This is the first part of a three-part guest-essay by a new contributor, Thucydides.
The Delights of Faithlessness
by Thucydides
Part 1: The Groupthink Armory
South Yorkshire’s police and Rotherham’s Children Services failed to address massive child sexual grooming and abuse by Pakistani men over a 16 year period in the UK town of Rotherham. The town’s failure is only the most recent and most conspicuous example of faithlessness in the West, but it is not the only example. There are many Rotherhams yet to be exposed. At some level, by inviting a tidal wave of Muslim immigration into Europe, the governing parties of the UK and the EU apparat are proving themselves faithless.
Faithlessness is nothing new. It was common in the ancient world. In Greek mythology, betrayal is the animating principle behind many of the myths and legends. In Classical Greece, Ephialtes’ betrayal of the Spartans at Thermopylae is not exceptional. But no one embodies it more charmingly and transparently than Alcibiades, whose nature led him to be faithless first to Athens, then to Sparta, finally to the Persians.
Nor is it unique to the West. In India, Mir Jafar in 1757 made a deal with Robert Clive of the British East India Company to turn over his Bengali army at the battle of Plassey.
Disappointment, grievance, resentment, and revenge often played a role in these historical examples. In almost all of them, however, complex though the motivations might be, what is clear is that the prime motivation was personal ambition and self-aggrandizement. Nor would many of the faithless have needed to disguise their motives, especially if personal gain were the animating principle. Had anyone asked Alcibiades why he was faithless, he would have been amused rather than offended, certain that his inquisitor was naïve, both about the ways of the world and in the assumption that someone as gifted and remarkable as Alcibiades should be circumscribed by the banal moral conventions that governed the behavior of others.
What is new is not the self-interested faithlessness, but the layers and layers of psychological self-deception designed to hide it.
What is new is the ideological buttressing, the almost gnostic-like belief in their privileged esoteric insight, the need to disguise the narcissism and self-interest, the idealistic justifications.
Combined, these create an almost impenetrable fortress, one beyond the reach of argument, beyond the reach of shame or guilt, beyond contrition for the dreadful results that follow from their faithless actions and inactions.
As a result, the usual means for arousing remorse and penitent conversion will rarely work with those infected with contemporary self-interested faithlessness. In the ancient world, one needed confidence, courage, steely nerves, and an abundance of will and ambition to be faithless — at least to be so famously faithless that we today are aware of it. Today, one can be a nonentity, smaller in moral stature than a dwarf is in physical stature, and be faithless. Witness Rotherham. All one needs today is to know that one is encased in the impenetrable armor of the groupthink defenses described above, and to be faithful to its politically correct faithlessness.
It is no accident, then, that the reported fears of being called “racist” by members of the South Yorkshire police and Rotherham Children’s Services reported in the faithless media invariably fail to address the question, “by whom?” Somehow the identity of those who were guilty not merely of such naming and shaming, and ultimately of more consequential punishments, is left to hang in the air. Does anyone seriously believe that public servants who could allow such sexual abuse to go unchecked for 16 years, despite ample evidence, cared
one fig whether the public they were charged to serve thought them “racist”? Not at all. All those public servants cared about was maintaining cohesion and discipline within the groupthink armory, for the core value of the armory is not public service, but allegiance to the armory and to its ruling ideology — that is, to whether one is on board the “program” and loyal to the group, not with whether one is faithful to one’s public charge and implied oath. Moreover, humiliating ways are found to insure one toes the line — witness the Rotherham researcher who in 2002 was forced to undergo ‘diversity” training and nearly sacked for pointing out that the groomers were “Asian.”
Studies have shown that these small, humiliating punishments are more effective than draconian punishments, because to succumb to great terror is not humiliating, and leads to what Czelaw Milosz in The Captive Mind called, “Ketman,” the art of saying “yes” publicly when inwardly one remains committed to “no.” But capitulating to small, humiliating punishments is so devastating to one’s self-esteem, that rather than confront one’s weakness and cowardice, one often “converts.” One comes to love Big Brother. Nothing explains so well the still surprising support some people exhibit for massive immigration, even in Malmö, Sweden, where immigrant rape of Swedish women is so common that Malmö has been called “the rape capital of Europe.”
