Thursday, January 14, 2010

from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals The Stories Behind the News













from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News


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Civilization at War with Itself


Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:09 PM PST


If there is one guiding motto for modern liberalism, it is
Pogo's, "We have met the enemy... and he is us". That core paradigm
usually rendered in more poetic and radically charged prose traveled from
radical salons to become embedded in the educational system and popular
culture. And its message is very simple, our values, our way of living,
our traditions, our nation and our civilization are responsible for most
of what is wrong with the world. We are the enemy and we must defeat our
values, our nation and our civilization for the sake of the world and the
future.




What has followed since then has taken place on the grim
battlefield of a civilization at war with itself, at war with itself in
college campuses, on editorial pages, on movie screens and books, and
everywhere that the "We are the enemy" meme of liberalism has penetrated.
And the bad news is that in the name of tolerance, the environment, the
moral high ground and a thousand other liberal pieties, we are being
defeated. Civilization is losing the war.

The tide of car burnings,
gang rapes and bombings flowing across the streets of Oslo and Sydney,
Jerusalem, Paris and London, do not mark the victory of barbarism over
civilization, but rather a poisoned distorted version of civilization over
itself. The celebration of the savage, the mad bomber and the rapist, the
bearded dole taker who preaches the virtues of Jihad and his smooth Oxford
educated colleague who does the same in far subtler consonants, is
civilization dancing around the fading bonfire it has made of itself.
Throw on the canon, toss on every ancient value and virtue, pile on
technology and achievement, then step back and dance madly to the wailing
strains of the music of some invisible Nero while it all burns.


This is no random madness, no Mansonesque sickness of the spirit,
no deranged chemical flows along the gaps in the nerves of the brain. This
is a carefully cultivated ideological madness, supplemented with drugs and
the self-consciously nihilistic imagery of a culture that has fallen in
love with its own self-destruction, that sees no frontiers remaining to
it, but the final one of its own annihilation. The death of a
civilization. The dark undiscovered country that follows when all that has
been built is finally torn down.

Like a willful cancer with arms
and legs it attacks every element that can keep civilization alive with
furiously self-righteous malignancy. If your national security offends
you, cut it off. Throw open the borders as wide as you can, and make sure
that those you bring in are the very dregs that no sane country would
take. Shout on behalf of terrorists, beat the drum for cop killers and
rend your clothes for serial killers scheduled for execution. If the
schools teach any useful skills, put an end to it. If there is truth to be
found anywhere, mock it until it goes away.

And when you have
finally bankrupted your country to its very utmost range of debt, when you
have finally made it impossible for anyone to earn a living without the
intervention of the government, when you have made it illegal for anyone
to have a stay unconventional thought, then you will have finally brought
the edifice of civilization to the point at which there is nothing left to
do but to bring it all crashing down under its own weight.

And what
is behind this ideological madness? What is behind a crisis in which the
best and brightest are doing their very best to bring down their own
civilization, swinging their hardest against the very beams that keep them
from crashing to the ground? But it is easier to ask why lemmings rush
forth off cliffs into the sea.




The instincts of lemmings drive them to their death, and the
cultural instincts of generations of the left, shaped in part by the
Soviet Union whose genuine wish was to bring down Western civilization and
anything allied to it, drive them to destroy their own roots. The hatred
of the left for the countries in which they live and the moist
civilizations in which they thrive is not some fad that began when George
W. Bush won Florida or Richard Nixon whomped McGovern. It did not happen
20 years ago or 40 years ago or even a 100 years ago. It is far older than
that.

It is a sickness that has been crawling up the bowels of
Western civilization, a mad parasite ranting about revolutions and utopias
that somehow inevitably lead to bureaucratic tyrannies, gulags and
guillotines. Either its most extreme incarnation is given a chance to set
up a totalitarian state to implement its maddest revolutionary credos, or
it will devour and destroy everything in its path seeing it all as the
enemy. And in the process it has come to embrace and celebrate its own
destructiveness and bloodlust, just like the people's mobs brandishing
severed heads in Paris, the Moscow trials and the hysterical frenzies of
anti-war rallies.

The politics of the left is a car that always
swerves further and further left. And to go left means to always denounce
your own, to condemn your country and your society as examples of all that
is wrong with the world and must be destroyed. The radical left's reading
of history is a series of atrocities and horrors committed by human greed,
nationalism and capitalism. Citizenship is nothing more than entitlement
and values are nothing more than privilege. And the further left the car
swerves, the more extreme the hatred becomes.

One can no longer
"steal the thunder" of the left for long, as conservative governments once
did to radical socialists by passing just enough of their programs to cut
off their base of support. The left has long ago passed from protesting
against actual injustices, to creating its own injustices to protest
against, and creating entire narratives of injustices, in which the
ultimate injustice is the continuing survival of the country and
civilization associated with the narrative. And to steal their thunder, is
to swerve left, only to find that the left is already ahead of
you.

The ideological madness of the left, flowing into the
educational system and the culture, turning up on musical shores, in
novels and plays, shining forth on the movie screen and in every circle
and classroom, is the distillation of their poisonous hatred for a
civilization that can never go left enough to satisfy them. That hatred
has now become a whip, a goad, and moderates and conservatives alike run
before it in the futile hope of avoiding its barbed blows.




What it all adds up to is a great echoing thanatos pulse, a
death call that tells civilization to die, that tells its inhabitants that
their lives are worse than worthless, but an actual malignancy, a crime
against the environment, the third world and the oppressed. That pulse
echoes now in the streets of every city in the civilized world. It flows
along fiber optic cables, hums on radio waves and bellows on the floor of
a hundred legislatures. It is a mad cry of an ideology gone mad with
death. It is the insanity of liberalism rebounding against its own
structures, progressing not to a better world, but to the destruction of
everything that keeps us alive.

Yet this is not theoretical, it is
very real. It is the wellspring of the contamination of our political and
intellectual systems. When police club protesters against Islamism or the
Settlement Freeze, when politicians denounce as criminals anyone who
speaks out against their destructive policies, when the public is told by
the press that their greatest enemies are those who would save them-- you
can hear the death cry of civilization.

A
postscript.



The award for the strangest Israeli Supreme Court case
goes to an Israeli named Shlomo Avni, who petitioned the high court for
the right to be eaten by wild animals after his death, saying he was
only repaying a debt to nature as a lifetime consumer in the food chain.
In their 772-word decision, three Supreme Court judges wished the
80-year-old plaintiff a long life and unanimously rejected Avni’s
petition. The justices quoted Jeremiah 9:21 and the prophet’s warning of
dreadful times when “carcasses of men fall as dung upon the open field.”
Avni said he’d take his case to the international court at The
Hague.










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