No Escape from the Liberal Labyrinth

Modern, rationalist, liberal thinking offers no escape from its errors. It offers no escape because its categories are all-encompassing and completely fluid. They’re fluid because they’re not founded on a proper account of the nature of man and society. Consequently, liberal thinkers misdiagnose social problems, constantly changes their agenda, and constantly turn the mirror back on western society for its own ills and the ills of others, rather than recognizing in many cases that these emanate from the sacred Other. At once sacralizing and patronizing to the Other, liberals fail to see the emergence of more robust and self-confident societies who aim at their own flourishing by weakening us and our self-confidence. Liberalism functions above all else to disarm Westerners in the name of a self-destructive concept of social justice. The fundamental errors of liberalism rest on several foundations, but above all else the errors emanate from the view that the weakness, poverty, and endemic horror of most of the rest of globe must stem from something we did. This may be summed up under the rubric “White Guilt.” But it’s also Christian guilt. Capitalist guilt. The guilt of scientists, universities, fast food, automobiles, and everything the Western World has created and mastered that is envied by everyone else.

The solution: our annihilation.

Lawrence Auster notes very cogently that the triumph of the principles of diversity and multiculturalism simply create mazes of misunderstanding that cannot be escaped from so long as one looks at the world through the liberal lens:

As an illustration of this fog and of how it operates on us, consider what Karl Rove, the president’s top advisor, said yesterday in his treasonous speech to the National Council of La Raza, that “diversity” is the formative principle and the supreme value of America. Once people accept such a notion, they become unable to make any distinctions between, say, “diversity” that strengthens our country and can be safely included in it, and “diversity” that harms our nation and ought to be excluded from it, since “diversity,” the supreme good that cannot be questioned, has supplanted the very idea of national strength. Another dimension of the diversity fog, precluding clear thought, is that we are all somehow equally diverse, with all differences being equal to all other differences. Yet (the fog keeps deepening) some differences are more equal than others: the cult of diversity requires us to worship the diversity of the non-Western Other, but not, of course, our own diversity, even as it prohibits us from paying any attention to the actual content of the Other’s diversity that we are supposed to be worshipping. . . . Diversity, like “tolerance,” is a concept without definition, without contours, without inherent limits. It makes it literally impossible for us to think rationally about the most fundamental issues facing our nation, such as what our immigration policy ought to be, or, even more fundamentally, what our nation is (other than “diversity”). It leads us, step by step, to no other outcome than total surrender to the Other, a process we will be able to stop only if we cease to be liberals.

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