Public servants know at a deep level that protection lies in remaining a “team member”. They also know that to operate outside the ideological parameters of the armory is to court danger. They know that the armory will provide them with the ideological cover they need and will exonerate them from the actual consequences of their savage failures. This is why, throughout the entire public sector in the UK from the heads of government to the lowest bureaucratic servant, indeed throughout the EU apparat, “bad faith” is thick and impenetrable among the apparatchiks, and punishment for failure and for betraying one’s implied oath is so rare. Sadly, in the UK, the conscientiousness of the British public servant makes such faithless behavior more widespread and relentless than it might be in a more cynical country with lax enforcement, such as Italy.
As I describe the dynamic above, one must surely wonder how public servants can hide the recognition of their cowardice and faithlessness from themselves. How can they live with themselves? Why they do not, in a fit of contrition, plead for forgiveness from the children and parents whose lives they have ruined? But, of course, the answer lies in the system’s relentless spiritual ruination of its citizens, something widespread in the old communist Soviet Union, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn again and again made so apparent.
Of course, at some level they cannot hide the truth. This is why they work so hard not only to suppress awareness, but to redefine their primary fidelity, so that faithlessness appears no longer to be faithlessness but fidelity to a higher, nobler ideal. By this means, their ultimate fidelity is no longer to those they are supposed to serve — to the children being sexually abused, to their distraught parents, to the larger society that suffers demoralization and the moral despair that inevitably follow witnessing such prolonged faithlessness from public servants charged with protecting them.
This old, traditional fidelity is replaced by fidelity to the group to which they belong, by loyalty to its “program”, by faithfulness to a higher ideal — one far more important than the mere sexual degradation of an untold number of underage girls scarcely more than children. What replaces it is faithfulness to the group’s anti-racist intentions, to avoiding the eruption of the “racism” that would follow from disclosure. Thus, in the name of the otherworldly ideal of preventing something far worse than a mere young girl’s being drugged and gang-raped — namely “anti-racism” — they had to, absolutely had to, turn a blind eye to what was going on. As, Fyodor Dostoevsky made clear, God save us from these lovers of humanity in the abstract.
By gazing on abstractions and rendering the concrete individual invisible, shame and self-loathing are replaced by self-congratulation. And by proving one is a loyal member of the “team” and fully supportive of the “program,” one not only wins the plaudits of one’s superiors, one can expect excellent performance reviews. All the while in some flat a drugged 12-year-old girl is being sexually abused by a dozen men.
This “deconstruction” of one’s primary oath of office at all levels of government, e.g., the South Yorkshire police, the Rotherham Children’s Services, the UK educational establishment, the British Labour Party, the EU apparat, etc., and its replacement by the construction of a narrower group allegiance, say to the bureaucracy, or to one’s political party — rationalized, of course, by that group’s seeming allegiance to higher, more ethereal ideals like “anti-racism,” “multiculturalism,” preventing an “ultra-rightwing takeover,” a united Europe, etc. — is so thoroughly entrenched in Europe, and increasingly in the U.S., that it will over time so completely corrupt and degrade society and its servants. Ultimately, by means of that degradation, it will over time come to fill members of the society with such shame and revulsion they will unconsciously long for its destruction.
What is going on is massive psychic warfare designed to deconstruct old virtues and loyalties and to replace them with new ones — in essence, to turn faithlessness into a higher faith. Unfortunately, only one side seems to know what they are doing, and it’s not the side committed to protecting the children of Rotherham.
Next: The Incoherence of the Multicultural Paradigm
This article is an illustration of the socio-political norm in the UK, very few can claim to stand outside and even fewer can claim to be standing in resistance.
They have gone beyond the political group think and the program and are almost autonomous in their actions, indeed they now have not only a corrupt disconnect but also a sense of a otherworldly superiority. Have long since abandoned the idea that this war could be fought in the political theatre alone it is not only a war for hearts and minds but for souls.
My dear Thucydides, I hope you will abjure the phrase “tow the line,” because the actual phrase is “toe the line,” which means to stand with one’s toes on a prescribed line, to stand with others in rigid formation, to show one’s belonging to unified group, or to show one’s submission to authority. You may wish to Google the two phrases to familiarize yourself with the etymology of the correct one, “Toe the line.”
Aside from that minor but grating misapprehension, your essay is spot on.
Out of a very well written article which is jam packed with pertinent information you zero in on one mistake and then go out of your way to admonish the author of the article for having made it.
You Auntie, have taken pedantry to a whole new level.
But nevertheless a mistake is a mistake. We don’t want so seem less literate than our opponents, now, do we?
