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Publication 2001

Psychological and Group Defenses and Dissent Treated as Psychopathology

Robert John
International Council for Human Ecology and Ethnology,
New York, NY. ichee@aol.com  www.ichee.org

ABSTRACT
 Evolutionary systems of defense and survival strategies may be dismissed and seemingly discredited by associating them with pathology, by stigmatization. It becomes easier to be dismissive and suppressive without reasoned argument. Ethnocentrism, preference for one's own ethnicity, nationality, race, is mis-diagnosed and called xenophobia, a psychological disorder, but a punishable offence in the European Community. Group strategies are very powerful in competition with individual strategies within a society, as has been the case with Judaism. Although a powerful collectivist oligarchy is acting strongly to suppress it, Free Inquiry is the Western way to improving quality of life with Liberty.

KEYWORDS
Ethnocentrism, eugenics, human ecology, race, xenophobia.

A history of Britain and Ireland by Norman Davies published in 2000, "The Isles," (Oxford University Press) begins with an account of Cheddar Man, an 8,980-year-old skeleton from which mitochondrial DNA was extracted in 1996. The DNA turned out to match that of Adrian Targett, a teacher in a Cheddar village school, proving a genetic continuity that, despite numerous invasions, had endured through nine millennia, 3 to 400 generations. Cheddar Man seems to have been almost contemporaneous with Kennewick Man, the Caucasoid skeleton found in North America.

5,300 years ago, a man in his early thirties set out on journey in the Tyrolean Alps. He froze to death and has been called the Ice Man or Otzie, after the Ötz valley nearby. In June 1994 he was visited by his 200th generation descendant, Mrs. Marie Mosely, age 35 from Cork in Ireland. who lives with her husband in Bournemouth, England. She has white skin, golden-color hair and blues eyes.   She says, "I've decided not to have any children so it will be up to someone else to continue the Ice family." Marie has made a choice. Has Marie has been subjected to indoctrination? Indoctrination is part of all schooling. We lost the last of the Mohicans. We nearly lost the buffalo and the condor in our lifetime. We can choose for the future. We can choose to have children like ourselves, hybrids, or none at all. We could lose ourselves. 

Egyptian art in the Age of the Pyramids, the Old Kingdom, depicts King Menkaure (ca.2490-2472 B.C.) realistically. They are descendants of the people who survived the last Ice Age and exploited its end around the Mediterranean. I recognize them and the representations of ancient Greeks and Romans, in paintings of the Renaissance as people who look more like people of my race than they do people from south of the Sahara or the Far East. Whatever our race, five millennia from Otzie the Celt, we can go into museums and see the works of our ancestors, and portrayals of people with familiar faces. In 1974 I introduced Salvador Dali to a look-alike Flora in Botticelli's La Primavera. He and Gala were entertaining a woman with the face of Leonardo da Vinci's St. Anne. We can commune with the arts of the centuries up to our own. In another century, if ethnic integrity continues to be negatively associated, will that still be possible for the majority of Mankind?

When one variety, one subspecies, one race, one ethic group, one language, one color, is no more, the loss is forever, the genocide irrevocable.

Geographic isolation and military resistance limiting invasions were the probable factors accounting for the survival of the genetic signatures carried by Adrian and Marie, and the cultural heritages of people like them.

We would not be here today if Charles Martel and the Franks had not stopped the conquest of France by the Saracens at Tours and Poitiers in 732,  or if the Golden Horde of Mongols, one of the most devastating military organizations the world has even seen, had not turned back from making mountains of European skulls in the 13th century, because of the death of their great Khan. Had Vienna been overrun by the great Turkish army numbering 200,000 in 1683, it would have suffered the fate of Constantinople. 

Without the sacrifices of the men who fought the invaders, the increasing light in Europe would have been put out, and we should not forget them. The music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, the churches and palaces where these musicians played and where their songs and music may still be heard today, would not have been created. The effect upon us of the transformation of Vienna and the heart of Europe into a Moslem center had it fallen to the Turks can hardly be imagined.

So we had the Enlightenment. In mid-18 century the last person was racked for allegedly converting a family from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism. While the Western peoples have reached the moon and explored space, harnessed nuclear energy, utilized the electromagnetic spectrum, cloned mammals and completed the genome project, and produced the Information-Technology revolution, beheading for apostasy may still be practiced in Saudi Arabia for example.

