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The Ideology of Failure: How Europe Bought Into Ideas That Will Weaken and Divide It Paperback – August 31, 2018
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We are living in unnerving times. Our societies are characterised by a social polarisation not known since the 1930s. At the same time, there is now one principal source of knowledge: Google, an omnipresent, omniscient (some might say) company embedded in the social justice warrior ideology. Just a handful of Californian companies control our digital lives. These companies and most public institutions employ the same commoditised speech code (diversity, inclusion etc.) that operates in a context of groupthink enforcing further the sense of polarisation.
Language is being increasingly policed and causing offence could now be a hate-crime in parts of western Europe. Amidst such infringements on the freedom of speech, a culture of silence is emerging. This can be seen in our universities. They should be theatres of open debate, but instead many shun viewpoint diversity. But, the toxic, zero-sum identity politics that currently plagues academia is spreading now to society at large.
This book explores the nuts and bolts of this identity politics that is weakening and dividing our Continent. The Ideology of Failure asks the most searching questions of the political correctness orthodoxy and gives the reader the tools to talk openly about the topics which we are made to feel awkward about discussing.
'Travels in Cultural Nihilism' (2nd ed.)
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 31, 2018
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.72 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101912079283
- ISBN-13978-1912079285
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- Publisher : Arktos Media Ltd.; Second of 'Travels in Cultural Nihilism' (2017) ed. edition (August 31, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1912079283
- ISBN-13 : 978-1912079285
- Item Weight : 13.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.72 x 8.5 inches
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Inspired since childhood days by the likes of Wally Herbert, Fridtjof Nansen, Captain Scott and Thor Heyerdahl, Dr Leonard is a linguist and writer who pursues his passion for the spoken word through the spirit of exploration. In addition to academic monographs, ethnographies, travel literature and poetry, he has published two books on political ideologies.
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It’s not hard to work out why, in the aftermath of the Second World War, that there should have been such a kick-back against all forms of nationalism. Nowhere has that collective guilt been more apparent than in Germany and in fact, places like Sweden which very much faced both ways during the war. Unsurprisingly, those European countries which feel the most post-war guilt are also the ones to have embraced mass immigration and diversity with the most relish. After all, anything which would have been anathema to fascists, must ergo be good, right?
Unfortunately, as time goes on, and the negative consequences of demographic upheaval become ever more apparent, we are belatedly learning the true answer to that question. Yet instead of facing up to it, the bien-pensants, virtue-signalling liberal elite, take the path of least resistance: let the migrant influx continue (especially since it’s now very hard to stop) and ratchet up the message that diversity is enriching and we’d better believe it.
In our hearts, we know that championing lots of different cultures and egalitarianism in all its forms has brought along many problems in its wake – as well as some benefits, which Dr Leonard acknowledges. But what if you think the benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks? Then you do so at your peril, since the guardians of tolerance and free speech have created a climate in which any criticism of the rapid transformation of society is now risky and unwise. The smears and the sneers are ready and waiting for anyone who dares to express disapproval.
Small wonder that the silent majority remain cowed into silence and indeed brainwashed even, into thinking that legitimate concerns are xenophobic or at best, ungenerous. What is needed is someone brave and brainy enough to put his head above the parapet and carefully, unemotionally and rationally make the intellectual case on behalf of that beleaguered and belittled majority. That is exactly what Stephen Pax Leonard has done in this book.
And he is a difficult target for the liberal elite to shout down. This is a man with an expertise in anthropology, ethnography and sociolinguistics; who spent months living in a remote Arctic community studying the local language and customs. Someone who, in fact, loves global diversity in its truest, natural forms.
So Dr Leonard can’t easily be toppled with the usual insults and, no doubt to the dismay of his enemies, this book offers an absorbing, well-researched, academic and very readable analysis of the mindset which has led to the tragic polarisation of modern society. It is a work which will equip and empower the disenfranchised and the disillusioned to take on the globalists, leftists, virtue-signallers and thought-police with far more confidence. Great work.
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