Agreed. My brain exploded when I read that phrase. Please, Thucydides, fix it. This sort of thing makes the resistance seem uneducated, and one thing our opponents are, some of them, is educated. They are, afer all an elite.
It was my fault: I missed it during copy-editing. I’ve fixed it.
kowtower! 😉 (kidding punster)
I have spoken with people who work in the public sector and have experience of the multicultural reality. Most of those do not say in public what they say in private. If they did, they would lose their job and it would be difficult for them to get a new one.
Public sector organizations are managed top-down. There is a disconnect with the perceived reality at the top and the actual reality at the grass roots level. Those who work at higher levels of the organizations rarely have a grasp of the actual situation at the bottom. Typically, news doesn’t travel fast from the lower levels to the top and there is a tendency to suppress information that would make the ruling ideology look bad.
Few people working at the grass roots level have any illusions about multi-culti reality. They rarely step out of line, because they have bills and mortgages to pay for. Thanks to the internet, they no longer have to stay silent but have the opportunity to speak out anonymously and a number of them do just that.
Those with a conscience who find it difficult to work in multicultural environment often tend to seek out jobs with less cultural enrichment rather than speak against the prevailing ideology.
Toeing the party line is not entirely uncommon in the private sector either. There people must also conform to “company values” like sustainability. However, they know well that those are just buzzwords and the company is really in the business of making money.
The real cause of the Rotherham abuse is Leftwing
contempt of the White working class. It wasn’t
“anti-Racism” but racism and class war against the
white families and their children- regarded as
lumpernproletariat or “Useless Mouths”. I don’t
understand why people do not see this for what it
is-
naked ideology typical of the Left- a deliberate
hate fest against the working class of Rotherham
and elsewhere by Socialist revolutionaries against
class that “failed” in their eyes, to do their
Socialist duty by overthrowing Capitalism as
ordered by their “betters” in the 1970s.
The whole edifice of state is rancid with this
vile racist/class hatred ideology-from the Social
worker Kommissars to their Police boot-boys all
programmed with contempt for the families and
class from which these nubile English girls came.
This was a deliberate campaign of hate and
genocide against an entire white community by the
local Soviets.
Talk of fear of “racism” and accusations of
“Islamophobia” is absolute nonsense. All the
“officials” are as guilty as the Pakistani gangs
for whom they kept silence and even procured the
victims for the perprtrators, with the Police
acting as “gatekeepers” while the girls were
stolen and abused. The Police even arrested some
parents for trying to report the cases. That is
not fear but intimidation-a gang racket.
These people, do not feel any guilt
whatsoever-indeed many feel they are in the right!
The Left are all the same.
How do I know they are like this? I have listened
to their talk when I belonged to the Labour Party
at University. They are evil, plain and simply
evil.”
It wasn’t “anti-Racism” but racism and class war against the white families and their children- regarded as lumpernproletariat or “Useless Mouths”.
Agree, the Scots underclass have rumbled that and the probability is that the Labour Party will face annihilation in the 2015 UK general election.
Class war but not as we have known it JIM.
In these times of political correctness and managerialism infected public service agencies the term ‘public’ servant, which may have been true in bygone times, is now part of the lie. For any public service agency has but one client: the politician ultimately in charge, i.e. The Minister, inn. The public servant’s role is to ensure that The Minister looks good and smells sweet. What might be termed clients, e.g. the abused girls, are merely business transactions, widgets if you will.
Leon Trotsky summed up a priori the present situation in all countries as the world plunges ever deeper into economic, political and with it moral crisis:
(begin quote)
“There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.”
Leon Trotsky
Granted Trotsky was dealing with the growing Fascist threat in the 1930s but it was advance thinking in relation to our present woes.
Who would have thought a few years ago that Israel today would be surrounded by ISIL? Who would have thought that Britain would have been besieged by ISIL Jihadists returning to fair Britannia to murder unsuspecting and slumbering Brits? Who would have thought that there would be a US President with one consuming passion, among all his many and insuperable problems, to destroy Israel which gives so much to the world and humanity? Who would have thought that Theresa May would ban Geller and Spencer from Britain – the very land in a different epoch (of relative British prosperity and plenty) – from the shores of Albion?
I would submit that in the face of a thousand threats powerless is the norm.
It is necessary to call things by their right name and the attempt to run Leninism (which is also Trotskyism in its real form) and Stalinism into each other AS IF THERE WAS NO HISTORY (done above) as was done especially by Paul Johnson (Father of Boris) is also the destruction of knowledge.
