 Review of Jewish interest Kevin B. MacDonald: Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism Twelve years later. MacDonald [not 'McDonald'] was basically correct..., September 2, 2010
First published 1998, as some of these old reviews indicate. This paperback is 2004 with a new preface, largely about an essay by P Rubin's (2000), Does Ethnic Conflict Pay?
Note on Lying
Important: MacDonald, who theoretically understands the benefits of lies, does not factor such benefits into his accounts. (Nor do any of his rather few critics.) Let me give some examples. 1. Some early mediaeval Christian says he hates Jews. Is this in fact unquestionably true? 2. Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, and a vast list, are said by Jewish publications to be 'leading intellectuals'. How much of this promotion relies on lies? 3. The phrase 'anti-Semitism' is used in some contexts to imply it was an attitude, something not followed by activity, just a flatus vocis. Is this a Jewish misrepresentation? 4. Catholicism and Jews are often presented as bluntly oppositional. Is this true? Could it be a technique for eliding collaboration away? These are not well-worded comments. They are however the sort of thing that flickers across the mind continually when reading MacDonald's prose. Notes on Styles and Trajectories MacDonald's style is uncritical: his labels—Christian, Activist, Anti-semite, Idealist, Reformer, ...—are always superficial and conventional. Stylistically, MacDonald tends to pathless slabs of text with few headlines. I'm not surprised to find his book of more than twenty years later, Individualism... still has nothing on the fake Holocaust, the 9/11 fraud, Afghanistan. 'COVID' is an attempt to inject entire populations with untested material, a Jewish operation, which may result in massive population decline. MacDonald says nothing on it. So in my opinion MacDonald is something like a first wave in understanding Jews and their methods. I hope it will be succeeded by far more powerful works. – RW 12 Oct 2021 This book is specifically supposed to be 'Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism'. I give it four stars for what appears to be its boldness, though in fact it has considerable limitations, which I'll indicate-- [1] The index, mostly names, is bare—the word 'Zionism' for example is followed by about fifty references to pages, without any detail whatever. The readers is expected to comb through all these in search of his/her interest. This can be infuriating when trying to track down members of the Inquisition, medieval writers on Jews, Roman Catholics, Jews rewriting history to suit themselves, and so on. There is a bibliography of something approaching 1,000 titles, mostly by Jews. There is much interesting material inside: each chapter is followed by its own endnotes, and there's a bibliography. As an example of navigational difficulty, consider the Russo-Japanese War: this is not indexed (nor is Japan), but the bibliography refers to a piece in a yearbook dated 1983 by A J Sherman. Looking up this name in the index points to page 106, an endnote on Jacob Schiff financing the Japanese against Russia. (This is sometimes regarded as the Orient starting to become powerful). Annoying. Thus for instance I couldn't find if the Armenian genocide allegedly by crypto-Jewish 'Turks' is in the book. [2] Internal evidence suggests the book was written as standalone chapters; so when MacDonald found an interesting point, it would be added as an endnote to a section. Topics include the Construction of Judaism, Self-Deception as an aspect of Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy. 'The Culture of Critique' is similarly constructed chapter-by-chapter, with its chapters on Freud, Boas and anthropology, the Frankfurt School and Jewish secret roles in forcing immigration on Europe, Canada and Australia. MacDonald has little interest on the effects of Jews on non-Americans or non-whites. &nbs; The endnotes to the chapters are full of interest: this volume for example has many on eugenics as a continuous Jewish policy. 'Critique' had one on fondness for pets as being maladaptive. [3] His books seem cautious (to be fair, they were written, in Internet terms, a long while ago). In effect, MacDonald is following an evolutionary strategy in his publishing. Bacque (1998, 1997) is not included. Nor is Robert Conquest on Stalin (1968). Nor Arthur Butz (1975)—MacDonald seem to entertain no doubts about 'the Holocaust'. He uses the conventional 19th century phrases—'anti-semitism' (newspaper coinage, designed to not mention Jews), 'revolution' rather than coup in Russia. The result is to suggest his book is a theory of how Jewish reactions evolved, rather than an explanation of Jewish behaviour as provocation. He is cautious about the Khazars (they get about half a page). Tony Martin on Jewish involvement in slavery (c. 1993) is I think not mentioned. [4] This book is (arguably) too American. There's not much on the German Sozialdemokrat movement, the USSR, Jews in Hungary. He barely mentions Belloc's 1920ish book, with its account of English aristocrats intermarrying, Jews' opposition to everyone else's nationalisms, the manufactured surnames, and so on. There is however hidden-away material on Churchill's deliberate sabotage of controls on immigration—they were pouring into the East End of London. His world history looks 1900-ish: Biblical tribes/ Greece and Rome/ Christianity and the Middle Ages/ modern times. He doesn't seem to mention the wave of expulsion of Jews from most European countries and dukedoms—if they were true. His accounts of 'reactive anti-Semitism' include the Roman Empire, Spain, and Germany. He seems to claim, reasonably enough, that 'anti-Semitism' (meaning people who are anti-Jews) is 'reactive'—it only develops after Jews appear. Usually they seemed an intermediate caste between rulers and people who were sources of tax. His view of wars pre-dates the fairly common opinion now that Jewish money often funded both sides of wars. Since 1913, paper money and the Federal Reserve in the USA, plus enforcement of debts, have been a part of this. I only added this comment in 2021 to