Peter Robinson asks the question, “Again, I’m quoting you, Douglas. At the same time that we’ve had this Influx, at the same time, Europe has Lost Faith in its Beliefs, Traditions and Legitimacy. Europe is now deeply weighed down with Guilt for the Past. And there is also the problem of an Existential Tiredness, and a feeling that perhaps for Europe, the Story has Run Out and a New Story must be allowed to begin! Okay, take us through that a little. The German War Guilt, That’s Clear. Britain has No Apologies to make, no reason to feel Guilty. Neil Fergus and other people who’ve looked at the British colonies as unbalanced, it’s a Transfer of Human Capital right now. They’re not Impoverishing the People of India. On the contrary, And so why would you include Britain? Britain’s the hard case to understand why Britain should feel Guilty or an Existential Fatigue.” Douglas Murray answers, “There’s several things. But one is that the phenomenon that if you or I is to sum up all people across, say, Asia as having responsibility for the same thing, people say that that’s mad! I mean, you’re not, and you’re not even picking out the Important Distinctions. You’re being Very Generalizing. Right. But you can do that with Europe. So you say we did the Holocaust in Europe. You can even get away with that in London. And then you take the other one, Post Colonialism, which you refer to post-colonial Guilt is suffered in almost Equal Measure by, for instance, Britain, which undoubtedly ran quite a lot of the world in the past and Sweden, which did not! So, there’s a Strange Thing that has emerged, as I tried to explain in the book, where we end up summing up ourselves by our Collectively Worst Moments!”
017. Douglas Murray – The Death of Europe Part 4