We do not have Fascism in Britain yet by a long shot. But the destruction of knowledge is the prerequisite for that.
Banning the expertise (real) of Spencer and Geller on Islam, giving a reactionary hash of the 1917 to 1929 period in Russia, these are not wise things to do!
Quote ‘as was done especially by Paul Johnson (Father of Boris) is also the destruction of knowledge.’
Get your facts right ! Paul Johnson is not the Father of Boris Johnson the elected Mayor of London. Boris’s father is the excellent Stanley Johnson. Stanley like his son is a well known Tory maverick.
In fact when Boris was elected Mayor for the first time in 2008 he stood down from his Parliamentary seat at Henley causing a by-election. Nothing like keeping it in the family ! Stanley stood as Tory candidate for his son’s old seat. He won with a large majority. The by-election was famous for Labour getting such a low vote (there aren’t many Socialists in Henley) that they polled less than BNP !
… there aren’t many Socialists in Henley.
The good people of Henley must have confused Stanley Johnson’s highbrow socialist sustainability with conservative conservation or maybe there are socialist in Henley after all.
It is a long article with more to come. But in the midst of it there is waht I can only describe as an impetuous switch
It appears to be what Jared Israel once described as an obligatory dig, he was referring to a dig against Milsoevic, but here it is against Leninism or Trotskyism, as in this:
“But, of course, the answer lies in the system’s relentless spiritual ruination of its citizens, something widespread in the old communist Soviet Union, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn again and again made so apparent.”
My point is there are a hundred other examples of governance but somehow he lights on this one
Fair enough it is a free world. But there is a falseness (A Lie) contained in the above.
What is “the old Communist Soviet Unión”?
Does he mean the Revolution and the Civil War against the Whites which war saved the Jews from genocide? Or does he mean Stalinism which was fought against and which in no way had a clear or easy ride to power?
If anything, what we see today just shows how bad ideology really can be. Doesn’t matter how warm and fluffy its tenants are, if its not grounded in truth, its harmful in one way or another. This also isn’t faithless. Most have great faith that the progressive movement is a paradigm for reaching a more perfect world. It must be true at ANY cost. Just as their religious predecessors, they cant provide a good factual foundation in truth to ground it on, so it must be floated on lies and mental gymnastics. True faithlessness is only accepting what is known to be true and factual, which is nearly impossible for all of us as humans to do with our beliefs and faults.
Well over a decade ago I was a member of the management set in one of Britain’s many public service tentacles. One day, as a means of lightening the tedium of working my way through and closing the pile of case files on my desk, I amused myself for half an hour or so by writing a satire of society’s adherence to the pc world view.
It told the tale of a man who after a bad day at work had called at the pub (naturally!) and had a couple or three to take the edge off before heading for home. When he got there he made himself a cuppa and a sandwich and switched on the telly – he was looking for something to match his mood. All he found was pc propaganda – lurking in every corner of every programme; the not-so hidden agenda.
After the day he’d had this was more than he could take and before he knew it he’d silenced his tv permanently – via the toecap of his boot.
Within seconds of his tv hitting the floor his front door was smashed off its hinges and his lounge invaded by a number of men and women dressed in rainbow-coloured Ku Klux Klan outfits calling themselves the PC Police – they were there for his disrespect of ‘society’s voice’…
Barring the detail, that was about it. I was behind schedule and put my satire (for what it was worth) to one side and forgot about it to return to the task at hand – files.
Two years later I was called into my boss’s office.
The piece of paper on which I’d been scribbling had found its way (filing was never my strongpoint!) into one of the files I’d been in the process of closing. After I’d closed the files they were sent to storage and forgotten. Predictably, as fate would have it, Sod’s law raised its head and the closed file that contained my satire was needed for some reason or another, dug up, and eventually arrived at the appropriate desk.
You can guess the rest. Some jobsworth had read my piece and once s/he’d recovered from the shock had brought it to the attention of their boss who’d etc etc. Handwriting had been compared – I kid you not – the finger pointed to your’s truly, and eventually I was invited in to see the boss.
I readily admitted to the charge (!) and explained that it had been for my own amusement that it was not meant for another’s eyes and that its insertion in the file in question was a complete accident. Senior management decided to suspend me pending an investigation.
