Dutch Eloi flee the results of their liberalism rather than renounce their liberalism

Carl Simpson writes:

In your latest post, you ask: “If the Dutch were willing to kill and die to free their country from Spanish and Austrian Catholics, is it too much to hope that their present-day descendants would also be willing to fight, and, yes, even kill and die if necessary, to free their country from African and Mideastern Moslems?”

The answer, in a word, is “yes.” Fleeing to Canada, Australia, and the like will allow such people to continue on in their mental addiction to liberalism. Rather then having to face up to liberalism’s fundamental lie and repent, they can still go on believing it until the new countries—which are suffering from the same problem their homeland is (just not to the degree yet)—reach critical mass like the Netherlands is now.

It’s the unprincipled exception in action. The fleeing middle-class whites, like the ruling elites they voted into power for decades on end, want their socialist, gun-controlled, multiculturalist-run anarcho-tyrannies in order to feel good about and remind themselves how they are evolved, tolerant, anti-racist people (liberalism’s substitute for morality). They don’t want to actually have to LIVE with the reality of their ideals (slaughter on the street in broad daylight, etc.), however. Their ancestors understood the importance of preserving a cohesive national culture. These people are likely Eloi who will vote solidly Labour after their Australian or Canadian citizenship is granted.

My reply:

You’ve come up with a new example of the unprincipled exception. The Dutch don’t give up their liberalism, they just say, “Hey, this isn’t so nice anymore, it’s too crowded or whatever, so let’s go somewhere else.” But because they’ve declined to challenge the liberalism on any principled ground, or, as in this case, on the literal ground of their own country, the consequences of the liberalism keep following them, literally. So they will have to keep moving further and further away, abandoning more and more territory to their unwanted brainchildren. Though the concept is geographical rather than political, it fits with the idea that the unprincipled exception is just a temporary holding action, since liberalism keeps gobbling up more and more of the unprincipled exceptions until nothing is left.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 28, 2005 03:43 PM | Send