tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24104134954472362292024-03-13T07:02:22.542-07:00Philosopher Kinrogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-53498855248760190122020-09-26T09:30:00.000-07:002020-09-26T09:30:21.281-07:00<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1984 Revisited & Reinterpreted</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">George Orwell’s distopian novel,1984, was published just weeks after I was born in 1949. He based it on his knowledge & experience of 1930s fascism & communism, which he projected onto a future Britain - as a warning.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1949, the year, 1984, was 35 years in the future. Now, in 2020, it is 36 years in the past. Orwell would have chosen the title some time before it was actually published, so the year 1984 is very close to being midway between then & now. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">What Orwell fails to make clear is that Big Brother did not suddenly appear with fascism & communism, but has always been with us, ever since the first states & civilisations emerged from a tribally organised society, which members of a cognative elite have always sought to control to their own advantage, using whatever means of power they had at their disposal.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Medieval Europe was also dominated by Big Brother, primarily in the form & ideology of the Catholic Church, which provided the brains & wielded the power of the Word, i.e. moral authority, based on priestly interpretation of sacred scripture, but in need of physical protection by a warrior class (the “nobility”, in Orwellian newspeak), which provided the muscle & wielded the power of the sword, which it sometimes used to defy Church authority. It was an uneasy, but effective alliance.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Orwell did not foresee how, in the aftermath of WW2 & the defeat of Nazism, Big Brother would embrace liberal democracy, anti-fascism & anti-racism as a means of acquiring moral authority for himself & his minions, along with the power (formerly wielded by the Catholic Church) than comes with it.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The state conflates and confounds VERY different aspects of the original tribal environment in which human nature evolved, long before the first states and civilisations emerged from it, with the modern "nation state" now deceitfully posing as our tribe or nation (intra- and inter-tribal environment) itself, while at the same time facilitating society’s self-exploitation (as an extra-tribal environment, on a par with the natural environment, which we are also exploiting to destruction) to the personal advantage of its ruling elites and favoured (especially wealthy and academic/formerly priestly) clients, at the expense of society at large & future generations.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is where we are in 2020: not really free, as most academics believe & teach we are in liberal democracy, but enslaved - rich & poor, Black & White, high & low IQ alike - to Big Brother & the Matrix of state & capital. Those with the highest IQs being the most able at rationalising a system which works very well for them personally & thus gives them the sense of being free & privileged, which, relatively speaking, they are, though ultimately still enslaved.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This why we have failed to rise to the challenge of implimenting a Sustainability Revolution, the existential need for which we were warned about in the 1970s. Instead, our grossly materialistic, mercenary, rapacious, driven, & thus inherently unsustainable, global economy was put into super-global & turbo mode, which put us firmly on the path towards to civilisational suicide, but which most members of our cognative elites succeeded in rationalising, along with the madness of mass immigration into the West & DIVERSITY, which is Orwellian newspeak (thus my use of capitals) for a global melting pot, the destroyer of genuine human diversity, which is a product of pre-modern Natural Segregation.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">DIVERSITY is an ideology, which also goes under the names of post-racial multiculturalism & Anti-racism, and goes to the opposite but equally insane extremes of Nazi ideology of racial purity & supremacy. It is rooted in White racial self-denial, self-contempt & self-hatred, which was an overreaction to the evils of Nazism (esp. on the part of traumatised Jews), before being weaponised by Big Brother & his minions as a strategy of divide & rule.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">It divides society into a morally superior, now supposedly non-tribal, unprejudiced, "colour-blind" and xenophilic elite, on the one hand, and the morally inferior, naturally (evolved human nature being what it is) tribal, prejudiced, not colour-blind, but nativist and xenophobically-inclined masses, on the other, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors”. A tribal and thus moral animal like ourselves can be manipulated and controlled by a regime of moral rewards & intimidation, as well as by one of material or physical rewards & intimidation, which in practice complement each other.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is, in effect, a modern, secular replacement for the power-political role of medieval church ideology. Original sin (disobedience of divine, i.e. priestly, authority) has been replaced by "racial prejudice" (a natural human inclination - like original sin - to identity with members of one's own tribe, ethnic group or race, which was made responsible for Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust), which only submission to priestly/academic/state ideology and authority can save us from eternal damnation for, not as heathens and heretics, as in the past, but as bigots, xenophobes, nativists or racists.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The existential question we need to answer now & with some urgency, if we want our civilisation to survive & prosper, is how to liberate ourselves?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">We need academics & other members of our cognative elites, whom we cannot do without, to recognise their own ignorance and enslavement, owing to their dependency on Big Brother & the Matrix of state & capital, which makes us ALL his minions, including those who have been awarded the Orwell Prize; people, like the eminent British journalist, David Aaronovitch, who has accused me of being a RACIST for failing to identity with multi-racial Britain as my nation. I wanted to discuss this issue with him, but he refused & “cancelled” me.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is very liberal and rational on most issues, which is why I wanted to discuss the issue of race & national identity with him, but when it comes to state racial ideology, I discovered, he is very illiberal & in fact quite Orwellian, telling others, as he told me, how they should & shouldn’t feel & think about race, which he clearly considers necessary in order to prevent the rise of fascism & racism, having failed to recognise and been taken in by Big Brother posing as an anti-fascist & anti-racist himself.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Obviously, we can’t do away with the state, no matter how Orwellian it may be; and most states are far more Orwellian than Britain, where at least I have the freedom to point all this out & to propose solutions without being disappeared or locked up - provided my proposals are peaceful, legal & democratic, of course, which they are. But I will come to these in a follow-up piece.</span></p>rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-16072518879396059102019-05-02T09:56:00.000-07:002019-07-22T02:04:43.291-07:00<br />
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<span style="color: black;">It's a pretty chaotic list, which I created for my own use. Many of the titles are incomplete. Some I've linked to a lot, others hardly at all. Some I'm very pleased with, others less so. But anyway, here they are, for anyone who is interested to take a look at.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The state has always rewarded: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1008227827945213952">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1008227827945213952</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A link to my own ideas: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1009346033703444480">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1009346033703444480</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">United we stand, divided we fall: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1008639603757248512">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1008639603757248512</a></span></div>
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The Nazis were beholden to a misconceived, nasty & fanatical racial ideology: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1012987161409355776"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1012987161409355776</span></a></div>
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Why <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLK?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#MLK</span></a>'s Dream of a colour-blind society has led to a race-relations nightmare: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1013064772714156038"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1013064772714156038</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">A <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SustainabilityRevolution?src=hash">Sustainability Revolution</a></span> & a revolution which puts an end to divide & rule: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1013749962637807616">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1013749962637807616</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It's OK to be RACIST: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1017013266575446017">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1017013266575446017</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The <span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">JewishQuestion:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1016983165985021952">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1016983165985021952</a></span></div>
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A nationalist/identitarian manifesto for a new world order: <span style="color: #dca10d;"><a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1015693451655024640">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1015693451655024640</a></span></div>
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Western democracies are beholden to an ideology of white racial self-denial: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1017345329241427973"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1017345329241427973</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Peak DIVERSITY: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1018382474777448449">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1018382474777448449</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Jewish psychopathology: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1018382478006996992">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1018382478006996992</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Consumer-capitalism is premised: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1015693454809141248">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1015693454809141248</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">George Soros: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1019636850670080001">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1019636850670080001</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This thread is about MORAL AUTHORITY: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1022754840546557958">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1022754840546557958</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When does the civil war in the UK actually start? <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440154402611201">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440154402611201</a></span></div>
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With our elites all committed to putting an end to white majority rule in the UK civil war is likely: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440156487217152"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440156487217152</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">These states are anti-nationalist: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440167459532800">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440167459532800</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Opposing the Pot & the states which have embraced it, is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Contrapot?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#Contrapot</span></a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440172564008962">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440172564008962</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">These are revolutionary ideas: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440176871550976">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440176871550976</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">UNCOMMON SENSE vs Common Sense: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1027823337676959744">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1027823337676959744</a></span></div>
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With our elites committed to putting an end to white majority rule within about 50 years, the likelihood of civil war is high: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440156487217152"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1025440156487217152</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Jews & white racial self-denial & self-contempt: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1031113198152372225">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1031113198152372225</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">What forces are behind the anti-white attitudes? <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1032910252222636034">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1032910252222636034</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The State, The Matrix & Me: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/994115955302260736">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/994115955302260736</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Britain is the Matrix: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1035814311325782016">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1035814311325782016</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In this thread, I compare the state with </span><span style="color: black; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">The Matrix: </span><span style="color: black;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1045233491875713024">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1045233491875713024</a></span></div>
