The Egalitarian Syndrome Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Rayburn Kochkutter
By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
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A propos of the Muslim massacre at Fort Hood and the media's
failure to fault Islam for this massacre, I am updating an 1999
article of mine. I invite readers to think about the educators
of our "politically correct" or non-judgmental media, because
the core of the problem consists not in cowardly or obfuscating
journalists but rather the universities that educated them.
We boast of these universities, even though they produce so many
moral idiots. I mean men and women stultified by the academic
doctrine of moral or cultural relativism. Because it is this
doctrine that prompts "politically correct" fools to hire
Muslims to serve on US military bases and even head the US
Department of Homeland Security. I am speaking of a doctrine
that has corrupted even the President of the United States, a
doctrine that prompts him to turn a blind eye toward Muslims or
Arabs who call "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."
What is even more fundamental, I invite readers to think about
the normless democracy now prevalent in the United States, a
democracy whose cardinal principles, equality and freedom, no
longer have rational and ethical constraints. America is so
proud of this democracy, not knowing it is self-destructing vis-
�-vis a religion whose deity exalts death.
This said, I turn to the article I wrote in 1999, whose
philosophical source is my critique of the American education
which appeared in the Congressional Record, Senate, July 31,
1968. [See article below]
UpDated Article:
Some 1.25 million Arabs are citizens of Israel. Most deny
Israel's right to exist as a sovereign Jewish state. These Arabs
do not suffer from the egalitarian syndrome that dominates
Israel's Jewish elites.
The egalitarian syndrome � I have elsewhere called it
"demophrenia" � has not been studied by modern psychology. This
democratic syndrome impairs the ability to make moral judgments
and to use political authority with a good conscience. It makes
the use of might in defense of right suspect in the minds of
egalitarians. Those infected by this mental
deficiency are prone to political paralysis when confronted by
threats requiring them to assert themselves or to use power over
others. Recall how the Shamir Government was incapable of using
adequate force to suppress the intifada. The egalitarian
syndrome led to Oslo.
Some will object by saying the Government of Israel is afraid of
adverse world opinion. But fear of world opinion is itself a
symptom of the egalitarian syndrome. When Arabs screamed
"Slaughter the Jews!" they didn't give a hoot for world opinion,
and precisely because their immunity system has not been
impaired by the egalitarian syndrome.
The egalitarian syndrome stupefies the mind; it destroys moral
outrage and honor. This is why Israeli prime ministers released
and armed Arab terrorists, i.e., experienced Jew-killers, to
provide for Israel's security! We have here a profound mental
disorder. One wonders why psychiatrists haven't flocked to
Israel to study this unique phenomenon.
Those afflicted by the egalitarian syndrome tend to disregard
the implacable hostility of Muslims toward Israel. This has
inhibited Israeli governments from exercising Jewish sovereignty
over Judea and Samaria. Such is the influence of the egalitarian
syndrome that even the Likud has accommodated itself to "Post-
Zionism"! One may even say that the Right has ceased to exist in
Israel as a political force.
To be sure, the most intractable strain of the egalitarian
syndrome will be among left-wingers, Israel's blind-deaf-mutes
par excellence. Their thoughts and attitude toward the Arab-
Jewish conflict are colored by the Marxist notion that human
conflict is rooted not in some defect of human nature, such as
the lust for wealth or power, but rather in the penury of nature
at large. Nature is miserly: it does not provide enough for human
needs.
Hence, to overcome human conflict, it is not necessary to
perfect human nature, but to conquer external nature, that is,
to overcome the economic scarcity and inequality that drive men
and nations to war. [Enter Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu.]
And of course modern science and technology now make the idyllic
state of universal peace possible,
beginning, of all places, in the Middle East!
In other words, if all Arabs had indoor toilets and washing
machines, VCRs and Volvos, PCs and Internet, that would mark the
end of the Arab-Jewish conflict. Or so many leftists suggest. [I
have personally heard the equivalent even from the lips of
Netanyahu!]
Despite their "sophistication," these egalitarians do not and
cannot take Islam seriously. Like Marxists, they regard
ideologies as the "superstructure" of material forces. Change
the economic or technological infrastructure of the Arabs and
their thoughts and attitudes about war and Israel will change
correspondingly. In other words, Muslims can be bought.
The egalitarian syndrome - a consequence of moral relativism -
closes the mind to the malevolence and violence permeating the
ethos of Islam. This syndrome cannot be overcome by logic or
even by empirical evidence.
The West needs to overcome its relativism; it must drastically
reform non-judgmental social sciences and humanities. This
requires nothing less than a political revolution: a
transformation from a normless to a normative democracy, one
whose government is not silent about evil and ready to act
vigorously against it.
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
(�`�.� Craig Chilton �.���) <http://www.LayoffRemedy.com>
"Rayburn Kochkutter" <rayb...@ontario-wifi.com> PARROTED:
> The Egalitarian Syndrome
>
> By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
[ ... [
> We boast of these universities, even though they produce
> so many moral idiots.
Such as a host of bigoted graduates of Bob Jones University,
Brigham Young University, and Liberty University.
However, MOST universities, unlike those, graduate good
crops of sensible egalitarians.
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> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:37:59 +0200,
> "Rayburn Kochkutter" <rayb...@ontario-wifi.com> PARROTED:
>
>
>> The Egalitarian Syndrome
>>
>> By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
>
> [ ... [
>
>> We boast of these universities, even though they produce
>> so many moral idiots.
>
> Such as a host of bigoted graduates of Bob Jones University,
> Brigham Young University, and Liberty University.
Duke, Harvard, Yale, Swarthmore, Occidental, Cal Berkeley, the placentas
of liberalism, self-loathing, fear and bigotry.
> However, MOST universities, unlike those, graduate good
> crops of sensible egalitarians.
You meant socialists of course. Without socialism, egalitarians cannot
exist.
Socialism and egalitarianism are both failures. Each reward individuals
equally regardless of failure or success. There is no incentive to
improve anything, surpass the accomplishments of peers, or engage in
life changing endeavors for the majority because there is no reward for
doing so.
The only way to succeed in a socialist or egalitarian society is to
become a part of the incompetent government, or be a criminal. There is
no in between.
(�`�.� Craig Chilton �.���) <http://www.LayoffRemedy.com>
Bum Edwards <bumed...@jailtime.com> wrote:
Sensible and truthful portions retained, below.
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:37:59 +0200,
"Rayburn Kochkutter" <rayb...@ontario-wifi.com> PARROTED:
> The Egalitarian Syndrome
>
> By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
[ ... [
> We boast of these universities, even though they produce
> so many moral idiots.
Such as a host of bigoted graduates of Bob Jones University,
Brigham Young University, and Liberty University.
However, MOST universities, unlike those, graduate good
crops of sensible egalitarians.
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