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Multiculturalism will impose an ideology of diversity upon societies that cannot accept it.



“You can't force your ideology on the cat,” the veterinarian told the Herald Sun, a newspaper in Australia. “Carnivores will seek out meat...” This advice was given after a kitten nearly died when its owners fed it a strict vegan diet. The kitten was nursed back to health with 20 CCs of meat.
So much for kittens. What if you forced your ideology on human nature and society? Progressives think they can do just that. The truth is, progressives are wrong about this. We can see how wrong progressives are when we look at what is happening to the United States, today. In short a progressive ideology sometimes called a “fundamental transformation” has become a menace. One of the tenants of progressivism (once called liberalism) is that there is no such thing as human nature. Human nature is just an illusion. As Marx put it, “It’s not the consciousness of men that determines their social being, but their social being that determines their consciousness.” Human beings are simply a product of their environment, especially the economic conditions that happen to prevail in a given society.

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Contemporary progressives in the United States have not gone far beyond this dogmatic statement by Marx. Even if some do not know the Marxian roots of their progressive tree, they have managed to branch out into many of our institutions. If we meander through a few of these institution, especially public education, marriage, and foreign policy, we can see some examples of what progressive have wrought. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim argued that the purpose of public education is to create the desired type needed to perpetuate a given society. It was the job of the French system of education to make good French citizens, not good Englishmen. It is he nature of public education to be conservative. Young minds need consistency before they can embrace relativism. It’s one thing as Timothy Leary has shown, to turn on with LSD when you’re 45, and another thing to do the same when you’re 13. In short, public education in the United States ought to be socialization into the adult life of a constitutional republic, not an introduction to the ways of life outlined in the Koran. Multiculturalism in public education confuses young minds and works against the natural feelings of nationalism needed to keep a society in existence. Is it any wonder that most mass shootings happen at schools and universities where multiculturalism is the confused lesson of the day? Beyond that, “Chicago’s public schools count over 100 foreign languages spoken by their students, with Spanish leading the pack by a wide margin.” There is no attempt to follow Durkheim’s teaching in Chicago. With so many languages encouraged, public schools are more like Milton’s Pandemonium then they are like Durkheim’s France. Most ordinary Americans find it difficult to understand the notion of same-sex marriage. One reason for this inability to understand is because ordinary Americans hold to the centuries old idea that marriage is grounded in human nature--men and women in love join together and have children. Same-sex marriage is for many a legal fiction that turns the world upside down. In that upside down world, the symbolism of same-sex marriage, anal intercourse or dildo of despair, will never lead to children in the natural order of things. Many biologist will tell you what they know from their study of nature and reproduction. Human life begins at conception. The ideal is to have human conception happen within the bonds of a traditional marriage and family. Progressives, however, must impose on this truth their ideology of gender equality and are forced to call human life in the womb something other than what it is. Recently, Sarah Silverman said, contrary to nature, that the human fetus is simply, “goo.” If that’s the case, then it’s OK to abort the goo. Just as Robespierre’s claim that, “Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue,” makes many scratch their head in disbelief, so does abortion on demand and same-sex marriage equated as a civil right cause a similar head scratching. Different nations and cultures are part of the natural order of human being. To deny this is to believe a kitten can live off corn, alone. Nevertheless, multiculturalism will impose an ideology of diversity upon societies that cannot accept it. To understand the realities of human culture is to see our current conflict in the Middle-east in a different light. Christianity and Islam are at war, a war that is more than a thousand years old. The natural difference between Islam and Christianity are incompatible. Even for the sake of oil, we cannot pretend these differences can be dissolved by the ideology of multiculturalism. How do we deal with a conflict that pits different conceptions of what it means to be human against one another? As I have suggested elsewhere, there are only three ways for the Christian West to deal with Islam: conversion, containment, or conquest. Unfortunately, for our nation, the progressives who are now directing foreign policy will have none of those three ways. In the end, they only see a fluffy kitten when in fact there is a hungry lion on the prowl. By seeing only fluffy kittens fed on corn, progressives often demonstrate a degree of audacity that goes beyond even the audacity of hope. They forget that nature places limits on mankind. These limits are bracketed by birth and death. Ignoring what is natural for the sake of living a life of theory has a cost to pay. Robespierre is a good example of how a progressive may pay that cost at the end. He was led to the guillotine with half his jaw hanging off after his failed suicide attempt. Ironic justice one supposes, for many, many more had proceeded him headlong into the progressive night. It’s one thing to impose a progressive ideology on a kitten, and it is another thing to impose a progressive ideology on a nation. Yet, either way, the end result of a progressive ideology is not life but death.


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Robert Klein Engler lives in Omaha, Nebraska and sometimes New Orleans. Mr. Engler holds degrees from the University of Illinois in Urbana and The University of Chicago Divinity School. Many of Robert’s poems, stories, and paintings are set in the Crescent City. His long poem, “The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering,” set partially in New Orleans, is published by Headwaters Press, Medusa, New York, 2004. He has received an Illinois Arts Council award for his “Three Poems for Kabbalah.” Link with him at Facebook.com to see examples of his recent work. Some of Mr. Engler’s books are available at amazon.com..


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