Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Polite Pushback

Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Research Fellow, Hoover Institution. Author: "Infidel: My Life." Hoover Jackson Hole Summer Retreat, Four Seasons Hotel, Jackson Hole, WY. 15 August 2024. File image. (Notes are mine. mistakes are mine).

High Trust Societies - traditionally western culture. Maximum individual freedom.

Low Trust Societies - like my birth country, Somalia. Tribal compliance. Minimum individual freedom. US morphing towards low trust, tribal society. Individual freedom eroding. Abetted by accelerated illegal immigration and proliferation of Marxist doctrines which tribalize the culture. Marxist doctrines have proliferated in big government and big business.

Q. We are a polite society. Author Gad Saad has coined the term, "suicidal empathy" to describe how our citizens, not wanting to be impolite, allow for bad actors to introduce harmful doctrines into the culture. Saad has said that the progressive diversity cult is killing the West by a thousand cuts.

A. Politeness is a feature of the nation state. Citizens assume good faith on the part of other citizens. This feature of the nation state, politeness, is twisted by bad actors to advance radical ideologies. The "polite" thing for well-meaning citizens to do when harmful doctrines are advanced into the culture is to speak up and call the perpetrators out on it!