Think Local
29th August 2018
ZMan describes the difference between reality and ideology.
For most of human history, we understood that people are not the same. Different people had different customs, different gods, different material habits and of course, they looked different. When describing the people of a foreign land, writers and storytellers would spend a lot of time describing these differences. Julius Caesar, in his commentaries on the the conquest of Gaul, was at his best describing the looks and dress of the Gauls. It not only made his tale interesting, it made a point. The Gauls were not Romans.
In one of life’s ironies, as the Left is about to impose its belief in the blank slate and extreme egalitarianism on society, science is unearthing contrary evidence on a near daily basis. It’s fair to say we now have a mountain of science supporting the claims made by our side of the great divide, with regards to human diversity. That mountain grows larger with every new bit of evidence from the human sciences.
I remember the gradual process whereby the metaphor for immigrant assimilation changed from ‘the melting pot’ to ‘the mosaic’. Supposedly, rather than all of these foreign cultures fusing into some sort of mixture, everybody would keep his or her own particular culture and just wander around as isolated grains of whatever. The current lie that is taken as dogma by the proglodytes is ‘diversity is our strength’.
Precisely the opposite is true: Diversity is the very definition of weakness. A melting pot produces an alloy, a mixture with qualities not present in the original components; typically, an improvement. A mosaic remains bits of separate stuff stuck together; the slightest pressure on the sticking stuff and the whole thing fragments. The term ‘Balkanization’ is never used as a compliment.