After the ‘investigation’ which involved two meetings with my immediate line manager and the service head during which I was grilled about my world view and about my opinion of departmental policy I was instructed to attend ‘diversity and equality training’.
It took me about six months to find a new job.
Interesting story, maninthepub; reminds me of Orwell’s telescreens! I’m not shocked- I had a similar experience with a voluntary organisation 25 years ago, when I refused to attend a “racism awareness course” (anyone who knows me well, or has seen my comments here, will appreciate how ludicrous that was).
It was upsetting at the time; following the death of a gay acquaintance from AIDS, I wanted to befriend others in the same situation, and attended training at the hospice run by London Lighthouse (now defunct), where he’d died. I took exception to black clients being allowed to choose to have helpers from the same group, a privilege denied to whites, so I was apparently non-pc.
Going on your comment, you did not partake of the ‘re-education’? Choosing instead to stand by your principles and leave? If that is the case then bully for you maninthepub! Perhaps if we had more principled ’employers’ and ’employees’ prepared to place their principles above their indoctrination the mess the West now finds itself in would not have occurred.
No I didn’t partake. Curiously enough the date time location and subject matter of my diversity and equality indoctrination never materialised. I’ve often wondered whether this was a function of the incompetence that makes up the spine of public service or whether it was by design.
On balance I tend to think it was intended. My recollection of the two meetings I’d had is that senior management didn’t really have the stomach for the fight. I think (charitably maybe) that they’d been put on the spot by the complainant and thus had to (whether they wanted to or not) go through the formality of suspension etc because of the nature of the crime – ie questioning liberal orthodoxy.
“Had anyone asked Alcibiades why he was faithless, he would have been amused rather than offended, certain that his inquisitor was naïve, both about the ways of the world and in the assumption that someone as gifted and remarkable as Alcibiades should be circumscribed by the banal moral conventions that governed the behavior of others.
What is new is not the self-interested faithlessness, but the layers and layers of psychological self-deception designed to hide it.”
The essence of Western Civilization is contained in the tenets of Christianity, one of the most important of which is Humility. The recognition of our flawed nature and the necessity of “Rebirth” are based upon the belief that the “unexamined life” is dominated by an overarching Ego, the nature of which is that it believes itself to be the center of the universe. All should bow to its superiority and recognize its magnificence. Thus one can justify any action; murder, theft, deceit, and trickery are all justified because of one’s superiority. Banal moral conventions fall by the wayside.
The beginning of true wisdom begins in accepting the fact that one is not inherently better than others. In fact, one may be infinitely worse. Humility is the word that best describes this new state. Only then can one begin to learn that self-congratulation and egomania are the true enemies of society that create circumstances such as in Rotherham.
“Had anyone asked Alcibiades why he was faithless, he would have been amused rather than offended, certain that his inquisitor was naïve, both about the ways of the world and in the assumption that someone as gifted and remarkable as Alcibiades should be circumscribed by the banal moral conventions that governed the behavior of others.
What is new is not the self-interested faithlessness, but the layers and layers of psychological self-deception designed to hide it.”
The essence of Western Civilization is contained in the tenets of Christianity, one of the most important of which is humility. The recognition of our flawed nature and the necessity of rebirth are based upon the belief that the “unexamined life” is dominated by an overarching Ego, the nature of which is that it believes itself to be the center of the universe. All should bow to the superiority and recognize the magnificence of the individual Ego. Thus, one can rationalize any action: murder, theft, deceit, and trickery are all justified because of one’s obvious supremacy. Banal moral conventions fall by the wayside.
The beginning of true wisdom begins in accepting the fact that one is not inherently better than others are. In fact, one may be infinitely worse. Humility is essential, not adherence to any form of group-speak. Only then can one begin to learn that self-congratulation and egomania are the true enemies of society that created the self-interested faithlessness displayed by the public servants in Rotherham. Western Civilization used to recognize this and structured its political forms to prevent the dominance of Egotism in whatever form. However, modern multi-culturists have abandoned ancient wisdom in favor of political convenience.
Please forgive me for providing this Sunday’s sermon.
Yes Barney, that is why Christianity is under constant attack and being destroyed slowly from within and from without.
This article is interesting, but I’ll have to read it again to understand it. The comments I can’t quite digest, either.
I find it impossible to believe that the individual person, as opposed to the group, has no moral foundations, be they evil or good. I found Rotherham shocking and could not believe such a thing could happen in England. But it did.
Oh, a note to Adam: tenets, not tenants!
