
The primitive world of subsistence farming does not need the Modern world. In fact, Modernity is a direct and immediate threat to its existence, economically, but moreso by the backdoor, through the introduction of ideas, of individuality, of personal liberty and personal responsibility, and of the right of others to the same universal rights based on reason rather than on tradition and supposed revelation. To the primitive, the shock of the new is outrageous. It is a visceral gutting of reality, a total destruction of worth and meaning in life. Primitives, in short, have no need of Modernity and every reason to crash aeroplanes into it to destroy it.
Howsbawm continues:
For the old traditional system, inefficient and oppressive as it had been, was also a system of considerable social certainty and, at a most miserable level, of some economic security; not to mention that it was hallowed by custom and tradition.... The legal revolution, from the peasant's point of view, gave nothing but some legal rights, but it took much away.... altogether the introduction of liberalism on the land was like some sort of silent bombardment which shattered the social structure he had always inhabited and left nothing in its place but the rich: a solitude called freedom. Nothing was more natural than that the peasant poor or the entire rural population should resist it as best they could, and nothing was more natural than that it should resist in the name of age-old customary ideas of a stable and just society [ummah], i.e. in the name of church [Islam] and legitimate king [sharia imposing caliphate.] (pp. 193-9.)
We can dismiss these people as worthless, parasitic, and violent. We can wax sentimental over traditional cultures and their authenticity and oneness with Mother Nature. We can pretend there's no problem except for a tiny minority of extremists who don't really understand their own culture, religion, and values as people. We can ignore the obvious problem of a billion violent and intoxicated savages overwhelming our nations' borders. We can pay them jizya to leave us in relative peace and security. Or, we can do as our Left dhimmi fascist fellows do: we can join them in the destruction of Modernity.
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Those who do not grasp the depths of the hatred the primitives feel toward our revolutions of Modernity should forthwith go home and haul out the prayer mat. Your grandchildren will be Muslim.
The rest of us must struggle against the reactionary forces of Islam and the Left dhimmi fascism surrounding our islands of Modernity. One might hope we'll at the same time drain the swamps of primitivism and neo-feudalism. It depends not on what we want but only on what we are willing to fight for.
Most of the world is still mired in feudalism and early fascist primitivism though much of the world is coming out of that primitive state, nations such as India, China, and smaller nations in East Asia. They are also under military threat by the Islamic forces of reaction. The whole world, as it marches toward Modernity, is grappling with the forces of fanatical, violent Islamic reaction. Islam is the premier coherent force of organization of choice for the majority of anti-Modernists, and as it spreads we must either confront it or die. Everywheree the choice is between Modernity of whatever sort on the one hand, and of Islamic reaction on the other. There cannot be fanatical primitive fascist anti-Modernity and Modernity in one bowl. The contradiction is so stark that only fools miss it-- deliberately. One cannot piss in the milk without noticing the foul result.
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Our Modern era only began 500 years ago, and it reached its critical revolutionary high-point only in 1789 in Europe in socio-political terms, and only in small geographical areas, primarily in urban areas. And today that is still much the case. The vast majority of the world's populations still live in pre-revolutionary times. Yes, even many of our Western citizens live private lives of feudal psychology. Not just the trailer park crowd, but increasingly the intelligentsia.
Our modern populations in the West are increasingly lapsing into Irrationalism as weltanschuung. We are glibly abandoning our own revolutions for primitivism, unconsciously, perhaps, but increasingly.
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These four most recent posts on modern agriculture and Left dhimmi fascism are prologue to our up-coming installments on ecology and Left dhimmi fascism. We will continue with this background look at how we arrived at our crippled state of Modernity in the next installment.
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If we survive Islam, what are we to do with billions of unemployable unskilled unwanted people?
I think Africa is the basketcase of all the continents. So many natural riches, so dysfunctional. Islam consumes it from its ocean borders in, like a caterpillar methodically nibbling around on all sides of a leaf until a runt stem is left.
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