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Born In The USA

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…or at least, if not there, bin Laden’s ideas were born in the West.

Not surprising, really. Most ideas that kill millions were born in the West. The West has nurtured both great good, and great evil.

For example, where do you think that Pol Pot got his ideas? In Cambodia? Nope. In Paris. Just the place to marinate in the moldering monstrous themes of Rousseau and the Terror.

While Marx was a westerner, he fermented his deadly memes and wrote his most damaging works in London, a city that has had Marxists as mayor in recent history. Even Mao, perhaps the greatest mass murderer in history, was influenced by him.

What is particularly poisonous about radical Islam is how it has wed the ancient warmongering of Mohammed with more modern totalitarianism (though in a sense, you could say that Mohammed, with his intrinsic melding of religion and state, invented totalitarianism), and how comfortable the left seems to be with it, decrying “apartheid” in Israel, a nation that has Arabs in its legislature, while ignoring the true gender apartheid of the Arab culture. The alliance between the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and national socialism in Germany during the war was not isolated, or a coincidence.

[Via Ed Driscoll, who has more links]

4 thoughts on “Born In The USA”

  1. The West has nurtured both great good, and great evil.

    We contribute to humanities relentless goal of greater efficiency. Great links Rand. Brings to mind VDH’s Carnage and Culture.

  2. To say that this stuff was learned from the West is, I think, to misunderstand humans and history:

    Humans pretty much come up with the same ideas of this sort everywhere. What differs, from place to place, is the ability to execute the ideas.

  3. Most ideas that kill millions were born in the West.

    And always in reaction — as in, reactionary — to the West’s ideas that create prosperous and educated populations where other civilizations create only poverty and superstition.

    I’ve never seen a single “leftist” revolutionary idea that wasn’t rooted in fundamentally reactionary reflexes.

  4. “I’ve never seen a single “leftist” revolutionary idea that wasn’t rooted in fundamentally reactionary reflexes.”

    Although I happen to agree, good luck convincing them of that.

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