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<span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DIVERSITY?src=hash">DIVERSITY</a></span><span style="color: black; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> is Orwellian newspeak for melting pot: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1040867916785299457">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1040867916785299457</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The "nation state" has failed us: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1055005538386358273">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1055005538386358273</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In a radio discussion about immigration: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1053533845411319808">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1053533845411319808</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Nationalism & socialism are on the rise once again: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1089086607813197824">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1089086607813197824</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WarOnWhiteness?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#WarOnWhiteness</span></a> is a continuation of the war against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nazism?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#Nazism</span></a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1037965736566829056">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1037965736566829056</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BarbaraRoche?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">BarbaraRoche</span></a>, Tony Blair's Minister for Asylum & Immigration: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1037627817536774149">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1037627817536774149</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Left hates nationalism & the Right hates socialism: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1038643499548266496">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1038643499548266496</a></span></div>
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Why do the "far right" & liberal-left academics view immigration & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DIVERSITY?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#DIVERSITY</span></a> from such different perspectives? <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1039416833693163520"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1039416833693163520</span></a></div>
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Socialism will only work when it develops grassroots-democratically: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1041948150712414208"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1041948150712414208</span></a></div>
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A political party that is liberal, nationalist, or rather, multi-nationalist, socialist & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/contrapot?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#contrapot</span></a>,: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1044224624001789952"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1044224624001789952</span></a></div>
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The British state has committed itself to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DIVERSITY?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#DIVERSITY</span></a>, in response to which . . : <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1044570217114988544"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1044570217114988544</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">America's founding fathers were the original <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteNationalists?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#WhiteNationalists</span></a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1045934074060263424">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1045934074060263424</a></span></div>
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Under these flags an end is being put to white majority rule in the West: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1044576547556986880"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1044576547556986880</span></a></div>
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I've just thought of an analogy to help academics overcome their abhorrence at the thought of applying Darwinian logic to human society: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1049209556855914496"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1049209556855914496</span></a></div>
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Are you a Native, white, Briton who struggles to identify with multi-racial, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/multicultural?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#multicultural</span></a> Britain as your nation? <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1049378399213506563"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1049378399213506563</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Why should anyone over 60 care? <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1048830443896934400">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1048830443896934400</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In Defense of Andes Breivik: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1047905418549374976">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1047905418549374976</a></span></div>
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Britain, one of the world's oldest & most eminent "nation states”: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1053552158849859584"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1053552158849859584</span></a></div>
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The differences of political opinion & attitude between <a href="https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">@DAaronovitch</span></a> & myself are profound: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1057537884654317568"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1057537884654317568</span></a></div>
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Why is fascism always assumed to be not just evil, but also of evil intent? <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059037488105316353"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059037488105316353</span></a></div>
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It is no coincidence that we are taught to trivialise, ridicule or demonise human tribalism: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059373721809510400"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059373721809510400</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As favoured clients & employees of the state themselves: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1035814316434509825">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1035814316434509825</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Jewish?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#Jewish</span></a> view of the world: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059373719284576256">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059373719284576256</a></span></div>
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It is no coincidence that we are taught, subliminally, to trivialise, ridicule or demonise human tribalism: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059373721809510400"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059373721809510400</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We can learn to live harmoniously with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/racial?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#racial</span></a> differences: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1064804279893020672">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1064804279893020672</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">White Britons 'will be minority' by 2066, says professor: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10032296/White-Britons-will-be-minority-by-2066-says-professor.html">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10032296/White-Britons-will-be-minority-by-2066-says-professor.html</a></span></div>
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It corrupted the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Catholic?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#Catholic</span></a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anglican?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#Anglican</span></a> churches, whose "business model", so-to-speak, is their claim to moral authority: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1065877364004007937"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1065877364004007937</span></a></div>
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This is the first draft of the first part of the party manifesto of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Contrapot?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#Contrapot</span></a>-UK: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1074238587896508416"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1074238587896508416</span></a></div>
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You can subjugate a population by force of arms or by means of moral intimidation: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1077886730152353793"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1077886730152353793</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Today is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HolocaustMemorialDay?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#HolocaustMemorialDay</span></a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1089453961852186624">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1089453961852186624</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Western society is being screwed by its academic elites: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091299974414041088">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091299974414041088</a></span></div>
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Antisemitism or "Jew hatred" is a TRIBAL response to PERCEIVED Jewish tribalism: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091613236036882432"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091613236036882432</span></a></div>
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More big reasons why Jewish & European history cannot be separated: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091631887804698625"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091631887804698625</span></a></div>
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The persistent inspiration for socialism, as for nationalism, is deeply rooted in evolved human nature: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1089084675681931264"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1089084675681931264</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Is there a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JewishConspiracy?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#JewishConspiracy</span></a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteGenocide?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#WhiteGenocide</span></a>,: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1092365169169178624">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1092365169169178624</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Grassroots-Democratic Multi-National Socialism: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1093080789837856769">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1093080789837856769</a></span></div>
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I thought it might be interesting to compare myself to Jesus: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1093185602806259712"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1093185602806259712</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">You are an inspiration Greta: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091994130182533120">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1091994130182533120</a></span></div>
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Altruism surely evolved to serve the well-being & survival of our own tribe or nation <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1101091791061876738"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1101091791061876738</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In defence of national socialism: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1103186400495706112">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1103186400495706112</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">White nationalism is NOT an ideology, but an IDENTITY: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1106832976283877377">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1106832976283877377</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In Defence of Brenton Tarrant: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1109019982439026690">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1109019982439026690</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I am <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheOne?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#TheOne</span></a>, here to liberate humanity from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheMatrix?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#TheMatrix</span></a> of state & capital: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1109784287103123461">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1109784287103123461</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The biggest threat to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WesternCivilisation?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#WesternCivilisation</span></a> does not come from fascists: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1110831604434378752">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1110831604434378752</a></span></div>
