Form: Quote Commentary

—The conquerors of the New World are now having to admit the reality of history: tribal peoples reduced to a few survivors, civilizations extinguished, technologies – such as the stone masonry of the Incas – lost for all time, in the name of a universal religion.

Christianity became a mask for Aryanism; now the mask is being removed, and the painful choice faced, between Universalism and Particularism. When major TV documentaries, such as 500 Nations, portray the European coming to North America from the point of view of the native tribes and civilizations, it raises the problem of reconciling this conquest with the universalism which came through Christianity.

The native peoples are now recovering their dignity, their religion and their beauty, while “White Christians” are losing theirs. Now that the West has a multiracial, multicultural society, “White Christians” are not sure what to call themselves, how to think of themselves: as “Whites” (particularist) or as “Christians” (universalist).—

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-seed/–the Puritan migration to America was basically a eugenicist’s wet dream—

Much like eg Unitarians today, the Puritans were a religious group that drew disproportionately from the most educated and education-obsessed parts of the English populace. Literacy among immigrants to Massachusetts was twice as high as the English average, and in an age when the vast majority of Europeans were farmers most immigrants to Massachusetts were skilled craftsmen or scholars. And the Puritan “homeland” of East Anglia was a an unusually intellectual place, with strong influences from Dutch and Continental trade; historian Havelock Ellis finds that it “accounts for a much larger proportion of literary, scientific, and intellectual achievement than any other part of England.”

Furthermore, only the best Puritans were allowed to go to Massachusetts; Fischer writes that “it may have been the only English colony that required some of its immigrants to submit letters of recommendation” and that “those who did not fit in were banished to other colonies and sent back to England”. Puritan “headhunters” went back to England to recruit “godly men” and “honest men” who “must not be of the poorer sort”.