If you ask a Saudi or Chinese citizen who is the American from a standard Gap advertisement, they will point to the white guy.
As for the bring in the third world. This is akin to the distant descendant of a great industrialist inheriting billions and espousing communism and the evils of capitalism. Easy to do from your Manhattan apartment and nice life. But quite disgusting, a slap in the face to those who got you there.
This is where the West is. The hardships are ignored by an easy generation. But what they have imported will massacre their children and dance on their graves. No good deed goes unpunished.
There have always been a deep tension between the state and the clan. The clans created the state after 9,000 years of farming because the world was getting crowded thanks to agriculture. They knew that to win a battle, they must have 2-3x the enemy numbers to hold the ground after taking hits, so a confederation was required. They created the state, and since they pre-existed the state, they enjoyed immunity that we could only dream of. But this independence can be a problem in a war if some refused to show up. So that state needs to find way too weaken the clan’s bond. Strong clans make for a weak lord and weak clans make for a strong lord.
This tension reached a new level after the Scythians invented new mobile warfare. The archaic states must be able to garrison the towns to protect supply, to scout for the invaders, and to field an army. So they need a larger larger army and tax base. This requires conquest of neighboring nations. But so many cults and cultures interfere with creating cohesion, so the universalist and ethical religion was needed to turn the clans and nations into individuals with freedom of choice. Authoritarianism coupled with egalitarian religion made radical individualism possible today.
If you ask a Saudi or Chinese citizen who is the American from a standard Gap advertisement, they will point to the white guy.
As for the bring in the third world. This is akin to the distant descendant of a great industrialist inheriting billions and espousing communism and the evils of capitalism. Easy to do from your Manhattan apartment and nice life. But quite disgusting, a slap in the face to those who got you there.
This is where the West is. The hardships are ignored by an easy generation. But what they have imported will massacre their children and dance on their graves. No good deed goes unpunished.
My favorite piece thus far. I will use this to articulate to my nephews and nieces their origins and history
There have always been a deep tension between the state and the clan. The clans created the state after 9,000 years of farming because the world was getting crowded thanks to agriculture. They knew that to win a battle, they must have 2-3x the enemy numbers to hold the ground after taking hits, so a confederation was required. They created the state, and since they pre-existed the state, they enjoyed immunity that we could only dream of. But this independence can be a problem in a war if some refused to show up. So that state needs to find way too weaken the clan’s bond. Strong clans make for a weak lord and weak clans make for a strong lord.
This tension reached a new level after the Scythians invented new mobile warfare. The archaic states must be able to garrison the towns to protect supply, to scout for the invaders, and to field an army. So they need a larger larger army and tax base. This requires conquest of neighboring nations. But so many cults and cultures interfere with creating cohesion, so the universalist and ethical religion was needed to turn the clans and nations into individuals with freedom of choice. Authoritarianism coupled with egalitarian religion made radical individualism possible today.