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Homo americanus:: Child of the Postmodern Age Paperback – February 23, 2007
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Dr. Tomislav Sunic was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1953. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Sunic gives lectures around the world and has authored several other books, including Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age (2007) and Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right (Arktos, 2011), which deal with themes articulated in Titans are in Town (Arktos, 2017). He lives in Zagreb.
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Who is Dr. Tom Sunic, you might ask? He is a man of many talents, whose credentials are impeccable. He obtained his doctorate in political science at the University of California. He is fluent in Croatian, French, and German, and has had articles published in various publications in these languages, as well as several books. He has worked as a US professor, and was also a diplomat for Croatia for some time. He is no lightweight in either the political or intellectual establishment. And yet he dares to speak the truth about the destruction of the West, and doesn't cringe when mentioning the perpetrators largely responsible for America's ongoing transition to third-world status. It should come as no surprise that America's most brilliant psychologist, Professor Kevin MacDonald, has written the foreword of Dr. Sunic's book, for Dr. Sunic is a man to be admired: He is one of those brave-hearted and brilliant souls who dares to stand up to be counted among those who recognize America's reckless nature. He unapologetically speaks the truth of where this once mighty nation is heading: on a one-way, broken roller coaster--downhill and fast.
In Dr. Sunic's most recent book, Homo Americanus, he tries to define just "who" is the American man, and what the American man believes. Dr. Sunic's views are very interesting and somewhat refreshing, as he has lived under one of the former communist nations and knows firsthand how totalitarian governments infringe on personal liberties; and he doesn't hesitate to point out what some Americans already realize--namely, that we too are having our rights torn asunder by the politically correct crowd who stop at nothing to destroy the last vestiges of liberty in America. In a chapter of Dr. Sunic's book, Americanism and Anti-Americanism, he comments on America's new fangled Orwellian Society in terms that describe its politically correct policies to limit free expression:
"Admittedly, every epoch has its dominant ideas, and each ruling class in every country on earth is never too eager to discard its founding myths and replace them with other myths that may be seen as factors destabilizing for its political survival. Likewise, the dominant ideas at work in modern Americanism are often hailed by the ruling class and its court historians as 'self-evident.' Questioning the veracity of that self-evidence can cause serious troubles for an intellectual heretic and can even lead to the signing of a death warrant to their intellectual career. For instance, challenging the principles of American democracy or probing critically into the legacy of antifascist victimology must be strictly avoided. These prohibitions are not officially on display in America; they just constitute a public no-entry zone. An author or a politician who ventures into one of these forbidden fields is at best shrugged off as as a crank by the masters of modern American discourse or labeled as a 'prejudiced' person. At worst, he can end up in prison. In most cases, however, he will find himself cut off from academic discourse and political debate, which in effect means that he is intellectually sentenced to death."
Indeed, an increasing number of Americans seem to suffer under the politically correct rules of debate. One needs only to look at such individuals as the Ph.D.-level chemist Germar Rudolf, who was deported from the U.S. and ripped from his American wife and child for having dared to write his doctoral dissertation on a politically incorrect topic in Germany years prior, where he was imprisoned after being deported. The same can be said of Ernst Zundel, another victim of thought crime who was also ripped away from his wife in the hills of Tennessee and shipped to Europe for having dared to venture into politically incorrect territory by questioning some of aspects of history. Of course, while it's political taboo to discuss such things, it is unlikely either would have been deported if they weren't white. In today's Great Society, that is undoubtedly the greatest crime--being white--and trumps all others.
Sunic touches on the topic of white guilt that has plagued America for far too long. In his chapter, E Pluribus Dissensus: Exit European Americans, he describes some of the logic used to keep southern whites in a constant state of guilt and self-hate, and how similar actions have been used elsewhere as well:
"The end of the antebellum South can serve as a laboratory for studying the guilty feelings that European people have been subject to in early postmodernity. The social malady consisting in self-hate started in America after the Civil War, only to be re-enacted a hundred years later all over Europe and postmodern America. In early postmodernity, Europe and America participated in the same joint guilt trip that can only be atoned by financial gifts and excuses to non-Europeans. . . .
"Every opposing viewpoint was labeled by the liberal North as 'hostile to freedom,' similar to the smear campaign of modern Northern successors against authors who criticize globalism and Americanism."
