Pat Buchanan succumbs to a severe case of White Man’s Blues, often found among people who don’t get out enough.
“Can Western civilization survive the passing of the European peoples whose ancestors created it and their replacement by Third World immigrants? Probably not, for the new arrivals seem uninterested in preserving the old culture they have found. ” he asks.
Those who hold the white race responsible for the mortal sins of mankind – slavery, racism, imperialism, genocide – may welcome its departure from history. Those who believe that the civilization that came out of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome and London to be the crowning achievement of mankind will mourn its passing.”
(I use the terms “white” and “brown” facetiously)
Never mind that those dreadful changes that so terrify Buchanan are laid at the door of colored immigrants, who actually had very little to do with bringing them about.
You thought all these bizarre changes in in the way we live today were a result of a million things, say things like militant atheism (mostly white), anti-Christian activism (usually white), Darwinism (white), and Radical Communism (created and led by whites).
To that, we can add radical gender feminism (created and led by the West), the militant gay lobby (created and led by the West), global pornography (dominated by the West), the Cold War (created and dominated by Western ideologues), Rockefeller social engineering (Western), Pentagon militarism (Western), Hollywood violence (Western), the Wall Street criminal cabal (mostly Western), the military-industrial-intelligence leviathan (Western); university and establishment liberal activism (dominated by the West); the global drug trade (managed by Western intelligence), and Democrat and Republican policies (the creation of the Western establishment).
And all of this was financed by the hollowing out of the economy, the bloated, cancerous growth of the financial industry, and the ravages of international speculators, operating through the poisonous mechanism of the Federal Reserve system and central banking. Also, created in the West.
No, no.
This guy did it.
Not these guys.
Of course, if we really wanted to be picky, we’d ask Buchanan if he thought Jesus Christ was “white”
or closer to this?
(Actually, Palestinians can be very fair too…and this forensic recreation seems to have been done to shock, but the historical Jesus was Semitic, probably sunburned and muscular, and had reddish brown hair. He didn’t look like like a Swede or a German).
And we’d ask whether a large part of Christ’s teaching derives originally from Greece or from the Near East, which is not European.
And we’d like to add too that without Muslim civilization (non-European), we doubt if the Greco-Roman heritage, which owed much to the Egyptians (non-European), would ever have passed on to the Europeans, in the first place.
And without the Jewish (which Buchanan appropriates as European, whereas it is Middle Eastern genetically geographically, and culturally), we doubt modern Europe would have ever come into being.
Europe’s Pagan, Judeo-Christian and humanist civilizations are things I greatly admire and have studied for a life time. I am their beneficiary and their defender. But they were equaled more than once on the Indian subcontinent, in the great civilizations of the Indus Valley, in the Maurya, Gupta, Chola, Chera, Pandya, Pallava, Vijayanagara, Bahmani, Mysore, Maratha, and Moghul kingdoms, about all of which, Buchanan, a man born into the most affluent country in the world, with a voice in major media, with political connections, with access to every kind of book and the whole internet, has not a clue. Even a quick Google would have unearthed a list which substantiates India’s claim to be the mother culture of Asia and to have made notable contributions in every field, most influentially in mathematics , religion, sculpture, architecture.
“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!” said the French scholar Romaine Rolland.
“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!” wrote none other than Mark Twain.
Until the time of the British, India was widely regarded as the wealthiest country in the world, not just for a century or two, but for many many centuries.
It is the oldest extant civilisation with the oldest living tongue and traditions.
It was the philosophical fountainhead of the German romantic movement, the American transcendentalists; it gave us the neo-Hindu revival of the arts and mind-sciences, alternative health and medicine (much of it appropriated and repackaged as Western) ,as well as the marvelous compendium of religious and scientific thought of ancient and medieval India, hitherto unappreciated or plagiarized by Europeans. It is at least the equal of the Greco-Roman and it was so for much longer.
And when it was ruined, it was ruined first by the depredations of Islamicist invaders, but then by European merchant-adventurers and colonial rulers, who looted it for at least two hundred years, and finally by Fabian socialism, a doctrine born from the British empire and calculated to maintain it.
I am amazed and baffled by the small horizons of a man I have long respected for his unabashed love for his traditions and people.
Indeed, I think the West is only kept alive at all by the misplaced adulation emanating from its global mercantilist plantation. The problem is actually a fawning servility to American culture of the wrong kind.
Recently, I thought about this when I had the good fortune to walk through Vizcaya, the estate of one of the richest men in America in the 1920s. I spent a day enjoying his art collection, amassed from Europe during the years after World War I.
Europe’s glory, at least measured in terms of art, was five centuries. Rising with the late middle ages and setting in the nineteenth century, where, already, the forces of decline were evident.
That would be a long time before those barbarians Buchanan deplores came upon the scene. If America is dying, and it is, don’t blame the crowd gathered around the body.
Blame the children of the house, who in broad daylight, with weapons forged under their own roof, rose up and slew their own father.
Only to find they had not yet learned to live without him.
