The society that I grew up in wasn’t perfect but it worked reasonably well. There was racialism of course but that didn’t stop vast numbers of the majority population from getting on with minorities and vice versa, especially when both majority and minority were dealing with the same shitty societal and economic stick. It’s difficult after all for a man to hate someone for the colour of their skin or because they follow a different deity, when that person is clearly decent, clearly has the same morality as you and is competently working alongside you or maybe even through informal mutual aid, helping to keep you and your family afloat when you’re sick and can’t work and can’t earn.
But that is not the world of today. The world that I grew up with has gone and the jobs and communities which sustained that world of give and take and earned mutual respect are now but a fading memory. The small amounts of migration of people from radically different cultures from our own that I grew up with could relatively easily be integrated, even though this would often take a fair bit of effort on the part of the minority individual. But this sort of comparatively straightforward migration is a world away from the mass migration that we have in the UK today. Mass migration, both because of the sheer overwhelming numbers and the presence among these migrants of many individuals who are almost impossible to integrate in to a Western society, has stressed countries like Britain almost to breaking point.
The rapid, and let’s be honest here, uncalled for by the public, changes to Britain’s towns and cities and the settling there of people who are clearly not compatible with Britain has been a massive stress on British society. This stress would be bad enough on its own, but the propensity for the agents of the state to prioritise these imports for services, housing, education, jobs, cultural opportunities and welfare has made an already bad problem much much worse.
In my view one of the responses to migration, the decision to cleave to the ideology of multiculturalism, has worsened the state of the country. I can clearly see that the sort of top down multiculturalism that Britons have been fed has been an utter and highly destabilising failure. Instead of bringing the majority together with a small number of outsiders, with the outsiders being accepted so long as they live as we do, multiculturalism has encouraged the siloisation of communities and created ghettos, sometimes very hostile ones.
Mass migration and the multiculturalism-inspired forced acceptance of those with radically different and sometimes hostile opinions about British and Western society than those held by the majority is starting to cause a negative reaction among the majority population. People who I’ve spoken to both IRL and online, many of whom used to be very much of the ‘live and let live’ variety, are now expressing hostility to minorities in general, to recent migrants and to Islam in particular. They are vocalising hostility towards those in government who keep them and their communities in crushing deprivation, whilst throwing untold sums of taxpayers’ money to minorities and minority interests. These people are worried about the future or lack of it that their children and grandchildren will face and are now growing increasingly unafraid of speaking about worries like these.
I look around and it seems that more and more the battlelines are being drawn. The attitude that society is dividing into a ‘them or us’ situation is getting more and more noticeable and more and more open. Whatever the future holds, it is liable to be ‘interesting’ unfortunately.
Someone who has been contemplating the sorts of difficulties that such ‘interesting’ times could bring about and how to navigate them so that, as he sees, we can properly ‘differentiate between friend and foe’ is Momus Najmi. Now I like Mr Najmi’s writing and he seems to me to be a sensible humane sort of chap who loves Britain and also is concerned about what is destroying it, so when Mr Najmi speaks I tend to listen.
Mr Najmi has recently had a conversation on the X platform with Northern Variant, a writer who can be quite depressing in his assessment of the UK, although I also admire him for being politically astute and a political realist. This conversation or at least what I saw of it, touched on the subject of ethnonationalism. During the conversation Mr Najmi said this with regards to multiculturalism and the voluntary separation of indigenous Britons from migrants and those of migrant heritage:
I agree with Mr Majmi about how the indigenous people are regrouping and that regrouping is happening in part because the Establishment is being more and more likely to be thought of as an entity that is prioritising minorities and incomers over the indigenous. There’s been numerous attacks over the years by the far left, the middle class and academic Left and the multiculturalists on British history, culture and society and this, along with the Establishment’s perceived clear choice of incomers over indigenous, has intensified both the drawing of separation lines and a growing volume of those expressing the view that those who rule over us also hate us.
But the multiculturalist drugs are working less and less for the Establishment. The stock mantras of the multiculturalist elites are changing in their effect on society. Where as once a phrase such as ‘diversity is a strength’ might have conjured up images of people of different races, faiths and national origin all working together for a common goal, now it brings forth other images among some White Britons especially. One of these images is, to paraphrase Mr George Orwell, of the state’s boot stamping on their faces and the faces of their families and the destruction of the society that they and their forefathers had built often at great cost. What happens when this cohort of society finds that it can no longer move away within Britain from the problems that our political class has bequeathed them? Do they go meekly into a dissipating good night soothed by the sort of fake history and deliberately depraved culture that may await them of the sort that Mr Najmi speaks of, or do they turn and fight back politically by standing on their own and backing only their own? At present I have no idea how things are going to end up, so ‘interesting’ are the times we are in, but it could be nasty. I agree with Mr Najmi that multiculturalism has to take a massive share of the blame for whatever nastiness has been allowed to grow and the nastiness that may get considerably worse.
Mr Najmi is, in my opinion, also correct when he says that not all cultures are equal. My view is that people should be treated equally but that equality cannot be extended to cultures. The idea that the American culture that put a man on the Moon is equal to the culture of tribes of African subsistence farmers for example, is when you look at it, quite unhinged. If you wanted to find a nation or a culture that could supply you with launch facilities for a communications satellite, you would choose America, not a nation or a culture of bush farmers, whose culture has only prepared them with enough knowledge to plough a scabby field with a bullock. Multiculturalism is, in my view, an ideology that only works in the minds of madmen or those who have for whatever reason chained themselves to the madmen and their equally mad ideas.
Mr Najmi is spot on that multiculturalism has done great damage to the idea of a people having a spiritual connection to society. British society has become almost completely transactional with people only working for themselves and their group, not the wider society which they often may have no interest in or loyalty towards.
I agree with Mr Najmi that there’s going to be a lot of wrongs to be righted, but like him I also worry that other wrongs will be done in correcting the damage that has been done to the nation. I believe that we could be in for an extended torrid time in the United Kingdom, where much will be swept away and much else might be built, but as Mr Najmi so eloquently says, we need to be clever enough during whatever is coming to ‘differentiate between friend and foe’. Personally I believe that if we are to be presented with a situation where the disasters and damage and the great and unnecessary upheaval to our society which has been done to Britain by its political classes is repaired, then we should do all that we can to ensure that we remain human and do not morph into the sort of monsters that upheaval too often creates, whilst undertaking or supporting the undertaking of that repair process.