So the Church venerated antisemites as saints and held up them as model examples yet somehow bears no blame? That's a ridiculous argument to make.
Not particularly. Marx and Bakunin were both really harsh anti-Semites, and yet both communists and anarchists, the overwhelming majority of them, take turns at pitifully attempting to delegitimize each other calling out their founder's anti-Semitism as if their own guy was a paragon of racial integration.
The standard answer you get when you ask them "Did you know that your guy really hated Jews?" is "Yeah, well, different times, you gotta know the historical context since everyone back then was anti-Semitic" bla bla bla bla, without even realizing that their anti-Semitism wasn't merely prejudice, but ideological if you read their writiings, entirely coherent with their beliefs. You can't even give me the proletarian internationalism shtick against the German Jews of Marx's time simply because... they weren't proletarian.
Call this ignorance, call this hypocrisy if you want or cognitive dissonance, but people don't have to appreciate everything of their political or religious guides. We're naturally selective.
Because no Jewish group is particularly different than their neighbors outside of being Jews and holding to the tenets of that religion which discourage assimilation and encourage ethnic superiority. I'd like to know how the Ashkenazim and Sephardim AREN'T European when their traditional culture was little different than the goyim they lived alongside in towns. If you carved out an Ashkenazi state in Poland or a Sephardi state in Spain, the people would share striking characteristics with their goyim neighbors. Just like how in many ways the Mizrahim Jews of Israel superficially resemble their Arab neighbors they lived aside.
Speaking a medieval German dialect in a sea of Slavic speakers is no big deal? As a matter of fact, the Sephardim who were exiled from Spain were pretty queer among Arabs, Bulgarians and Greeks.
Public education existed because 19th century liberalism sought to depower the church (or respective religious institutions in other countries). People have always emulated those in power over them because that's who controls their parents and makes sure they learn right. There's a vast wealth of examples throughout history of people emulating the elite or those the elite favored, like Chinese foot-binding for instance which was an elite custom at first which then was emulated by peasants. Archaeology can confirm this goes back to the Stone Age.
This isn't emulation of the ruling class, though, but an active distillation of ruling class values into the population.
Which always happened, to be clear, a society's values were always its ruling class's, but where these values were once only accessible to educated people who enforced them on the rest of society to a degree, now through public education (and not just that, think television and every piece of media) they're shoved down the throats of everyone since childhood. 'Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state', society essentially lives by this maxim which is the maxim of every totalitarian regime that's existed in the 20th century. If you could once escape by virtue of ignorance and lack of education, you can't now that education is weaponized to turn everyone into a 'model citizen', all under the guise of giving life skills it really doesn't even provide, because it isn't even the point.
The expansion of its services and technological advancements have made it the owner of the souls of billions, while before this its power relied at worst in levying taxes from your trade or forcing you into the army when at war. It's one thing if the state rules through force, but if it dominates the culture as well, if it rules through consent and even approval of the governed, if even apparent anti-state ideologies end up just regurgitating the state's line, you should begin to worry because it means there's no way out of it, because people literally can't conceive a world that's different from the one they're living.
You're really not seeing the full picture here, and how horrible it is for our free will. And I really don't find it desirable to do the same if 'us' end up in charge, this is just something abominable to do to millions.
Western ideology isn't going to change? Pretty bold assertion when the world in 2022 is hardly recognizable from the world even 15 years ago. Western ideology in 2022 is spreading "democracy" (vote the way NATO wants) and "human rights" (teaching kids the wonders of gay sex and transgenderism). That's barely Western ideology in 2007, let alone in 1907.
What we're living didn't emerge from a vacuum, it's the result of specific conditions. There was no change, my dude, only an evolution, I would argue a controlled and intended degradation.
There's really not going to be a change, not the way you want it because the ruling ideology will just keep affirming itself over and over. It's only going to get worse because the roots themselves are terrible.
No 180 is going to save your children.
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