The Western War on Itself

 

Douglas Murray isn’t a liberal. He isn’t a race or gender realist either. So there isn’t much in the way of serious goodness or truth in his current best-seller The War on the West (2022).

Still, he defends Western Civilization far better than most. Or, at least, he attacks its attackers far better.

As everyone educated and virtuous should know by now, Western society took a turn for the worse around 2015 with the advent of what could be called Monster Leftism, but which most people call Woke Leftism. This could be seen in the unprecedented rise of Antifa, B.L.M., social media de-platforming, impeaching Trump, transexual-mania, defunding the police, and more.

The Right has its own problems, and also in about 2015 it turned to conspiracy theory. But the Left embraced socialism, fascism, racism, sexism, censorship, cancel culture, anti-Enlightenmentism, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and Big Brother in a way, and to an extent, previously unknown. Current Leftists are illiberal, postmodernist, and anti-Western to a remarkable degree.

Murray responded to this new evil and threat to the world with the books The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, and Islam (2017) and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity (2019). Both are solidly good, relatively speaking. And they’re quite similar to the work of his colleagues David Horowitz, Bruce Bawer, Pamela Geller, Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Jonah Goldberg, Pat Buchanan, Mark Stein, Andy Ngo, and a few others.

All these ferocious writers and intellectuals are religious conservatives. But they also lightly or moderately promote the philosophy of classical liberalism. Thus they somewhat rise above the trivial Right-Left divide and partially do advocate the noble philosophy of Westernism and modernity.

But not one understands that life is a battle between liberalism and illiberalism. The Right-Left conflict which consumes them is minor and a distraction from the real war which confronts us.

And not one of these deep thinkers admits that blacks and women are inferior to whites and men. No serious discussion of the nature, nurture, and morality of whites, blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, men, and women is to be found in any of their semi-polemical books.

So these supposed defenders and promoters of Western liberalism are close to philosophically impotent. And their level of intellectual honesty, courage, and integrity on the pivotal issues of race and gender is close to non-existent. Ultimately, their intellectual incompetence and profound illiberalism offer the Western world virtually no hope.

The Three Categories of Philosophy and People

 

Right-wing conservatives are brainwashed, irrational, illiberal, ignorant, self-hating, and self-destructive. They mindlessly believe in god – and somewhat the collective – while rejecting reality, life, mankind, themselves, and happiness. They support the bad status quo while opposing change for the better. Conservatives embrace welfare statist tyranny, especially on personal and social issues. They’re selfless and sacrificial opponents of personal achievement and pleasure, who rarely smile, laugh, feel good about themselves, or have fun.

Left-wing progressives are brainwashed, irrational, illiberal, ignorant, self-hating, and self-destructive. They mindlessly believe in the collective – and somewhat god – while rejecting reality, life, mankind, themselves, and happiness. They support change for the worse while opposing the superior status quo. They’re selfless and sacrificial opponents of personal achievement and pleasure, who rarely smile, laugh, feel good about themselves, or have fun.

Straight-wing liberals are clear-thinking, rational, educated, self-loving, and self-ascending. They intelligently believe in the individual – and not god or the collective – while embracing, reality, life, mankind, themselves, and happiness. They support the status quo when it’s good, and change when it’s for the better. They reject welfare statist tyranny in favor of full social libertarianism and economic capitalism. They’re selfish and greedy lovers of personal achievement and pleasure, who frequently smile, laugh, feel good about themselves, and have fun.

No person or society is purely conservative, progressive, or liberal. All are some mixture. But the more liberal the individual and culture, the higher their level of greatness and happiness.

Right, Left, and Straight

 

Rightists and Leftists are essentially illiberal monsters bent on destroying mankind. They’re philosophical and cultural deviants and perverts who are quite good at their job. Especially today, about 230 years after the zenith of philosophical liberalism.

Philosophical and cultural Rightists claim "god" exists, it’s the most important thing in the universe, its influence determines much of the nature of truth, everybody should sacrifice their whole being too it, and everyone should slavishly serve it their whole priceless life. Philosophical and cultural Leftists claim "the collective" exists, it’s the most important thing in the universe, its influence determines much of the nature of truth, everybody should sacrifice their whole being too it, and everyone should slavishly serve it their whole priceless life. Rightists and Leftists favor a criminal welfare state and destructive slave government to force people to follow their false and evil philosophies, and to coerce helpless innocents into adhereing to their loathsome values.

