David wrote:First off, the whole video is simply an exercise in whining. Bowden is whining that white people shouldn’t be held accountable for the inexcusable way that non-whites were treated in the past, and continue to be treated in the present. More than that, he is whining that he is made to feel so guilty about it. Poor lamb!
A very biased, tendentious, but shallow reading (listening). Were you to look into the issues more, and with more fairness, I think that you would discover that Bowden's view is a kind of awareness of where things have wound up after a series of catastrophes. True, Bowden is at times ambivalent about European imperialism, but among others who examine the conditions of the present, there is a pained awareness of how the imperialist policies have back-fired. In the United Kingdom generally.
I might speak to the American situation if American slavery is taken as a product of imperialism and imperial 'booty'. Now, the Republic has been infected (excuse the word) by primitive Blacks (as CG Jung described primitive tribal Africans). And now the freed slaves, given power and with little to restrain them, are clamoring for more power. Taking an historical perspective, I do not think that this is now turning out well for the United States and will further deteriorate. Thus, bad choices will always show up later.
If there is a 'European grammar of self-intolerance' -- I definitely think there is, and it is now connected with PC formulas and also with Cultural Marxist attacks -- the subject of that grammar is unable to organize resistance. He is 'self-defeated'. It has 'been imposed' but it is also 'self-imposed', a result of his own crisis, and it is weakening and ultimately self-destructive. It leads to a suicidal mood as self-intolerance might be said to be a kind of suicidal intention.
These are -- this escapes you! -- Nietzschean notions, and Bowden is a pagan Nietzschean (though this is suspect in some sense since he, like you and Jupi I will add, was brought up in Catholic circumstances, Jupi by Jesuits I'd imagine (?) But that is how he defines himself and his discourse certainly expresses it.
Under the conditions, wrought by European catastrophe (the 2 wars principally), Europe and the European
have lost their nerve. They are under assault.
Now, and as you say, necessary *introspection*
in my interpretation of Bowden would not be swept aside, but his concern for 'cultural overpowering', or far too much immigration, or some sort of cultural and social philosophy of multicultural blending, and also of losing the capacity -- the right -- to self-identify as White European, is brought out as a concern even if 'it is undercut immediately' by the same 'grammar of self-intolerance'. Therefore, for European man and European men in their various world-locales it is a responsible and necessary task to take oneself in hand, and to reestablish oneself within oneself as powerful, as proactive.
The philosophical Left cannot do this, and it requires a philosophical Right. That is how I see it.
In this sense 'Cultural Marxism' is a tool used
against European man. It is part of an infection. It has to be cast off. But how? Not easy, not simple!
But it is not used against European man *for no good reason*. It has deep historical roots. This is more my understanding than perhaps Bowden's. For us, now, the task is to begin to conceive what regeneration and renovation of Europe
is. But the first order of business is to recognize a danger, a threat (White Genocide). But the grammar of self-intolerance inhibits this. It does not matter if 'the white man's situation' has been caused by his own errors. Now, in this present, he will have to come to terms with it all. Therefore, to overcome (again, in a Nietzschean sense) the imposed and self-imposed European grammar of self-intolerance is a
valid endeavor.
But this does not mean, either, that it is or will be benign in effect. It may have recalcitrant aspects. I can say from my own perspective, after my own research, that race-awareness is necessary. Specifically, that means in respect to the US that after 1965 the immigration policies have been ill-advised and their effect very bad. I am adamantly -- culturally and philosophically -- opposed to 'multiculturalism projects' and I am also certain that they must be resisted, reversed. No nation, no culture, should have multiculturalism forced on it. And, as you might guess, this does involve an historical introspection. It results in an awareness that imperial projects have done harm to other people, just as American policies involving neo-imperial wars in far-flung countries are harmful and damaging. Not only to the victims of them but top the perpetrators of them.
What he says about Eastern Europe having recently emerged from 'aspic' is also quite important. It problematic though too. Someone recently said that now that Eastern Europe is free of Soviet and Communist controls it "can get back to its own proper business, fascism". This is true in some degree, if 'fascism' is treated fairly, not 'hysterically'. The 'European man' that is coming out of Easter Europe -- his projects, self-definition, desire -- all have bearing on what is going on in our present and why, I gather, government and policy planners are confused and reacting against it.
Having started off the video in pure whining mode, Bowden then decides to try and pull the wool over our eyes by pretending that the horrible forces that make him feel so guilty are somehow connected to the Stalinist communist regime (!).
There is lots of conversation about how the present Left Establishment begins to show signs itself of totalitarianism-Lite. Again, you are an object-piece that demonstrates how this absolutism takes shape and becomes -- rapidly -- intolerant. There is legitimate fear of what may happen in the (I think unlikely but yet still possible) scenario of some sort of Socialist-Communist coup even of a mild variety. Those Left Regimes have been very harmful. A hyper-liberal government with access to all the tools of the NSA state. Well, perhaps it has already formed! But it is a genuine and an important area of concern.
There is more to talk about here but I will leave it at that. Your reading was superficial and really quite silly and . . .
girlish.