[MD] Multiculturalism scam

[Ham Priday]

Ron --



Ham:
> The alternative is turning out human beings in the same mold,
> with no differences, no original ideas, no unique aptitudes or
> personalities, no powers of discrimination. That's the dull, gray
> world of egalitarianism where nothing and no one is better or
> worse than anything or anyone else. Go find it, if you can.
> I choose to stay here where I can value Difference.

Ron:
> Doesn't this go against your thesis? that each individual has unique 
> agency?
> therefore what you fear can not exist by virtue of Essentialism correct?

Yes, of course it goes against the essentialist thesis.  The individual is 
innately the free agent of Value.  It's "intellectual" ideologies like 
collectivism, socialism, and egalitarianism that turn man's consciousness 
away from his essential core and make him a pawn of the collective soiciety. 
Since we cannot escape the differential nature of existence, such ideas are 
but utopian dreams.  We are all different -- unique in our own way -- just 
as are the phenomena we experience in the world external to us.  All 
experienced values are relative to our finite locus in space/time, so they, 
too, are unique to the individual being-aware.

The great challenge for mankind is to reconcile the contrariety and 
difference between individual perspectives so as to live harmoniously with 
our fellow man.  That process is the history of civilization.  To achieve 
it, some societies have relied on the teachings of prophets, while others 
have allowed themselves to become subjects of the state or an oppressive 
tyranny.  My contention is that man will realize his true freedom only when 
he becomes his own authority.

We came close to this ideal when we broke the chains of tyranny and founded 
a free republic with limited government and maximum liberty for its 
citizens.  Except for the war between the states, it worked well for the 
first hundred years or so.  But by the middle of the last century we began 
to lose our bearings and take freedom and prosperity for granted.  We 
thought we could "improve" upon the value of life by treating everbody as 
equals and passing "progressive" programs to spread the wealth and make 
government society's caretakers.  We opened our borders indiscriminately to 
people of other cultures, attempting to accommodate value systems contrary 
to our own.  Following Europe's model, we transformed our Free Republic into 
a gigantic Welfare State that supports the poor and indigent at the expense 
of the industrious and creative.  We reduced our moral, academic, and 
economic standards to the lowest common denominator.  While others still 
plot against us, our younger generation, who are taught the virtues of 
multiculturalism but have never read "Animal Farm"' or "Atlas Shrugged", 
believe we have ushered in a brand new era of peace and love where 
individual responsibility doesn't matter and everyone is entitled to the 
fruits of life under the patronage of a debtor state.

As I wrote in one of my essays, "The refrain we hear most often is: 'It 
can't happen here -- America is different.'  But the reality is that 
civilized nations are not immortal; they are born and die just as 
individuals do.  Although their longevity may exceed the average person's 
lifespan, we cannot escape history.  And history teaches us that empires 
also die."

Essentially yours,
Ham