A new book Homo americanus by our
friend Tom Sunic is out! (see below)
With foreword by Professor Kevin MacDonald
(see below)
http://www.amazon.com/Homo-americanus-Child-Postmodern-Age/dp/1419659847/
In
this book Tomislav Sunic describes the origins and dynamics
of America's founding myths. Quoting and translating from
many long-forgotten or suppressed sources from the fields of
literature, history, anthropology and philosophy, the book
represents an interdisciplinary compendium dealing with the
topic of Americanism. The genealogy of early Calvinist
Puritanism mixed with the techno-scientific religion of
boundless economic progress and legally veiled in the
obscure para-Biblical and Jewish-inspired sense of political
self-chosenness, created a system that has little in common
with its original design. Postmodern Americanism, with its
abstract theories of multiculturalism and its global desire
for world improvement, turned America into a menacing and
self-destructive continent that puts not only the survival
of America's European heritage at risk, but threatens the
heritage of other peoples worldwide as well.
Tomislav
(Tom) Sunic is a former U.S. professor, author, translator
and a former Croatian diplomat. Mr. Sunic obtained his
doctorate in political science at the University of
California. In this book he attempts to explain how the
postmodern liberal elites justify their system and their
intellectual repression against heretics. Mr. Sunic has
already published books, scholarly and newspaper articles in
French, German, English, and Croatian on subjects of
cultural pessimism and the use and misuse of modern
language by proponents of communist and liberal ideology.
ISBN 1-4196-5984-7
From Chapter IV, Subchapter:
American Neurosis: Love and Hate for the Jews
Mr.
Sunic writes:
……..The word "anti-Semite" will likely be studied one day as
a telling example of postmodern political discourse, i.e. as
a signifier for somebody who advocates the reign of
demonology. "Many world-know Jewish authors, haunted by the
either real or surreal menace of anti-Semitism, consider it
a sickness, which enables them to avoid any form of
introspection," writes Ryssen. These remarks support our
thesis that the present - however much it may be viewed as
post-historical in America - is connected to the recent
memory of the past, as both the present and the past affect
civic identity, nation-state building, and the memory of
Americans, and by extension that of postmodern Europeans.
How does one dare critically talk about the predominance of
the Judeo-American spirit in America without running the
risk of social opprobrium or of landing into psychiatric
asylum, as Ezra Pound once did? While it is a common place
for the vast number of white American elites to crack jokes
in private about Mexicans, Africans, or for that matter
deride their fellow Gentile citizens, without looking over
their shoulder, a critical comment about the staggering
influence of Jews in America, even when that comment is
founded on empirical facts, is viewed as a grave insult to
Jews. If a serious American scholar or a politician
ventures into this forbidden field, his gesture is
interpreted as a sign of being an agent provocateur,
or worse, as a sign of somebody who decided to write his
obituary. Such a schizophrenic climate of self-censorship in
America will sooner or later lead to dramatic consequences
for both American Jews and Gentiles. The lack of healthy
dialogue can last for a century or so, but feigned
conviviality between American Gentiles and American Jews
cannot last forever and remain based on distorted
perceptions of the Other and how this Other should behave.
Mendacity carries the germ of a civil war. The entire
Western history, particularly since the First World War, has
abundantly proven that distorted self-perceptions, as well
as the romanticized perception of the "Other," if based on
negative wishful thinking, lead to war and chaos.
Eventually, both American Jews and American Gentiles will be
pitted into an ugly clash from which there will be no escape
for any of them.
While a great many thinkers in America unabashedly challenge
modern myths and sport staggering erudition and courage in
their demolition, the most sensitive point of reference in
the twentieth century, i.e., the Jewish question, is
carefully avoided. If the subject of Jews is mentioned in
America, then it is usually in a laudatory fashion, which
clearly points to a morbid desire of postmodern American
white elites to curry favor with the Jews. These same
individuals will be the first to declare themselves
certified anti-Semites when an opportunistic moment becomes
official enough for pogroms and Jew baiting. It is the lack
of open discussion about the topic of the Jews that confirms
how Jews play a crucial role in American conscience
building, and by extension, in the entire West. This is an
additional sign of how past times interact with present
times. Twentieth century experience with National Socialism
still serves as a powerful red flag in a political semantic
field which must be carefully trodden upon.
But
contrary to classical anti-Semitic arguments, strong Jewish
influence in America is not only the product of Jews; it is
the logical result of Gentiles' acceptance of the Jewish
founding myths that have seeped over centuries into Europe
and America in their diverse Christian modalities.
Postmodern Americanism is just the latest secular version of
the Judean mindset. Hypothetically speaking, if Jews, by
some miracle, were to play a marginal role in America - as
they claim they do - then, logically, they would be the
subject of a normal critical discussion, just like other
American ethnic groups, races, or next door neighbors are.
