An uncle of mine fell in love with a beautiful girl. Almost everything worked out well for the both of them and they lived (reasonably) happy ever after. Some basic changes in their daily lives were to be made however first. Changes in addition to the changes others of their generation and place of birth had to make. They ended up in a different location and with a different structure of relations (even somewhat family wise) after being married, then before declaring this sacred bond of matrimony.
Of course my uncle was no bastard, piece of scum or a bandit and my aunt was not a whore, thief or a loose women. People they had been very close to their whole life, however suddenly decided they were, and (especially) their partner of choice was precisely that. Some people reading this will probably not understand, but really for 7 billion people living right now this affair is totally understandable when I add to this story the fact that my uncle and aunt where from different villages.
Village means exactly that in this specific case. It should however be considered a somewhat loose translation with other possible meanings, as there are: tribe, ethnicity, race, culture, class and religion. For consideration in case of something as a marriage, these different translations vary in importance over time and place. That variation explicitly also varies per class.
Let me explain: for a large number of people the difference between their tribe/ethnicity and culture is negligible. They don’t ever consider the possibility of separation of the two. The two are not to be separated, they are one! However for a small percentage of the world population class is much more important. When you have a number of houses on different continents, you mostly travel by private plane and you never handle money (others do trivial things for you), you are part of a special class. A new caste has formed with modern travel and communication. You use a helicopter to get from home to the airport, private jet to other airport, helicopter to other home. It’s like a bus, train, London-underground commute. The effect however is very different if done regularly.
Single handedly changing the British economy makes you a little bit different from the guy who worries about the price of gas needed for his daily trip to the train station as a first step of the commute. It even makes you different from most people attending meetings at Davos. Let’s face it most of them are Wannabees, franticly trying to climb the ladder.
A number of those wannabees, grifters and other politicians, entrepreneurs of promising startups get into the news on a regular basis. They are forming (probably unintentionally) a shield to protect the “real” royalty from attention.
The “real” royalty is shaping world changing events, while the “new nobility” creates a spectacle working on the edges of the creations. And off course there are foot soldiers those that work in the corporations and institutions to guard against the smallest communis opinio. The structure described here is not a cast system or something else double ungood. It’s just in accordance with the rule book of the new world order. Thus it is a glimpse of the future. It is utopia and perfection.
Some of the old royalty is in a remarkable position during this transition to utopia. A couple of royal houses remain that are also part of the new royalty! Because of tradition, former marketing&sales techniques and some plain old fashioned loyalty, they are also part of the “new nobility”. And because of traditions of old, pomp and rituals there is spectacle if not scandal in the wake of these houses. When just a 50 year old guy has sex with an underage girl there will be some repercussion for the guy (sometimes for the girl also) and that is it. If just about the whole world knows the guy by his first name, things go different in a substantial way. Depending on the role the actor plays/is supposed to play things can turn ugly. ( For what it is worth: in my opinion deservedly so.) It is not just “new nobility”, there is also that other role the actor has to abide by. Modern families that are part of the “new nobility” can become rich(er) by putting their private live on air, producing porn on the side. The result is a generation of females of which one in ten “create content” by putting their private parts on line. Degenerate behavior is anything but a problem nowadays. The problem seems to be: is it degenerate enough?
It depends on the role tough and this sometimes results in rather ludicrous situations.
What is the role you think you are playing vs what are you supposed to play?
Calling the house of Windsor Kardassians but with real money might seem a little cras. For some however it seems they are just Kardassians, different franchise.
What we are seeing here is the opposite of transition caused by confusion (individually), it is confusion caused by the transition (sociological).
I am prejudiced, I read some things about the Kardassians and that’s enough for me having an opinion about them, so sue me. However bad I think of them, if I ever hear one of them is sick and probably dying I am not going inform the world that I am wishing for a long and painful death for that particular person.
But I am not a multi-cultural Prof teaching at a colonizer university build on stolen land.
Never did I realize I am very much like my aunt and uncle, even today still. These family members of mine knew what is important in live. It sounds ridicules for western liberal people but tribalism is part of you. It is essential to know your tribe, it’s habits, behavior and quirks. You don’t violate your tribe willingly.
For my family members lightning struck and they broke tribal codes. It was love, real and forever. So they broke the rules, but sparingly and they did not continue to brake codes anew. They created a very small low profile change in the slow and broad river of the wider culture encompassing their smaller tribes. They did not transgress the wider culture i.e. they did not place themselves beyond the pale. Important in every culture is criticism to the culture itself . This criticism should never be foul mouthed or shit-talking. It should always suggest in a positive manner and laboriously build on energetic improvement.