Mariadee, I have written many lengthy articles and do my own editing when finished. I have a system whereby I re-read the article six times before publishing just to catch any mistakes missed from the previous reading. Even after a decade of such editing procedures, I still find mistakes in my original articles when I read them. Please take into consideration what I have written and think about it before taking to task those authors who are only human and do make mistakes.
The clarity and truth in this article is stunningly beautiful. I say that as a writer and a person of faith. I look forward to the next installment.
The situation in the USA is fast approaching that of the UK. The widespread rejection of a belief in the diabolical, even among Christians, has so weakened the ability to resist evil that “good is evil and evil is good,” as Scripture avers.
The “delight of faithlessness” infects society from top to bottom. Having had recourse through my family members to both the top and bottom of society (while myself existing somewhere in the middle) I find the members with the most education, the most money and stability, those with status and authority are also the most blind, the most brainwashed, and always willing to toe the ideological line.
Other relatives who exist at the bottom, who can barely support themselves, who lack stability in their personal lives, to be the ones most open to the truth and to questioning their ideology. They know something is wrong with the system (both State and Church), but lack the facilities to change either their own lives or effect change in society beyond agitating.
The middle, my group, I find to be sleeping. Their dreams may be disturbing, but they refuse to awaken. A great pity.
The devil, cunning fellow, has won over the leaders of society who now do his bidding without thinking. The middle slumbers and is of little consequence at the moment except to allow evil to flourish. The bottom are agitated, leaderless except for the devil’s minions.
The death of the West continues to approach.
In England:-
The Beginnings
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait,
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date,
That the English began to hate.
(Rudyard Kipling)
Indeed, most appropriate and foreboding for the times.
All cultures are equally valid and valuable. This rot goes back to the roots of postmodernism and we can thank Rousseau, Kant and Marx for that along with….Foucault, Derrida and all the others. The Enlightenment did wonders but it didn’t defend itself completely. We need to re-argue its premises and win. Socialism failed and postmodernism and nihilism is the Left’s strategy to deal with this crisis. An great read on this is Stephen Hicks’s “Explaining Postmodernism”.
Postmodernism tore a social wound in us that Islam was able to crawl into and infect. We need to both kill the infection and heal the wound.
But why such a lack of resistance, and willingness to succumb to groupthink?! At my previous job as a travel agent in London, the staff – be it black, white or Arab – were all too willing to air their views (mostly negative) about the tidal wave of immigration they were witnessing every day.
Yet in other places, there is a tendency not to “rock the boat” and keep quiet (sometimes, I’m guilty of that too). perhaps the politically correct (and maybe militant left) culture at councils such as Rotherham may mean that anyone deviating from the norm is in a tiny minority – but what if, in a normal place of work, one expresses a viewpoint not in line with the PC orthodoxy! At first, one may get shunned, humiliated or sent on diversity training courses… but if such a person persevered enough, could this not encourage others to also speak out? In order to deconstruct any prevailing viewpoint, it’s necessary to challenge it. This was equally true in the 1950s, when the multi-kulti brigade were perhaps in a minority, as it is today…
Therefore, must we not make more of an effort to make known what we think, in an unashamed fashion? even if it means sticking our heads above the parapet, and exposing ourselves to the possibility of a diversity training course…
Interesting article, although “faithless”, a term more appropriately applied to individuals, is probably not an adequate description of the current malaise, perhaps ‘anomie’ is more accurate.
The West’s political elites have painted themselves into a corner with the introduction of institutionalised multiculturalism and are too arrogant to admit it, regardless of its corrosive effects on our societies. I agree with the earlier comments in regard to “Diversity training” the term has acquired an entirely sinister connotation. One of the most effective control mechanisms of the Nazi regime was the creation of “block leaders”, party apparatchiks who supervised, reported on, and ‘corrected’, the behaviour of the population on a daily basis. The Gestapo wasn’t necessary most of the time.
Good morning Mister Blue, we’ve got our eyes on you.
The evidence is clear, that you’ve been scheming.
You like to steal away and while away the day.
You like to spend an hour dreaming.
What will it take, to whip you into line?
A broken heart?
A broken head?
It can be arranged.
It can be arranged.
Step softly Mister Blue, we know what’s best for you.
We know where your precious dreams will take you.
You’ve got a slot to fill, and fill that slot you will.
You’ll learn to love it, or we’ll break you.
Oh, what will it take, to whip you into line?
