Monday, November 27, 2017
Overcoming the disorder and chaos of multiculturalism
To paraphrase Alexander Zubatov
(Chronicles, Dec. 2017), multicultural messages coming in from all
over the numerous media, unconnected to any central reality, create
"societal schizophrenia," which brings society to a crisis
so it cannot function.
For me this points to the idea that in
multicultural societies social order naturally falls apart because
distinctly different ethnic groups do not or cannot easily assimilate
and therefore compete against one another and even become enemies.
This is the reality of real human nature, which remains kin-centered
and ethnocentric.
And to complicate multiculturalism even
further, it is usually promoted by people who exploit the disorder
and chaos to advance their own group.
Is there a way out the disorder and
chaos of multiculturalism? Religious, political, or ethnic
totalitarianism, fascism, or empire-building have often been the
temptation, but these always fall apart for many of the same reasons
that multiculturalism falls apart: distinctly different ethnic groups
and states do not or cannot easily assimilate, even with force, and the empires
fall.
I think the best way out of the
increasing disorder and chaos of multiculturalism is to affirm
distinctly different non-assimilating ethnic cultures by developing
an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. The constitutional separation of
powers and states in the U.S. could lend itself to this natural
solution. The big question is can this be done consciously and rationally, or will we
have to completely fall apart first?
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