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The problem with <span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">capitalism </span>is that it prioritises profit over people: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1114076307422437379"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1114076307422437379</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The way people are classified: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1118449001672650752">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1118449001672650752</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1118815893964906496">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1118815893964906496</a></span></div>
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The social sciences are now in urgent & existential need of their own Copernican Revolution: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1121681062730457092"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1121681062730457092</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Where the West went wrong: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1122416081237434368">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1122416081237434368</a></span></div>
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Ashkenazi Jews are KEY to the survival of western civilisation: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1123518350733250560"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1123518350733250560</span></a></div>
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Medieval academics threatened people with eternal damnation: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1123626103443267585"><span style="color: #dca10d;">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1123626103443267585</span></a></div>
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<span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nationalism?src=hash">#Nationalism</a></span><span style="color: black; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/socialism?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#socialism</span></a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/anarchism?src=hash"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#anarchism</span></a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1123990598141267969">https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1123990598141267969</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In your book, Harmony, you say the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>“The Earth is under threat”. It cannot cope with all that we demand of it . . . If we want to hand on to our children and grandchildren a much more durable way of operating in the world, then we have to embark on what I can only describe as a ‘Sustainability Revolution’ - and with some urgency”.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I agree entirely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Influenced - like you, I suspect - by books such as E F Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful, Meadow’s The Limits to Growth, and Herbert Gruhl’s Ein Planet wird Gepündert (We are Plundering our Planet), the whole essence of which is contained in its title, I came to this same conclusion in the early 1970s - more than 40 years ago!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Clearly, you were also an early convert to the realisation that we couldn’t carry on as we were, but needed a radical change of values and behaviour, in respect to the economy and the grossly materialistic lifestyles and lifestyle aspirations it engendered and depended on. We were placing an increasingly unsustainable drain and strain on the finite natural resources and carrying capacity of our vulnerable and already (even back then) overpopulated planet, which the very survival of our civilisation clearly depended on us putting an end to. There HAD to be a Sustainability Revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I was young and naively expected those in positions of power and influence to recognise this too and take appropriate action. I was greatly encouraged by many eminent individuals, including yourself, who clearly shared my perspective and concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When I eventually realised that, despite all the fine words and good intentions, the radical change of course towards a sustainable economy and ways of life wasn’t happening, and wasn’t going to happen (on the contrary, the socio-economic order of consumer capitalism responsible in the West for our suicidal direction of travel, was emphatically endorsed by our leaders and put into “turbo mode”), I set my mind to trying to understand the cause of such madness. How could such an intelligent race as our own, capable of putting men on the Moon, be so blind and stupid when it came to the existential need to develop a sustainable global economy and ways of life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It took a long time, but eventually I discovered what I believe to be the answer. Again, despite being older and wiser, I naively expected those in positions of authority in academia, to recognise the importance of my discovery; but again - thus far, at least - this hasn’t happened. When I’ve tried to communicate my insights and ideas to academics and others, they have not listened, or, if they have, have dismissed them, usually with distain as a form of “social Darwinism” - which I’ll come back to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The obvious explanation for my ideas being ignored or dismissed is, of course, that they are rubbish, that I am deluding myself about their importance. After all, who am I to judge? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Then again, who is anyone to judge? We look to academics as authorities in understanding the human condition and situation, but as my discovery (which is indeed based on a human-evolutionary, i.e. Darwinian, perspective) reveals, it is a mistake to expect academics to have a realistic understanding of the society, state and economy they themselves, like everyone else, are utterly dependent on, and thus quite incapable of viewing objectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Undeterred by the lack of academic interest in my ideas, I’ve continued to develop them and explore their implications for understanding human nature and behaviour (individual, social, political and economic) which evolved, in the natural and very tribal environment as it existed for human beings long before the first states and civilisations emerged from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From what I know of your views, you look to “old wisdom” as your main source of inspiration in facing up to the existential challenge of achieving a Sustainability Revolution, while my inspiration is based on the relatively “new wisdom” generally associated with the name of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. I don’t reject the “old wisdom”, where it makes good sense, but see it as part of our historical heritage, which is a mixed bag of ideas and values, which need to be assessed very critically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Abrahamic idea of man being a sinner, i.e. a fallen angel, for having disobeyed divine (i.e. priestly/state) authority is a very bad idea, or at least, one well past its sell-by date. I see man very differently, as an aspiring ape. We have to rise above our primitive Darwinian nature, but first we must acknowledge and develop an understanding of it, rather than making it a taboo, which a previous generation of academics did in overreaction to the Nazis having hijacked and abused, for their own evil purposes, the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So, what does an evolutionary, i.e. Darwinian, perspective tell us about ourselves and our situation, which academics, because of their self-interested blindness to the true nature of the state and the taboo they themselves put in place, are missing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">First of all, it tells us that the human brain must have evolved to want (subconsciously more than consciously) to maintain the environment on which it depends and has been “successful” in. Clearly, we ALL depend on the socio-economic status quo and don’t want it changing to our own personal disadvantage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This means that everyone who is anyone in society, whose “success” within it has given them any degree of power or influence, is the least inclined to want radical change. Or if, like you, they recognise the vital need for radical change, they will, nevertheless, still be subconsciously very much inclined to envisage only the kind of changes which preserve their own privileged position within the changed socioeconomic order/environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This is a difficult obstacle to get around, rather like trying to jump over one’s own shadow. We have to trick our brain into recognising what it (subconsciously) doesn’t want to recognise, either ignoring or rationalising it. It is a difficult trick to pull off, not least, because we can never be sure that we have succeeded, are not just rationalising and deceiving ourselves at a deeper level. We have to remain sceptical and self-critical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If I feel with some confidence that I have got closer than most to the truth, it is because mainstream (academic) understanding of the human condition and situation is so badly misconceived, the academic brain being no different from other human brains in respect to its inclination to rationalise the state and status quo to suit its own, personal, self-interests. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Like their medieval predecessors and counterparts, academics are privileged clients and employees of their respective "patron state", with a massive personal self-interest (subconscious more than conscious) in rationalising and defending its role, self-image (as a "nation") and ideologies (social, political, economic and racial/formerly religious), on which the state bases its claims to moral and knowledgeable authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Secondly, a human-evolutionary perspective reveals how the state and the society associated with it conflate and confound very different aspects of the original tribal environment in which human nature evolved, with the so-called “nation state” now deceitfully posing as our tribe or nation (intra- and inter-tribal environment) itself, while at the same time facilitating society’s SELF-exploitation (as an extra-tribal environment, on a par with the natural environment) to the personal advantage of its ruling elites and favoured (especially wealthy and academic/formerly priestly) clients, at the expense of society at large and its long-term survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This is why all past civilisations were bound to a cycle of boom and bust which eventually led to their demise, as happened to ancient Greek and Roman civilisation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Our own civilisation is bound to the same cycle. The present, unprecedented, boom phase, will soon be followed by an equally unprecedented and likely terminal bust phase. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Our failure to face up to the challenge of a sustainability revolution will, of course, play a major role in our civilisation’s demise. But so long as we fail to recognise the true nature of the state and its primary role of facilitating society’s self-exploitation, there is no way we can rise to this challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’m not a doom-monger, any more than you are when you warn of the dire consequences of us failing to achieve sustainability, but a realist - and an optimist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If we continue on our present course, we are doomed. That’s just a fact that you and I have been aware of for a long time. It is probably too late now to avoid a degree of civilisational collapse in the decades ahead, which will be terrible enough, but we could still reduce its scale, overall damage to the biosphere and bio-diversity, and greatly increase our children’s and grandchildren’s chances of survival and recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">However, before we can embark on the Sustainability Revolution in earnest, we have to develop a much better understanding of society and the state, along the lines I have indicated above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As heir to the British throne, you are in a uniquely influential position to promote such an understanding and to play a leading role in the revolution that would follow from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’m optimistic, but at the same time realistic in respect to just how big a challenge this would be for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">All I can do is present my ideas and hope that they resonate with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Best regards</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">P.S. I know, you receive piles of letters every week and are very unlikely to actually read this one. For this reaon, I will publish it as an open letter on my blog, where others might also read it, and who knows, perhaps someone who knows you personally will recognise its relevance and bring it to your attention.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">My <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">P.P.S. A few years ago I watched live coverage of the Queen's Speech to both houses of Parliament, in which your mother read out the government’s plans for the coming legislative period. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">My overwhelming impression was of it being a ritual humiliation of the monarch, who is required to present the government’s plans as if they were her own, when everyone knows they are not. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">You will be expected to do the same in due course and, given public knowledge of your views on many issues, I shudder at the thought of you allowing yourself to be similarly humiliated, especially in view of you usually having more enlightened ideas than any British government is likely to have.</span></div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-80019148410967822902016-10-16T01:28:00.000-07:002017-05-08T09:45:36.966-07:00Political Implications of Evolutionary PsychologyThis is something I recently posted on the closed Facebook page of Applied Evolutionary Psychology, which I am making generally available here on my own blog.<br />