A broken heart?
A broken head?
It can be arranged.
It can be arranged.
Be careful Mister Blue this phase you’re going through,
Can lead you nowhere else, but to disaster.
Excuse us while we grin, you’ve worn our patience thin.
It’s time to show you who’s your master.
What will it take, to whip you into line?
A broken heart?
A broken head?
It can be arranged.
It can be arranged.
Don’t worry Mister Blue, we’ll take good care of you.
Just think of it as sense and not surrender.
But never think again, that you can think again,
Or you’ll get something you’ll remember.
What will it take to whip you into line?
A broken heart?
A broken head?
It can be arranged.
It can be arranged.
Oops missed the author. For our younger brethren and sisterhood – It was Tom Paxton.
A very good read and another valid point of view that needs to be taken on board by those who wish to see this current ‘social experiment’ over with and never again repeated.
I look forward to the next instalment. Perhaps the author has in mind another form or system for future government to replace the current system that has failed us all completely. Democracy as we know it has failed, it needs a radical overhaul or the system will face an unwanted (by those who rule) bloody revolution.
“What is new is the ideological buttressing, the almost gnostic-like belief in their privileged esoteric insight, the need to disguise the narcissism and self-interest, the idealistic justifications.
Combined, these create an almost impenetrable fortress, one beyond the reach of argument, beyond the reach of shame or guilt, beyond contrition for the dreadful results that follow from their faithless actions and inactions.
As a result, the usual means for arousing remorse and penitent conversion will rarely work with those infected with contemporary self-interested faithlessness.”
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See Thomas Sowell’s “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social/dp/046508995X
A summarized trainee’s experience of faithfulessness, link at bottom part
The ethically-cleansed, ethnically compliant………..cultural indoctrination……………
Education has always been the battlefield on which culture wars are fought, and if we are to avoid a future of cultural separatism in this country [world], it is imperative that we end the systematic indoctrination of teachers and students…..
In every [government institutions] interview, applicants are asked about their relationship to,,,,,,,,, their loyalty to ‘,,,,,,,,, principles’. There is something vaguely inquisitional about the framing of these questions, and suspicion falls upon any applicant who diverts from the official line….
At the conclusion of the interview, I was thanked for my honesty; but as subsequent events would demonstrate, there are limits to how much honesty these people are willing to tolerate……….
It’s about the cultural brainwashing programme that has turned every ,,,,,,,,,,,, teacher into a propaganda parrot for primitivism.
Forced to conclude that his preference for truth, civilisation and racial equality has made him a pariah to the pinko, pagan-worshipping, West-hating educational elite in his homeland[a western country], last Saturday he boarded a plane to go teaching in a country that values his knowledge more highly.
Teacher training – if we are to avoid separatism, must end systematic indoctrination.
I shall describe the cultural indoctrination to which trainee teachers are subjected and the flow-on effect this has on school culture and classroom learning.
A trip to a local ,,,,,,,,,, is customary, ,,,,,,,,,,,elder conducts the usual ceremonies and formalities,
……… not sure what authority he possessed to make this pronouncement,
All of this may seem fairly harmless, and even fun, in a naïve, let’s-all-pretend-to-be
However, as lectures commenced, it became apparent that this veneer of ………… identity masks something much more sinister.
PRINCIPLES’ AND THE CURRICULUM
Within our education system, the …….Curriculum enjoys the status of a revealed text, and ‘………principles’ constitute the moral code. (Commandments, if you will.)
Reminiscent of the worst totalitarian dictatorships,
only trainees prepared to parrot the state’s primitivist
dogma are permitted to teach …………..children.
In innumerable essays ,,,,,,,,,, endorse the Vision, Principles, Values, Key Competencies and Pedagogy contained within.
References to ‘,,,,,,,,,, principles’ abound in these sections of the curriculum.
Woe betide any trainee teacher who points out that the word ‘partnership’ does not appear in the ,,,,,,,,,,,
Scholarly writing of such low-level, cringe-making quality is typical of many of the texts that trainee teachers are forced to read and to quote from.
Teacher training – Three Rs Read, Revere, Regurgitate
The three ‘R’s that are taught in our teacher training institutes are ‘Read,’ ‘Revere’ and ‘Regurgitate’.
This is especially true in the case of ………University Professor of ……… Education ……… ………: a crashing charlatan whose academic output is a staple of the current teacher training programmes.
