Reading Alinsky

Any reactionary Westerner who'd like his people and civilization to survive should pay close attention to the execrable Reb Alinsky, who taught his dismantlers of the culture that gave them their lives to "use the enemy's own rules against them."

The highminded and rootless foolishness of the West since the Enlightenment has allowed other people, competitors and enemies --declared or implied--, to use these Laputan principles to get us to cooperate in our own demise.

In a fascinating documentary about the 19th century British founder of archeology, Sir Flinders Petrie, one of the current staff of the Cairo Museum, an Egyptian woman, criticizes a portrait of the man in situ as being "racist and colonialist" because it shows him in a position of dominance. We have to endure a discussion of whether this man, born in 1853, was a "racist."

Grotesque.

You create the ideas of "racism" and "colonialism" and inferior peoples can gain moral dominance just by pronouncing the words.

Note to Western self: do not espouse values that alien enemies can use against you.

If only the West were more like the Chinese: frankly self-interested, assumptive of their superiority and innocent of apology. As we once were.

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