A failed project; a call to adventure
Winston Churchill once wrote: “One of the signs of a great society is the diligence with which it passes culture from one generation to the next.” He went on to say that when one generation no longer passes on the things that are dear to it, its heroes an
This leaves that generation without any sense of definition or direction, making them the fulfilment of Karl Marx’s dictum, ‘A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.’”
This is the process that Malta and other European countries are undergoing as we speak, save the Visegrád Group, who in their wisdom, unanimously refused to continue their transition from one dictatorship to the next. Remembering all too well the misery and suffering they went through under the communist regime, the peoples of Eastern Europe chose to assert their Christian cultural heritage loudly, clearly and unambiguously – though you’d never know it from Western “media”coverage.
As those who were “educated” into the fifth column generator we call higher education ignorant ly repeat the same Marxist progressive rhetoric al poison day in day out, we are forced into a discussion about first principles, even to the extent where one must reiterate why consistency, facts, logic and evidence matter.
Only after the immovable appreciation for these principles, alongside the sacred Western idea that places the individual above the group are drilled deep into one’s skull can anyone begin what might be a fruitful conversation. And yet, there is an entire school of thought – which is arguably the worst thing to have ever emerged from French intellectuals – that is presented as a viable interpretation of the world and is legitimately studied in universities, instead of being laughed out of the room for the putrid drivel that it is. I’m referring of course to bien-pensant post-modernism, epitomised by the idea that “everything is relative, except the one universal that everything is relative”. Really, just how thick could you get?
If like me, you think that this absurd notion has nowhere else to go, then think again – because in realising the nothingness that awaits them by endorsing this mind-numbing piffle, French luminaries audaciously went a step further, and sought to marry a relativistic void with the incorrect assertions of a disgraced leftist ideology. This is partly why cynicism of their motives is more correct than it ought to be - because no intellectual worth his/her salt can ever glance over two fundamentally opposed views and carry on as normal. That’s the territory of the ideologically possessed.
And finding these genius individuals isn’t at all hard. In fact, one need only look at the new cohort of people in the media, academia and bureaucratic bodies who take every opportunity to signal their admiration for the troubles of the “working class,” (partly because it’s easy virtue) yet when put in close proximity to those same people feel nothing but repugnance.
But enough about progressives and their insistence on giving normal people ample reasons to despise them. Let’s turn our attention to their prized jewel, the vacuous European Union.
What is the EU at its core? And why, despite its vast resources does it seem perpetually unable to make sense of the world and meet its objectives? Two answers might be found embedded within the EU’s very reason for existing.
That is, the primary internal contradiction of EU federalism – the ideology that unironically perpetuates a post-ideological dogma whose role, it seems, is to ensure that the rich history and culture of European nations be swept aside and replaced with an empty vessel of tolerance so shapeless and stretched that it becomes void of all meaning or purpose. It is a cosmopolitan, easy-going, unrestrained, anti-democratic mono-culture of non-culture with a peculiar affection for anything non-European, a nonchalant or downright hostile attitude towards its own heritage, and an all-too-familiar willingness to mistake fantasy for reality. Indeed, this is a world where the European Parliament invites a long-haired, bearded transgender person to perform in front of the EU parliament and declare it as “The voice of Europe” singing for equality, without any reservations.
This is of course, only a surface, miniscule symptom of a multi-layered European problem, but it speaks volumes about how deeply embedded the issue is. To be more specific, it isn’t so much the non-existant relationship between such tripe and Europe’s deeply rich history and culture as it is the delusion that the peoples of Europe are all for redefining their identity towards relativistic nothingness, which is the inadvertent prelude before the cult of equal outcome.
Indeed, the European Union’s lifeless character is what gives rise to the EU’s foreign minister thinking it a good idea for political Islam to be part of the solution, and perhaps the final solution at that.