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I’ve been observing the changes in ethnic composition in London, my city of birth, as a consequence of mass immigration, since I was a child in the 1950s and my responses to it, along with those of family, friends, acquaintances and others.</div>
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The responses I have observed have been overwhelmingly negative, essentially xenophobic, which is in stark contrast to the attitude of government, which demonises xenophobia and encourages people to celebrate DIVERSITY, i.e. their own ethnic displacement (white flight), replacement (white Britons have already been reduced to an ethnic minority in large swathes of their major cities) and ultimate demise as the country’s indigenous and dominant ethnic/racial group.</div>
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Why (not for the first time) am I bringing this subject up here? Because I believe that evolutionary psychology can explain this madness, which is what it is. It’s Orwellian and totally insane, which does not bode well for the future.</div>
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Homo sapiens evolved as a tribal and territorial animal, so of course we are going to respond xenophobically to an influx of strangers. It would be unnatural, unhuman, not to.</div>
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Western governments, it would seem, are deliberately (but not necessarily consciously) provoking xenophobia in their native populations, in order to condemn it and claim a spurious moral authority for themselves, and the power that goes with it.</div>
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It is, I have come to realise, a modern, secular incarnation of the state’s age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now supposedly unprejudiced, ”colour-blind” and xenophilic elite, on the one hand, and the morally inferior, naturally (evolved human nature being what it is) prejudiced, not colour-blind, but xenophobically-inclined masses, on the other, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors”. </div>
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It is no coincidence that we are taught subliminally to trivialise, ridicule or demonise our tribal nature, despite it being absolutely central to who and what we are as human beings, when what we should really do is study and understand it. This, however, would deprive the state of its ability to manipulate and exploit our tribal nature for its own purposes the way it has been accustomed to do for centuries.</div>
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Being a very tribal animal also makes us a very moral animal, which the state uses to intimidate and control us, but there is virtually no awareness of this, even amongst academia, because of the lack of an evolutionary perspective, which is a consequence of a previous generation of academics having made a taboo of it, in overreaction to the Nazis having hijacked and abused, for their own evil purposes, the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism, which is what evolutionary psychology and anthropology used to be called.</div>
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The problem for evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists is that much more influential social and political scientists, in the service of their state employer, are professionally committed to this madness, which, of course, they fail to recognise as such. If you try pointing it out to them, they stonewall you, and if you persist it might well cost you your job and career, just as criticising church ideology would have done in the past (in medieval times it might have cost you your life). </div>
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I suspect that most of you already know this at some level and are therefor very careful about what you say and who you say it to, as we all have to be on this and related issues.</div>
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The social and political sciences, trapped as they are in a pre-Darwinian dark age, are leading western society badly (fatally) astray, and the only ones qualified to challenge them are evolutionary biologists, psychologists and anthropologists. </div>
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These ideas undermine mainstream academic and state authority, which is fraught with danger, but to allow this state-sponsored madness to continue can only lead to disaster. The encouragement by much of mainstream academia of continued mass immigration into Europe is like priming a powder keg, which will eventually explode, but anyone pointing this out is dismissed as a xenophobe, along with xenophobia itself which is simply seen as an evil to be suppressed, rather than as an aspect of human tribal nature which we need to understand and work WITH rather than against the grain of.</div>
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Having recently created the hashtag <b>#contrapot</b>, I thought I’d better explain what I mean by it.</div>
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In overreaction to the evils of Nazism and the Holocaust (as well as to the injustice and inhumanity of Jim Crow and Apartheid) the West’s ruling elites embraced an ideology of white racial self-denial and self-contempt, which is the exact but equally extreme and insane opposite of Nazi racial ideology (see links below).</div>
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The Nazis made a big, nasty and totally misconceived issue of race, seeing profound racial differences where they did not exist, between the closely related peoples of Europe, including European Jews.</div>
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In the aftermath of these horrors there was an understandable overreaction, especially by academics (and, for obvious reasons, even more especially by Jewish academics), who went to the opposite extreme of denying the importance, even the very existence, of race altogether.</div>
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This extreme overreaction should have been recognised for the madness it was and corrected long ago, but wasn’t, because quickly incorporated into the state's age-old state strategy of “divide and rule”, whereby society is divided into a “morally superior”, now supposedly unprejudiced, ”colour-blind” and xenophilic, elite, on the one hand, and the morally inferior, naturally (evolved human nature being what it is) prejudiced, not colour-blind, but xenophobically-inclined masses, on the other, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their supposed "moral superiors”.</div>
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This new, secular, ideology of divide and rule was of little use as a replacement for church ideology in the essentially mono-racially white societies which comprised the West prior to WW2, where there was little opportunity to accuse transgressors of prejudice, xenophobia or racism (Jim Crow America and Apartheid South Africa being notable exceptions, of course), so multi-racial and multi-cultural societies were created in their place, via mass immigration from relatively poor, non-European countries, which comprised people of different race (conveniently advertised by their darker skin colour) and culture, which also served state and capital as a welcome source of cheap and complaint foreign labour.</div>
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Anyone objecting to immigration or the changing ethnic composition of their neighbourhood or society was dismissed as a bigot, nativist, xenophobe or racist. Only relatively recently, with mass migration to the UK of white Europeans has it become possible to criticise immigration at all, without it automatically resulting in accusations of racism.</div>
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Post-racial multiculturalism now serves the state as an instrument of socio-political intimidation, rewards, punishments, manipulation and control, just as medieval church ideology once did.</div>
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It doesn’t seem credible that classically democratic states like Britain, France and the USA would inflict such madness on their own people, but they have, and are, with other western states following suit.</div>
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Because it is so incredible, it is very difficult to recognise. Added to which, it is also a very painful and frightening thing to recognise: that the state we trust and identify with as our nation should betray us in such a fashion. How can it be possible? The whole purpose of the “nation state” is to serve its people’s collective self-interests - surely?</div>
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I’m afraid not. The primary purpose of the state is very different from what we have been led to believe by academics (formerly churchmen), who are looked upon as authorities, but are privileged clients and employees of the state themselves, with a massive personal self-interest (sub-conscious more than conscious) in rationalising and defending its role, self-image (as a “nation”), and ideologies (social, political, economic and racial, formerly religious) on which the state bases its claim to moral and knowledgeable authority.</div>
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The state conflates and confounds very different aspects of the original tribal environment in which human nature evolved, long before the first states and civilisations emerged from it, with the modern "nation state" now deceitfully posing as our tribe or nation (intra- and inter-tribal environment) itself, while at the same time facilitating society’s SELF-exploitation (as an extra-tribal environment, on a par with the natural environment) to the personal advantage of its ruling elites and favoured (especially wealthy and academic/formerly priestly) clients, at the expense of society at large and its long-term survival. This binds all civilisations to a cycle of boom and bust, eventually resulting in their complete demise, as in the case ancient Greece and Rome. Western civilisation, thanks to its development of science and technology, has boomed like none other before it, but its bust phase is fast approaching, if not already upon us. The way things look at the moment, it is very unlikely that it will survive this present century, especially since the situation is compounded by our finite, vulnerable and overpopulated planet's compromised ability to support us.</div>
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It is a prospect that very few - especially those with children and grandchildren - are prepared to countenance, preferring instead to allow themselves to be deceived by professional optimists (mainly academics and politicians) who deceive themselves first hand.</div>
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The state does serve us, of course, and we are all completely dependent on it, but as a shepherd serves his flock; which is not for the flock's sake (notwithstanding any genuine concern he may feel for a lost of injured lamb), but for his own and/or his employer's sake, for the meat and wool the flock provides and can be exchanged at market for money.</div>
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The state is like an abusive step-parent which did away with our natural, loving parents (our original tribes and nations) before we were born, and brought us up to believe that it was our natural, caring parent, i.e. nation, with all its children’s, i.e. citizens’, best interests at heart, when in fact, its real purpose is to facilitate our self-abuse and exploitation, which is now rapidly leading to our civilisation’s self-destruction.</div>
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This explains the otherwise inexplicable self-betrayal we are currently experiencing, but which very few are aware of. Most of what is happening is being driven by subconscious forces, in fact, by our own Darwinian nature, which has been perverted by the artificial environment to civilisation itself.</div>
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It is, admittedly, difficult to get one’s head around, but once you do, everything starts to make a lot more sense. And once we understand the madness, we can start to think rationally about how to put and end to it, hopefully before it puts an end to us.</div>
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It is important to recognise it as “self-betrayal”, because blaming “others” only makes our situation worse, preventing us from uniting and putting an end to the madness. Instead, we just fight amongst ourselves as we head towards the abyss. It is what happened to ancient Greece and Rome, and is currently also happening to us.</div>
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Post-racial multicultural ideology and the government policies it has inspired have led to many western cities, such as London, becoming a melting pot for all humanity. People of different race and culture are officially encouraged to mix, integrate and assimilate, which is pretty Orwellian, when you think about it, because it destroys the very diversity its adherents claim to love and want us all to celebrate.</div>
