DOWN for a hundred years.
WW2 started when Hitler STOPPED being a nationalist. As long as he was a Kraut nationalist, he wasn't bothering anyone else. When he switched from nationalist to INTERNATIONALIST, when he started BUILDING AN EMPIRE, other nations found it necessary to stop him. Britain and US and Russia were ABLE to fight Hitler because each was an INDEPENDENT NATION, not a submerged piece of an empire.
Now we have the EU and USA STRONG empires, both past their pull dates. Both respond to nationalism by PUSHING DOWN all normal and natural processes of life, by SLAUGHTERING heretics and BURNING witches.
We are certainly in that familiar old Gavrilo Princip moment, but NOT because of nationalism. Because we've been SQUASHING nationalism for too long.
Nations are life. Empires are cancer.
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*** Later footnote on book-burning: Commentators seem to be catching one point properly and missing two serious points.
Publishers like Facebook and Google are ALWAYS able to choose their content. If Facebook wants to publish only writings that favor the 37th of its 79 "genders", it can do that without any EU contract. No different from a restaurant deciding to specialize in kimchi or chicken. If that's where they feel comfortable, customers can decide to use the business or not. Most commentators have made this point, and it's perfectly valid.
But EU is NOT stopping there. It's also requiring the publishers to WRITE propaganda serving the Correct Line as defined by EU. That's not part of the old freedom to publish idea. This turns the publishers into actual agents of the government, deleting all truth and replacing truth with vile official bigotry. Memory Hole, Rectify.
Second missed point: Freedom to select only works when alternate publishers are free to start up. By forming a censorship contract with all the major publishers, EU has effectively halted alternatives. Any publisher who wants to carry content favorable to the Two Unthinkable Old Genders, or favorable to Christianity or Islam, knows in advance that the contract WILL be extended to cover its work, and also knows that the officially required 'counternarratives' will destroy it.
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WW1 started because three big empires had lasted beyond their pull dates. Britain, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman. All were tired, all should have given way to nations a hundred years earlier. Nationalism became ferocious because it had been PUSHED DOWN for a hundred years.
WW2 started when Hitler STOPPED being a nationalist. As long as he was a Kraut nationalist, he wasn't bothering anyone else. When he switched from nationalist to INTERNATIONALIST, when he started BUILDING AN EMPIRE, other nations found it necessary to stop him. Britain and US and Russia were ABLE to fight Hitler because each was an INDEPENDENT NATION, not a submerged piece of an empire.
Now we have the EU and USA STRONG empires, both past their pull dates. Both respond to nationalism by PUSHING DOWN all normal and natural processes of life, by SLAUGHTERING heretics and BURNING witches.
We are certainly in that familiar old Gavrilo Princip moment, but NOT because of nationalism. Because we've been SQUASHING nationalism for too long.
Nations are life. Empires are cancer.
= = = = =
*** Later footnote on book-burning: Commentators seem to be catching one point properly and missing two serious points.
Publishers like Facebook and Google are ALWAYS able to choose their content. If Facebook wants to publish only writings that favor the 37th of its 79 "genders", it can do that without any EU contract. No different from a restaurant deciding to specialize in kimchi or chicken. If that's where they feel comfortable, customers can decide to use the business or not. Most commentators have made this point, and it's perfectly valid.
But EU is NOT stopping there. It's also requiring the publishers to WRITE propaganda serving the Correct Line as defined by EU. That's not part of the old freedom to publish idea. This turns the publishers into actual agents of the government, deleting all truth and replacing truth with vile official bigotry. Memory Hole, Rectify.
Second missed point: Freedom to select only works when alternate publishers are free to start up. By forming a censorship contract with all the major publishers, EU has effectively halted alternatives. Any publisher who wants to carry content favorable to the Two Unthinkable Old Genders, or favorable to Christianity or Islam, knows in advance that the contract WILL be extended to cover its work, and also knows that the officially required 'counternarratives' will destroy it.
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