by Hesperado
Someone recently remarked, in a comment at the Gates of Vienna blog:
“There is no more need of the UN – WW2 finished over 60 years ago.”
That got me thinking.
WW2 may have ended over 60 years ago — but the PC MC West (particularly in Europe) is still fighting WW2: that’s why we can’t begin to fight WW4.
Did I leave out WW3, my reader might ask at this point? No: WW3 was admittedly an unusual war where, although it did have its share of regional proxy battles, such as various guerilla conflicts in Latin America, Africa, and of course the gold standard of proxy wars (the Vietnam War), as a “Cold War”, no general military assaults and invasions took place. Nonetheless, it was a global conflict with the potential for horrific casualties using nuclear weapons.
However, PC MC in its revisionist history, stuck in a framework of perpetuating the WW2 paradigm — and enjoying mainstream dominance throughout the West in the post-WW2 decades up to the present — has ruled the entire Cold War a paranoid delusion pursued by excessively Communist-phobic right-wingers.
PC MC’s persistent WW2 paradigm thus has tended to undercut and airbrush out of existence our protracted victory in WW3, which began with the entirely legitimate activities of Joe McCarthy and the HUAAC in the 50s and ended with the policies of Reagan in the 80s.
Indeed, the PC MC mentality that derides the seriousness of (or even vilifies those who took seriously) Anti-Communism during the Cold War, is the very same mentality that now derides the seriousness of our concern about Islam. In fact, I have found that PC MC types often explicitly draw this exact comparison: “You’re paranoid about Muslims just like in the 50s we thought there was a Communist under every bed!”
Principally (and more acutely in Europe and the UK), the PC MC WW2 paradigm is based upon preventing “another Hitler”. I have no problems with trying to prevent another Hitler. The problem is how we define what this “new Hitler” will be. According to PC MC, it will have to be a white racist who hates Ethnic People.
The PC MC paradigm, stuck in WW2 mode, is thus directly preventing us from seeing the danger of Muslims, because by that paradigm the New Hitler cannot possibly be an Ethnic People (which is how PC MCs think of Muslims). Even to begin to go down that slippery slope toward thinking such bad things about Muslims is to end up becoming precisely the monster we hope to prevent: “another Hitler” — for the “next Hitler”, according to that paradigm still seeing the world through World War 2, would have to be a white racist “right-wing” Western demagogue, and his followers white racists (who, naturally, are assumed to be potentially a far greater danger than are Muslims). No other possibility is permitted within the Ideological Box of PC MC.
And if you try to point out the mountains of data indicating otherwise (i.e., Muslims all over the world publishing and vociferating militant hate speech — including the worst most chilling sort of brazen Jew hatred — when they are not invading, slaughtering and torturing non-Muslims or insufficiently “pure” Muslims out of supremacist motivations), then you yourself become suspect as an enabler of the specter of a “new Hitler”. And your concern, if voiced or published, threatens to be categorized as the thought crimes of “hate speech” which must be nipped in the bud — in order to prevent “another Hitler”.
Conclusion:
Thus, the bitter irony and bizarre paradox: Our dominant and mainstream paradigm throughout the West, whose raison d’être is to prevent a new Hitler is — precisely by doing so in the way it does so — positively enabling the next Hitler to rise up and eventually wreak as much, if not more, havoc as the original one did.
Further Reading:
For a more detailed analysis, see my older essay:
The Four World Wars: An Interesting Dynamic