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Human racial and cultural diversity is a consequence of populations having been more or less isolated from each other in the past. Bring them together in a city like London and what you create is a melting pot in which this diversity will gradually dissolve and disappear. In overreaction to the Nazi’s insane notion of a "pure" Germanic master race, we have gone to the opposite extreme of trying to create a “mixed-race master race”. Those seeking to maintain their racial identity by opposing the melting pot (especially if they belong to the non-Jewish white majority) are demonised as racists or white supremacists (a blind eye is turned to ethnic minorities, which, naturally enough, are often just as keen to retain their racial/ethnic identity as white people).</div>
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Post-racial multiculturalism might also be called “one-human-racism”, or the “ideology of the Pot”, and those who support it, “people of the Pot” (“miscegenate man”, as opposed to “ethnic man”). Britain has a “Pot Parliament”, committed to white racial self-denial and self-contempt, which promotes racial mixing in the melting pot of the post-racial multicultural society it has engineered and imposed on British society by demonising anyone who opposes it as “racist”.</div>
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It is not just the British state, of course. The French and American states have done the same, as, to varying degrees, have all western “democracies”. The power-political method to this madness I have already explained.</div>
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My opposition to state ideology of the Pot I call “Contrapot”. Thus the hashtag.</div>
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We each need to decide which side we are on: Pot or Contrapot? It has to be one or the other.</div>
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Which ever side you choose, or while you remain undecided, it is important not to demonise the other side. The revolution I am hoping for cannot be achieved by force, violence or intimidation, but only peacefully and with respect, for others and for the rule of law. The truism, "united we stand, divided we fall", is indeed true. The very survival of our civilisation depends on us uniting, which we cannot do if we are hating and fighting each other, or trying to impose our own views on others, even when encouraged to do so by the state.</div>
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Multi-ethnic society has been imposed on us by the state using lies, deceit, force, intimidation and rewards (as you would expect from an abusive step-parent), but we cannot free ourselves from it using the same methods by which it was imposed. In fact, we can’t free ourselves from it, unless we use force and inflict grave injustice on others, which I certainly do not want to do. We must learn to live with it now, but in such a way that it is genuinely enriching for all concerned. At the moment it is Orwellian in nature, imposed as it is by the state, deceitfully posing as our nation, via a system of rewards & intimidation.</div>
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<b>Contrapot</b> is defined by its non-violent and respectful opposition to the Pot, i.e. the oxymoronic absurdity of multi-ethnic nationhood, which is what the British and other western governments seek to impose on their countries. But opposition is not enough. It must offer an alternative, or at least point in a direction that will lead to an alternative. So much has to change in the radical reformation of society and the state that it will take some time, years, if not decades.</div>
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Challenging the authority of the state is a tricky thing to do, given its immense power and our dependency on it (both material and emotional, so long as we identify with it as our nation), but it has to be done, so that we can carry out the radical reforms to it that are necessary, if it is to serve our long-term survival and well-being, rather our self-exploitation and self-destruction, as it has done up until now.</div>
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There is a lot more to be said, some of which I say in the blogs I link to below, but this will have to do for now.</div>
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This is the first draft of the first part of the party manifesto of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Contrapot?src=hash"><span style="color: #dca10d; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">#Contrapot</span></a>-UK (please, scroll down to 2nd draft):</div>
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<br />rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-64133631791619576062016-05-18T04:35:00.000-07:002018-06-18T21:55:07.232-07:00The State, The Matrix & The One<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">If I were to tell you that I am The One, a real-life Neo, here to save humanity from The Matrix, you would take me for a nutter or a joker. Nutters don’t usually realise they are nutters, so perhaps that is what I am, but let’s assume, if you will bear with me, that I’m a joker, and that many a true word is sometimes spoken in jest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The Matrix, as I see it, is not a near-future creation by intelligent machines, as it was in the film, but an ancient creation of man himself, which has developed over the centuries and long dominated the world. I am referring to civilisation itself, i.e. the STATES which comprise it, in their various forms, notwithstanding that relatively recent developments have given rise to a single, increasingly global, civilisation </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We are all so immersed in, subjectively familiar with, and dependent on the state, i.e. the society it provides a distinctive framework for, that we fail to recognise it for what it is, just as we once failed to recognise the true nature of the material universe. I am referring especially to academics, who are generally seen as experts and authorities in their particular field of study. Today's social and political scientists, who are responsible for our understanding of society, the state and civilisation are still stuck in a pre-Copernican, i.e. pre-Darwinian, dark age, and mainstream society with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">To make a historical, instead of a cinematic, analogy, one might see me as a modern-day Galileo, challenging the established world view. While Galileo challenged the Church's Earth-centred view of the universe with the more realistic Copernican view, I'm challenging modern academia's anti-Darwinian view of society with a pro-Darwinian view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Pro-Darwinian, anti-Darwinian! What am I talking about? Perhaps I am a nutter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">So, I have now revealed myself to you as The One. The question is, will you pass this information on to your readers by publishing it in your op-ed section, so that they can decide for themselves whether I am a nutter, a joker or, perhaps, someone with the insights that will enable us to understand our situation and correct the self-destructive course our civilisation is on?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I can guess the answer to this question, which is both yes and no. You will publish it one day, I think, but not yet. In the meantime, I shall post it on my own blog, followed by subsequent posts in which I will elaborate on these ideas further.</span></div>
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-59016075971816657642015-11-20T02:57:00.003-08:002015-11-21T11:28:02.819-08:00What does science tell us about race and racism?This was the title of an event at the Royal Institution on Thursday 19th November 2015, in which Radio 4's Inside Science presenter, Adam Rutherford, "hosted a panel of experts including Kenan Malik, Aoife McLysaght and Heidi Mirza for an evidence-based discussion of an always controversial subject".<br />
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I sent this email to the organisers, prior to the event, to which I received no response:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Before we can have a meaningful discussion of “racism” we must clarify what we mean by it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">When it means racial hatred, as practiced by the Nazis, or racial supremacism, as practiced not just by the Nazis, but also under Jim Crow and Apartheid, then clearly it is an evil that all right-minded people are opposed to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">However, “racism” is now also equated with racial prejudice, which is absurd, because as human beings we are ALL prejudiced about EVERYONE and EVERYTHING, including race. We wouldn’t be human if we were free of prejudice. And anyone claiming to be so is either a scoundrel (a “moral supremacist”) or deluding themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">We have a natural, surely evolved and inherent, inclination to identify with and favour those most like ourselves and our own family members. This doesn’t mean that we hate, or think ourselves superior to anyone who isn’t like ourselves, but it does tend to make us prejudiced in favour of our own family, tribe, ethnic group and - dare I say it? - race.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">The question is, WHY have natural human prejudices been equated with the evil of racism?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">The answer, I suggest, is political, power-political. It is a modern manifestation of the age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now "colour-blind", elite (supposedly free of racial prejudice) and the morally inferior, naturally (human nature being what it is) less colour-blind, masses, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">The biological basis of race is not unimportant (especially in respect to medicine), but has very little bearing on racial prejudice. We are an inherently and intensely tribal animal, so whenever ethnic differences are perceived (and clearly, we all do perceive them) there is bound to be prejudice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">If politicians want to demonise and exploit this in pursuit of political advantage, that (sadly) is their business, but it is not - or shouldn’t be - the business of scientists and academics, whose business it is to understand things (in this instance, human nature and the prejudices that go with it), so that we are better able to deal with them in a rational and civilised fashion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">I look forward to hearing what your speakers have to say about “race and racism” on Thursday of next week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">The discussion was disappointing, although pretty much what I had expected. The "experts" dedicated themselves to defending state racial ideology (as their jobs in academia and the media, of course, oblige them to), which dismisses race as a "social construct", despite all the evidence suggesting that it is real and important. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Racism wasn't discussed at all, but simply used, as usual, to demonise anyone who disagrees with state racial ideology or admits to perfectly natural and healthy racial prejudices, which, if we are honest with ourselves (which the "experts" clearly aren't), we ALL have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Link to <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">BLOGS</a> in which I elaborate further on my "racist" ideas.</span><br />
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Are the Swedish and German governments DELIBERATELY provoking nationalists to acts of violence with their insane response to refugee crisis, in order to gain political advantage from it?<br />
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Whatever the answer, I implore nationalists not to allow themselves to be provoked to violence, especially against refugees or immigrants. They are not to blame. Nationalist anger should be directed at those responsible for this madness, which is our OWN ruling elites.<br />
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Anger, but not violence, which will harm, rather than help our cause.<br />
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We must sublimate our anger into developing an understanding of WHY our ruling elites are behaving in this self-harming and ultimately self-destructive way, just as they were doing 100 years ago in their respective side’s pursuit of “victory” in WW1. Most of them are not bad people, just deluded and misguided.<br />
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Our ruling elites behave as they do, because of the very nature of the state itself, which academics are not being honest with us - or themselves - about, because as privileged clients and employees of the state themselves, they have a massive personal self-interest (subconscious more than conscious) in rationalising and defending its role, self-image (as our "nation") and ideologies (social, political, economic and racial, formerly religious), on which the state bases its claim to moral and knowledgeable authority.<br />
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There are no "nation states", but only mercenary "patron states" deceitfully posing as nations, in order to legitimise themselves, their ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse, to their own personal advantage and that of favoured (especially wealthy and academic) clients, at the expense, and ultimate self-destruction, of society at large.<br />
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The primary purpose of the state has ALWAYS been to facilitate society's SELF-exploitation (which it is the role of its priestly/now academic elite to hide, not just from society at large, but from themselves as well, by self-deception), which is why all past civilisations have declined and disappeared, as will ours, and soon, unless we quickly recognise and develop an understanding of the true, perverted Darwinian, nature of the state, and reform it accordingly.<br />