"Straightists", meanwhile, are liberal heroes and saints bent on liberating and saving mankind. They admit that reality exists objectively and absolutely, and that truth exists independently of the wishes and claims of the godly and the collectivists. Straight-wing liberals – unlike right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives – understand that the Holy Individual (i.e. you) is the most important thing in the universe, and that society and every single person should loyally and nobly defend and promote Him without limit. Straightists also favor a free state and libertarian government in which every person can freely choose His own philosophy, and adhere to whatever values He chooses, and live as He wishes.

Rightists and Leftists are illiberal demons that need to be eradicated from the Earth, lest these monsters do this to us.

Diversity and Inclusion

 

"Diversity" and "inclusion" are important parts of the illiberal, postmodernist, Dark Age philosophy of Wokism, which emerged around 2015 or so. But the social ideals of diversity and inclusion constitute an attack upon exclusivity, merit, achievement, and greatness. They invite in low, dumb, unworthy, unqualified blacks, Hispanics, women, and other "minorities" to schools, jobs, places, and situations where they don't deserve to be and don't have a right to.

This favortism and bigotry based upon irrelevant biology is malicious and indefensible. Such "social identity group" discrimination is unjust and immoral. The standards and goals of diversity and inclusion harm the good and great people of this Earth. They also degrade the institutions involved and damage the whole society. Diversity and inclusion are an assault upon humanity, especially persons of quality, nobility, and magnficence.

No-one should be become a member of a distinguished group or organization who isn’t himself noteworthy or distinguished. Having dark skin or female genitals aren’t qualifications to join. Only merit, achievement, and excellence should count. Only people of genuinely high value are beneficial to, and worthy of, any exclusive schools, companies, clubs, organizations, and institutions to which they belong.

The selection process for elite groups and organizations should be based upon inborn and developed talent alone. Only superiority and specialness should count. If some black, Hispanic, woman, or minority is undistinguished, unimpressive, unqualified, and unmeritorious, then – just like mediocre whites and males – he needs to be kept the hell out. There’s no substitute for achievement and greatness.

Our Job

 

Our main job in life is to work as long, hard, smart, and well as possible, in order to accomplish as much as possible, and make the universe as orderly and beautiful as possible. This achievement provides the most meaning and satisfaction, as well as the maximum pleasure and happiness.

Our job is to fully realize our potential and fulfill our personal destiny. We need to exploit every opportunity to enhance our goodness and greatness. It’s a full-time job of infinite challenge and difficulty. And since this job is never done, we need to be aggressive, but humble, before it.

Robber-Barons

 

Robber-barons essentially rule the world. From China to Russia to Japan to India to Europe to America, there are phony businessmen everywhere you look. These dictatorial billionaires rob mankind blind.

These ultra-thieves are created by government monopolies of one sort or another. The criminals use the state to seize control of some extremely important product or service, so that if the public wants it, as they almost always do, they have to go to the robber-barons. On top of their exclusive economic niche, many or most of the oligarchs also receive government subsidies, import protection, and bureaucratic regulation to keep down competition. There are many possible names for this planet-wide system of economic tyranny and theft: crony capitalism, phony capitalism, corporate capitalism, corporatism, fascism, princely capitalism, corrupt capitalism, counterfeit capitalism, criminal capitalism, klepto-capitalism, tyrannical capitalism, and more.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton claimed, "The era of big government is over." This was largely based upon the 1980s liberal revolutions led by Ronald Reagan in America, Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, and Deng Shiao-ping in China. It was also based upon the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991.

To many, the 140-year war between capitalism and socialism seemed to be over. Individualism-based economic choice had won and collectivism-based economic coercion had lost. From now on, evidently, it was freedom for all and tyranny for none.

Socialism had supposedly been both intellectually refuted and politically defeated. So now capitalism was going to take over the globe. As American intellectual Francis Fukuyama put it, it was "the end of history".

The future would consist solely of political free enterprise, free trade, and laissez-faire business activity. And along with this economic liberation would come social and personal liberalism. As Milton Friedman put it in 1980, we were all going to be "free to choose".

