There is a poison slower than war, quieter than censorship, and more destructive than any enemy: self-hatred.
Not the individual self-hatred, that's another topic.
I'm talking about the collective self hatred, the kind that makes a people stop being. Or worse: stop wanting to be.
So let's start with some fundamentals.
TL;DR
- What is a people, really?
- When a people hates itself, it dies without a sound
- Symptoms of a people devouring itself
- What it really destroys: the structure of reality
- How to restore dignity, without falling into isolationism
I. What is a people, really?
It's not an ethnicity or a nationality. It's not even a culture.
A people is a living metaphysical entity, a shared consciousness stretched across time. It's basically an complex adaptative system that connects:
- the dead: those who left, but are not forgotten,
- the living: those who still recognize each other,
- and the unborn: those we protect without even knowing them.
A people exists in non-linear time. It's a shared will to persist, even through collapse. A people is a metaphysical commitment to CONTINUITY.
And when that loop is broken, the people doesn't die, it disappears, dilutes.
Across centuries, thinkers have tried to define what makes 'a people.'
Each time, their definitions reveal more about their era's anxieties than about the ontological core of what binds humans across time.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract (1762)
The idea of a people linked by a "contract" makes "the people" conditional. If the will dissolves, does the people vanish? No space here for ancestry, grief, sacrifice, or the unborn.
Ernest Renan - Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? (1882)
Renan proposes a definition based on collective memory and consent. He emphasizes forgetting over remembering as a condition for unity. His view is fragile. It turns "a people" into an emotional agreement, vulnerable to manipulation and amnesia.
Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities (1983)
Anderson sees "the people" as a product of modern capitalism. Nations are constructed through symbols, flags, newspapers. It is accurate in diagnosing the tools, but blind to the substrate.
Carl Schmitt - The Concept of the Political (1932)
For Schmitt, a people emerges through exclusion. Through the decision to distinguish itself from an "other." A very Sartrian vision of existence, it's cold and functional. There's some truth in it but it defines the people by what it fights, not what it protects. No interiority, no transmission.
Contemporary liberal thought
Defines a people as a legal or demographic entity: voters, taxpayers, bearers of rights and duties. This is technocratic, sterile. It confuses "population" with "people."
II. When a people hates itself, it dies without a sound
Self-hatred is a rupture in that ontological loop. It's the moment the thread snaps.
When memory becomes shame.
When transmission becomes silence.
When a child sees his ancestors not as a mystery to honor, but a mistake to fix.
The thing with self-hatred is that it does not "strike" all at once. It seeps in.
It comes through guilt, turning inheritance into burden.
It comes through the exclusive glorification of the Other, until the self is forgotten.
It comes through the desecration of the sacred, replaced by sterile neutrality.
It comes through the systemic deconstruction of a shared story.
And one day, without even noticing, the people stops defending itself. It no longer believes it's worthy to exist. It gives up its own gravity.
Crime, violence... aren't these micro-responses to a macro-collapse?
III. Symptoms of a people devouring itself
The signs are obvious.
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