This is why for nearly a decade, the EU has maintained that it is reasonable to expect a German-style financial approach from Greece – a country where tax evasion has been a problem since the Ottoman occupation of the country, where Greeks saw tax resistance as a form of patriotism. It is why the EU consistently fails to understand that it is deepening the migration crisis by acting as a ferry service for illegal economic migrants and human traffickers, not to mention its ongoing schemes for demographic replacement by ill-educated, third-world, largely Muslim whose values, culture and traditions could not be more different to ours. It is why the EU and our cowardly (or lackey) media outlets refuse to acknowledge that an inherently expansionist and supremacist religious ideology like Islam sees Europe’s open borders as an invitation to conquest. And it is the reason why it was caught unprepared when the mass rapes in Cologne took place, which were in part facilitated by the high-minded and superficially elevated Western mind that sees no need in retelling quasi-archetypical stories like that of the Rape of the Sabine Women in ancient Rome.
And if the mass rapes are of no concern – brushed aside for the sake of “the cause” no doubt – then consider our naivety just in recent history. It was not long ago we were mourning the carnage wrought in Manchester, Nice, in Paris, in Orlando, in London, in Madrid, in Toulouse, in Barcelona, in Istanbul, in Berlin, in Stockholm, in Boston and most recently, in Toronto Canada – I could go on. If we’ve accepted this as the new normal, then we have tacitly agreed with the EU’s terms of surrender to a religious ideology that is guaranteed to take us back to a time when wheelbarrows were considered emergent technology.
Even when given the benefit of the doubt, in its characteristic bubble-like mentality,the EU is acting as if it has already reached its Utopia, where everything can be solved and negotiated through dialogue and the careful allocation of subsidies and resources – because central planning worked like a charm in Soviet Russia. This is in part why there has yet to be a tangible reaction to repeated Islamist attacks, rapes and murders. Due to its insipid, uninspiring, directionless existence, the EU does not have a counter narrative to recognise the hostile reality standing before its very eyes.
What do you do when confronted with a pervasive idea that refuses to be modernised, and seeks supremacy at all costs?
Clearly, both the EU’s words and actions confess its answer, which is to submit on behalf of its member countries- whose populations have consistently indicated otherwise - and hope for the best. It’s safe to say that this is a bad idea by any measure.
Time and again we are forced to hear people like Guy Verhofstadt or Jean-Claude Juncker speak of “core values” but given that Belgium’s Islam party has declared its intentions to turn “the European capital” into an “Islamist democracy” by 2030, one cannot but wonder what they’re really referring to with this nebulous rhetoric.
Perhaps they themselves haven’t a clue of what they mean either. And would it really be any wonder? After all, the EU has no raison d’être – to borrow a phrase from the recently disparaged French. At all times, its priority is self-preservation, though you wouldn’t know it from what this elite, bureaucratic block has done to the continent by opening the borders, and in doing so ensuring future conflict and strife. For anyone paying attention to things other than their Instagram following, the precursor of this grim future is already around us – perfectly detailed in Douglas Murray’s ‘The Strange Death of Europe’.
In an interview with John Anderson, professor of psychology, doctor Jordan Peterson extrapolates on what it means to have no purpose. He says: “If you don’t have a purpose, it isn’t that your life becomes neutral in a meaningless sense, it’s that your life becomes characterised by unbearable suffering – because the baseline condition of life is something like unbearable suffering. And what you have to set against that is a noble and worth-while purpose.”
“Hopefully, your determination of that purpose is buttressed to some degree by the wisdom of the past because you can’t conjure something like that on your own.”
He continues: “If you provide people with nobility of purpose then they can tolerate the suffering of existence without becoming entirely corrupted by it... cultures that don’t do that are dead – they’re done. They don’t have a story anymore and no call to adventure.”
Amidst an endless sea of nihilism and self-loathing, of apathy and meaninglessness, a novel call to adventure quietly presents itself. And in the absence of the proper transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next, new cohorts left adrift to find their own way must look back to decide what to do going forward -learning from the catastrophes and victories of old and revivifying the ancient wisdom of their ancestors to face the immense challenges that lie ahead.
“Due to its insipid, uninspiring, directionless existence, the EU does not have a counter narrative to recognise the hostile reality standing before its very eyes ”