Azure Angel wrote:Can I ask you how do you see this entire multiculturalism thing ending, Rei Murasame?
Where do I see it ending? Basically the centre-left will increasingly push the envelope until they run up onto a level of absurdity so profound that the general public will respond with outrage and they'll all end up here:
The Nurse's Office.
The centre-left haven't understood that as Zbigniew Brzezinski accurately pointed out, the globalisation process actually leads to a coming together of people, and a reduction in the distances between people on a perceptual level and - in cases of mass migration - a geographical level, but at the same time it pushes those same people further away from each other because it forces everyone to confront their differences.
By refusing to recognise the actual differences between groups, and refusing to recognise that specific population groups will always want to have dominance over whatever civic space they control so that they can chart out their evolutionary destiny, the centre-left in fact forces people to confront and codify this reality by way of a reaction.
After all, a person's basic existence is tied to the identity of the community that they are a part of. Human beings cannot actually exist outside of society, and the isolated individual that is exalted by liberalism - the human being who stands alone - is always defeated in end because it has no reason to carry on. Only when the individual submits themselves to a higher purpose, a cause greater than themselves, do they become powerful and 'immortal' as a group. On a gut level, all humans know this. And that is why whenever the centre-left tries to take away people's identity, the people react by trying desperately to strengthen the frameworks and narratives that will allow them to hold onto it, or they find a new one and repeat the process.
You also asked why they do what they do. The reason that the centre-left so wants to strip away people's identities, is because the centre-left wants to preserve innocence. You see that image you've used there where they have the placards that talk about standing 'against all hate'? That is the driving motivation. Standing against all forms of hate is a mantra for them not because they desire to reduce suffering
(since certainly, the position in fact increases suffering for many in reality), but because they don't want to feel guilty about any hateful statements or actions that might arise from having an identity and acting to defend it. They want innocence, and the only way to be innocent is to take no actions in the name of anything at all. And to accomplish that, they must dissolve all group identifications, and coast by on sheer inertia. That's what it is about at it's root. Ironically, they make an age-old mistake on top of all that, by becoming attached to the identity of seeking to have no attachment, and this then allows them to be targeted for criticism as a group regardless.
It really is that simple. Seeking innocence, because of the idea that those who have no agenda cannot be blamed for organising any actions, because there would be no actions to organise. It's basically crazy. That's what the centre-left is trying to do, but it can only work for them if they can convince everyone including their opponents to see it their way and adopt their views, so that there would no longer be any differentiation between 'centre-left' and 'everyone else out there'.
Ultimately, the centre-left will fail for a variety of reasons, but one of the factors will be regional development in Asia and the rise of regional organisations and more advanced manufacturing, will cause a shift in global patterns of wealth accumulation so that more Asian people will have time for introspection and 'middle class activities' and out of that will come a 'de-globalising' cultural effect, where white centre-leftists will find that their ability to shape the global culture has been diminished and they will be facing informed counter-arguments from the East. After all, it would be the height of absurdity for them to expect to go to Asians who have only just now started to recover some prestige and autonomy after almost two centuries of being kicked around and spat upon, and be told by none other than white people, that they need to 'give up their pride' and 'surrender all exclusionary narratives and embrace multiculturalism'.
The centre-left will be punched out.