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Whatever happened to the perfectly good term ‘fancy dress’? I suppose one might argue that ‘cosplay’ emphasises the element of play to it, of playing the role the costume suggests. One such man who loves to do this is Justin Trudeau. There is nothing terribly wrong with that – except that he does it when representing the country he is prime minister of on the world stage. Even worse, the majority of Canadians seem to think this is perfectly normal.
Just a few days ago, Trudeau managed to embarrass himself by immersing himself in his version of Indian culture, dressing himself in traditional Indian clothes and dancing a bhangra. It prompted some in India to ask why this alleged statesman was dressed up as though he were appearing in a Bollywood film and whether that was Trudeau’s image of Indians. The answer is of course that that is exactly how Leftists think of all cultures, in terms of clichés and stereotypes, even while, in their usual doublethink, they say stereotyping is bad. It shows that Leftists have a totally superficial view of culture, that in dressing and acting a role they believe themselves immersed in that culture. Culture to them becomes just a form of cosplay.
I once talked to a Leftist colleague of mine, who had all the trappings – weak father, Iraqi asylum seeker boyfriend, cushy university job – who told me quite frankly that stereotyping of the Other is good when it gives a positive image of them. There are three problems with that. One is that it warps the Left’s sense of reality, whereby they do not see the world as it is. It is why trying to win them over is a futile endeavour. The second is the abandonment of one’s own culture in which one had dignity that would at least be respected by the Other. The other is that, as Trudeau has found out, what is deemed positive by the Occidental Left might not be deemed positive by those from the cultures they seek to extol.
Trudeau has also made another typical mistake made by Leftists like him. He has sought to encapsulate the entire of India in a fancy dress costume. India is a huge place with many cultures, religions, languages and peoples. Yet Trudeau thinks he knows India. The amount of times I have heard university-educated bourgeois liberals (not even hard neo-Marxist Leftists here) say they ‘did India last year’ – as though India can be experienced with any depth in a few weeks’ holiday. I also remember the time when the former football player Frank LeBoeuf was ubiquitous on French television. A recent convert to Buddhism at that time, he used every opportunity to talk about it, as though it made him somehow more interesting. Yet it was just a superficial gloss, an ill-fitting veneer to cover over the authenticity he had allowed to become rotten and shameful by letting it go to rot.
I remember as a child seeing a BBC children’s programme called Mr Benn, which I never liked. In each episode, Mr Benn, a middle-class everyman in a suit and bowler hat goes into a fancy dress shop, where ‘as if by magic’ the shopkeeper would appear, give him a costume to put on, whereupon Mr Benn would emerge out of the back door of the changing room into another world where he could have adventures relating to the costume’s particular theme. And I think Trudeau is no more profound than Mr Benn, a badly animated children’s character with easy-pleasy slogans that pass for morality.
I think these things say a lot about the soft-Leftist liberal mindset. There seems to be a need to have lived what is perceived as a more interesting life without actually having lived it. Coupled with the hard Left Orientalist cult of the Other, it leads to a prostitution to and prostration before other cultures – cultures that are not even understood. We see this with Justin Trudeau. Mr Benn’s creator David McKee lives with his Algerian wife and collects African tribal art. As with Justin Trudeau, yet again we see another prostitute to other cultures haphazardly destroying his own through its abandonment. It seems to be the cancer of the soul of the white middle class.
Source: https://mjolnirmagazine.blogspot.hu/2018/02/trudeau-left-as-cosplay.html
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Liberalism is a surefire way to undermine the moral seriousness of a culture. For the champagne socialist and the bourgeois upper-middle class liberal, culture is really a series of decontextualized signifiers all arbitrarily thrown together, each an object for consumption. When culture is reduced to a series of personal preferences, I suppose it does seem rather ‘bigoted’ from the liberal perspective when one seeks to exclude based on such superficial criteria. Echoes of Erich Fromm moaning about ‘irrational’ phobias metastasizing in the public imagination.
The evolution of these attitudes are rooted in the emergence of ‘lifestyle values’ following the second world war. With material wants largely satisfied by a completed industrial revolution in the West, status markers switched from ‘stuff’ to more intangible products.
Take, for example, a typical add from the nineteen fifties before the transition took hold. The latest model Ford is out. The family is out and about in the car – Mum, Dad, and little Johnny and Suzy. It’s all about the people engaged with the thing. ‘You want this thing because its great at being a this particular thing’, says the add. ‘Look how well i handles! Look at the power! Look how much Mum thinks Dad is the man for having this powerful car!’
That’s materialism 101. But today, what’s the likely scenario? The new VW is pictured on the rugged volcanic plateaus of Iceland. The austere environment compliments the slick design cues. The light suggests an element of the sublime infusing the engineering. You want this car because its representative of an experience. The logic behind the add suggests the experience is prior to the object.
And that is the fashion in which liberal whites interact with their own culture and other peoples’ – as intangible commodities with which they can amuse themselves to death.
The Catholic “Faithful Insight” recently ran a column that Trudeau and his brother Alexandre were celebrating their joint birthdays on December 25 and both sported pullovers that mocked Jesus Christ. Their joint deed of mocking the founding block of the white man’s highest values came to light when their photograph appeared on Reddit. The Defender of Allah wore a pullover that made fun of Jesus at the Last Supper. While mocking the white man’s god he is desperately having legislation introduced to stop all criticism of the Muslim religion. Perhaps the Americans should add a northern wall to the proposed southern wall?
Trudeau is definitely playing a role when he’s pictured as a heterosexual man!
Liberalism can not take seriously identity and culture. By definition it is only the atomized and dissociated individual who matters and the rest is just his whimsical private choice and ultimately disposable at any moment for something else.
Not sure that the Hindus were pleased by the spectacle. They must have seen through this display of self denial and realized that it also invites them to reciprocate and take their own culture just as lightly.
Liberalism is anti-culture. Liberalism doesn’t really have its own points. It lacks a holistic, positive vision for social order, which is culture in broader sense. Liberalism like a parasite, appeared only after centuries of christianity and then suddenly demanded to replace it, while at the same time criticizing it and negating it, without constructive output. Liberalism is for mediocre parasites
Trudeau is the perfect representation of the travelling, white humanitarian. He goes to non-white countries preaching that white people are oppressors. He probably says lines like “Your history and culture is deep unlike Canada’s.” He is one of many and unfortunately, many that travel tend to be the Trudeau type. Our media not only damages whites international reputation, but also these idiotic, arrogant humanitarian types.
Perhaps the definition of transvestitism and cross-dressing should be extended to include behaviors like those of Justin Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau have come to the point where he can longer hide his identity crisis, with his misdemeanors. Whether it is sexually, ethnically, culturally or spiritual. Definitely his trip to India was a total fiasco both to Canadians as well as to Indians, in Canada and at home! He is turning his public office into a complete joke!
What is the orientalist cult of the other?