Vrhfstdt of Berlin?

Vrhfstdt of Berlin?

De grote praatjesmaker uit - nog even - de Wetstraat 16 publiceerde
gisteren in zijn lijfkrant De Morgen een hoogdravend essay. Daarin gaat de
linksliberaal Vrhfstdt te keer tegen het "tribale denken", waarschuwt hij
voor "de gesloten samenleving" en het "in Vlaanderen en Nederland opduikend
nationalisme". Omdat het bij de linkse jetset bon ton is om er een paar
filosofen bij te sleuren, vernoemt de premier-in-vooropzeg gretig enkele
grote namen als Karl Popper en Isaiah Berlin. Zij moeten het links betoog
van Vrhfstdt tegen het verstikkend groepsgevoel kracht bijzetten.

Welnu, van Berlin (professor filosofie in Oxford), geef ik graag dit
citaat DAT PRECIES HET TEGENOVERGESTELDE ZEGT:

'A man's powers of creation can only be exercised fully on his own
native heath, living among men who are akin to him, physically and
spiritually, those who speak his language, amongst whom he feels at home,
with whom he feels that he belongs. Only so can true cultures be generated,
each unique, each making its own peculiar contribution to human
civilization, each pursuing its own values in its own way, not to be
submerged in some general cosmopolitan ocean which robs all native cultures
of their particular substance and color, of their national spirit and
genius, which can only flourish on its own soil, from its own roots,
stretching far back into a common past. This is the beginning of
nationalism, and even more of populism. If free creation, spontaneous
development along one's own native lines, not inhibited or suppressed by the
dogmatic pronouncements of an élite of self-appointed arbiters, insensitive
to history, is to be accorded supreme value; if authenticity and variety are
not to be sacrificed to authority, organization, centralization, which
inexorably tend to uniformity and the destruction of what men hold dearest -
their language, their institutions, their habits, their form of life, all
that has made them what they are - then the establishment of one world,
organized on universally accepted rational principles - the ideal society -
is not acceptable'.

(uit 'The crooked timber of humanity', 1990).

Om de linkse prietpraat van Gietje de Leugenaar volkomen te
weerleggen, bestaat nauwelijks beter.


"de gevaarlijkste van alle Blokkers" (De Morgen, 4.4.2003)

--
Ghingis Khan
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