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White Men as Modern
Scapegoats
Bob
Wallace
June 20, 2010
I look at the
Gospels not so much as religion but as good practical wisdom about people, their
motivations, and their behavior.
There are at
least four archetypes in the Gospels that applied not only then but also today.
They are the State, the Mob, the Leaders, and the Scapegoat/Human Sacrifice. The
leaders incite the mob into a frenzy, and both then call for the scapegoat/human
to be sacrificed through the power of the state.
The Gospels
tell us that the leaders of Jesus' time saw him as a threat, one whom they
erroneously thought would bring the Romans to destroy their nation. They incited
and united the mob against him by claiming he was a danger. He was then turned
into a scapegoat and sacrificed by using the power of the Roman state — and the
mob howled for his death.
Those four
archetypes exist today, and unfortunately White men are the current
scapegoats.
Notice I did
not write “White people.” It’s White men, because there is a wedge being driven
in-between White men and White women, and has been since the ‘60s. Not so long
ago I talked to a woman, in her late 40s, who told me men were responsible for
almost all the trouble in the world. She was, not at all surprisingly, unmarried
and childless.
Where did she
get this idea? From being inundated with it from the media all her life? Ya
think that might have something to do with it?
There is also
a wedge driven between blacks and Whites, and “Hispanics” (whatever they are)
and Whites. The target is White men, and everyone who is honest knows
this.
Why is he the
target? I think a lot of it is envy, and again I turn to the Bible for the
explanation.
I consider a
fair amount of the Bible to be myth, and by myth I do not mean “untrue,” but
instead universally true, applicable to everyone, through the telling of
fictional stories, and through the use of metaphor, simile and
allegory.
Let’s take the
myth of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve get kicked out for breaking the rules,
and when they’re caught, Adam blames Eve, and Eve blames the serpent — which is
a symbol of envy. Adam is telling Eve, “It’s your fault,” and Eve responds, “No,
it’s the serpent’s fault.” In other words, Adam uses Eve as a scapegoat, and Eve
uses the serpent.
And out the
door they go, and human evil comes into the world.
There we have
the explanation, and I believe it’s a true one. Almost all — probably not all,
though — scapegoating is caused by envy. And people who are envious want to
bring down those they envy — even if they destroy themselves in the
process.
Since Whites
have been so powerful and successful throughout history — and I’ll be the first
to admit they has done a lot of wrong things (as have all races and ethnic
groups), they of course will be the target of the less successful, and therefore
envious.
If there is
one emotion that has caused more trouble in history than any other one, I’d pick
envy. Whoever wrote the story of the Garden of Eden apparently felt the same
way. And Helmut Schoeck, who wrote a famous book, simply titled. Envy,
thought so, too.
Where you have
envy you have resentment and hate and the desire for revenge, and when you have
all of them, you have revolutionaries who wish to destroy. As Eugene Ionesco
wrote about the envious, hate-filled, wannabe-world-destroyer Karl Marx: “[He]
must have suffered a secret wound to his pride, as did all those who want
revolutions. It is this secret wound he hides, consciously or
not.”
That “secret
wound” was his envy — in his case of aristocrats, who were the only people he
respected. And envy is probably the hardest emotion for anyone to admit. Marx
never admitted it, or any of his immensely destructive followers.
There is
another Biblical myth that is relevant — that of Cain and Abel, the first
recorded murder. Cain slays Abel out of jealousy and envy, because Abel had
something Cain wanted — for God to
accept his offering. It was a murder born out of rivalry and
vengeance.
The main
weapons — propaganda — the envious use to bring down the envied are the attempts
to instill guilt and shame. Tellingly, child researchers
believe children feel shame before guilt, which is also illustrated in the story
of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve don’t feel guilty about being naked; they
feel ashamed.
The fact that
shame becomes before guilt makes it a more primitive, powerful and more
effective weapon. Saul Alinsky (perhaps unwittingly) noticed this is his Rules for
Radicals, when he wrote the first weapon to use is
ridicule.
Adam and Eve
don’t feel shame until they become self-conscious. That’s important too, because
these attempts to instill shame and guilt will not be successful until the
scapegoat incorporates them into his self and becomes self-conscious about them.
If these
attempts to instill shame and guilt work, the scapegoat will in fact participate
in his own destruction, and even go so far as to pass laws against himself. In
other words, he’ll commit cultural suicide.
Whites
throughout history are supposed to have been the perpetual victimizer of the
innocent (as the resentful, envious and vengeance-minded Susan Sontag so
infamously claimed, “The White race is the
cancer of human history”). Now White men have become the victims,
but they still clamed to be the victimizers.
Whenever you
have scapegoating, the scapegoat has to be determined to be not only guilty, but
evil. Then he has to be destroyed or
expelled.
White men have
now become the victims, but that fact is denied — people’s eyes are averted from
the truth. Even today, I still run across the terms “White privilege” and even
“patriarchy,” neither of which I have ever seen.
What is
happening these days is the belief in group guilt, a thing which does not
exist. So now we have an entire innocent group considered to be guilty and evil,
and scapegoated. And the scapegoat, I repeat, has to be destroyed or
expelled.
I believe the
whole sequence of this scapegoating starts with belief in a Golden Age in the
far past. If it never existed, then create one. Call it Atlzan, or Afrocentrism,
or Ice People and Sun People. What George Orwell wrote is true: he who controls
the present, controls the past. And whoever controls the present, controls the
future.
