This is a good summary IMO
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/10/02/jumping-the-shark-of-altruism-to-ethnic-war/Jumping the Shark of Altruism – to Ethnic War
Alastair Crooke
October 2, 2023
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In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Editor-at-Large, Gerard Baker writes that the current cultural moral order is “already crumbling”:
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This new edifice has been built around three principal pillars: First, the ethical primacy of global obligation – over national self-interest, but most directly, and consequentially, in a rejection of the morality of national borders – and an embrace of something like open-door immigration.
“Second, a quasi-biblical belief in climate catastrophism, in which man’s essential energy-consuming sinfulness can be expiated only by massive sacrifice of economic progress.
“Third, a wholesale cultural self-cancellation in which the virtues, values and historic achievements of traditional civilization are rejected and replaced by a cultural hierarchy that inverts old prejudices and obliges the class of white, male heterosexuals to acknowledge their history of exploitation and submit to comprehensive social and economic reparation”.
“Each of these three pillars throughout the West – on three continents – is crumbling”, writes Baker. Maybe so. But there is little sign of the cultural zealots backing down. Rather, they double-down. It has become an existential issue – with western ‘traditionalists’ seeing cultural issues as almost a life-or-death situation. It is a bruising binary struggle.
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See also
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/09/25/the-last-man-teleology-and-the-fall-of-the-west/...
A prescient American cultural historian, Christopher Lasch, had foreseen this American ‘turn’, already in 1994. He wrote a book – Revolt of the Élites – describing how a social revolution would be ‘pushed to the cusp’ by the radicalised children of the bourgeoisie. Their leaders would have almost nothing to say about poverty or unemployment. Their demands would be centred on utopian ideals: diversity and racial justice – ideals pursued with the fervour of an abstract, millenarian ideology.
One of Lasch’s key points of insistence was that future young American Marxisants would substitute culture war for class war.
This was no ‘Revolution from Below’ (as was to become the Cold War myth concerning the Soviet sphere) – it was ‘Revolution’ from ‘Above’, hatched within America’s Coastal Élites.
This Revolution would be resisted, Lasch predicted, but not in the upper reaches of society. The leaders of Big Philanthropy and the Corporate Billionaires would become its facilitators and financiers. Their ideal was to bring about deep structural change within society – their impulse stemmed from a conviction that the Civil Rights movement had failed to produce the radical change that was required.
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