This is a response to Ben’s most recent comment.
Groupthink really shocks me. In private correspondence, Charles Darwin said that the Negroes would become extinct because, being inferior, white people would exterminate them. The opposite happened because he didn’t foresee how Christianity had conquered the Aryan collective unconscious.
The best example of monstrous groupthink that comes to mind is precisely that of Darwin’s wife, Emma. Like a typical stupid woman who conforms to the prevailing worldview, she once became upset about the criticism that the torture of hell wasn’t eternal (of course: she was taught the opposite as a child)!
The difference between Emma and Charles is fundamental to understanding what’s happening. The vast majority follow groupthink, whether it’s the aberrant theology of the past or the suicidal anti-racism of today. Modifying the archetype that possesses the collective unconscious is no small feat. And the sad thing is that no one is fighting it now except us. (White nationalists are still possessed by the current archetype, ortherwise they would become pragmatic exterminationists like Darwin.)
Incidentally, I was extremely bothered to see, on my last visit to the UK, how young whites fraternised with Negroes in restaurants and cafes.