Of course, none of that happened. The post-1991 worldwide welfare state grew bigger and nastier than ever. This is because however much people wanted and needed individual liberty, the finest economic, social, and political theorists of that era understood freedom and individualism about as well as an aardvark understands calculus.

And under the advice of their illiberal, nitwit, dirtbag, Western brothers, the backward Chinese, Russians, Indians, and everyone else "liberated" their societies by selling off government businesses and granting economic monopolies to the politically connected and criminally corrupt. Virtually never were these giant commercial interests sold freely and honestly to the highest bidder with the proceeds going to the people. And as these new and terrible plutocrats were created in the East, the Western robber-barons of the past three decades expanded their power and wealth too.

So here we are. This is Planet Oligarchy. Outside of relatively small pockets in the West, there’s hardly a single legitimate billionaire anywhere. They virtually all have government regulation, protection, and monopoly on their side. These coercive advantages let them steal and dictate on the grand scale. These robber-barons bribe the rulers almost without limit, and often effectively become the leaders too.

Capitalism is nowhere to be found. Liberty has no national home. And the greatest geniuses and heroes of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, and the like still understand economic, social, and political liberalism less than the poor aardvark mentioned above.

Crony "capitalism" is the political system found in every nation on earth. And robber-barons pretty much rule the whole world.

Gun Control

 

Mankind needs gun control. And it needs a really large amount of it. This will diminish crime significantly.

All roads, transportation, parks, schools, businesses, and homes should be made private and capitalist. None should be out-of-control, law-of-the-jungle, collectivist or communist monstrosities. And the owners of the various private and capitalist properties should control the guns on them completely.

The private property owners might allow a huge number of guns on their land, including pistols, rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, anti-tank Javelins, and 175 mm howitzers. Or they might forbid BB and Nerf guns. The choice is up to them. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go cry on someone else’s property. But owner gun control should be absolute.

Similarly, the private property masters of the different real estates, vehicles, and buildings should also determine who exactly is allowed to possess weapons and under what conditions. Such owners could permit everyone, no-one, or just some. And they could grant this privilege for any reason whatever, however foolish, arbitrary, and “unfair“. But the owners’ gun control should be total.

Because the fact is: allowing or forbidding arms on one’s private property is a matter of personal freedom, and one of the inalienable rights of man.

Without a doubt, the owners of these various private properties will overwhelmingly tend to seek the highest level of security and public protection possible. And by using their intelligence, insight, education, virtue, and experience, it’s likely they will obtain a really high level of these.

People will be incredibly safe. After all, owners have every incentive to keep their visitors unharmed. In the first place, no-one wants bad guys to get guns and shoot good guys. But especially not private property owners. If anyone gets hurt, their level of personal guilt, social condemnation, and legal liability will likely be considerable.

Hence, if society wants to minimize the shooting and death of innocents, it needs to institute an extreme level of gun control. This is the property owners’ right and duty.

It is not the government’s right or duty. Gun control by the state is tyranny. And the world knows from long experience that government gun control is often so inept and criminal that it results in even business and home-owners being unable to secure basic arms to protect their valuable premises, customers, friends, and family. The crooks run rampant. And, of course, gun control by the state – itself an act of tyranny – often leads to tyranny of the whole society.

To prevent a great deal of unnecessary destruction and death, the world needs a massive increase in gun control. But by property owners – not government.

Individual Lives vs. the Right and the Left

 

Life and the Individual are sacred. No-one should dare to touch them. No-one for any reason should dare to trespass upon, violate, attack, or destroy them.

But right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives disagree. Philosophical Rightists don’t worship life or the individual. They consider "god" to be sacred. And they selflessly devote themselves to serving it.

Philosophical Leftists don’t worship life or the individual either. They consider "the collective" to be sacred. And they selflessly devote themselves to serving it.

Both evil ideologies oppose individual rights. This is because both the irrational, illiberal Right and the irrational, illiberal Left reject personal greatness and happiness. Right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives contemptuously dismiss individual lives as unimportant or meaningless. Unless the insect-like individual is immolating himself in servitude to some Rightist or Leftist ideal, he doesn’t matter.

