Canadian leaders’ attraction to tyrants, and thus to Islam

In the discussion of the debate, Peter G. mentioned he was not an American, and the following exchange occurred. LA to Peter G.:

Are you a Canadian?

Peter G. replies:

Yes. But for some strange reason, I’ve never had any interest in Canada. Always watched U.S. news, studied American history. What I believe triggered this was our leaders’ demented adulation of tyrants and dictators from the sixties until the present. It became clear that the ruling elite here share the ancient world’s view that other human beings are their property to command—permanently.

To give you a perspective of how Liberalism here has exterminated any dissent or criticism to its ideology, our campus paper reported last week with a demented pride how one of the prayer rooms is now strictly for Muslims. Not a word or peep from anyone to such a repellent form of exclusionary action—carried on by an institution with its publicly funded space in behalf of aliens who are openly telegraphing their intolerance of the brain dead hosts. That you have neophyte journalism majors sounding the hands off signal to everyone else would seem to indicate that rational thinking never existed.

LA replies:

Well, this is very disturbing, and it tends to support my idea that the ultimate desire of the Western elite (at least in Canada, Britain, and Europe) is to be taken over by Islam. What does this desire come from? It comes from a loss of belief in the authority of their own society, i.e., from liberalism. But human beings cannot live without authority, so, having rejected that of their own society, they are attracted to an alien power, one that will be infinitely more oppressive than the authority they’ve rejected.

What this means is that liberals’ attacks on oppression, discrimination, inequality, etc. are not about what they seem to be, a search for a John Lennon-like world where everyone is free and equal and there are no authorities above us. Rather, it is aimed at destroying the authority of OUR society so that we will come under an alien authority.

In this connection, see also my article, Why is liberalism both liberationist and totalitarian?

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Sage McLaughlin writes:

Your comments today, and your link to the earlier post “Why is liberalism both liberationist and totalitarian?” reminded me that Jim Kalb’s book, The Tyranny of Liberalism, has just been released. I got it in the mail yesterday and it looks like a very important work. Kalb has posted a bit of it at ISI’s site as well.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 21, 2008 09:12 AM | Send