As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD.
Today’s comment was written by David George in response to an Insight Politics article by Chris Trotter.
Thank you Chris, thank you for going where many fear to tread.
I agree, Spiralout, the Western canon, its history and its heroes are under assault from within and without. The offensive against it here is worse than in Europe itself but we’re certainly not alone.
A great essay from Paul Kingsnorth- thoughts on the passing of The Queen.
Excerpts:
“It would be easy enough to portray the current war over nationhood, as many do, as some David-vs-Goliath struggle between plucky little nations and dastardly globalists intent on their demise. To me, it looks more like a situation in which nobody is clear quite what they want or how to get it.
Proponents of corporate globalism want a borderless, frictionless world that offers minimal “barriers to trade” and movement. Nationalists want prosperous nations without the cheap immigration that fuels prosperity.
Liberals want multiculturalism and social cohesion, despite the persistent evidence that one undermines the other.
The Left wants a world without borders that somehow also contains welfare states, and the Right wants to defend the traditional ethnic makeup of nations without acknowledging that ethnicity is increasingly meaningless in a globalised world […]
“When misguided public opinion honours what is despicable and despises what is honourable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”