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Here's an <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">INTRODUCTION</a> to the true nature of the state which, above all, we need academics to take heed of.rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-71084018157145581582015-10-01T04:58:00.001-07:002015-10-01T04:58:55.024-07:00Nuclear Deterrent, Yes; Trident, No!<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Unless it is placed under shared control with our closest allies, who would also be required to share the costs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Nuclear weapons and their proliferation is one of the biggest threats facing mankind, yet our politicians are currently proving incapable of dealing with it. The way things stand - and are developing - at the moment, it is just a matter of time before, through design, accident, or misunderstanding nuclear weapons are used, and thousand, millions, possibly 10s or even 100s of millions of people will die, perhaps not in the initial exchange, but in the aftermath. And our children will look back and ask WHY?! WHY did WE allow this development, this INSANITY, to happen?</span></span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">The British and French governments (which, as a European, are the ones that concern me directly and on which I may exert some, very small, influence) have both signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and are very strongly opposed to other governments acquiring nuclear weapons, but hypocritically they insist on retaining and periodically updating their own nuclear arsenals and delivery systems.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">All the arguments put forward for retaining our own nuclear capability can be (and are) also put forward by other governments (Iran, for example), the rejection of which by Britain and France is blatant hypocrisy.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">If there is to be any hope of curbing nuclear proliferation the British and French governments must be persuaded of the necessity for THEM to relinquish their own independent, national nuclear deterrents, handing them over to an international authority, which it should be our urgent priority to work out a structure for and to create. Not an easy task, granted, but an urgent and absolutely essential one.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament would be folly, since it would be an invitation to other, nuclear-armed governments, less democratic and well-intentioned than our own, to dominate us through nuclear blackmail, or even attack. We NEED a nuclear deterrent, but it needs to be under democratic international control, instead of national control. </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">It is the desire (perceived need) of state governments for their own "national" deterrents, i.e. the power and status that goes with them, which is driving, and will continue to drive, nuclear proliferation. </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Thus, it is imperative that Britain and France take the initiative in finding a way of placing their own national deterrents under international control (perhaps in stages, in order to facilitate the process). Once they have done that, then they will be in a position, credibly and without hypocrisy, to demand from other governments that they do not seek to acquire national nuclear deterrents as well.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Finding the right structure for this international authority is absolutely essential, because of the trust that must necessarily be placed in it. It will not be an easy task, so the sooner we set about it in earnest the better.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;" />rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-73801495436803024872015-09-30T05:14:00.000-07:002015-09-30T18:10:19.807-07:00Jeremy Corbyn's Language of Moral SupremacismJeremy Corbyn ended his speech to the Labour Party Conference with these words:<br />
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"Don't accept injustice. Stand up against prejudice."<br />
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This is the language of "moral supremacism".<br />
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Being human, we are ALL prejudiced about everyone and everything, including ourselves and race. We cannot be otherwise.<br />
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To demonise prejudice is to demonise human nature itself, which is what the state has always done, in order to intimidate, divide, and rule us.<br />
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In the past, this demonisation of human nature was based on church ideology, with its notion of "original sin" (disobedience of divine, i.e. priestly/state authority), which only submission to priestly authority and ideology could save one from eternal damnation for.<br />
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In post-racial multiculturalism, we now have a secular replacement for the power-political role of medieval church ideology (and in academia, the modern heirs and counterparts of the medieval clergy), whereby original sin is replaced by "racial prejudice" (the natural human inclination - like original sin - to identity with members of one's own tribe, race or ethnic group), which was wrongly made responsible for the Holocaust and equated with the evils of Nazi racism, which again only submission to priestly/academic/political/state ideology and authority can save us from eternal damnation for, not as heathens and heretics, as in the past, but as "bigots" and "racists".<br />
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Clearly, we need to control our prejudices in an acceptable and civilised fashion, just as we do our sexual inclinations and urges, and if we fail to do so, the law is there to constrain us. But just as we no longer demonise our sexual inclinations and urges, so long as we control them in an acceptable fashion, nor should our prejudices be demonised. They are what they are. We just need to control them in an acceptable fashion.<br />
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Man is an inherently moral animal, making it easy for the state to intimidate and control us when it demonises aspects of human nature. It wants us to believe that without strict state regulation, our prejudices (formally our sexuality) would lead to a break down of civilised society. It is up to us to show that this is not the case, that we can learn to control our prejudices in a civilised fashion.<br />
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In this <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a> I explain how the state exploits the demonisation of different aspects of human nature in order to intimidate and control society.rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-9564183000879594702015-09-18T06:55:00.000-07:002015-09-18T06:55:04.354-07:00Academics Modern Counterparts of Medieval ClergyLike their medieval predecessors and counterparts, academics (especially in the social sciences and humanities) are privileged clients and employees of their respective "patron state", with a massive personal self-interest (subconscious more than conscious) in rationalising and defending its role, self-image (as our "nation") and ideologies (social, political, economic and racial, formerly religious), on which the state bases its power-political claim to legitimacy and to moral and knowledgeable authority.<br />
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This has profound implications for our understanding of social and political reality, because we all look to academia (even if not to every individual academic) as the highest authority on virtually all matters.<br />
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We tend to blame politicians for all that is wrong with society, but it is the academics who teach them at university and advise them once in office who are really to blame, i.e. the one's who need to be held to account.<br />
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Only, there is no one to hold them to account, other than themselves. And just like our political class (or any other class or profession, come to that), they are not inclined to be too critical of their own.<br />
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There is a classic example of this in today's press, with the parliamentary standards watchdog having found “no breach of the rules on paid lobbying” by two former foreign secretaries, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw, after an investigation into cash-for-access allegations (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/17/sir-malcolm-rifkind-and-jack-straw-cleared-of-cash-for-access-misconduct" target="_blank">LINK</a>) . . .<br />
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Academics are the one's ultimately responsible for the madness of post-racial multicultural society and ideology, which now serves the state as an instrument of socio-political intimidation, rewards, punishments, manipulation and control, just as medieval church ideology once did (<a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>). They are the one's demanding that we "celebrate DIVERSITY", when it is nothing less than Orwellian newspeak for ethnic Europeans to celebrate their own ethnic displacement (white flight), replacement (we have already been reduced to an ethnic minority in large swathes of our major cities) and ultimate demise . . .<br />
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It is not my intention to demonise academics (as they tend to do with anyone who dares to fundamentally question their authority or ideology*), because that will just cause them to close their minds and hearts completely to my criticisms, when what I want them to do is listen to my criticisms and think about them. Because when all is said and done, they are the ones who must hold themselves to account. No one else can do it.<br />
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* Anyone questioning the wisdom of post-racial multicultural society and ideology, or the desirability of DIVERSITY is dismissed as a "bigot" or "racist" just as in earlier times anyone questioning church ideology was demonised as a heathen or heretic.<br />
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What I'm asking of academics is no easy task. It's a huge and daunting challenge, but one which the very survival of our civilisation urgently depends on them first recognising and then facing up to. It is about developing a much better, more realistic, understanding of ourselves, of society, the state and our situation. But before they can do this, they must first recognise just how deeply flawed current understanding it.<br />
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I provide an introduction to how deeply flawed current understanding is in this <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a>.<br />
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<br />rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-41682376323246315622015-09-14T00:10:00.000-07:002015-09-14T00:13:28.487-07:00Modern Examples of Orwellian NewspeakThere are a number of important words and expressions, the meanings of which are very different, if not the complete opposite, of what they are generally assumed to be, so I thought I'd start a list of examples which spring to mind, and invite others to comment on them and/or add their own examples. I'm sure there must be many more examples for others to contribute. I'll add more of my own, as they occur to me.<br />
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<b>RACISM</b>: meaning, if you are white, a lack of contempt for one's own race. If you do not deny and despise your own white race, you must necessarily hate other races, especially black people. It is a way of equating any form of white racial identity and perfectly natural "racial prejudice" with evil (see <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a> in which I explain what I see as the power-political purpose of this and the following two examples of Orwellian newspeak).<br />
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<b>DIVERSITY</b>: meaning the melting pot of post-racial multicultural society which is actually destroys genuine human diversity (as it gradually dissolves and disappears into it), while undermining social cohesion and solidarity.<br />
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<b>CELEBRATING DIVERSITY</b>: meaning, if you are an ethnic European, i.e. white, to celebrate one's own ethnic displacement (white flight), replacement (whites have already been reduced to an ethnic minority in large swathes of major western cities) and ultimate demise. It is an expression of white racial self-denial, self-contempt and self-hatred.<br />
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<b>LOVE CHILD:</b> meaning a child conceived in an irresponsible, loveless union, which strikes me, not just as a LIE, but also as an insult to children conceived in responsible, loving relationships, whether inside or outside of marriage. I don't believe that the children of irresponsible, loveless unions should be demonised in any way, but neither should they be made out to be something they are not.rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-36382117166166099972015-09-09T23:38:00.000-07:002015-09-09T23:39:33.251-07:00Walls, Borders, a Dome and Refugees<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">This is the title of an article by Thomas Friedman in yesterday's NYTimes (</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/opinion/thomas-friedman-walls-borders-a-dome-and-refugees.html" target="_blank">LINK</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">) which I submitted a comment on, which however wasn't approved and published, so I'm posting it here.</span><br />
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I couldn't agree more. The trouble is, you can think about a situation you don't understand as hard and long as you want, with no positive outcome, while in the meantime the situation goes on getting worse. <br />
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Bringing democracy to Iraq and the Middle East was a great idea, but clearly those who sought to implement it through western intervention had no understanding of the actual situation. Thus, the terrible mess we have helped create. <br />
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Politicians, like most people, look to academics as authorities on just about everything, only social and political science academics have about as good a grasp of social and political reality, both abroad and at home, as Ptolemaic astronomers, alchemists and Galenic doctors once did of their disciplines. <br />
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Like Galileo, I'm asking academics to look through my telescope, metaphorically speaking, so that they can see for themselves what I can see. <br />
