A new great piece by the massively talented Gary Brecher.
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I think the bigger picture of all of this is that what is selectively attended to or ignored has to do with the obsession of Western leftists with the Western colonialism that started around 19C. Anything that detracts from this narrative of the evil West has to be downplayed. As I have said, the contemporary Western character structure, insofar as it is politically constructed, relies on forming reaction formations to its own sense of colonial guilt and making this the centrepiece of one’s identity. As for actual historical and political fact or the suffering of others, that can be damned. Western leftists are interested in themselves and in how to make their martyrdom dance look good to themselves.
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As for the British, I am part of the colonial British, but nobody will listen to me at all, even when I am astringently critical of them. They prefer their meal in black and white. I know them deeply, though, their pluses and minuses and their foibles and what seem to me to be pretensions. On the other side there is a lot of bravey and “stiff upper lip” doesn’t begin to cover it when it comes to colonial mastery. I don’t see everything in a bad light. Indeed, aesthetically there can be nothing more delightful than sitting at the very edges of civilising power and seeing a steep descent before you into absolute wilderness. This is very pleasurable. And I do identify with many of the sentiments of Kipling.
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As for why I know that anti-colonials are not, by necessity, “good people”, I just have to look at the weird things they project onto me. I can see the way they’ve blocked my progress and communication because they fear “colonialism”. These are NOT enlightened people, folks, but full of infantile projections.
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