Understanding the Twenty-first Century Threat to Ethnic and Cultural Continuity

Mosques are mushrooming all over the western world, except in former Serbia and Croatia, as are the symbols of many non-western peoples and their cultures. From Norway to Sicily there is an invasion of the Western world by non-European peoples. What difference will it make to our future? History educates us on systems of defense for ethnic and cultural survival.

The defining world conflict of the 20th century was between National Socialist Germany and its allies, and the Union of Socialist Soviet republics and its international capitalist allies, primarily Britain and the United Sates of America with their great financial capitals of London and New York. Quickly conquering almost the whole European continent, Germany's 'crusade against Bolshevism' almost succeeded.

As in the Great War, a psychological propaganda war was conducted by British and American experts at home and abroad to strengthen support for the war and to discredit the enemy. Postwar Germany was subjected to fifty years of official foreign military occupation, and programs of 're-education.' With the victory of the U.S.S.R. and its Allies in the Second World War, came the Marxist associated shift from nature to nurture, from biology to culture. Huge social changes have been made in western countries based on its false conclusions. In postwar Europe, "parties of the far right were everywhere excluded from serious political influence."  A list of ideas associated with National Socialism, and therefore given negative value were economic self-sufficiency, eugenics, heredity, immigration restriction, miscegenation, race differences, segregation, being most prominent. There has been continual reinforcement of negative association of these concepts in Soviet and or western media since then. But some, at least, of these are part of systems for ethnic/cultural survival.

Regarding race, for example, the post-World War II declarations on race and racial differences issued by UNESCO in 1951 under the chairmanship of G. F. Debetz of the Moscow Institute of Ethnography (revised Int. Soc. Sci. J., No. 1, Vol. XVII: 157-161, 1965), ensured their Marxist ideological correctness. 

Not to be outbid, the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States at the Ecumenical Council in Rome in 1963 successfully pressed for the adoption of a document stating that qualitative differences between races was contrary to the church's fundamental beliefs. Other denominations adopted similar resolutions. The World Council of Churches warned its federated members that Christians who supported racial segregation "by action or inaction" betray Jesus Christ and the "fellowship which bears his name."

Science had again clashed with religion, and religion and ideology had regained the power. We may call it Egalitarian Theology or the Equalist Dogma once promoted by internationalist Marxism and now by transnational debt capitalism.

A result has been a process that Leo Strauss called the Reductio ad Hitlerum. " If Hitler liked neoclassical art, that means that classicism in every form is Nazi; if Hitler wanted to strengthen the German family, that makes the traditional family (and its defenders) Nazi; if Hitler spoke of the 'nation' or the 'folk,' then any invocation of nationality, ethnicity, or even folkishness is Nazi . . ." (Fleming 2000). Candidates for entrance into German conservatories of music whose compositions suggested a tune or melody were rejected as writing "folkish music."  In architecture, Berlin, for example, was "more severely damaged by architects than bombs. The principal reason for this was the ruthless postwar application of the Athens Charter of 1933, the manifesto of CIAM (Congrès Internationeaux d'Architecture Moderne) in which Le Corbusier was the dominant force." Since Corbusier's dictum that a house is a machine for living in had been rejected by the National Socialists, to follow Le Corbusier was politically correct. 

"This was a classic case of destruction brought about by the imposition of an 'ethic' now widely disregarded as discredited, and demonstrates that had aesthetics been the priority, much that made Berlin distinctive, habitable and attractive would have been saved despite the extensive bombing (Morris)."

This 'ethical' stigmatization has caused a catastrophic distortion of Western culture, its arts and sciences. It has been reinforced in over 500 anti-Nazi films, and countless TV presentations, against the three anti-Jewish films Nazis made in ten years.

With National Socialist-associated subjects and even words carrying high negative charges, researchers have found themselves in what E. O. Wilson called "a minefield" of explosive areas. Psychologically, operative systems include denial-racial differences are dismissed as 'artifacts of classification.' Turning against the self-xenophilia or preferring others to one's own group. Reaction formation-whites exhibiting excessive solicitude for other races to cover their fear of being harmed by them. Identification with the aggressor-perhaps the American parents who embraced the murderer of their daughter, Amy Biehl, in South Africa. Since anxiety on race issues is high in many white ethnics, conversion and sublimation defenses are probably to be found.

Are these among the motivations of white people who label those who oppose incremental invasion of Europe "right-wing extremists?" Preference for one's own ethnic group, or criticism of other groups is labeled by the media and others Xenophobia. From economic interdependence instead of a National Socialist striving toward economic independence, to the joyful celebration on American TV evening news of the birth of a child to a retarded couple who could not look after themselves and had been assisted with copulation-eugenics is nonsense! The majority of the Western civilization has been massively reacted to the opposite of every idea that was associated with Nazism. 

