O Lobby dos Proeminentes Nasais - Chapter 2

Acerca do Lobby dos Proeminentes Nasais, instalou-se mais abaixo uma discussão diversificada. A Helena falou em ruído racista, que eu, diga-se, em abono da minha proverbial estupidez, fiquei sem perceber muito bem se se referia ao tal documento produzido pelos académicos norte-americanos, ou ao meu singelo (e, a certa altura, sussurrado) postal. Outros falaram de outras coisas, o Nelson debulhou-se na retórica filopinóquia do costume, mas o que me ficou aqui a pairar na mente foi o tal ruído racista. Em calhando, se por aqui passar, agradecia muito à Helena que me iluminasse um pouco mais sobre tão tenebroso conceito.

Entretanto, para juntar gasolina ao lume e petróleo à fogueira, fiquem-se com este suculento extracto dum artigo cuja leitura integral, desde já, vivamente recomendo. No meu modesto entender, uma peça de análise fascinante. Do melhor que tenho lido por aí.
Aqui deixo o aperitivo:

«The complexity of Jewish identity politics helps create easy rhetorical trump cards for persuading people that there is nothing to think about. Just move along, folks, nothing here to think about. A classic is: "How can Jews be disproportionately both capitalists and Communists? Huh? Huh?" But, of course, historically they have been both, and the interaction between the two has been of world historical importance.

Going back to the 1840s, many of the world's intellectual concerns, and going back to 1917 many of the world's political conflagrations, have been driven by the often contradictory needs and obsessions of Jews.

As Berkeley historian Yuri Slezkine pointed out in The Jewish Century, Marxism appealed to educated secular Jews because it promised to dissolve the Jewish problem. Jews were resented for being so good at capitalism, so intellectuals Jews were excited that Communism would destroy capitalism. They were discriminated against because of religion, so Communism would abolish religion. They were discriminated against because they had no national homeland, so Communism would eliminate nationalism. What's not to like? And, indeed, as promised, secular educated Jews flourished under Soviet Communism for the first two or three decades.

Freudianism made little sense outside of the framework of bourgeois Jewish Mitteleuropean family structures (and not much there either), but Jewish intellectuals needed Jewish intellectual heroes, so Freud's silly waste of time was inflicted on the world for a half century.

Boasian cultural anthropology, the Frankfurt School, and numerous other intellectual cults are most profitably analyzed in Jewish terms.

Even a largely beneficial ideological phenomenon like Milton Friedman's Chicago School of free market economics is heavily based on the sensible post-Marxian realization that if Jews are good at capitalism, well, then capitalism is good for the Jews.

Neoconservatism began in the 1960s as a rebellion by Catholic and Jewish social scientists who saw that liberalism was unleashing black crime and rioting on white urban ethnics like themselves and their relatives. Over time, though, Catholic concerns got marginalized, and the hard work of crunching data got dropped. Neoconservatism turned into a front for pushing conservative Jewish foreign policy concerns. Francis Fukuyama finally figured out that he was being used to promote somebody else's agenda, but poor Victor Davis Hanson will likely never quite get it.

The problem is that Jewish intellectuals, for all their energy and ideological creativity, tend to be poor pragmatic decisionmakers about what actually is good for the Jews. They tend to get emotionally attached to the new ideas they've made up, push them too far, and don't understand how their ideas sound to others outside their hothouse.»

Agora, digam lá se não é um belo pitéu!... Aposto que até o Buiça está banzado. Capaz mesmo de, ofuscado por súbito clarão, cair da montada abaixo e abraçar o apostolado. A Estrada para Damasco irrompe, milagrosa, onde menos se espera. Fariseu um minuto antes, santo peregrino o resto da vida depois.