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Western Civilization is better than the Third World and America is better than Iran. Even for all our flaws America at her best is and can be a force for good. Putting America and Iran on the same moral plane is actually a form of weakness because -- well, if it's all the same anyways who cares if Iran conquers? Who cares if barbarism or civilization prevails? It's all predicated on violence anyways right? Well no, I assert that the ends towards which I apply violence are actually more moral than theirs. I do prefer my civilization to theirs. I'm not a neutral third-party observer, I'm not a nihilist. My values are better than theirs and it's justified for me to use violence to defend what's mine.
But is the United States part of the Western Civilization? To me it looks like you're some mix of Middle Eastern (at the top) and South American (at the bottom) culture. Is Laura Loomer and Mark Levin, your two spiritual pillars as we now learn, "Western Civilization"? No, they're hysterical Levantines. Consider whom you've chosen as your representatives for a bona fide "Western Civilization" society, France: Charles Kushner. What is Charles famous for? Among all else, for hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother in law, for purposes of blackmail/retaliation. How did that play out long term? Kushner's son in your "administration" got the prosecutor Chris Christie fired from Trump team, claiming that Christie should've let the rabbis handle the matter. This is a primitive, clannish, theocratic society.
Sure, you have some trappings of the West, true (like "Senate", "Capitol hill" etc), you have "elections" to reinforce the legitimacy of this primitive system. But it's like Arabs when they were translating Aristotle. Stewardship of alien ideas. You also have advanced Western technology. But is that "Civilization"? Is China «Western Civilization» too, then?
And your notion of the Western Civilization is impoverished, it's just «Judaism with some shit on top». Nothing about the Greco-Roman world or Renaissance, science and rational thought. At this point, you are about as far from the West per se as Iran is.
Is the argument here that Jews are not part of Western Civilization? Trump praised Mark Levin on social media therefore America has severed all ties to Rome. Or is the argument that you don’t like America?
Sure, whatever, America is not part of Western Civlization, Americans can’t do rationalism or science, we lost them in translation. Let’s call America something new, it’s “Bestern Civilization” which is way better than those fuddy-duddy Old World Europeans with all that learnin’, or as I like to call it “Worsten Civilization”.
Now I advance the argument that Bestern Civilization is better than the Third world, and better than Iran, so I support our moral claims against theirs etc. etc. etc. etc.
Israel is obviously not part of the Western civilization, it's an older and completely distinct tradition, and as the demographic share of secular Ashkenazim in Israel is reduced, so the authentic Israeli culture comes more to the fore. And the American doctrine of Judeo-Christianity is laughably stupid retconning. Levin is an hysterical Israeli Firster who's shedding his assimilation, if it ever existed. Just look at how the guy posts.
But even before this recent obsession with Israel, many Europeans had remarked that the US is culturally not a white or Western society, though they differed in specifics. Consider Jung:
Hopefully you can notice this in your own manner.
It's not so much that he praised him, it's that it was a weird hagiography one could expect from a Muslim or Jewish person, prompted by a personal request for backup in a petty online spat. And generally Trump is very clearly a representative of Middle Eastern culture, what with his extended family nepotism, corruption, bling, low-inhibition behavior, and yes, Israeli ties. To an extent that he represents America, being a legitimately elected populist president, this just means America is not part of Western civilization either.
Fair enough. It's just that, not being your kin, the Western Civilization doesn't owe you shit. Worse, you're engaged in zero sum competition against it, trying to annex its lands, steal its markets, offload consequences of your tribal conflicts on it, rope it into your weird theologically motivated wars etc etc. You're not providing enough value to justify further tolerance of this behavior from an alien society.
Israel is a settler state run by the grandchildren of European Jews. Perhaps it's diverged perhaps the Seph migrant influence was too great perhaps proximity to the Arabs is too much. But even if we adopt some Spenglerian definition of Western Civilization rooted in the Medieval Experience and let's even adopt the Khazarian hypothesis for the sake of argument and the Jews really have nothing to do with the shared root of Christianity and their influence on European-American-European history can be dismissed as a foreign one -- what are we talking about? What does Trump praising two Jews have to do with whether American is Western or not?