The German historian, Ernst Nolte, receiving the year 2000 Konrad Adenauer Prize for literature of a conservative foundation -- the Deutschland Stiftung, caused a tremor among oligarchic collectivists when he said, "We should leave behind the view that the opposite of National Socialist goals is always good and right."  The award was presented by Horst Moeller, director of the respected Institute for Contemporary History, one of the country's leading academic institutions concerned with documenting the Nazi period. The event triggered an angry reaction by some opposing historians. Yet Nolte, the recipient of the award, has been the subject of intense persecution over the last ten years, having had his car bombed and burned and his summer retreat made the target of arsonists. 

Germans were not taught the lessons of Liberty during their half-century of foreign occupation by the USSR and its Allies.

Political assassins and spin-doctors use guilt by association. Guilt is -- in a sense -- a self-administered punishment. False guilt, foisted on children in Europe and America as Holocaust and Slavery Studies, is unlimited self-punishment. Declaring non-"Politically Correct" ideas "abnormal" serves as a weapon against those holding them; by extension, they too must be abnormal. Evolutionary defense and survival strategies may be dismissed and seemingly discredited by associating them with pathology, by stigmatization. It becomes easier to be dismissive and suppressive without reasoned argument. It is logically fallacious to equate criticism to hate.

Preference for one's own ethnicity, nationality, race, properly termed ethnocentrism, is called xenophobia. Webster's New International Dictionary, 1961, defines xenophobia as "fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign." Its use to label people who oppose immigration, or criticize foreigners is a misuse of language, and abuse of the addressee. A phobia is an unreasonable fear, a morbid dread that interferes with function. It is a psychiatric diagnosis. But an expressed preference for one's own ethnicity, nationality, race, properly termed ethnocentrism, is mislabeled and diagnosed as xenophobia, making a psychological disorder a punishable offence in the European Community,  and hazardous to livelihood in the USA. 

There is precedent for hospitalization for dissidents in the USA, with the example made of poet Ezra Pound after World War II, confined for thirteen years in St. Elizabeth mental hospital in Washington DC. and Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun, kept in a mental hospital in Norway as a war-time German sympathizer.

Systems and Strategies for Survival by Defense of ethnicity

The crass position of the European Union on Xenophobia should and can be reversed. There is the example of Jewish groups. They not only had the United Nations General Assembly 1974 resolution equating Zionism with Racism reversed, but following the world-wide distribution and advertising of the fictional film 'Schindler's List,' they had the U.S.A. push through a resolution declaring antisemitism 'a crime against humanity.'

Where is the pressure coming from for these measures? Not from majority electorates, but from special interest lobbies. The repressive, regressive laws are legislated and dispensed by politicians eager to award symbolic attention and protection to particular interest groups (Jacobs and Potter 1998). So thought may be criminalized and belief pathologized.

There is more comfort for children, more stability for a society, where there is a commonality of ethnicity, culture and interest. "We all speak from a particular place, out of a particular experience, a particular culture, without being contained by that position . . . We are all in that sense, ethnically located and our ethnic identities are crucial to the subjective sense of who we are" (Hutchinson and Smith 1997).

Pattern systems of in-group loyalty and out-group suspicion have served an effective evolutionary purpose over the long history of primate and human biological evolution. Human groups which lose their internal sense of identity and cohesion in respect of other groups 
eventually cease to exist as discrete realities. Such groups may become absorbed in neighboring populations. On the other hand, when a distinctive population or gene pool, such as is reflected by a minority population in a modem multi-racial society, retains its identity and persists in practicing endogamous marriage - showing a sense of "brotherhood" - it may expect to survive as an identifiable biological group far into the foreseeable future. 

This is evident in self-segregating groups such as the Amish people and Orthodox Jews. They have group strategies that include indoctrination, a critical human adaptation that enables the formation of highly cohesive groups. Group strategies are very powerful in competition with individual strategies within a society, as has been the case with Judaism. Study and emulation where appropriate may offer survival values. 

