By analogy, it appears that many Americans may be suffering from a parasitic disease called Oikophobia (from the Greek “oikos” meaning “home”), that presents itself as a loathing of one’s own culture. There is no treatment. Individuals suffering from this do not know they have it; symptoms obvious to observers are oblivious to the stricken. This disease may or may not be associated with Xenophilia—a preference for another culture over one’s own.

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Here is what the disease looks like in America from the outside: persons with supportive and loving families, living in lovely homes in safe and friendly neighborhoods, with all material and comforting goods needed or wanted, and plenty to eat, going berserk. They were given the money for college degrees by caring parents, have good jobs or excellent retirements, libraries close to home, and access to a myriad of cultural and environmental enrichments.

And yet these persons, afflicted with Oikophobia, loathe the culture responsible for this existence. Out of their mouths comes such filth, such accusations against their country, such hyperbole regarding what one is owed them by society, that their physical appearances can become unrecognizable, as the parasite manipulates their behavior for its own purposes. When one sees middle-class persons with tight, merciless faces, weapons in hand, physically imposing their bodies in dangerous ways, or squinting in close shots in videotaped tirades of spittle and venom, the logical conclusion is that they suffer from this dangerous and ultimately fatal disease.

And the parasite’s purpose? It is not the demise of the individual that represents the parasite’s purpose. It is the demise of the culture itself—in the case of the United States, a culture that relies on the existence of God, Moral and Positive Law, a realistic view of what moves human behavior, a rich and full culture, an emphasis on industry and practicality, and a respect for intellectual curiosity and critical thinking. We are the child of Great Britain, yet Oikophobia is glaringly apparent there, as well. Once dutiful, somber, and glorious, Great Britain lies exhausted and flaccid; the anchor of Western Civilization has been unable to withstand the effects of this parasitic invasion.

Parasites use hosts to effectuate their goals by manipulating the host’s behavior. The fluke worm manipulates the ant to climb to the top of the grass, so the cow eats the ant, and the parasite attacks the cow’s liver. So too, the education industry manipulates otherwise patriotic Americans to loathe their homeland. There is no treatment for this condition, unless the host undergoes some trauma or shock to the system that reveals what has happened. Understanding when and how Oikophobia entered the cultural bloodstream is essential in taking any steps possible to thwart its deadly purpose. The following are three entry points:

1. 1913, when America abandoned her Founding governing system through ratified changes to the United States Constitution, and turned over the country’s monetary policy to international banking competitors with the establishment of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve cannot be audited by law, although that can be changed by Congress. Such an audit would provide the shock or trauma required to understand what this institution really represents and what it has done. Since 1913, the United States has been at continuous war and is struggling to regain her wealth and avert bankruptcy.

2. The passage of the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 that changed our immigration system from those likely to assimilate to those who would find it difficult. The United States, out of guilt over Civil Rights, decided that European America was not worthy and that change in the demographics of the nation through immigration and reproduction would be the price paid for racial discrimination. This concept was strengthened by the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980, aligning our nation’s immigration policies with those of a corrupt and anti-American United Nations. Rejecting this giant guilt trip might help us understand why, from the outset of our nation, each person wishing to enter the United States must be vetted.

3. The wholesale promulgation of diversity, equity, and inclusion into our culture and law in 2020. There is nothing in the Founding legal or moral structure that warrants arbitrary diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are merit and moral-based, without an obligation to commit cultural suicide. Perhaps when the family unit is debauched sufficiently by social media and some public education, when a traditional Church becomes a haven to the Satanic, and when Jews and Christians cower at the hands of those who would destroy them, the ensuing shock and trauma will help Americans to realize that what happened in Australia awaits us. Artificial “pluralism” without individual merit inevitably creates a suicidal societal cell.

Oikophobia is real. It has invaded our nation. It is useless to try to persuade those contaminated with the parasite to rid themselves of it. Logic, experience, and the empirical are useless against it. Only shock and trauma can wake people up; only a dramatic return to Founding principles can wake the culture up. Only prayer can cure. If one is not moved by a portion of Sir Walter Scott’s powerful 1805 poem, one might have been infected.

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said,

‘This is my own, my native land!’

If such there breathe, go mark him well:

For him no Minstrel raptures swell;

High though his titles, proud his name,

Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;

The wretch, concentrated all in self,

Living, shall forfeit fair renown,

And, doubly dying, shall go down

To the vile dust from whence he sprung,

Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.”

[H/T American Thinker]