Great article. I’ve just started reading Charles Oman’s The Dark Ages (1854), and it’s fascinating to see the same patterns of elite domination over subject peoples playing out over time. The Germanic tribes moved in and subverted the cultural ancestry of the existing Romans in certain regions (although nothing as cruel and spiteful as what's being done to England and Europe now).
Your point is well made: Yesterday, while driving through a quaint, sunlit rural English village, I noticed a Muslim woman in a full headscarf accompanied by several small children. It was clear she had been placed there recently. I thought her very presence ruined the cultural and ethnic integrity of the whole village in one fell swoop. Having the confidence to parade around a completely alien culture and (likely) have everything paid for.
Regardless, I don't see many people waking up or anything changing about any of this. Whether in America with Trump's ridiculous deportation figures or in Europe, controlled by a hive of neo-liberal zealots.
Great article. I’ve just started reading Charles Oman’s The Dark Ages (1854), and it’s fascinating to see the same patterns of elite domination over subject peoples playing out over time. The Germanic tribes moved in and subverted the cultural ancestry of the existing Romans in certain regions (although nothing as cruel and spiteful as what's being done to England and Europe now).
Your point is well made: Yesterday, while driving through a quaint, sunlit rural English village, I noticed a Muslim woman in a full headscarf accompanied by several small children. It was clear she had been placed there recently. I thought her very presence ruined the cultural and ethnic integrity of the whole village in one fell swoop. Having the confidence to parade around a completely alien culture and (likely) have everything paid for.
Regardless, I don't see many people waking up or anything changing about any of this. Whether in America with Trump's ridiculous deportation figures or in Europe, controlled by a hive of neo-liberal zealots.
To use another Biblical reference: the modern West is selling its birthright for a bowl of soup.
Well said!