Sanity Slowly Returns to Europe

I can't remember when I first heard the term "multiculturalism," but when I heard it, it just didn't sound right.  It was like playing C and D together on a piano.  A tin ear would not necessarily hear it, but it jangles the nerves.  It is close to the old idea of the melting pot, but not quite. It's the difference between true tolerance, and acceptance. It's the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution. One leads to Liberty and Freedom, the other leads to tyranny and abuse. So, when I saw Europe Dumps Multiculturalism over at the American Thinker by James Lewis, I had to click on it to see what he had to say.  Please go and read his take.

My own take?  Sanity returns to Europe, but it may be too little, too late.  If they started teaching the Great Books again to everyone who goes through school, and they brought up the fertility rate to something close to replacement values, they might, just might, turn things around by the end of the century.  Why?  Because just as the Lord led the Israelites around in the desert for 40 years so that no one who remembered Egypt was alive to enter the Promised Land, so the Europeans are going to have to await the death of an entire generation which has been raised on multiculturalism, nihilism, and political correctness, and a profound nanny state.  Meanwhile, they are going to have to aggressively teach their own history and the philosophical roots of that history.  Cultural change takes a long, long time.

What about us?  We have been going down the same multicultural path for some time now.  We have an entire generation raised on political correctness.  We have an entire generation who believes every culture is the same, except that ours is worse than others.  We have an entire generation that believes every religion teaches the same basic things, except Christianity is somehow worse than others.  Those who believe these things do so without real evidence.  They believe these things in a childish way-that if the founders weren't perfect in every way, then the document they wrote is fatally flawed, and we don't have to listen to them. We have people who point out that they didn't have cell phones and iPads then, so because techology has changed, the Constitution needs to be scrapped.  That isn't an adult evaluating the document on its merits, that's an adolescent raging against tradition.  If these "children" had studied history, they would know that technology changes, but we ourselves do not.

We have obsessed so long on the failings of our founding fathers, that we forget that they gave us the greatest political document ever written, the Constitution of the United States.  The founders were first and foremost men, not gods.  Like every one of us, they made some wrong choices.  They also made some brilliant ones.  I believe, in addition, they had divine providence on their side.  They were men of their time, as we are men and women of our time.  But in spite of all that, they worked with far greater insight to the human condition than many of those who followed, or follow today.

In the interests of breaking with political correctness let me quote from the article:

Because the State controls the schools in Europe, its famous Deep Thinkers always end up boot-licking the ruling class, just like Friedrich Hegel, the hero of Karl Marx. Hegel and Marx both admired the Prussian State, except that Marx was convinced that he should be Otto von Bismarck. It's not really complicated.

Emphasis mine.  That there is the bald faced, bare bones truth.  All the Marxist-Leninist theory, all the so-called Marxist "scholarship," all the (Feminist, Black, Hispanic, fill in the blank) "studies" are all hog wash.  The real answer is they believe they should rule you and me.  There, that should be clear enough.