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Entry: Rejecting Racialism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/rejecting_racialism#15346 Post contents: "Without commenting on individuals, I would say that your general point is central to my thinking and my idea of traditionalism. Traditionalism means an appreciation for what makes us what we are, all the dimensions of what we are, what our civilization is. A view that reduces us and our civilization to race, or that makes race the primary factor, is woefully incomplete and distorted. Race is a part of the structure of reality that makes us what we are, and liberalism denies that. But God and transcendent truth are also part of the structure of reality that makes us what we are, and the Darwinian racialists deny that. Because they deny this fundamental aspect of existence on which our civilization and any society is founded, the Darwinian racialists are unable to articulate a meaningful politics and are unable to defend Western civilization effectively. The Darwinian racialists help us understand the truth of the racial question, which, while it may not have been important in past ages, is of indispensable importance for us, living as we do under liberalism which requires the total mixing of all races in our society and thus our extinction as a distinct people and civilization; but the Darwinian racialists are unable to relate the racial question to the larger whole of which it is a part. Most Christians today are anti-racialists, a view incompatible with the survival of the West. Most racialists are non-Christians and reductive materialists, a view incompatible with the survival of the West. The key insight is that Western man and Western civilization are multi-layered. A view that takes just one part of the whole and treats it as the whole is no good. The West cannot survive unless it goes beyond these reductive, partial views and starts to see things whole. The true thinkers of Western civilization, the authors of the Hebrew Bible, Plato, Aristotle, the founders of Christianity, Augustine, were never reductionists, they saw the multileveled nature of reality, and man as its epitome. Modern Western man has lost that. Western survival depends on regaining it." http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/009679.html Sent at: 2008 11 21