Our Indian correspondent The Kafir sends this analysis of the methods by which Western society has been so thoroughly deconstructed.
What Went Wrong
by The Kafir
Prosperity? Loss of Religiosity? Critical Theory?
In my village, people were born, they grew up, they got married, had children of their own, grew old and departed on the final journey. Life was exactly like this for thousands of years past. But in the current generation, marriages are rare, and children even rarer. The village economy continues to be mostly agrarian. So, a way of life that endured for thousands of years has suddenly disappeared in just one generation. What exactly happened?
India is not industrialized. It is a developing country with per capita income among the lowest in the world. So how did even villages in India contract the social pathologies of the industrialised, prosperous West? Was it TV that carried the pathogens? But the TV in villages of India came in the 1990s; the rot had set in even by then.
The West created a civilization never seen before in history. Even the average poor person has a lifestyle not available to kings just a century ago. Raids on villages to capture women and property, a constant in human societies since time immemorial, have been so eliminated that people in the present won’t even believe that such things ever occurred. Torture has disappeared; every human being is given a fair trial; everybody is equal before the law. Distances have disappeared, and so have weather, night and day, wells for water, and above all, hunger, the ever-present scourge of life. All homes have telephones, cars, running water, and heating and cooling, and choice of food that never runs out. Almost all diseases have been tamed. Life expectancy now coincides with the natural span of human life.
Yet families have collapsed, marriages are rare, and those who marry do not “plan” children. Everybody claims to be exploited, poor, and votes for ever-increasing free stuff. Is it the doing of Capitalism, as its enemies claim? Does prosperity destroy the life-force of a society? Up until now governments are financing by borrowing the free stuff which nobody wants to work to produce, but as history is witness, borrowing has a limit and mostly destroys the borrower. The greatest civilization may not survive another generation, and there is not likely to be another generation in any case, just because the current one seems to have decided to have no children.
So, what exactly went wrong?
In the 1930s there arose in Europe two evils, initially in alliance: Nazis and communists. Communists had seized power in Russia two decades previously, but rest of the Europe was acting as a firewall against them, and a sanctuary for those fleeing from them. But things changed in 1930s and 1940s. Almost the whole Europe came under the sway of either communists or Nazis. This led to the flight from continental Europe of the intellectuals, the thought leaders. Among them were not only the great scientists, economists of the Austrian school, true litterateurs, but also a dark evil that had arisen in men who had developed further the theories of Marx: The members of the Frankfurt School.
The West not only gave refuge to them all, it embraced them. It placed them in universities, media, Hollywood, even in government. And as a result, The West not only got greats such as Einstein, F.A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, it also got Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm, the leading members of the Frankfurt School. Further, the West was not only the sanctuary for the persecuted, it was also a land of opportunity, so John Money, the man who birthed the biggest lie of all — that biological sex can be abolished by an act of will — also came to the United States from New Zealand in 1947.
And the destruction of the West started in earnest, funded by it, enabled by it, defended by it.
The Frankfurt School claims that it works for emancipation. Emancipation of whom and from whom?
Slavery was abolished in the West in the nineteenth century. So, who were the Critical Theorists of the Frankfurt School freeing?
Actually, they first created the oppressed, the victims. Children are oppressed by parents; women are oppressed by men; workers are oppressed by owners; pupils of colour are oppressed by mathematics; gays and trans are oppressed by straights; all of us are oppressed by family, school and work.
According to them, the liberation of all of us, the oppressed, required implementation of the Communist Manifesto: abolish family, abolish private property, abolish freedom, abolish countries, abolish all that which works. Of course, they never mentioned the Communist Manifesto, only its programmes.
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