obyvatel said:
Very interesting. This may also shed some light on the debate about multiculturalism, which is another darling of the liberals. Maybe the demand to let people in to our culture with a different cultural background, and the assumption that this is somehow good and will in itself revivify our own culture, is another illusion: instead of bravely standing up within our culture, we again cry for external factors to make things right again, as if an influx of immigrants will somehow lead to 'more tolerance'. What if real tolerance is hard work, embracing the truth and protect those who speak it? Would those who argue in favor of multiculturalism and 'cultural mixture' also stand up, at the risk of losing their own reputation and being attacked, for Jordan Peterson and his right to refuse the human right tribunals and Gender nonsense? It doesn't seem so.
Liberal thinking is full of contradictions, which ties in to what Łobaczewski called the hysterization cycle, where a society completely loses its psychological knowledge and gets lost. For example, they argue in favor of Muslim immigration, thus incorporating people with a cultural background that goes against their own values such as equality of women and men etc.; they preach tolerance while persecuting people with different opinions like Peterson etc. It's a complete, illogical mess.
We don't solve our problems in the West by crying for external factors to do the job, be it immigrants, multiculturalism, or changes in the law to make society more tolerant/egalitarian - this has the opposite effect. Western society needs to be strengthened from within by enacting the hero archetype and focusing on its own cultural identity and what to make of it. I guess this is one of the reasons why Trump's message "America first" resonated so powerfully with people.
This is all very fascinating and challenging for me as someone who was socialized in the die-hard liberal milieu.
