ZGram - 10/17/2002 - "On Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique"
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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
October 17, 2002
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
=46rom a somewhat garbled e-mail I gleaned the following - to which I
would comment: Extremely well put, though I would not put it so
pessimistically:
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Two days ago, somebody in a newsgroup, apparently, picked up the
preface to the paperback edition of "Culture of Critique" by Kevin
MacDonald, and commented:
"100 years from now, if our kids survive, they may well view this
book as the single most accurate and important description of the
20th century. If our kids don't survive, MacDonald's book will be
lost along with them. For the paperback edition, MacDonald permits
himself to make some observations about Jewish influence on
contemporary events, including 9-11."
Below is the conclusion; for the entire preface see the link below:
http://www.csulb.edu/%7Ekmacd/Preface.htm
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"Culture of Critique" is really an attempt to understand the 20th
century as a Jewish century-a century in which Jews and Jewish
organizations were deeply involved in all the pivotal events. From
the Jewish viewpoint it has been a period of great progress, though
punctuated by one of its darkest tragedies. In the late 19th century
the great bulk of the Jewish population lived in Eastern Europe, with
many Jews mired in poverty and all surrounded by hostile populations
and unsympathetic governments. A century later, Israel is firmly
established in the Middle East, and Jews have become the wealthiest
and most powerful group in the United States and have achieved elite
status in other Western countries. The critical Jewish role in
radical leftism has been sanitized, while Jewish victimization by the
Nazis has achieved the status of a moral touchstone and is a prime
weapon in the push for large-scale non-European immigration,
multi-culturalism and advancing other Jewish causes. Opponents have
been relegated to the fringe of intellectual and political discourse
and there are powerful movements afoot that would silence them
entirely.
The profound idealization, the missionary zeal, and the moral fervor
that surround the veneration of figures like Celan, Kafka, Adorno,
and Freud characterize all of the Jewish intellectual movements
discussed in "Culture of Critique" (see Ch. 6 for a summary). That
these figures are now avidly embraced by the vast majority of
non-Jewish intellectuals as well shows that the Western intellectual
world has become Judaized-that Jewish attitudes and interests, Jewish
likes and dislikes, now constitute the culture of the West,
internalized by Jews and non-Jews alike. The Judaization of the West
is nowhere more obvious than in the veneration of the Holocaust as
the central moral icon of the entire civilization. These developments
constitute a profound transformation from the tradition of critical
and scientific individualism that had formed the Western tradition
since the Enlightenment. More importantly, because of the deep-seated
Jewish hostility toward traditional Western culture, the Judaization
of the West means that the peoples who created the culture and
traditions of the West have been made to feel deeply ashamed of their
own history-surely the prelude to their demise as a culture and as a
people.
The present Judaized cultural imperium in the West is maintained by a
pervasive thought control propagated by the mass media and extending
to self-censorship by academics, politicians, and others well aware
of the dire personal and professional consequences of crossing the
boundaries of acceptable thought and speech about Jews and Jewish
issues. It is maintained by zealously promulgated, self-serving, and
essentially false theories of the nature and history of Judaism and
the nature and causes of anti-Semitism.
None of this should be surprising. Jewish populations have always had
enormous effects on the societies where they reside because of two
qualities that are central to Judaism as a group evolutionary
strategy: High intelligence (including the usefulness of intelligence
in attaining wealth) and the ability to cooperate in highly
organized, cohesive groups (MacDonald 1994). This has led repeatedly
to Jews becoming an elite and powerful group in societies where they
reside in sufficient numbers-as much in the 20th-century United
States and the Soviet Union as in 15th-century Spain or Alexandria in
the ancient world. History often repeats itself after all. Indeed,
recent data indicate that Jewish per capita income in the United
States is almost double that of non-Jews, a bigger difference than
the black-white income gap. Although Jews make up less than 3 percent
of the population, they constitute more than a quarter of the people
on the Forbes magazine list of the richest four hundred Americans. A
remarkable 87 percent of college-age Jews are currently enrolled in
institutions of higher education, as compared with 40 percent for the
population as a whole (Thernstrom & Thernstrom 1997). Jews are indeed
an elite group in American society (see also Chapter 8).
My perception is that the Jewish community in the U.S. is moving
aggressively ahead, ignoring the huge disruptions Jewish
organizations have caused in the West (now mainly via successful
advocacy of massive non-European immigration) and in the Islamic
world (via the treatment of Palestinians by Israel). Whatever the
justification for such beliefs, U.S. support for Israel is by all
accounts an emotionally compelling issue in the Arab world. A true
test of Jewish power in the United States will be whether support for
Israel is maintained even in the face of the enormous costs that have
already been paid by the U.S. in terms of loss of life, economic
disruption, hatred and distrust throughout the Muslim world, and loss
of civil liberties at home. As of this writing, while Jewish
organizations are bracing for a backlash against Jews in the U.S. and
while there is considerable concern among Jews about the Bush
Administration's pressure on Israel to make concessions to the
Palestinians in order to placate the Muslim world (e.g., Rosenblatt
2001), all signs point to no basic changes in the political culture
of the United States vis-=E0-vis Israel as a result of the events of
9-11-01.
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