my 2010 review. The NSDAP as resembling Jews is not a new idea—Oscar Levy in the 1930s in The Idiocy of Idealism said the same. I can't help wondering how much of this is continuism, and Jewish projection and story-telling: did the continuity really exist? After all there were many rich Asian towns, but also waves of tribal conquest in the Poland/ Russia area, some destructive, some empire building (the Rus), and rich types might well have been a target. [5] MacDonald is in my opinion a bit naive about Jews and science and invention. The whole Jewish mind-set as described by MacDonald isn't compatible with disinterested, slow, uncertain processes. Thus Einstein is widely accepted by now to have been a phony, though not by MacDonald. The same pattern is seen in biology, and nuclear physics which Sachs and the Oppenheimers took over in the 1930s. (I don't have the space to outline this here; look at nukelies.org - for example the forum on nuclear science). MacDonald's website, the Occidental Observer, even allows comments on the 'moon landings' being heroic white achievements! An important point is MacDonald's treatment of a poor male Talmudic 'scholar' marrying a rich merchant's son. MacDonald thinks this is unconsciously eugenic. I'd suggest that, if you consider a Jewish merchant engaged in the slave trade, or full usury involving seizing all the assets of a debtor, or funding weapons and 'opening the gates'—typically Jewish activities—a Talmudic 'scholar' would provide backup, slightly like a company lawyer, or the BBC unblushingly supporting killings. The word 'scholar' of course hides this obvious likelihood. I'd suggest MacDonald on 'eugenics' has made a subtle mistake (which is Jew-flattering). He means they have a breeding programme, aimed mainly to increase verbal intelligence and a sort of literary fanaticism. This is arguably analogous to special breeding. In the natural world, analogies include selecting strains of wheat with polyploidy, or hens to maximise egg production, or horses to run fast. Eugenics presumably ought to be concerned with removing genetic errors (which seem to be increased by special breeding) rather than looking for special characteristics. The alternative hypothesis, that corruption by money explains their success, and that the Jewish paper money monopoly is an essential part of that—and explains many wars—is unexplored by MacDonald. For example, any honest economics department could produce in a few days evidence that Jews dominate in fraud. This naivety extends to intimidation and violence by Jews—per head it's possible they were/are the most lethal group that ever lived. All this sounds a bit negative—in MacDonald's own sense, meaning emphatic but derogatory—it's true that a decent index would enhance this book enormously, and MacDonald could have compiled it himself—it's not only Jews who dislike certain types of work! It's also true that MacDonald saw no reason to arrange his material helpfully, or use subheadings. (Possibly this is why he remained more-or-less untouched in his university: it's simply not very clear what he means). However this book is probably the best available, and repays careful reading. The evolutionary part—'cultural and genetic separation with resource and population competition'—looks technical and no doubt has a disguising effect. The general ideas aren't new—the Bible, Talmud, Julius Caesar etc contain them—and, if you find them off-putting, just ignore them, as MacDonald explains the implications anyway. Recommended as a rather awkward reference book. Added 17 Sept 2017: A recent Internet radio discussion, between MacDonald and Paul Stevenson, MacDonald stated that the problem of self-deception was dealt with in this book. He named Chapter 8 (which is 'Self-Deception as an Aspect of Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy') but said it was about 70 pages, presumably including the previous chapter 'Rationalization and Apologia: The Intellectual Construction of Judaism', including e.g. Trivers: .. the best deceivers are self-deceivers because they do not show any psychological tensions or feelings of ambivalence. (Added later: Trivers I think is, or thinks he is, a Jew; the self-deception examples he uses struck me as superficial—I'd advise readers to be sceptical of Trivers' supposed achievements. These generally are rather laughable examples of common Jewish behaviour put into supposedly academic English: 'reciprocal altruism' something like Jews doing each other favours, for example. Trivers was at Rutgers (as with Robin Fox ...); and wrote an intro to Dawkins's The Selfish Gene. He even joined the Black Panther party! Trivers' examples are jejune and don't begin to address serious issues—including of deception itself.) MacDonald's discussion of self deception reminds me of mediocre philosophers attempting to discuss determinism, and of course concluding nothing. MacDonald has numerous accounts of Jewish lies and deceptions, but as far as I can see, doesn't handle the deep question of whether genuine self-deception is possible. But he acknowledges 'considerable interest' and cites R Alexander (The Biology of Moral Systems, Aldine, 1987), J O Beahrs (Ritual Deception: A window to the hidden determinants of human politics, about ten pages from Politics and the Life Sciences, 1996), and R Trivers Social Evolution, Menlo Park, 1985; and a chapter Deceit and self-deception: The relationship between communication and consciousness from Man and Beast Revisited, Edited Robinson & Tiger, Smithsonian Press, 1991). These few fragments don't suggest much interest, and no doubt the subject is censored by Jews. Another issue is Christianity and Islam. Jews sometimes describe Christianity and Islam as 'daughter religions'. See how my book reviews, banned by Amazon, are of books which explain—or usually fail to explain—the connections. Certainly the unrelenting lies of Jews about the 'Holocaust' suggest that Jews in the past scripted and pushed both religions when new, with the aim of (i) taking over Greece and Rome, (ii) taking control of Arabs. Arabs are indexed; Islam is not. Torquemada is mentioned (a bit). Jesuits, Quakers, Freemasons, are unindexed. |