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by G.Dotzel
Michio Kitahara: "The entangled civilization: democracy, equality, and freedom
at a loss", 369 pages. University Press of America, Lanham - New York, 1995
and Open Gate Press, London, 1995.
While reading this book,
it became evident, that the author has a profound and sound
knowledge and understanding of history, economy, political philosophy, socialism, statism,
science, and psychology, and has scrutinized society while he lived and worked
in Japan, Europe and America.
This book shows how vulnerable the Western civilization got through
socialism, how the self as an object in a collective
setting is manipulated, that the cause
for peoples' violent protest against nuclear power plants
is based on egoist human thought.
When explaining how collectivism is emphasized at the expense
of individualism, he writes on page 230:
"But the ironic point here is that collectivism is carried
out on the basis of the individualistic perception of human behaviour without
knowing or realizing this. This is another very important point in this
book, and I would like to ask you to read the above sentence once again."
Unfortunately, I can't give you more quotes, because some visitor
has stolen my copy of this book, which had a nice all black hard-cover.
Explosive content without any journalistic hype: Must read!
Michio Kitahara: "The African Revenge: The Age of Regression and
the Decline of the West", Columbus, Ohio: Pine Island Press, 1997.
Book description as provided by the author:
"By reflecting our evolutionary background, the structure of
the human brain contains two primitive levels which deal with
the basic existence of ourselves as animals, such as sex and
territorial defense. On top of these, we have another level
dealing with human characteristics, such as morality, ethics,
reason, compassion, and the art of interhuman relations.
Medieval Europeans were very much under the influence of the primitive parts of the brain.
Along with the rise of the modern West, they learned to restrain them.
But the rise of the modern West also entailed colonialism
and slavery. The Africans in America have been forced to suffer
for centuries. There is now abundant scientific evidence that
when humans experience hardship, adults become childish. When
the hardship is extreme, humans tend to exist under the dominance
of the two lower levels of the brain. As a result of their
tragic past, the African-Americans have created a unique culture
of their own, characterized by these tendencies.
This culture emphasizes sensuality, spontaneity, action, and
emotions, which appeal to the more primitive aspects of human
existence. For this reason, it is irresistible.
African-American superstars in rock music, sports, and entertainment
became the role models for everyone. But unfortunately, this
culture is incompatible with the basic characteristics of the
modern West, which emphasize logic, reason, rationality, and the
restraint of emotions and spontaneity. The West is also being
Africanized more and more in counterproductive ways, as seen in
drugs, vandalism, violence, and crimes against persons. Western
civilization's abuse of the Africans has boomeranged back upon
itself."
This is the third and final book of his trilogy on the rise of the modern West and its future, following
"The Tragedy of Evolution"
(1991) and
The Entangled Civilization (1995).
About the Author
Michio Kitahara was born in Japan but received his Ph.D. from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
He has held teaching or research appointments at the Universities of Maryland, Michigan, and San Francisco,
as well as the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He currently lives in Sweden in order to study the fate of Scandinavian social democracy firsthand.
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