Sowell and the Point of No Return
Via Ace, Thomas Sowell gets to the root of a topic I’ve brought up on a couple of occasions regarding the Muslim psychotics. First, the crux:
After we, or our children and grandchildren, find ourselves living at the mercy of people with no mercy, what will future generations think of us, that we let this happen because we wanted to placate “world opinion” by not acting “unilaterally”?
We are fast approaching the point of no return.
This closer sums the theme of much of what is being mulled over by many Americans in general and conservatives in particular. The root that Sowell deals with, that of human envy, or as he puts it, the inevitable outcome of such envy in humiliation, is the unifying element that his research into human sociopolitical dynamics has sometimes captured in the person of “middleman minorities.”
Humiliation and hate go together. Why humiliation? Because a once-proud, dynamic culture in the forefront of world civilizations, and still carrying a message of their own superiority to “infidels” today, is painfully visible to the whole world as a poverty-stricken and backward region, lagging far behind in virtually every field of human endeavor.
In this case, it is less about the middlemen minorities and more about the humiliation of lost, and ultimately unrecoverable, glory, but the canker of envy is still there.
There is no way that they can catch up in a hundred years, even if the rest of the world stands still. And they are not going to wait a hundred years to vent their resentments and frustrations at the humiliating position in which they find themselves.
This same envy-begets-humiliation-begets-hatred is apparent in the rabid anti-Americanism of Europe, where their once-proud and dynamic past is darkened by their stagnant and hemophilic present.
There’s quite a bit of social pathology at work both on the arab street and on the Left, here in America and abroad. It’s becoming tedious to keep up with who will go further to destroy Western civilization, the infantilized hyper-violent zombies or their weak-minded apologists in the West. Like some kind of creepy lovers’ suicide pact involving cannibalism.
Probably needs more cowbell.
