Nevertheless, Beckeld sees “a civilization that has stopped believing in itself, that hates itself, and that is therefore unwilling to defend the values of individual freedom, democracy, and scientific and scholarly skepticism that have been handed down to us since antiquity.”

We see this phenomenon on a daily basis amongst these leftist creatures who have a disdain for their own culture, their own civilization and their own people.

When one asks, “How can it have come to such cultural self-hatred?” Dr Beckeld believes that there is an historical process that takes a society from naïve and self-promoting beginnings to self-contempt and decline.

According to Beckeld it is a repeating process that we can see from ancient Greece and Rome to the rise and fall of the Afrikaners.

In the beginnings you have a relatively uncivilized, uncultured people with great visions and untested strength who goes to war with their neighbours in the names of their deities. Initial successes lead to greater wealth and prestige until a national identity is forged. This is followed by a string of attachments that we associate with civilization…schools, libraries, theatres, universities, etc…which gives rise to poets, writers, scientists, scholars and philosophers.

Eventually the people reach the apex of their success with so much wealth that a permanent leisure class can be established and this era of greatest political power will generally coincide, more or less, with the pinnacle of the nation’s cultural and scientific achievements.

Eventually there is so much wealth going around and filtering down that people of all classes on the social ladder become more occupied with achieving higher states of wealth and prestige vis-à-vis their countrymen than they are with the health of the community itself.

South Africa reached this point around 1966, the time of Verwoerd’s death.

This is the point where Oikophobia sets in. Once people have defeated their external enemies and there are no more threats, they turn inwards and, because of different self-interests and petty differences, they start turning on each other in what Freud has called the “narcissism of small differences”.

Oikophobic Virtue Signallers in action

People start to become so petty that the newest cellphone, a particular car or clothing brand or even the virtue signaling of supporting a specific charity or race group proves that “I am better than you”.

Eventually a kind of God-complex sets in where rejecting one’s own culture as backward, one automatically sets oneself above all the other interests that are parts of that culture.

See, in the beginning when the people have nothing, they are more reliant on each other for survival, but the more success they achieve and the richer they become the less they are dependent on each other and the more they think they don’t need each other. Eventually it turns to open disdain of each other.

In the political sphere one sees that the Oikophobes drift more towards the Left in various grades of disdain and that non-oikophobes and, in some cases, xenophobes and anti-oikophobic reactionaries dominate in right-wing areas.

Eventually the people are so pre-occupied with internal squabbles that they do not project an outward image of unified force anymore. This is when their enemies lose their fear and respect for the people and conquer them.

As Dr Beckeld says, “The perennial doom of Western societies is that early on, many people tend to be more conservative, and later on, many people tend to be more progressive, the exact opposite of what is needed.”

What can we do about Oikophobia?