The Culture Wars

[Alexis Jacobi]

Flash, I did appreciate pseudiferous. Just one quirky word sets off the whole diatribe nicely.

[Alexis Jacobi]

You whine about me calling you a nazi, but you are obviously that so there's no point to it.

Attendez la crême!

[Alexis Jacobi]

Ah, 'Maoist Operative'. All you Abrahamist-derived technocrats, from either team - you know the two teams you think are the only two teams - you always label as dominatrix would the 'other team's' members: Nazi/Maoist. Frame the members of the other team alien extremists, all of them. God forbid you realize how similar you all are.

I appreciate your contribution, and it is interesting to propose Maoist and Nazi as a codependency of mistaken identifications, however I do think it falls to you to develop your picture of balance. What would that be exactly? And anyway none of this is my creation, it the stuff of our history and our present.

You guys get riled too easily.

[accelafine]

If we reasoned from what passes in the world, we should almost say that the European is to the other races of mankind, what man is to the lower animals;—he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue, he destroys them. Oppression has, at one stroke, deprived the descendants of the Africans of almost all the privileges of humanity. The negro of the United States has lost all remembrance of his country; the language which his forefathers spoke is never heard around him; he abjured their religion and forgot their customs when he ceased to belong to Africa, without acquiring any claim to European privileges. But he remains half way between the two communities; sold by the one, repulsed by the other; finding not a spot in the universe to call by the name of country, except the faint image of a home which the shelter of his master's roof affords.

And some wonder why certain groups hate white people. And wonder why they want to dismantle the structures that white people have constructed.

All of it was done under the banner of the one true God.

Why? Because Americans had slaves? Right. That's not irrational at all The quoted piece was written at the same time as Americans were keeping slaves and he was referring specifically to that, but we all know that American slave owners represent all the 'white' people in the world (according to you and your ilk). Africans had slaves too by the way. They still do in some parts. Just about every group of people you can think of kept slaves at some point.
Your destructive, woke, virtue-signalling breast-beating and hatemongering isn't helpful to anyone.
What 'structures' are you referring to? You mean those structures that HUMANS created, that represent the pinnacle of HUMAN achievement? We should tear down all the cathedrals because they were made in the name of christianity? Replace them with carparks or cheap and nasty apartment blocks for illegal immigrants? That will be really good for the human psyche. Let's just destroy every human-made thing of beauty that the 'wrong' humans have made so that no humans can ever again marvel at, appreciate, and be inspired by them. And don't forget to ceremonially smash your laptop and smart phone to pieces. The useful but not-so-beautiful creations need to go too.

[phyllo]

Why?

Did you even read the first line of the quote???

If we reasoned from what passes in the world, we should almost say that the European is to the other races of mankind, what man is to the lower animals;—he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue, he destroys them.

[accelafine]

Why?

Did you even read the first line of the quote???

If we reasoned from what passes in the world, we should almost say that the European is to the other races of mankind, what man is to the lower animals;—he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue, he destroys them.

Did you even read anything I wrote?

[Alexis Jacobi]

Because Americans had slaves?

Now wait! Hold the horses! There is important ground to cover. We are speaking of America, its real history, and The Culture Wars. We cannot hold anything back in our analysis.

Yes, the White Man put the Black Man to work in his projects of willed creation. But he did far far more. He pulled peoples of a primitive, pre-literate pre-technological world out of barbarism (in the original sense) and he forced those people, that man, into the modalities and the content of civilized life — which the average European had been subject to for 1,000 years under the yoke (Designer & Harrow) of European governmental forms: Roman civilization in basic terms.

This is the cultural punishment Nietzsche spoke of in Genealogy of Morals: our acculturation is a forced affair. We learn to accept and adapt by force. It is a preparation, as the harrow cuts open the ground, readying it for processes of cultivation.

So yes, the White man cut him off from place (soil, land, destiny) and connection to his “ancestral spirits” and lineage, and he roped that man int another level of servitude, into another phase of work within that Empire if the White Man’s Will.

Further on, under new circumstances, he did something pretty radical: he incorporated the servant (the victim of his will) into the civic fabric of his nation. But here is the bizarre thing: That man (that African man) never actually chose his fate, nor did he construct it. One phase of servitude segued into (in a sense) another level of servitude within the confines of Civilization.

This is an aspect of history that must be examined when considering historical America and America in the present.

Anyway, here is the result. Enjoy!

[Alexis Jacobi]

Alright, alright, I am not that cynical! There is this too …

[phyllo]

Because Americans had slaves?

Now wait! Hold the horses! There is important ground to cover. We are speaking of America, its real history, and The Culture Wars. We cannot hold anything back in our analysis.

Yes, the White Man put the Black Man to work in his projects of willed creation. But he did far far more. He pulled peoples of a primitive, pre-literate pre-technological world out of barbarism (in the original sense) and he forced those people, that man, into the modalities and the content of civilized life — which the average European had been subject to for 1,000 years under the yoke (Designer & Harrow) of European governmental forms: Roman civilization in basic terms.

This is the cultural punishment Nietzsche spoke of in Genealogy of Morals: our acculturation is a forced affair. We learn to accept and adapt by force. It is a preparation, as the harrow cuts open the ground, readying it for processes of cultivation.

So yes, the White man cut him off from place (soil, land, destiny) and connection to his “ancestral spirits” and lineage, and he roped that man int another level of servitude, into another phase of work within that Empire if the White Man’s Will.

Further on, under new circumstances, he did something pretty radical: he incorporated the servant (the victim of his will) into the civic fabric of his nation. But here is the bizarre thing: That man (that African man) never actually chose his fate, nor did he construct it. One phase of servitude segued into (in a sense) another level of servitude within the confines of Civilization.

This is an aspect of history that must be examined when considering historical America and America in the present.

Anyway, here is the result. Enjoy!

Are they cows and pigs or cats and dogs?

Certainly not on the level of the European.

[Alexis Jacobi]

Are they cows and pigs or cats and dogs?

Certainly not on the level of the European.

I know it sounds as if I am a terrible, Nazi-like being, but this is simply not so! No, I am actually goodness.

You have to see things — let me correct that: we can see things from a ‘distance’ to see them better. We must see those (bizarre) expressions as Octaves of Rebellion. And this is where things get weird: just as you noticed that the former victim of the White man had sound reasons to tear down the System that enchained him, there develops in him a deep-seated rage & resentment. Ressentiment in the French sense of the word. That is to say non-cooperation.

So you see it in Fight the Power and in Bongo. You also see it in various musics of the African Diaspora. We must face it: the spirit of rebellion has infected us all.

It is a complex theme.

There is, obviously, the political element. For example:

Here is Bob Marley’s War in French. (He has added a great deal of commentary, I assume from Selassie’s speech).

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.
— Haile Selassie I