The Truth of ‘Black Lives Matter’

This is the title of an editorial (LINK) in today's NYTimes, which I submitted a comment on. It wasn't approved, so here it is on my own blog:   

We all understand and accept that our own lives and the lives of family and friends mean more to us than the lives of strangers.  

However, all strangers are not equal. There are strangers whom we relate to and identify with far more readily than with others, and one of the main factors influencing this is RACE.  

Race is not the "social construct" that the state and state ideology 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 central to any deep and meaningful sense of both personal and group identity.  

It is the STATE which is the real "social, i.e. economic and power-political, construct", which deceitfully poses as our NATION, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse, to their own personal advantage and that of favoured (especially wealthy) clients.  

This is what not just America needs to recognise and develop an understanding of, so that instead of trying to bend human nature to suit the state and its purposes, we can learn to adapt the state, its institutions and moral code to better suit human nature and needs.  

This is how to go about resolving America's racial problems, rather than with accusations of "racism".  

I elaborate in this BLOG.

National Loyalty is Here to Stay

Says Ed West in “The Euro Delusion“.

True! Because Homo sapiens evolved as a deeply tribal animal, with the nation having superseded our original tribes.

Only, multi-ethnic Britain is NOT a nation, but just a mercenary STATE posing as a nation. “Multi-ethnic nationhood ” is an oxymoronic absurdity which the all-powerful “liberal-fascist” state, with the complicity of capital (as in Nazi fascism), is imposing on us.

Notwithstanding all attempts to deny, trivialise, ridicule, demonise and suppress it, we are very much dominated by our tribal nature, which state and capital manipulate and exploit, the former going so far as to actually pose as our tribe or nation, because, as Ed rightly says, “sovereignty relies on the legitimacy that only nations can provide.”

Like an abusive step-parent which did away with our natural, loving parents long before we had any memory or experience of them, the STATE usurped the NATION we never had the opportunity to become, and brought us up, over the centuries, to believe that it is our loving parent, i.e. nation, in order to facilitate society’s self-exploitation, to the advantage of power and wealth (original restricted to the nobility and clergy, who founded the state back in the Middle Ages), but now including “talent”, of course, and, paradoxically, because of their new role as clients (voters) and objects of largesse by politicians posing as “national leaders” and buying the “moral high ground” for themselves with taxpayers money, the “disadvantaged”,

In overreaction to the horrors of Nazism, as well as to the injustice and inhumanity of Jim Crow and Apartheid, western states, understandably initially, but then opportunistically for power-political and economic advantage, embraced the exact but equally extreme opposite racial ideology of “One-Human-Racism”, or “colour-blindness”, which declared race to be a “social construct”, of no social or political relevance, especially in respect to national identity, except to evil “racists” like the Nazis.

It’s an ideology which gives spurious moral authority and immense political power to the “colour-blind”, or those who feign it, as anyone who wants a job in politics, the media or academia is obliged (indeed, forced) to do.

In reality, however, it’s not RACE which is a social construct (except when applied to closely related peoples such as Germans and Poles) but the STATE.

On the contrary, race and ethnic origins are of central importance to any deep and meaningful sense of both personal and group, i.e. genuine national, identity. Only, the STATE doesn’t want us to develop a genuine sense of national identity, but to continue identifying with its own, nasty, mercenary and deceiving self.