War and Culture

In September [1995] the United Nations will stage its Fourth World Conference on Women. The venue is China with its capital Beijing hosting UN officials and 35,000 feminists from various NGO’s. Conflicts similar to those at September 1994’s Cairo Conference on population control are likely to recur in China.

UN globocrats  and the foundations and clubs that use them are a strange lot. They criticize the West even while trying to export the debased post-Modern version of the civil rights that have grown from the Western religious heritage. Political rights to be free in act and conscience from coercive State powers, rooted in the free will, personal responsibility and personal relationship with G-d have been redefined as economic and cultural “rights” (entitlements) supplied by governments via prejudicial preferences. Thus rights designed to limit state power over citizens have, in UN and statist hands become programs that expand state power. It’s a new form of bread and circuses where everyone loses… (more…)