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My telescope is a human-evolutionary view of society, which their predecessors made a taboo of, in overreaction to initial attempts, which went horribly wrong (as first attempts at anything new and difficult often do), especially when the Nazis misused the half-baked ideas of "social Darwinists" to justify their criminally insane racial ideology, eugenics program and wars of aggression. <br />
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My telescope: <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-42435760035972441492015-09-09T23:25:00.000-07:002015-09-09T23:29:42.404-07:00Will the World Come To Europe?This is the title of an article in the NYTimes (<a href="http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/will-the-world-come-to-europe/" target="_blank">LINK</a>) which I submitted a comment on, which however wasn't approved and published, so I'm posting it here:<br />
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Mr Douthat's optimism (in respect to mass immigration into Europe) reminds me of mainstream academic opinion at the beginning of the 20th century, BEFORE the outbreak of WW1.<br />
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Of course academics are optimistic about the status quo and direction of travel: they are traveling first class and have every reason to be complacent, to not rock the boat.<br />
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No offence meant, but in my view, social science academics have about as good a grasp of social and political reality as Ptolemaic astronomers, alchemists and Galenic doctors once did of their disciplines.<br />
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Why? Because they are trapped in a pre-Copernican, i.e. pre-Darwinian, dark age by a taboo against viewing society from a human-evolutionary perspective; an understandable, but fatal, overreaction to initial attempts at developing such a view, which went horribly wrong (as first attempts at anything new and difficult often do), especially when the Nazis misused the half-baked ideas of "social Darwinists" to justify their criminally insane racial ideology and wars of aggression.<br />
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Human nature is inherently and intensely tribal, but instead of developing an understanding of this, so that we can learn to direct it in as rational and civilised a fashion as possible, we are taught to trivialise, ridicule or demonise it, leaving the state and capital free to manipulate and exploit it for their own power-political and commercial purposes.<br />
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An understanding of human tribal nature reveals the extreme folly of allowing mass migration into Europe, which is creating a powder keg!rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-57047794968215179972015-09-06T02:20:00.000-07:002015-09-06T02:42:20.525-07:00With What Right Does Government Promote Desegregation?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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What right does government have trying to prevent racial segregation which the majority of its own citizens clearly want, even if state racial ideology (not coincidentally, the exact but equally extreme and insane opposite of Nazi racial ideology) makes if difficult, if not impossible, without serious personal and/or professional disadvantage, for them to admit to publicly?</div>
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1) Because the state's claim to represent a single PEOPLE and NATION demands it. It is how all "nation states" legitimise themselves, their ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse, to their own personal advantage and that of favoured (especially wealthy) clients, at the expense of society at large, its well-being and long-term survival. </div>
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2) Post-racial multicultural society and ideology serve the age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now supposedly "colour-blind", elite and the morally inferior, naturally (given man's inherent tribal nature) less colour-blind, masses, who must submit to their ruling elite’s spurious moral authority and power. It is a modern, secular replacement for the power-political role of medieval church ideology. </div>
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See first of series of <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">BLOGS</a> in which I elaborate further.</div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-67223670628715344522015-09-04T14:03:00.001-07:002015-09-06T02:47:00.851-07:00Does Down Syndrome Justify Abortion?This is the title of an op-ed article (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/opinion/does-down-syndrome-justify-abortion.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) in today's NYTimes, which I submitted a comment on. It wasn't approved, so here it is on my own blog: <br />
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Whether or not to abort a defective foetus really is a decision that only its parents can make, in the knowledge that they themselves will be primarily responsible for caring for it. <br />
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We really do need to get away from the notion of all human life, under all circumstances, being "sacred". This is a religious notion bound up with some people's - and, of course, the church's - desire to claim a spurious moral authority for themselves - and, in the case of the church, the power that goes with it. <br />
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Human life is not sacred, but valuable, its value depending on circumstances and perspective. It's just a matter of acknowledging reality. In practice we ALL value lives differently. <br />
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It is also time that we stopped denying and demonising the Darwinian nature of our situation, which was an overreaction to some of the more unpleasant ideas and practices associated with "social Darwinism". <br />
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Although perverted by civilisation itself, our situation is still essentially Darwinian, as is that of every animal which has evolved on our planet. <br />
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With modern medicine and ethics having effectively done away with natural selection, i.e. "natural eugenics", the biological role of which is to keep a population healthy and well adapted to its environment, we have no choice, if we don't want our population of degenerate, but to practice some form of artificial eugenics. <br />
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Clearly, it is a difficult issue, but making a taboo of it only serves the ends of "moral supremacists".rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-32680583593822808822015-09-04T10:37:00.000-07:002015-09-06T02:51:43.436-07:00The Truth of ‘Black Lives Matter’<div style="text-align: justify;">
This is the title of an editorial (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/opinion/the-truth-of-black-lives-matter.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) in today's NYTimes, which I submitted a comment on. It wasn't approved, so here it is on my own blog: </div>
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This is how to go about resolving America's racial problems, rather than with accusations of "racism". </div>
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I elaborate in this <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a>.</div>
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This is the title of an article in yesterday's NYTimes Sunday Review, which, as you can imagine, laments the relatively low percentage of ethnic minority, compared to white, people who visit America's national parks.<br />
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<i>This is my response to a NYTimes editorial, <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">"<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/opinion/europes-shared-responsibility-for-migrants.html" target="_blank">Europe’s Shared Responsibility for Migrants</a>"(June 5, 2015),</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> encouraging Europe to take in yet more immigrants and asylum seekers. I emailed it to them for publication, which, of course, they didn't do, and is why I'm publishing it here.</span></i></div>
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Europe, over the centuries, has had its fill of its own inborn ethnic tensions and conflicts (and these between peoples of very similar race, culture, religion and ethnic origins), but now, following the traumas of WW1, WW2 and the Holocaust, just as Europe’s major ethnic groups (nations) are learning to get along, we are importing en masse from abroad the potential for new and additional ethnic tensions and conflicts (which, in respect to Muslims and “blacks” we are already experiencing). Just as Europeans are finally learning to share their continent peacefully with each other, it is deemed not enough; we are now expected to share our continent with an ever-increasing (and this is the crucial point) number of non-Europeans as well, which is MADNESS. </div>
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The method to this madness, which it took me a very long time to recognise and develop an understanding of, is only partly economic (the import of cheap foreign labour, i.e. “human resources” into the West) and generally acknowledged. Far more important, but largely unrecognised, is the ideological and power-political role this madness plays, serving, as it does, as an instrument of socio-political intimidation, rewards, punishments, manipulation and control, just as medieval church ideology once did.</div>
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Post-racial multicultural society and ideology serves the age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now "colour-blind", ruling elite (supported by their favoured clients) and the morally inferior, naturally less "colour-blind", masses, who must submit to their superiors’ moral authority - and power.</div>
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Race is NOT the "social construct" that the state would have us believe it is (except when you try dividing closely related peoples from the same subcontinent into different races, as the Nazis insanely did), but real and important. Not in the way that racial supremacists believe it is, but because it reflects our ethnic origins and is thus central to any deep and meaningful sense of both personal and group, i.e. genuine national, identity. Which is, of course, why the state, which poses as our nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse, seeks to deny and suppress this basic truth.</div>
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Why did it take me so long to recognise these simple and now - to me, at least - obvious truths? Why have academics still not recognised them? And why have they resisted all my efforts, thus far, to point them out to them?</div>
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It is because POWER (of the state) forbids it, and because academics, like their medieval predecessors and counterparts, are themselves privileged clients and employees of their respective "patron state", with a massive personal self-interest (subconscious more than conscious) in rationalising and defending its role, self-image (as our "nation") and ideologies (social, political, economic and racial, formerly religious), on which the state bases its claim to moral and knowledgeable authority.</div>
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Overcoming this obstacle and developing a more objective and realistic understanding of society and the state is no mean task - a bit like trying to jump over one’s own shadow - but at the moment most academics are not even aware of it, which means that the social and political sciences are still stuck in a pre-Copernican, i.e. pre-Darwinian, dark age, with modern social science academics clinging to their misconceived ideas just as Ptolemaic astronomers and Galenic doctors once did to theirs, and for much the same reasons.</div>
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As human beings we are ALL prejudiced about EVERYTHING and EVERYONE, including RACE, notwithstanding the huge pressure that state ideology puts us (especially our academic, political and media elites) under to deny and suppress it in ourselves and to demonise it in others. Demonising racial prejudice was an understandable overreaction to the horrors of Nazi racial ideology, and to the injustice and inhumanity of Jim Crow and Apartheid, but instead of allowing reason and good sense to correct this overreaction, it was quickly consolidated into an ideology (post-racial multiculturalism) of socio-political intimidation and control.</div>
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I appreciate just how shocking, or absurd - initially, at least - the ideas I have expressed here must appear to you at the NYTimes, including members of the Editorial Board, who will, of course, have to approve their publication in your Op-Ed section. I feel like an atheist hoping to get my views on Christianity published in a conservative Catholic journal.</div>
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Like the Catholic church, you at the NYTimes are committed and beholden to an ideology (post-racial multiculturalism) that I am radically criticising. However, you are also committed to seeking the truth through free debate and discussion, by means of which we might arrive at a better understanding of ourselves, society and the state.</div>
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It would be naive of me to expect you to publish this offering, but I hope that you will at least read and give some thought to my ideas.</div>
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Best regards</div>
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The last 3 times I have attempted to post a comment in response to an article on the NYTimes website it has not been approved and thus not published, which is a shame, so I'm publishing them here instead:<br />
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The issue of RACE won't go away, not because of slavery, but because state ideology, which denies the importance - even the very existence - of race, is misconceived. <br />
