More Thoughts on Ghasson Hage's "White Nation"

In White Nation sociologist Ghassen Hage describes limited immigration advocates as "worriers" who are irrationally trying to control something over which they have little influence.
While Hage's definition of traditional conservatives and white nationalists as worriers may have some validity, it also highlights the Marxist mind-set of pro-immigration leftists like Hage.

Since Marxists believe that all ethnic groups are the same, and that natural resource limits have no serious impact on human wellbeing, they have no reason to fear unrestricted immigration.

In contrast, traditional conservatives don't believe that all groups of people are the same and accept that it is often difficult for different groups of people to get along. Conservatives also accept that many natural resources are finite and that different ethnic groups exploit resources in different ways, with varying levels of success, and often compete for control of resources.

Conservatives may well worry a lot about immigration, but they have good reason to. The conservative pessimist-realist world- view is one strongly correlates with what actually happens in the world, as opposed to what may happen in the future.

History shows that differences between ethic groups are not easy to reconcile . History also shows that much of time, people mismanage physical resources and that multicultural societies, with authoritarian governments (such as the Soviet Union) have the worst track records in this respect.

The Marxist view is an optimistic view, which argues the future will be better than the past and that differences between ethnic groups are superficial and in any case will be overcome through collective action.

For Marxists, worry isn't an issue, since sooner or later all things will turn out for the best. In response to leftists like Hage, conservatives could make a counter-claim that Maxists, and other rational cornucopians, are actually worriers of a more profoud type since they unconcouisly hide their worry behind a positivist secular religion.

Interestingly, the portrayal of conservatives as being more neurotic than left-liberals conflicts with findings from psychological studies into the behaviour profiles of liberal and conservatives - such research suggests that liberals in fact have the highest rates of neuroticism.

In reflecting on my reasons for writing posts on topics such as immigration, I will admit that concern for the future is a significant motivating factor. However, a far bigger factor is concern for intellectual honesty and a distaste for political correctness. Part of this comes from a working/lower midle class contempt for cultural self-loathing and intellectual dishonesty.