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An insane video emerged from Belfast in Northern Ireland last night showing a Sudanese migrant sitting on top of another man in the street attempting to saw his head off with a knife. It's sort of wild that this is even a thing, that we've all come this far as a society, we can send ships to Mars, plan to build Moon bases, pontificate about the nature of consciousness in an age of AI, but here we are dealing with the same brutality we've been dealing with for centuries and thought we'd virtually ended in the civilized West.
To be fair, we've been talking about consciousness for a long time, too, but that didn't stop the Free Press from running a column about how "AI isn't Conscious. Neither Are We." Which is, of course, the stupidest take. Human consciousness DEFINES consciousness. If human beings are not conscious, then consciousness is a fabrication in itself. Which it isn't. Which we know because we are conscious.
But back to Belfast. Looks like there are plans for a massive protest that may turn violent this evening in a city that has seen a great deal of violence over the years. Only now, instead of the Protestants and British loyalists duking it out against the Catholics and Irish separatists, we'll have the Irish opposing the migrants. My hope for Europe and for the US is that we all learn to value our culture and stop assuming that every other nation and people are better than us.
I'm reminded of a Morrissey lyric that for sure has got him in trouble over the years, "England for the English." America for the Americans, too. For sure, we don't all look the same, we Americans, but like the Supreme Court once said about porn, I know one when I see one. When an American dreams of home, it is those purple mountain majesties, those amber waves of grain, those shining seas and everything in between that we see, and nowhere else will do.
Leader of Spain's Vox party, Santiago Abascal, summed it up, saying "Europe is not doomed to passively coexist with those who stab, slit throats, and rape her in broad daylight on the streets every day. There is another path. There is another future. Total intolerance toward this barbarism, and immediate deportations." And he says that as a man in a nation that just gave amnesty to 500,000 illegal migrants.
"But that path will not be taken with the same leaders who have fostered this invasion and who are more concerned with managing the public image of the executioners than with protecting the safety of their own citizens," Abascal said. JD Vance agrees, so does Marco Rubio, so do some British MPs, and a handful of French leaders and some in Germany, too.
All of this today reminded me of the Tower of Babel story, if you'll pardon one more diversion, one of my favorite stories for reasons not the least of which is because Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote a story called The Library of Babel. (It's short, it's from 1941, you can read it here.) So the people built up this whole Tower of Babel, they say "let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
Then God came to check it out, and per the King James he said "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."
I wonder if now we are being scattered. We built ourselves so big and so high, we made such sturdy bricks of multiculturalism, we all came together, we had the Warren court, we had liberal democracies, we had ourselves, our secular humanism at the center, and we thought we could break down tribalisms and embrace mass migration, eradicate borders. Turns out that is only breaking us apart, returning us to our tribal biases and hatreds, and ruining the very liberal paradise we sought to build.
Libby