ex cathedra: Heterotelia

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Heterotelia

What? Some new oppression we must fight against?! The next Civil Rights struggle?

Nope. Sorry.

In his traditionalist-futurist vision of Europe after its coming catastrophe, French political visionary ---yes, I know, haven't we had enough of those, Robespierre?-- Guillaume Faye uses a rare Greek-derived term to specify what conservatives like to call the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Heterotelia comes from hetero, different and telos, goal. When the actual outcome is different from the intention of an act, then you've got heterotelia.

Faye's examples are multiculturalism, which actually leads to (an undeclared but real) race war, and political equality, which actually leads to inequality because of its social instability.

Heterotelia. I could form a band by that name.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...: so kind of like in Allen Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, where he says that the "openness" of relativism leads paradoxically to the closing referenced in the title?; 3:22 PM, April 17, 2013

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