Every trainee teacher must study …….‘Culturally Responsive Pedagogy of Relations,’ which informs both the …….Effective Teaching Profile and the ………… Cultural Competencies for Teachers of…………Learners document.
………. claims that the guiding idea of his life’s work is encapsulated in the following quote:
“This then is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.
The oppressors, who oppress [drone?], exploit [oil?] and rape [democratize] by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves.
Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.”
– Paolo Freire
In essence,…….. contribution is the development of a race-based pedagogy built around a series of ,,,,,,,,,metaphors.
Educational underachievement among ,,,,,,, is attributed to negative student-teacher relations, and something called ‘deficit theory’: low expectations of ,,,,,, learners based on negative cultural stereotypes.
Echoing Paolo Freire’s great insight, …………coined the following slogan for his culturally-responsive pedagogy:
“what is good for everyone is not always good for …….; but what is good for ………. is good for everyone.”
THE SILENT MAJORITY
Teacher training – parrot – complicit are the meek
Given the time and money that they had invested in the teacher training programme, it is perhaps understandable that they should have acquiesced in the propaganda.
Most of them were simply focused on passing the course so that they could enter the teaching profession and establish a career.
But what I always found so appalling was the ease and complacency with which my classmates collaborated with the establishment.
They were willing to overlook the systematic indoctrination, and their complicity caused them no compunction.
They acted without regard for the integrity of our education system, and without regard for the educational opportunities of our young learners.
If these people were really invested in the future of our country, its people and its schools, they should have felt much more inclined to stick their necks out.
Cowardice and passivity of this kind cannot be sufficiently condemned.
It is the complicity of trainee teachers that has perpetuated the problems in our education system – and yet this state of affairs is entirely avoidable.
Teacher training – Resistance would be Useful2
Student teachers: will you join the resistance?
If trainee teachers put up even the slightest resistance, [will have to be in good numbers and to roll the msm] there is no way that teacher training programmes could continue in their present form.
But year after year, no one speaks out.
Let us not forget that Dante reserved one of the fieriest corners of his inferno for those who, in a time of moral crisis, try to stay neutral.
Neutrality – hottest places in Hell for those who in moral crisis preserve their… President John F Kennedy paraphrasing Dante.
A disturbing feature of culturalism in education is that it breaks down the essential distinction between local knowledge, acquired at home, and disciplinary knowledge, acquired at school.
Disciplinary knowledge is based on objective truth and universal principles. It broadens the mind by taking students beyond themselves and beyond their immediate environment.
The culturalist approach of making ethnicity relevant to classroom learning undermines disciplinary knowledge and cuts students off from the international community.
This is especially true in the exciting new era of online education where the proliferation of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and websites like the ‘Khan Academy,’ are democratizing knowledge like never before.
The influence of these resources is set to grow, bringing the best teachers in the world to the widest possible audience, and creating a level playing field for all students.
Online education is reinforcing the primacy of disciplinary knowledge and accelerating a linguistic convergence towards the language of academia, English.I am doubtful as the UN will eventually have global control,though for me at the moment GoV is good. 😉
Here I will stop, as there is still a lot more. Though it is a different issue, sometimes it is good to see a parallel, to take time and see the reflection in a different topic.
Though not exact, one can possibly see what is happening and perhaps with a fresh frame find new understanding so lead to new approaches, and actions.
I fear I have taken more copy/paste and some repeated, though I have mainly summarized to the same problem we are here to discuss.
I have also redacted the actual names and issues, just so as to not complicate with our issues
And so get the full context the link is,
http://treatygate.wordpress.com/
where it also continues with comments.
Also it runs much more than just teachers, but goes deeply through government departments such as health, corrections [judiciary] media etc.
With thanks to Thucydides for the “faithlessness” essay, as it runs through all our institutions, and is going through so many countries.
Great thanks to Baron and Dymphna
I fear my above comment may appear to be too long, as I only read 2 days ago and so was “full of it”, and felt strongly how I also related to Thucydides’s essay, in all of my frustrations. So if need reduce it , and leave the link.
It is really just a series of snippets from that essay that a thoughtful teacher trainee wrote up, so might be better to go straight to the link, as I may have been too “heavy handed” with shortening and “redactions” . It should then make more sense and plus you will get more context.
I struggled with this English not my Mother tongue. But I submit a quote.
“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.”
A superb article, looking forward to reading the next. Thank you for articulating what many of us feel, about how our country is going here in the U.K.