We’ve Been Sold a Bill of Goods … Called Multiculturalism
“I’ve come to the conclusion that we’ve been sold a bill of goods.”
“And the bill of goods was called multiculturalism.”
So said liberal evolutionary biologist, researcher, ex-academic, and now podcaster and commentator Brett Weinstein. He made his comments recently during a very intellectual discussion with famed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, part of which was posted Friday to the latter’s YouTube channel...
Multiculturalism threatens Western civilization itself by prioritizing differences (read: diversity) over unity. If it is not “canceled,” the West very well may be...
Peterson ... pointed out that this ideology ignores
the fact that if you bring people together and reduplicate the situation of the world at large with no uniting meta-narrative … you also bring in all of the conflict.
Put simply, and as has been said, bring enough of “there” here, and here becomes there. For example, import the Third World, become the Third World...
Peterson went on to say that this multiculturalist error is “fueled by … an underlying materialism.”...
What’s generally unsaid is that this is a Marxist idea. The late Pope Benedict XVI addressed this phenomenon, in fact, when critiquing Karl Marx. He pointed out that the latter’s mistake was his viewing of man as a purely economic being...
Weinstein also outlined two factors he believes drive human collaboration: genetic relatedness (kinship) and reciprocity (mutual benefit). The West’s strength, he asserted, lies in prioritizing reciprocity. This results in diverse individuals working together for shared wealth and progress. In contrast, kin-based systems limit collaboration, he averred...