Posted under Distributism & Globalism & The South
If you’ve ever wondered what stokes anti-Southern hatred, here’s a short but powerful explanation. It’s from The Big Box Swindle, a book I’ve previously mentioned. Here, this eye-opening expose of the hidden costs of the megachains analyzes how local small businesses and citizens successfully prevent the big boxes from sucking the life out of their downtowns:
Today, who prevails in a big-box fight often hinges on how local residents conceive of themselves. Opponents of these projects appeal to people’s broad sense of being citizens and stewards of their community, which is why they often choose names like “Our Town.” Chain retailers, on the other hand, win by getting people to assume the narrow role of consumer and to see the issue as simply a matter of shopping options. Although dominant today, this consumer identity is a relatively recent invention; it only became a powerful force in American politics in the years after World War II. p. 205
Isn’t that exactly why Southerners are targeted by the multicult/globalists?
Leftist ideologues despise our devotion to the Southern tradition, whose resistance to big government stands in the way of their dreams of reconstructing the world into a socialist paradise. And the globalist corporations see local traditions and cultures as speed bumps on the road that leads to the maximization of profit. As Daniel Larison has noted:
Finally, vital differences among individuals are effaced. For the economist, all human beings are alike, not of course because they have some higher calling in common but because they all rationally pursued objectives that are equally irrational. Homo economicus is cold, rational, and utilitarian; he is gifted in calculating but empty of substance. Human beings are indistinguishable in their way of being; they can only be distinguished by their incomes, their levels of consumption or productivity. Here, everything that Peguy loves, all that he celebrates–good manners and morals, fine workmanship, beautiful language, simple joys, bonds of the flesh, the honor of the poor, the genius of Homer–none of this has any meaning. We are indeed in the world of equality by default.
That’s the kind of equality both leftist and corporate levellers yearn for, and that’s why both praise and feed from multiculturalism. It’s no wonder, then, that both target Southerners.
Despite this undeclared war against them, most Southerners remain loyal to a political system controlled by those who are determined to eradicate them as a people. Pat Buchanan has pointed out the absurdity of a relationship characterized by one-sided loyalty on one side, and enmity on the other. Globalist Neocons, says Buchanan, openly despise the very people who supply the muscle and faith they exploit for their own purposes:
Why the Hollywood Left hates Dixie is easy to understand. It is conservative, Christian, traditionalist, hostile to the cultural revolution. But why do the neocons? After all, the folks Krauthammer calls “white trash†are the most reliable conservative voters in America, God-and-country people. They enlist in disproportionate numbers in the military, and die in disproportionate numbers in America’s wars.
The answer is simple: both globalists and the multicult Left share the same goals. Both see the centralization of economic and political power as essential in achieving them. The eradication of historic identity paves the way toward the reconstruction of society and the maximization of profits. While the multicult left propagandizes about universalism and the glorious cause of freeing people from the constraints of history and tradition, big business chimes in with seductive advertising that redefines citizens as interchangeable consumers. Government bureaucracies grow in order to enforce egalitarian ideals, employing and empowering the multicult left. And an ever-expanding big government provides subsidies and favorable legislation to big business.
Understanding this is vital to fighting the most important struggle of our generation. The attack on our identity is an attack on our liberty and prosperity. Instead of preserving our civilization, and striving to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,†we are supposed to reconstruct ourselves into a multicultural empire, a supposedly benevolent empire with a big heart and bigger fist, which enables it to serve the world as the militant vanguard of global democracy. But in fact, all empires, from Napoleonic France to the Soviet Union, also saw themselves as benevolent liberators, yet actually tyrannized their native and subject populations. It’s no coincidence that the more “multicultural†the US becomes, the less we defend our traditional freedoms, evidenced by such measures as the PATRIOT Act.
As the most stubbornly distinctive ethnic group in America, Southerners remain the biggest impediment to the multicult/globalist agenda.
roho on 29 Apr 2008 at 9:48 pm #
HB………………Your title is unacceptable, but the article was most intresting.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 29 Apr 2008 at 10:05 pm #
Sorry. Had to get your attention.
Actually, the idea was to sum up the globalist/multicult agenda.
roho on 30 Apr 2008 at 1:27 pm #
Breaking the “Macho Romantic Admiration” for the military industrial complex is one of our greatest Southern traditions to rehab. Noone seems to notice that we get the military bases, and the other regions get the hardware factories……For the Southern mind, it’s most complicated to grasp that “One can support the troops without supporting an interventionistic foreign policy.”…………..But, change is starting, and the FDR worshipers are passing away, and some of the youth are beginning to abandon the thinking of the academia Lincoln Worshipers as well.
The internet is one of the best things to ever impact the South. Before, we just had barber shop debates…….Ha-Ha.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 30 Apr 2008 at 6:10 pm #
roho,
Yes, that’s a challenge. Our handlers know what they’re doing. They utilize our strengths and attitudes for their own purposes, to the point where we work against our own interests. Pretty slick operation.
roho on 01 May 2008 at 1:57 pm #
Americans can’t grasp what a huge victory it was for Leviathan to eliminate the thousands of individually owned newspapers in America. At one time each city had 2-3 privately owned newspapers, and citizens received their information from them, as well as the radio broadcasts. “Newsreels” at the theater during WWII first implemented “Mass Propoganda” and was considered high tech…………………….And, then the TV became the source of “All Knowing”.
There was great power in the TV, but that power was scattered amongst the pioneers of that media. But that has changed.
Rupert Murdoch say’s that there are now only 5 media giants moving towards 3 in the world and he intends to be one of the 3. Everything interlocked, answering to a higher corporation!……Freedom of the Press?……….Ha-Ha!……..The INTERNET is the last bastion of Freedom of the Press! All others are nothing more than extentions of Political Party Communication, and many of the websites seduced by advertising have been brought under control as well. Americans are close to living in a bubble, with no access to world oppinion.(Only the internet provides it.)
robert m. peters on 22 Dec 2011 at 5:13 am #
The enemies of the South will have little work to do in the coming future, for the South is dying. Oh, the South still exists in fragments in enclaves and strongholds throughout the territory generally known as the South; however, one by one those enclaves and strongholds are breaking apart and dying out. Soon, it would seem, the only thing our enemies will have left to do is to indulge in a little postmortem Schadenfreude and to desecrate the rotting Southern corpse. The greatest evil will be that some of the most radical of those will be the estranged descendents of Southerners, aliens on the very soil of their ancestors.