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Race is NOT a "social construct", as the state and its clients and employees in academia would have us believe (except when you try dividing closely related peoples from the same subcontinent into different races, as the Nazis insanely did), but REAL and important. Not in the way that racial supremacists believe it is, but because central to any deep and meaningful sense of both personal and group, i.e. genuine national, identity, which, of course, the state doesn't want us to have, because it deceitfully poses as our nation itself, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse. <br />
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Western states, like Britain and America, now exploit race to divide and rule society, dividing it into a morally superior, i.e. "colour-blind", elite and the morally inferior, i.e. naturally less colour-blind, masses, who must submit to their ruling elite’s moral authority, and power, just as in medieval times. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="de">We urgently need to face up to the <i>ROOT CAUSE</i> </span>of the <span lang="de">"<i>Sustainability </i></span><i>Problem</i><span lang="de">", which lies in </span>our <i>animal nature</i><span lang="de">.</span> <span lang="de">Unsurprisingly</span>, in view of what Charles Darwin is supposed to have taught us about human origins<span lang="de">, it is in our animal nature and behaviour that the existing </span>socio-economic order<span lang="de"> (</span>our economy and way of life) <span lang="de">is </span>rooted<span lang="de">, and which free-market capitalism developed, naturally enough, both to serve and exploit</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Human emotions and behaviour evolved over millions of years to serve the individual and their family group in the struggle for survival and advantage in the "natural environment"<span lang="de"> (which included other, rival, groups of humans)</span>. With the advent of civilisation, for the individual, this Darwinian (<span lang="de">blind, </span>dumb-animal) struggle transferred to an artificial, "socio-economic environment", where - greatly facilitated by the development of free-market capitalism - it continues as the driving force of <span lang="de">most </span>human <span lang="de">(particularly economic) activity</span>.<span lang="de"> </span>Only now it is driving us towards disaster, because<span lang="de">, as things are, </span>we cannot help but give priority to economics (the household of man in the artificial, "socio-economic environment"), rather than to ecology (the household of our planet in the natural environment), despite it being obvious (were we not blinded by familiarity and dependency) that human survival urgently demands the opposite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="de">From </span>birth, we are ALL totally immersed in, familiar with and dependent on the existing socio-economic order, <span lang="de">making </span>it virtually impossible - not least, because of the anxiety it would cause - <span lang="de">for us </span>to recognise its INHERENT non-sustainability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Man is not a <i>fallen angel</i>, but an animal<span lang="de">;</span> <span lang="de">not just a "<i>prime ape</i>" (if you will excuse the pun, and the one that follows) but </span>Earth's <i>Greatest</i> <i>Ape</i>, who greatly and dangerously overestimates his powers of understanding and reason; like a child, and misled by his scientific name<span lang="de"> -</span> <em>Homo sapiens</em>, indeed! The failure to recognise the extent of our own blindness and irrationality (<span lang="de">except in others, of course</span>) is the biggest underlying threat to human survival (and<span lang="de">, incidentally,</span> the principal reason for my opposition to the large-scale use of nuclear energy).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The truth - which far from fitting into any boxes, threatens to rupture or sweep many of them away (thus, the massive resistance to facing up to it) - is that our growth-dependent economy and the grossly materialistic way of life it engenders are both rooted in our primitive, animal nature and<span lang="de">, as a consequence, are</span> <em>fundamentally</em> unsustainable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="de">Mine is </span>a<span lang="de">n </span><em>anthropological</em> approach to the <span lang="de">"<i>Sustainability </i></span><i>Problem</i><span lang="de">". It is an approach which needs to be applied to ALL the social sciences: history, politics, sociology, economics, etc</span>.<span lang="de"> The reason it is not is that social scientists too, like everyone else, are blinded by their own </span>total <span lang="de">dependency </span>on the existing socio-economic order<span lang="de"> and environment, and on the niches they occupy within it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In view of <span lang="de">everyone's</span> absolute dependency on, and vested interests in, the <span lang="de">status quo</span>, <span lang="de">implementing </span>t<span lang="de">he radical </span>changes necessary for <i>Sustainability</i> <span lang="de">would be quite impossible</span>, with everyone <i>naturally</i> inclined to preserve their own niche and advantages (social status, source of income etc.) in the existing <i>socio-economic environment</i>. <span lang="de">This is why there has been so much talk and argument about global warming, but so little action; and the action which has or is intended be to taken barely scratches the surface, without going anywhere near solving the Problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="de">T</span>he solution is not to try changing the <i>existing</i> order, but to create an <i>Alternative</i>, <span lang="de">within, but distinct from and increasingly independent of it, </span>which, as it grows, we can transfer our activities, dependencies and vested interests to - <span lang="de">each </span>o<span lang="de">f us, </span>when <span lang="de">we </span>are ready and at <span lang="de">our </span>own pace, bit by bit, <span lang="de">and without coercion, which would be counterproductive, evoking strong (if not violent) resistance from our animal nature, in defence of its interests in the existing socio-economic order</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By “we” I mean those of us who have come out of denial <span lang="de">(to some extent at least) </span>and recognized what is at stake, for our children and coming generations. Surely, there can be no greater motivation than that. <span lang="de">The way forward is for us to use the Internet to self-organize into groups, and groups of groups ("nonymous religious societies", which I will explain in due course), which will further self-organize and interact, gradually replacing the existing socio-political order (initially, some politicians are not going to like it, but hopefully most can be won over). There will be as many "nonymous religious societies" as are needed to cater for everyone. If you cannot find one you like, you can get together with like-minded individuals and found your own</span>. <span lang="de">Genuine, grass-roots </span><i>democracy</i> <span lang="de">will come</span> into its own<span lang="de">, with </span>people free to pursue their own <i>enlightened</i> <span lang="de">(as opposed to dumb-animal) </span>self-interest. And what greater self-interest can there be than saving the planet for our children and future generations?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have allowed ourselves to be deceived and dominated for far too long by our own animal nature and a socio-economic order that is rooted in and dependent on it (expending much of our brain power in rationalizing and justifying it)<span lang="de">. </span>We have to create an <i>alternative</i> socio-economic order<span lang="de">,</span> rooted in our more <i>enlightened</i> human nature.<span lang="de"> Otherwise we will perish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If this all sounds rather idealistic it is because at the moment that is what it is: just an idea – for <span lang="de">preserving the planet for our children and future generations</span>. Although the rudimentary beginnings of such an <i>Alternative</i> are already in existence <span lang="de">(</span>organic farming, fair trade, recycling, renewable resources, cooperative rather than <span lang="de">exploitative and </span>competitive economics, etc.<span lang="de">), </span>they lack<span lang="de"> a coherent theoretical and moral </span>framework <span lang="de">that would provide </span>a clear and distinct alternative to the existing socio-economic order. This is what <span lang="de">urgently </span>need<span lang="de">s</span> to <span lang="de">be </span>develop<span lang="de">ed</span> and put<span lang="de"> </span>into practice<span lang="de">, grass-roots democratically, with experience feeding back into theory and further development.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Diversity</i> is what gives the natural world beauty and stability. For the past 400 years or so, ever increasing globalization, and the absolute priority given (by our animal nature) to economics<span lang="de"> and MONEY (the most versatile form of POWER)</span>, have been reducing diversity in all its forms, biological and human (not least, in the name of “<i>multi-culturalism</i>”). We need to give priority, not to economics, but to <i>Sustainability,</i> and to retaining and cultivating human, social, economic and biological diversity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know how <span lang="de">tempting it must be </span>to dismiss me <span lang="de">and my ideas </span>to the <i>lunatic fringe</i><span lang="de">,</span> <span lang="de">but </span>please don't<span lang="de">; at least, not </span>until you have given <span lang="de">them </span>serious<span lang="de">, </span>unhurried consideration. You've nothing to lose, but <span lang="de">possibly </span>a whole world to gain.</span></div>
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The New York Times published an article, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/opinion/migrants-face-the-mediterranean-europes-deadly-moat.html" target="_blank">Migrants Face Fortress Europe’s Deadly Moat</a>, by Kenan Malik, in which the author says the following:</div>
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Kenan Malik is a native of ASIA and unconcerned for the interests of native Europeans not to be inundated with immigrants from other continents.</div>
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Despite being overpopulated itself, Europe has already taken in 10s of millions of poor-world immigrants, who are the cause of rising ethnic tensions in our cities. Tensions that will grow as the number of immigrants and their off-spring grows.</div>
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Post-racal multicultural ideology, which encourages mass poor-world immigration (not just into Europe) and the creation of multi-ethnic societies is not what it is made out to be, but an instrument socio-political intimidation and control, a modern, secular replacement, effectively, for medieval church ideology, which I elaborate on in <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">THIS</a> and further (linked to) blogs.</div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410413495447236229.post-8061217053796012182015-04-09T23:45:00.000-07:002015-04-09T23:45:04.402-07:00How to End Nuclear Proliferation<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Nuclear weapons and their proliferation is one of the biggest threats facing mankind, yet our po</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">liticians are currently proving incapable of dealing with it. The way things stand - and are developing - at the moment, it is just a matter of time before, through design, accident, or misunderstanding nuclear weapons are used, and thousand, millions, possibly 10s or 100s of millions of people will die. And our children will look back and ask WHY?! WHY did WE allow this development, this INSANITY, to happen?<br /><br />The British and French governments (which, as a European, are the ones that concern me directly and on which I may exert some influence) have both signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and are very strongly opposed to other governments acquiring nuclear weapons, but hypocritically they insist on retaining and periodically updating their own nuclear arsenals and delivery systems.<br /><br />All the arguments put forward for retaining our own nuclear capability can be (and are) also put forward by other governments (Iran, for example), the rejection of which by Britain and France is blatant hypocrisy.<br /><br />If there is to be any hope of curbing nuclear proliferation the British and French governments must be persuaded of the necessity for THEM to relinquish their own independent, national nuclear deterrents, handing them over to an international authority, which it should be our urgent priority to work out a structure for and to create. Not an easy task, granted, but an urgent and absolutely essential one.<br /><br />Advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament would be folly, since it would be an invitation to other, nuclear-armed governments, less democratic and well-intentioned than our own, to dominate us through nuclear blackmail, or even attack. We NEED a nuclear deterrent, but it needs to be under democratic international control, instead of national control.<br /><br />It is the desire (perceived need) of national governments for their own "national" deterrents which is driving, and will continue to drive, nuclear proliferation.<br /><br />Thus, it is imperative that Britain and France take the initiative in finding a way of placing their own national deterrents under international control (perhaps in stages, in order to facilitate the process). Once they have done that, then they will be in a position, credibly and without hypocrisy, to demand from other national governments (at the moment Iran, but there will inevitably be others in future) that they do not seek to acquire national nuclear deterrents as well.<br /><br />Finding the right structure for this international authority is absolutely essential, because of the trust that must necessarily be placed in it. It will not be an easy task, so the sooner we set about it in earnest the better.<br /><br />Most western democracies currently trust America with their nuclear defence. So why shouldn't we create a shared nuclear deterrent and command structure of our own that we can trust instead?</span>rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0