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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