In a trilogy that uses evolutionary biology theory as a paradigm to study group strategies, MacDonald considers Jewish group strategy over centuries as one that has been successful but has produced recurrent tragedy. He presents social psychology analysis suggesting: (1) Judaism has been characterized by cultural and eugenic practices that produced a highly talented and educated elite that was able to improve the fortunes of the entire group; (2) universal Jewish education resulted in an average resource acquisition ability that was above that of the rest of the society; and (3) there were high levels of within-group altruism and cooperation. Seeking analytic explanations for the tragedy of their treatment recurring over more than two millennia, his analyses include Adorno et alia's 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality. Kevin MacDonald writes that one might infer that a prominent aspect of this material is the attempt to pathologize adaptive gentile behavior in general." Given the presence of a powerful group strategy within a society, there is the expectation that dynamic processes will develop between the strategizing group and the rest of the population. In particular, as a group strategy such as Judaism comes to be increasingly salient and powerful within a society, out-group members are expected to be increasingly likely to join highly cohesive groups in an effort to further their own interests (MacDonald, 1999). This is the most valuable guide to date for the understanding of recurring antisemitism.

Indoctrination and consciousness-raising should encourage the continuation of the spotted owl in primal forests of the American Northwest, of the snail-darter fish, and of iceman Otzie and Marie. We must syntonically orient our way of thinking for 12,000 species of butterfly to survive, and for 1,500 nations to flourish.

The great American human ecologist, Garrett Hardin, at Santa Barbara, has been showing and telling us for over thirty years why we must to use science rather than manipulated sentimentality in planning public policy. In his 1993 book, Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics and Population Taboos, he writes "a dissertation on the laws of nature that must be obeyed."

"The formula for survival and progress is simple: Unity within each sovereignty, diversity among sovereignties…The wisdom is very old: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Given many sovereign nations, it is possible for humanity to carry out many experiments in population control. Each nation can observe the successes and failures of the others. Experiments that have a good outcome can be copied and perhaps improved upon; unsuccessful experiments can be noted and not repeated. Such learning by trial and error is perilous if the borderless world created by unrestricted migration converts the entire globe into one single hue experiment. As long as the intelligence of the human species is less than perfect…segmented parochialism is superior to unified cosmopolitanism in disclosing and capitalizing on the diverse possibilities of human nature."

The Integrity of Nations, Ethnicities, and of each of us is threatened

In the year 2000, while the American President was pushing 'interdependence,' rather than American independence as required by the Constitution, President Jiang Zemin, The Peoples Republic of China, said: The principle of democracy must be advocated and implemented in handling world affairs, whether in maintaining world peace or promoting common development. 
All countries big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and have the right to take part in and handle world affairs. Matters that fall within the scope of sovereignty of a country should be managed only by the government and people of that country, and the world affairs should be handled by the governments and people of all countries through consultation. This is the principle of democracy in handling world affairs. Today, the world's destiny should be in the hands of the people of all countries. 

The world is diverse and colorful. Just as there should not be only one color in the universe, so there should not be only one civilization, one social system, one development model or one set of values in the world. Each and every country and nation has made its own contribution to the development of human civilization. It is essential to fully respect the diversity of different nations, religions and civilizations, whose coexistence is the very source of vigorous development in the world. We should promote the exchanges between different civilizations in a spirit of equality and democracy and encourage them to learn from one another in order to attain common progress.

Aggregation and centralization of power-military, judicial, economic, are represented by the centralized media as the best means for ensuring objectives-peace, justice, human rights, and other objectives believed to be desirable. The means may also be advertised as inevitable. Thus a climate of opinion is being created in which well-meaning people are supporting the means for the implantation of tyranny to ensure "peace, justice, human rights . . ." Thus well-meaning people who lack penetration in analysis may work for their own and future generations' deprivation of liberty. 

The academic community can lead with insistence upon civility in criticism of differing analyses, and proscription of ad hominem attacks instead of argued differences. A massive PR campaign is underway to repress and restrict our freedom to speak and write freely using so-called "Hate laws," which could be called 'Hate the laws of Liberty.' The U.S.A. should resume the role envisioned by its founders - an example of a nation of people free to think, to speak, write, and assemble without fear of repression and loss of livelihood.

Let us to carry and not conceal the weapon of wisdom used and recommended by Thomas Jefferson. It is carved in stone over the entrance to the state archives in Virginia, Reason and Free Inquiry are the effectual agents against error. They are the natural enemies of error and error only.


REFERENCES

Fleming, T. The Emperor's Tattoo, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, May 2000, 11.
Hutchinson and Smith, Ethnicity. Oxford 1997, p. 163.
MacDonald, K. (1999), The Culture of Critique, 155-93, see also (1994) A People That Shall Dwell Alone, (1998) Separation and Its Discontents, Westport, Praeger.
Morris, F. C. (2000), Architectural Ideology? Just Gimme Shelter, International Herald Tribune, 22 Jy p.7.