Blaming American Jews for extraterrestrial powers and their
purported conspiracy to subvert Gentile culture borders on
delusion and only reflects the absence of dialogue.
American anti-Semitic delusions only provide legitimacy to
American Jews in their constant search for a real or surreal
anti-Semitic boogieman around the corner. Without the
specter of anti-Semitism, Jews would likely assimilate
quickly and hence disappear. Thus, anti-Semitism provides
Jews with alibis to project themselves as victims of Gentile
prejudice. Consequently, it assigns them a cherished role
of posing as the sole educational super-ego for Americans
and by proxy the entire world. In his book on the social
role of Jews, a prominent Jewish-French politician and
author, Jacques Attali, writes: "As Russian Jews invented
socialism, and as Austrian Jews invented psychoanalysis,
American Jews in the forefront, participated in the birth of
American capitalism and in the Americanization of the entire
world." For some Jewish authors, like Attali, such a remark
is easier to write down than for a Gentile thinker, who with
the same comment, would be shouted down as an "anti-Semite."
……………………
And in the conclusion of his book
The Oddity of American Democracy, Sunic writes:
........ We seem to be back at the beginning of
the book. The egalitarian appetite, once observed in
communist Homo sovieticus, is well under way and
under a new name in America and in Americanized Europe.
American ideology will gain more prominence in the future,
as egalitarian dynamics and wide-spread advocacy of
permanent economic progress gain momentum. Once, when
inequality was considered something natural, as it was in
the antebellum South, or prior to the American Revolution,
then even the crassest sign of inequality did not offend the
observer's eye. By contrast, when everybody is declared
equal even the smallest dose of inequality becomes
unbearable. "The desire for equality becomes more and more
insatiable as equality increases," noted De Tocqueville.
Consequently, as the American system becomes more and more
economically opulent, even the slightest economic crisis,
resulting in a small drop in living standards is bound to
cause social discord and political upheavals.
It remains to be
seen how Americanism will pursue its odyssey in a society in
which those who are successful in the economic arena live
side by side with those who lag behind. American ideology
prohibits the development of ethical and political values
that justify hierarchical differences, such as they were
sustained in medieval Europe.
In
the near future, Americanism, similar to the former system
of communism, will only function as an elementary form of
mass survivalism in which interracial wars will be the norm.
Foreword by Kevin MacDonald to Homo americanus: Child
of the Postmodern Age by Tomislav Sunic
Perhaps because of America’s role as lone international
superpower, Americans live in a rather self-absorbed,
egocentric universe in which the opinions of non-Americans
really don’t matter much. This is unfortunate because, just
as in one’s personal life, it’s wise to at least know how
others see you, and especially so if the other is a keen
observer.
Tomislav Sunic is such an observer. As someone who has
lived under communism and has seen firsthand the workings of
state terror, he is in a unique position to describe the
current slide of America into what he aptly terms “soft
totalitarianism.” This regime is maintained less by brute
force than by an unrelenting, enormously sophisticated, and
massively effective campaign to contain political and
cultural activity within very narrow boundaries. Dissenters
are not trundled off to jail or beaten with truncheons, but
are quietly ignored and marginalized. Or they are held up
to public disgrace, and, wherever possible, removed from
their livelihoods.
------.
Soft totalitarian regimes can only be maintained by
a sense of moral and intellectual legitimacy - the willing
assent of the vast majority of the people. Without this
legitimacy, the entire apparatus of cultural control either
disintegrates or transforms into hard totalitarianism - the
truncheons and the gulags. But here there is a major
difference between communism in Eastern Europe and the
current cultural regime in the United States. As Sunic
notes, “Behind the communist semantics in Eastern Europe
there loomed a make-believe system in which nobody truly
believed and where everybody, including former communist
party dignitaries made fun of in private.” However, “in
America, by contrast, many serious people, politicians, and
scholars, let alone the masses, believe in … the message of
the media.” The people who dissent from the American
consensus have been successfully relegated to the fringes.
The gods are still worshiped.
………
But
research in the ethnic motivations of people is perfectly
respectable. No one would be surprised if Mexican activists
proudly and explicitly advocated the interests of Mexicans
in immigration and affirmative action. Nor are we surprised
if Jewish activists promoted the interests of Israel. By
the same logic, we shouldn't be surprised if Jewish social
scientists are motivated by their ethnic interests. It is
an empirical question that can be investigated like any
other question in the social sciences, and I think that the
data confirms the hypothesis that the Jews who were central
to the origins and influence of these movements had a strong
Jewish identification and were motivated by their ethnic
interests.
......
As
usual, there is a double standard here. It is a routine for
scientists like Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton, or
Richard Lynn to be called racists when they call attention
to the biological roots of race differences in intelligence
or criminality. And my writing on how Jews have pursued
their ethnic interests in the intellectual and political
arena has been termed “anti-Semitism” on more than one
occasion.