Of course, both false and failed philosophies solemnly promise that in the Neverland of some distant future, individuals will finally get to live in some "heaven" or "social utopia". But the Holy Individual and his irreplaceable existence today are trivial or worthless.

Both Right and Left assure us that in pursuit of some remote, delusional, conservative, or progressive ideal, the individual may essentially be stomped upon. Based upon their supposedly lofty and noble philosophies, Rightists and Leftists tell us that the Sacred Self and his irreplaceable existence may be decently ground into the dirt and destroyed.

Brainwashing

 

We’re all heavily brainwashed. We think we aren’t, but we are. We almost entirely agree with and accept whatever our family, friends, teachers, and society say and do. We disagree with and reject some of it, yes, but these are mostly side issues or trivia. And we almost completely allow the indoctrinators to frame the debate, set the context, and point us in the general direction.

The brainwashers are also careful to puff us up, and tell us how smart and good we are, as we inadvertently, but obediently, toe their line. And it’s precisely the fact that we proudly and defiantly fancy ourselves untouched, uncorrupted, and unbrainwashable, that makes us such intellectually helpless and defenseless victims.

Humans are wildly adaptable. Even if we grow up or live in Hell, we easily embrace it, like it, and consider everything in our awful world to be quite normal, natural, unremarkable, and good. Oh, there may be a few things we damn, and have personal or social disputes about, in this hellacious society, philosophy, culture, and lifestyle. But mostly it seems fine to us, or even wonderful.

Similarly, if we grow up or live in Paradise, we easily, blithely, casually accept it, and consider everything in our heavenly world to be quite normal, natural, boring, and nothing to get excited about or be impressed by. Yes, it’s all quite nice, perhaps. But if we see just one more person leap for joy or dance with delight we’re gonna shoot ourselves.

Ultimately, all us unfoolable, savvy, brave, heroic rebels and revolutionaries are much more docile, compliant, and submissive than we realize. The accidental and deliberate brainwashing and indoctrination inflicted upon us by our family, friends, teachers, and society is much more effective and dominant than we suppose.

Ostracism and Boycott

Humans are naturally social creatures. They have a tremendous ability to influence each other. Sometimes it’s in their self-interest to do so, sometimes it’s in the interest of those they influence, and sometimes it’s both. But humans are highly vulnerable to persuasion by others.

People can influence others via reason, logic, discussion, and debate. And this is usually the ideal. But they can also impact others thru trickeration, psychological manipulation, emotional blackmail, and guilt. And thru personal insults and moral condemnation. Also thru public insults and public condemnation. And thru private and public respect, praise, admiration, and love – another ideal. And certainly people can persuade others via financial reward and punishment.

Still another method for human beings to influence their fellows, alas, is thru physical threats and harm. But this persuasive technique is criminal, tyrannical, and something good people should avoid.

If an individual or group wishes to change the mind and behavior of another individual or group, there are many ways to do so. Hence, slowing down or stopping social immorality, criminality, and tyranny is far from difficult. Humans are intricately and powerfully interlaced, if not interlocked. For all our natural individual freedom and autonomy, there’s a whole giant social fabric, if not web, in which we’re all enmeshed, or even trapped.

If a person is a lowlife or lawbreaker, he can be immensely influenced to behave and improve by the crude power of social ostracism and economic boycott. So can a whole nation or government.

Indeed, a tyranny can quickly be brought to its knees in this fashion. It can almost be destroyed. And all without firing a shot.

If, for example, America and the West wish to reform and uplift the slave nations of China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, and many others, they can easily do so. They just need to use ostracism and boycott, mounted upon the foundation of intellectual refutation and moral damnation. They don’t have to use the military. Acting in accord with truth and justice is hugely powerful.

But if the semi-liberal, semi-civilized nations of America and the West somehow attempt to weaken or overthrow these evil, enemy dictatorships via social and economic engagement, they will fail, and they will deserve to. Such cooperation with, and appeasement of, human horror and depravity enables the slave-masters and the slave-nations. It results in moral endorsement, social approval, and economic enrichment. The dictators radically grow in their ability to enslave the nation with their police, and harm other nations with their military.

America and the West today need to almost completely change their policy toward these evil, enemy nations and tyrannies. They need to counter-attack by employing the hammer blows of social ostracism, economic boycott, intellectual refutation, and moral condemnation.