Prof Uju Anya seems to not realize that what she is doing is not being inside the tent pissing out. She is inside the tent pissing where it causes the most damage and is self-destructive.
Great Britain has been invaded and at least partially colonized several times. On the isles are living Britons(celts), angles and Saxons, Normans, for some time now Hanoverians have been invited (at some time it was even taken into consideration to make Delhi the capital of the British Empire. That did not happen, but now the common wealth is coming to London and will continue to do so for some time as it is just answering an invitation off those in power. If you search for ethnicity of England you find nothing about celts, angles or Saxons. In other words you find nothing about culture or ethnicity. You find numbers about race. It is really incredibly stupid to not see the importance of this.
Uju Anya has stated that her view on the queen was largely shaped by the suffering of her parents during the Nigerian civil war. Nigeria is like Europe, nobody is European: some are Brits, French, Greek, whatever, but not European, Nigerians are Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo. Nobody is Nigerian.
The Nigerian civil war was a war like the Irish war of independence against the Brits. Just, this time the Brits won. Biafra got slaughtered by dominant tribes in Nigeria. It was not a war of a small tightly knit tribe against an old and tired imperium. It was a war against a newborn empire, the other tribes were fresh, energetic. They were the Brits after the destruction of the Spanish armada. They were Nigerian, African if you insist. This is tragedy on many levels. The Brits however did not cause any of it. In Ireland they lost and in Nigeria they had left years ago. The War on the Igbo was an Nigerian infight. In all conflicts ever, anywhere there is only one party to blame for the tribal suffering. This party is the leading class of the tribe. Shit-talking leadership of other tribes is totally trivial. It is careless and frivolous. That is why criticism should always be directed inwards and positive. Criticism should improve the tribe (and ideally the surroundings of it).
In conflicts there are two possible ways: inward and outward. You can stay or you can move, but no matter what, you should never forget what you left behind and why, or why you remained and fought.
If you forget you lose you identity. It is lost luggage left somewhere on a trail in time, soon to be forgotten. But you left because of a conflict within yourself you collided with the leading class of your culture, your ethnicity. Once you forget this you lose a crucial part of yourself.
Definition:
Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, social class, or other identifying factors develop political agendas that are based upon these identities.
There are individuals who are truly alone. They are few, most humans are pack-animals. For some reason modern liberal democracy makes people forget this simple fact. The result is identity politics based on the flimsiest identity possible: the self, which has to be improved continuously of course. Because (as Madonna said) we live in a material world (we certainly are fallen), this improvement is masturbatory, self-gratifying and nothing else. There is no there there. The individual has become an automaton. Running programs, the program is the meaning, it is all there is, no deeper meaning or anything. A non-player character.
Uju Anya was born on August 4, 1976, to a Nigerian dad and a Trinidadian woman. Uju is an indigene of Enugu state. From there on her live story is that of a colonizer. It is cultural appropriation all the way. Liberal Western world Schooling. University studies resulting in modern liberal first world educator-positions. On stolen land in a society which monetizes every interaction. Thus creating people that are not creative and spiritual but just material constructs of a liberal market mechanism. Uju Anya’s resume is like the perfect description of a simple nondescript person in western liberal democracy evolving into a foot soldier of the new world order. She is fully one hundred percent of the same cloth as the British queen is. She is just a different cast. Sorry, class, sorry this concept also is no longer allowed. Her father was a loser in a war she knows nothing of. Being the hyper-individual she is, she does not know who/what she is and therefore shit-talks about a dying British queen to the world. This queen she knows nothing of, of this culture of which she knows as much as of Biafra’s culture (nothing). This queen is just playing in the same game, just on a different level. This queen knew what she did and what was happening. We are talking about a professor, one on a prestigious university, reactions will be on the same intellectual level. This is not the result of sub-par intelligence. it is total lack of self-awareness in combination with sub-par intelligence. And it is clearly the result of what the new world order wants. It is the end of history and the last man.
You might almost think: you see: we are living in a simulation. It is a mindless game with lots of NPC’s and hopefully some still enthusiastic players.
But it is not of course, we created this society only, not the world. This society is a simulation. The world, that thing is just out there. It is very big and we still understand nothing of it, even less than we understand of society.
It is fun to work on our understanding of the world, models of the material world are fun to work with. However it might be better to work a little on our understanding of society. Work on understanding! Not improving the thing itself, for goodness sake let’s not try that. We have been trying to do that with (obviously) not enough knowledge of the subject and it shows! First we have to understand it a little. Then, when we have some insight , maybe we can do something, or maybe just enjoy.
Takezo Towa