In this episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay talk about a number of things that circulate around a single theme — namely, that the Western order, which is built around the Judeo-Christian concept that each individual is sovereign before God and accountable for his or her own actions, is under attack by the pagan/barbarian concept of tribe.
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Barack Obama, the subject of Scott’s new book Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, which is available for preorder now and due for release Nov. 21, referred to the latter worldview as the pursuit of “collective salvation.”
But collective salvation is a lie, and it leads to misery.
We see this in the Israel–Gaza conflict. An ordered society, if there were one in Gaza, would not have started a war by way of atrocities as the Hamas-led residents did — especially when the inevitable result was what is happening now. Israel is crushing Hamas, and the Israelis have finally cast aside concerns for the “civilians” being used as human shields by the terrorists. Everything about that war, and the larger Arab-Israeli conflict in general, has been driven by the tribal (read: Hamas) impetus to use the civilized respect for the individual as a weapon.
Tribal disorder doesn’t work. It’s an inferior way to run a society. But whether it’s in the inner cities or the universities or corporate America, too many are attempting to orient our lives around group dynamics rather than those of the individual, the way of Western civilization. We’re suffering badly for it.
This episode of The Spectacle delves deeply into this phenomenon — and references, to a large extent, the role of Obama in developing it in America.
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