Claim this
Golden Age no longer exists, not through any fault of your own, but because of
someone evil, usually engaged in a conspiracy. These evil people become the
scapegoat that must be eliminated.
An example of
this belief in a (mostly nonexistent) Golden Age are Arab Muslims who blame
every one of their problems on Israel, and who believe if it is destroyed, their
Golden Age will magically return. How? Somehow.
The French
philosopher and theologian Rene Girard, author of Violence and the
Sacred and Things
Hidden Since
the Foundation of the World, writes there are two functions to the
scapegoat: to unite society, and renew it through the destruction of the
scapegoat. By focusing on White men as the scapegoat, aggrieved minorities are
united in blaming their problems on them.
Girard’s
believes societies, especially in their beginnings, were subject to plagues of
rivalry and vengeance (the introduction of murder into the world by Cain and
Abel). In fact, he considered these perpetually escalating cycles of vengeance,
retaliation and murder to be the original cultural disease. Original Sin, if you
will.
Societies
always found a way to treat this disease — the use of a scapegoat. At some time,
sometimes spontaneously and always irrationally, mob violence erupts against
some person or group. They are accused of the worst crimes imaginable, crimes
that by their enormity have caused the terrible plight the community now
experiences. They are then, in one way or another,
lynched.
Girard noticed
that in myths there is always a “founding murder” on which societies are based.
As an example, the killing of Jesus was the founding murder of Christianity. The
difference with this murder, Girard writes, is that it was the first time in
history the murder was told from the point of view of the
scapegoat.
As such,
Girard believes Christianity finally broke the function of the scapegoat (and
also introduced repentance and atonement). Unfortunately, since American society
these days is more pagan than Christian (no matter what people claim) the
scapegoating mechanism is back in place — and White men are now supposed to be
the founding murder for societies based on the non-existent Golden Ages, ones
created by envious, revenge-minded anti-American
“intellectuals.”
Those who are
lusting for the destruction of White men and their culture are convinced they
are innocent and oppressed, so there will be no repentance and atonement. In a
nutshell, they have no conscience.
You’d think
the tens of millions of illegal aliens the United States has allowed in, in
their search for a better life, would be grateful. Unfortunately, mobs (in this
case “ethnic tribes” might be a more accurate word) always respond with envy and
resentment and never gratitude. They always believe they are entitled to
handouts from their “oppressors.”
Girard
identified the founding principle of societies as “Satan,” since that term
mirrors Jesus’ description of “the Prince of this world,” who was motivated by
envy and hubris and was “a liar and a murderer from the first.” (Martin Luther,
in a similar vein, referred to the world as “the Devil’s
Inn.”)
By sacrificing
his life to expose and then overthrow this kingdom built on lies, envy, hubris
and violence, Girard believed Jesus introduced the world to a new world built on
repentance and atonement for sins (actually hamartia — literally “missing the mark”)
instead of the catharsis of scapegoating, and love of God and neighbor instead
of war. It’s not working all that well today.
Identifying a
scapegoat allows envious groups to unite, these days through the creation of a
false, idealized history, then after blaming all of their ills on the scapegoat
they try to get him to disarm himself through the use of shame and guilt, and
then after his expulsion or destruction through the use of political power, they
believe once they are the majority their Golden Ages will
return.
The only way the scapegoat can be
successfully attacked is through political power, that is, the State. This means
passing laws that give special rights to anyone, or especially any group, is the
worst possible thing that can be done. It is, again, cultural
suicide.
All propaganda
is ultimately based on scapegoating, on splitting things into a narcissistic
“all good” and “all bad.” The all-good is idealized (the non-existent Golden
Ages) while the all-bad is devalued as evil, and determined to be the cause of
all problems.
Girard,
however, considers propaganda to be a parody of scapegoating, because, as he
claims, “There is no such thing as conscious scapegoating,” and those who use
propaganda are conscious of what they are doing.
When people
are aware they are the objects of the envy, hate, resentment and revenge of the
envious, when they are aware of what’s being done to them, that is the first
step to becoming immune to the propaganda, and refusing to feel guilt and
shame.
To the ancient
Greeks Dionysius was the Mob (I am reminded of the Biblical scene in which the
demons say “My name is Legion [sometimes translated as “Mob”] for there are many
of us”). And the followers of Dionysius, in their riots, murdered, dismembered,
and sometimes devoured their scapegoats. That is a warning for
today.
Mobs don’t
always necessarily act on their own, spontaneously. They usually have leaders,
to excite them, to justify their beliefs and actions. This means those aggrieved
minorities attacking White men and their culture have intellectuals who are
leading the mobs. Those intellectual leaders are the ones who are truly the
enemy.
Mass Man — the
mob — has no intelligence and is incapable of reason. This herd, which is
motivated by the most primitive of feelings, can be easily manipulated, and is
in fact little more than sheep led by wolves.
Today these
enemies are in the government, the media, the universities, and business. They
are prime examples of the old saying that cultures usually don’t collapse from
attacks from without, but from within.
What will
happen if these envious minorities ever gain enough political power? That result
is foretold by an old German proverb: “No sword cuts more brutally than a
peasant who becomes a lord.”
As Erik von
Kuehnelt-Leddihn wrote in Leftism
Revisited, “In the last
two hundred years, the exploitation of envy — its mobilization among the masses
— coupled with the denigration of individuals, but more frequently of classes,
races, nations, or religious communities, has been the key to political
success.”
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