What is anti-Americanism?

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  May 5, 2010      

    

      

 

 

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What is anti-Americanism?

or:

Freedom and Information?

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 Anti-Americanism is the humiliated reaction of Marxism and Islam to the endless accomplishments of American civilization. It is, moreover, the projection onto America of the wrongs that Marxism itself has wrought since the day of communism’s ill-starred conception.          

 

 

That is to say, modern reality humiliates a good part of the globe in that the less developed nations have accomplished so little in the modern world in comparison with Euro-American culture. In reaction to this state of affairs, unbearable self-deception can no longer be maintained calmly, and a violent, murderous mayhem breaks out, supported by nonsensical theories of history to the effect that history is a mistake to be corrected. Courage is in short supply. “Destroy what outdoes you” is the order of the day.        

Shelby Steele has developed the theory that freedom humiliates the newly-free, since they are hopelessly far behind in the accomplishments of the world they are entering. On the other hand, Zbigniew Brzezinski has developed the theory that the information age causes eruptions of violence because the poor of the world see finally what they are missing. And Jean-Francois Revel wrote that Marxism points the finger at America to divert blame from itself.        

Well, if only freedom and information did the opposite, we’d have a real paradigm shift. But that’s not going to happen any time soon. So who’s first?        

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