Dr. Sunic also breaks the social taboo of commenting on those people who call themselves the "Chosen Ones" for their involvement in changing the racial make-up of the US. For instance, after the Senate defeated the recent immigration bill, which would have changed the status of over 12 million illegal aliens, one of the first to cry about this was the exclusively Jewish organization known as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith. The ADL then put forth an article arguing on the illegal immigrants' behalf. Such comments further prove Dr. Sunic's many statements:
"The process of Americanization seems to be enhanced by the rapid growth of multiracial society, which has always had strong supporters among Jewish intellectuals in America who have never hidden 'that making of the US into a multicultural society has been a major Jewish goal from the beginning of the nineteenth century' [citing George Sunderland]."
While Russia further distances itself from the Soviet apparatchik, we in America are slowly drifting that way, Dr. Sunic notes. If we in America are not too timid to take a hard look at reality, we must admit that America's laws discriminate against whites in the name of "equality," and America's white citizens are often afraid to even voice dissent against such ridiculous policies for fear of being socially stigmatized, just as it was the old Soviet policy to stigmatize the families of those who criticized its similar policies. As a result of such policies in America that discriminate against whites, it is causing our universities and companies to significantly lower the bar in an effort to have a racial make-up that is reflective of the population. Testing and skills can no longer be used as the main criteria for entrance, as America's educational institutions and companies become increasingly dysfunctional--similar to society itself in America. As time progresses, such policies will undoubtedly put America further behind in the world, and will eventually lead to third-world status unless something is done. As the economy slowly withers, there is no real need to ask ourselves, "Why?" It is but a matter of time when wide-scale non-white riots like those that have occurred in all of America's cities from time to time occur again; the real question remains whether America will be able to quell such riots. All it will take is a major, sudden drop in the economy, or perhaps the media's focus of an isolated incident such as the Rodney King case of '92. In the concluding chapter of Sunic's book, he seems to point out this self-evident truth that all Americans see but most fail to openly recognize:
"The egalitarian appetite, once observed in communist Homo sovieticus, is well under and under a new name in America and in Americanized Europe. American ideology will gain more prominence in the future, as egalitarian dynamics and wide-spread advocacy of permanent economic progress gain momentum. Once, when inequality was considered something natural, as it was in the antebellum South, or prior to the American Revolution, then even the crassest sign of inequality did not offend the observer's eye. By contrast, when everybody is declared equal, even the smallest dose of inequality becomes unbearable. 'The desire for equality becomes more and more insatiable as equality increases,' noted De Tocqueville. Consequently, as the American system becomes more and more economically opulent, even the slightest economic crisis, resulting in a small drop in living stands, is bound to cause social discord and political upheavals."
Dr. Sunic's views are refreshing and well worth reading. His book Homo Americanus should be required reading for all college students, and it is a tragic shame that it is not--yet, at least. Consider purchasing a copy of Homo americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age for yourself, and ask your local librarian to order a copy as well.
This book would benefit from a thorough review. Not only ideas are repeated, but also big excerpts appear more than once. The topics could be more seamlessly connected, too. Thoughts are developed, sometimes he "walks" in circles, and moves on to the next point.
As to the content, the book offers a sharp but sound critic of the US. It wisely avoids common places and does an overall good job. If you are acquainted with some modern works from Conservative writers on contemporary America, this book won't a big host of new ideas. Except for one, and that is where if fails.
In Sunic's view, America's biblical roots - as he put it - have determined US relations to Israel. While not neglecting the importance of the Jewish Lobby amid other things, this explanation is too simplistic . Christianity, over the course of its history, has offered a panoply of options, and the path taken towards Israel is one them, not the only possible one.
The Imperial present explained through Christianity makes much more sense though. It is the old Christian perception that its world view is the one. It was in the core of its project in Asia, South America and Africa when the first missionaries set out with the goal of converting the world. It is now, in a secular version, in the inability of the so-called west to see and understand Russia as the other. America, better than everyone, represents this misconception of the world, as Sunic points it very well.
Sunic criticizes the project of a white empire (Lisbon-Moscow, Paris-London) proposed by some conservatives as delusional with any foundation on reality. It prompted me to remind the book New Culture, New Right from O'Meara.
While I agree with Sunic on that, that racial divisions he proposes as the basis for a possible are founded on nothing more than a nostalgia to revive the past days of the National State as it was in the 19th Century.
His critique of the modern egalitarianism is well founded, however, his suggestions have no longer currency in modern politics nor are any likely to have.
What would he suggest after taking power: the displacement of all the population that doesn't fit the old nationalistic narrative of that country ? As in the other book I mentioned, in Sunic's world, once several races have biologically mixed, there is no way back for the world and we are doomed.
This idea is not cogent.