Jung is hysterical, Teddy Roosevelt's laugh is an expression of the primordial Negro? (Did Jung even meet Roosevelt? I can't decide if it's funnier to imagine Jung standing in a corner at a party seething while an American laughs, or whether it's funnier to imagine him hyperventilating over a newspaper caricature where Roosevelt is drawn with bugged-out eyes and a wide grin.)
Jung is so ridiculous I want to try to construct another argument so I can at least respond with some kind of decorum: Western Civilization has always been open to influence from the foreign. The British had India, the French Morocco etc. There's nothing unique in principle about America being influenced by the blacks. (America at the time Jung was writing was also 90% white.) The argument that the "transplantation to a primitive soil" is a definitive "break" is maybe stronger, but this is then an argument that falls apart if it generalizes: What of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.? Can no colony planted by the West be called Western? Or is there something special about America? (Well, there is, but it's not anything as crude as that.)
Sounds like Agamemnon, sounds like Napoleon. Trump isn't Israeli, his family is German and Scottish, his grandfather built the family fortune running a saloon in Gold Rush Yukon Canada. That's just what New Yorkers are like. I don't think Western Civilization has some special claim to inhibited behavior and a disdain for bling.
I really can't respond to every point thoroughly point-by-point or this my response will become even more unwieldly and unreadable, but I have to ask: What about you talking about? Western Civilization is now against "weird theologically motivated wars"? -- since when? (You should also stop believing every news article you read about how the Americans are doing this to bring about the end world or whatever, that's almost a disqualifying level of credulity, by the way.) Or that America is engaged in "zero sum competition" against Europe (stop putting tariffs on our goods!) and "trying to annex its lands". (I guess the argument that crossing the ocean represents a break between Europe and America doesn't apply to Denmark and Greenland? I can only assume you're referring to America asking for Greenland and the Europeans hallucinating a war.) Moreover: What are you even talking about? "Western Civilization" owes America a lot unless your belief is that everything would have been better off if America didn't intervene in 1941 or had just let the Commies win. Maybe Communist Italy wouldn't have been so bad, the reds destroyed the foodways of Russia but not those in China so maybe Italy would still have churches and bread. Well, we don't have to find out because America has been paying for Europe's defense now for 80 years. And the thanks we get is being told off about it. We're not providing enough value? Enough value? What are you even talking about?
No, those are Western nations.
New Yorkers aren't Western, indeed. They are spiritually Middle Eastern/African. Jung didn't mean ancestry (he makes it clear his argument sidesteps actual miscegenation) and neither do I. Trump isn't Western nor even white, sorry, this is just obvious.
It very much does, it's one of the more obvious WEIRD traits. Culture of dignity, meritocracy, deferred gratification etc. Bourdieu called that Habitus. Trump-Loomer-Levin belong to the breed of people who shout Allahu Akbar before exploding, even if their religion is different.
Approximately since the Peace of Westphalia. It's evolved and secularized a fair bit since the Crusades; and even those had nothing to do with your "Judeo-Christian Civilization", but rather with the opposite.
Do you understand that I consider your attempts to sanity-wash your culture as an entirely disqualifying level of gaslighting? I don't need news articles, I can make my own conclusions from what your savage tribal champions utter.
Seeing as I'm not interested in getting gaslit, there's no point to debate this. You're a self-interested tribalist and so you feel entitled to European gratitude irrespective of the balance of payment or current behavior. Well, until they establish military deterrence against your aggression, this is rational behavior.
>have ridiculous ideas
>call criticism gaslighting
>"i win"
Ok, based
I notice that Americans have an extremely delusional and entitled ideas about what happened over Greenland and how "The Western Civilization" (though they sometimes deny this label to Europe, with arguments far more ridiculous than mine) has seen it. It has seen it as a completely credible hostility. You are a hostile alien civilization, understood? Probably not.
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Agamemnon is literally a Bronze Age brute that precedes even the height of Greek civilization, to say nothing of the West proper. Kind of says it all. There are millenia, tens of generations of divergent selection, schisms and continents between you and what white people have been building towards.
Those generations and millennia were building up to America, the first country to conquer the atom and the only one to land on the moon.
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