Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Name that Civilization to save it

Is it a smorgasbord, a minestrone or a bouillabaisse? Look at it anyway you want but these are the images that come to mind when you read the latest installment by Bret Stephens. It is a column that came under the title: “Is Europe Helpless?” and the subtitle: “A civilization that believes in nothing will ultimately submit to anything.” It was published on July 26, 2016 in the Wall Street Journal.

The author's point is that Europe is not doing what it should to protect itself and preserve its civilization. And so he gives that assembly of nations the standard Jewish advice of looking to Israel for guidance. To elaborate on the points he makes – by which he arrives at his conclusions – he cooks up an assortment of arguments that frankly, would require the stomach of a bear to digest.

What is not new in his approach is that he says Europe ought to live in fear of the Muslims and remain on guard at all time. This is steady Jewish diet; a system of managed hysteria; an approach that the self-appointed leaders of the Jews have used to maintain control over their followers since the beginning of time. It is also how they manage to maintain control over the American Congress at this time. And it is how they brought leaders of other nations under their control till such time that the public discovered what they were doing and responded by unleashing the pogroms that chased the Jews away.

As to what is new in his approach; it's that he used the steady Jewish diet as a foundation upon which to construct an argument that warns the European countries they are risking the destruction of their civilization. And that's where things go from bad to worse – where the argument degenerates from being a smorgasbord of useless ideas to a bouillabaisse of rotting fish.

His weakness lies in the fact that he wants to believe civilization is based on identity. From where did he get this idea? It is that Netanyahu is promising America there will be instant peace in Palestine if only President Mahmud Abbas agreed to call Israel a Jewish State. And so, Netanyahu drummed into the heads of those who run the Jewish propaganda machine – Stephens among them – that they must believe in the principle of a Jewish identity that will be born with the recognition of a Jewish state. He wants them to believe that when this happens, they will all become citizens of a rising new civilization; one that will grow so powerful, it will conquer the world.

But is that true? Is civilization based on identity? Or is it based on a shared vision? Well, America did not come into existence because there was an American identity that the early pilgrim were eager to be apart of. It came into existence because people of different identities shared a single vision; that of religious freedom. When they came together and worked together to make a living and make life bearable for themselves and their offspring, a byproduct of their shared vision started to take shape. In time, that byproduct became the now recognizable American civilization.

It follows that a civilization can be altered by altering the vision underlying it; or be killed by vanquishing that vision. When you accept this and you see what Stephens is proposing to “save” the European civilization, you understand how and why the Jews have been eroding the American civilization while pretending to enhance it, even save it.

Look what Stephens says about Europe: “Can the decline be stopped? Yes, but that would require unlearning the mythologies on which Europe was built: that the Union is the result of commitment to peace; that there is no such thing as a military solution; that one's country isn't worth fighting for; that tolerance is the supreme value”.

As can be seen, all these points have nothing to do with identity, and everything to do with a shared vision. Thus what the European Union did was forge for itself a shared vision that now forms the foundation of its civilization. And this is the foundation that Stephens wants to vanquish in order to save a civilization he mistakenly believes was originally built on identity.

He does not have a name for that identity, so maybe he'll call on Mahmud Abbas to name it, and call on the American Congress to threaten Abbas if he does not come up with a name. This whole Jewish enterprise is that silly.