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Jun 3Liked by Eric Kaufmann

I really like your work, but have one critique/thought.

It seems with these macro societal movements there are two aspects the narrative and the structure. The narrative is the overall normative, philosophical, cultural and religious framework that guides the behaviors of actors in society. The structure is the demographics, economical, political/physical parameters that contain the window in which the narrative can act. You seem to focus on the narrative which is necessary for creating a counter narrative and probably just as important long term. But it seems that you sidestep the structure and policies/institutions that can be built or removed to contain the woke narrative. In my perspective in the short term woke narratives can be ju jitsued if the structural landscape favors the non woke.

For example birthright citizenship is a main obstacle to deporting illegals in the us due to the child legally anchoring the family into a legal limbo, removing this would narrow the ability of the woke and a counter narrative that these people cut the line in front of other immigrants could be established.

Also much of the backing for demographic change comes from big business. Pushing for state sponsored automation in migrant industries and a better 10 year worker program with bond would alleviate this issue.

Finally most countries census back this balkanizqtion model were ethnicity is fixed. Changing this to a one drop inclusive model would push people to assimilate, reduce ethnic lobbies power and create and absorption model surrounding immigration

It seems that along with counter narrative structural enforcement also needs to be pushed

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Cogent clear accurate. Thank you, Eric.

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Wow that was amazingly comprehensive...great job!

This part made me laugh out loud:

"In a landmark essay entitled ‘Trans-National America,’ published in 1916, Bourne argued that the WASP tradition was ‘stale’ and ‘ingrowing’ while that of European immigrants was liberating and interesting."

My family are Sicilian immigrants who arrived in Little Italy around that time. I assure you that Randolph Bourne would not have found dinner with my family so "liberating" and that their culture had been pretty provincial and static for the prior, say, 2-5 centuries. I would just say (diplomatically) that they had rigid sex codes and a traditional way of viewing and living life which he would have found stifling (if not brutal) rather quickly.

Also, I love Mencken and how he pummeled every fool in his vicinity, but he must have known somewhere deep down that WASPs were the only people alive who would have given him such a long leash, and just about every other country and culture on earth would have locked him in a prison or worse.

Western intellectuals have both a terminal case of "The Grass is Always Greener" plus a performative xenophilia found nowhere else. The one common thread on all ends of the political spectrum is a proselytizing universalism—Western intellectuals, just like the Christian theologians who are their forebears, want the whole world to know and share their faiths and beliefs.

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One more thing is due to libertarianism for the last several decades throughout the anglosphere, there seems to be a lack of an affirmative vision on these main issues for conservatives…what is their response assimilation, immigration, urban planning, education, culture/arts, common values, refugees alternatives

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This seems to be largely present or the ideas originating from Protestant countries. I know you list Protestant religion groups but do you think that their specific interpretation of Christianity versus others led to the social moralizing foundations?

Also what part would Latin countries embrace of mulattoization or race mixing set it apart from Anglo countries all of nothing segregation or now prioritization of minorities? It seems the Latin approach is more absorption and a less chaotic social model.

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