Implicitly the charge of racism or anti-Semitism assumes
that these writers are nothing more than ethnic activists
and that their claims of scientific truth are nothing more
than a fig leaf covering their ethnic interests -- exactly
the claim that I am making about the role of Jews in the
triumph of Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the Frankfurt
School. Unfortunately, the people making these charges of
“racism” and “anti-Semitism” typically feel no need to
dispute the scientific accuracy of the theories they are
trying to discredit or even try to provide evidence of
ethnic motivation of the scientists involved. Simply making
the charge is sufficient. Such is the power of the left.
...........
The
importance of the intellectual infrastructure can also be
seen with other intellectual and political movements.
Neo-conservatism illustrates the common features of this
intellectual infrastructure: It has been championed by a
well-defined group of mainly Jewish authors writing with
shared assumptions, a common institutional base in
universities and think tanks, access to major media, and
mutual admiration. The power of the movement comes not from
the work of a few individuals but from its dissemination in
the media, its legitimacy in the universities, its promotion
by Jewish activist organizations, and its constant
repetition in slightly different forms and for different
audiences by like-minded intellectuals and writers.
However, this intellectual infrastructure did not occur in a
political vacuum. Also of critical importance was the
“intergroup relations movement” which was dedicated to
passing legislation and disseminating these ideas in the
schools. The Frankfurt School was a critical part of the
intellectual justification for the “intergroup relations
movement” in its effort to “eliminate prejudice and
discrimination against racial, ethnic, and religious
minorities” in the period following World War II. The
intergroup relations movement was a multi-faceted effort,
ranging from legal challenges to racial bias in housing,
education, and public employment; legislative proposals and
efforts to secure their passage into law in state and
national legislative bodies; efforts to shape messages in
the media; educational programs for students and teachers;
and intellectual efforts to reshape the intellectual
discourse of academia.
.......
Because the Jewish community has been so intimately involved
in creating the therapeutic state, it is noteworthy to
examine how the Jewish community responds to breaches of
decorum -- that is, to challenges to its hegemony. Here the
methods are quite similar to those used in post World War II
Germany, as described by Sunic: “When silencing their
critics the German authorities do not need to resort to
violent means. They usually create a cultural smearing
campaign whereby a cultural heretic is portrayed as a funny,
pseudo-scientific crank that does not merit a place in
mainstream publishing houses. Moreover, the heretic is often
induced into a self-muzzling behavior making impossible any
portrayal of himself as a martyr.”
.................
But
the other side of the equation must also be examined -- the
traits that predispose Westerners to willingly accept their
own oblivion as a moral necessity. Here Sunic emphasizes
the heritage of Christian universalism and, especially in
the case of America, the heritage of Puritan moralism.
As Sunic notes, there is a real prospect of social
breakdown given the increasing ethnic divisions in the U.S.
In The Culture of Critique I predicted that the
current regime would lead to increased ethnic strife and an
increased sense of group consciousness among the European
peoples of the United States. As an evolutionist, it is
difficult for me to believe that a racial group would be
unconcerned with its own eclipse and domination.
......
At some point the negative consequences to the
European population of the U.S. of multicultural ideology
and massive influx of other peoples will become so obvious
that current levels of control will be ineffective. We will
be like the Soviet Union when it became, in Sunic’s words,
“a make-believe system in which nobody truly believed and
where everybody, including former communist party
dignitaries made fun of in private.”
And
if at this point, Europeans stare into the abyss and
voluntarily cede political and cultural power, they will
have no one to blame but themselves. But they will be
cursed by their descendants. Perhaps they will one day read
Tomislav Sunic’s excellent book and think about what might
have been.
Kevin MacDonald
Department of Psychology
California State University-Long Beach
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword by Professor Kevin MacDonald
Chapter I: Americanism and Anti-Americanism
- Race and the 'Cull' of the
Wild
- Prime Americanism and anti-Semitism
Chapter II: Twin Brothers: Homo sovieticus and
Homo americanus
-
America in the Eyes of post-communist Europe
-
The
Meta Language of Americanism
Chapter
III: The Origins of Political Correctness and America's
Role in Its Perfection
-
Brainwashing the Germans
-
Publish and Perish
Chapter IV: The Biblical Origins of American Fundamentalism
-
In
the Land of Hypermoralism
-
'Judeo-American' Monotheism
-
American Neurosis: Love or Hate for the Jews?
-
American Neo-Paganism
Chapter V: In Yahweh We Trust: A Divine Foreign Policy
-The
Insular Mind vs. the Continental Mind
- A War Crime of the Bible
Chapter VI: Post-America and Postmodernity
-
Real and Hyperreal America
-
US Calling: A Revocable Nostalgia
Chapter VII: E Pluribus Dissensus: Exit European
Americans
- Southern Comfort: White Man's
Discomfort
-
Postmodern Agrarians
The Oddity of American Democracy
