[Fis] Inviting Discord

[Paul Suni]

Dear László,

I am a real 20th century European liberal and I may lean left in the morning, and right by the evening, depending on the issues that I am contemplting. Some people have peanut allergies. They  can go into anaphylactic shock and die, while licking a lollipop merely made in a factory where paeanusta reprocessed. My spiritual peanut allergy is collectivisn and its worst manifestation: the antiliberalism of the political left. 

The concept of the West has solidified as a euphemism, since Lenin and the 1917 Russian revolution. It has evolved  for a century to denote the values of liberalism (!); the capitalistic mode of production; European intellectual and aesthetic itraditions and recently, white straight men. Casting doubt on the West is an original Communist program that is well documented.

I grew up in a cultural milieu which was saturated with that brainwashing, but I did not realize it until the American Cultral Revolution exploded onto the public scene in 2016. All the anti-western tropes that I grew up with, in 1970’s Finland with were there right in front of me but with the shocking addition of exuberant misadrism and racism against whites - brought to you by academia, of course.

So, as an authentic white straight male liberal of European origins, I have bdome the target of a hate campaign whose origins I recognize well. Academics parrot the code word “ The West” in their research abstracts by the millions nowadays to signal to coleagues and editors that they are not standing in the way of “ progress.”

Does this clear up your conception of the West as a geographical concept, and me as an anarchist revolutionary?  If you weren’t from behind the iron curtain, I would be certain that you were a Marxist. Certainly your conception of me as a revolutionary is a typical radical leftist error when faced with staunch defenders of Liberalism. However, I imagine that you just parrot the word “ West” like academics do - reflexively as a subversive signal of affiliation with the project started by Lenin and Stalin.

Unfortunately, the academic anti-West has turned exuberantly racist, misandrist and its mood is shifting into a pre-genocidal gear. Not having many more years to live seems like a blessing.

Cheers,
Paul


> On Jan 13, 2026, at 1:35 PM, Csáji László Koppány <csaji.koppany at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Paul,
> Believe me, I am trying to understand your anarcho-revolutionist attitude
> before answering you in detail. I am from a country that was always (in 
> more than a millennium) "in-between" cultural and political worlds. It was 
> never a colonialist but was partly colonized, although it is part of the so-called
> "Western" countris - if you mean it regarding to the EU and USA, Canada, etc.? 
> But what is Western? Argentina or Taiwan is Western or not? And Australia? 
> Isn't it a supposed conglomerate you cannot catch actually? Where is its 
> borders? Similar query is for "academia" - isn't it just a colleagial discourse 
> with some logical argumentation? Aren't we in a little bit similar situation as 
> Augustinus was many centuries ago with "time": if you don't ask, I know what 
> it is - if you ask, I don't know. 
> Best regards,
>                          Laszlo   
> 
> 
> Paul Suni <paul.p.suni at gmail.com <mailto:paul.p.suni at gmail.com>> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. jan. 12., H, 1:27):
>> Hello FIS,
>> 
>> I wrote a biting response to László concerning the nature of art. As a pro-Western intellectual underdog and anti-academic, I did not affect the expected collegial and pro-social tone. I said things that will no doubt appear absurd and jarring to many of you. I invite you to challenge me, and even to try to defend the merits of destroying capitalism and all that the West stands for. You can even try to defend the noble status of the academic - hard-won from the actual nobility of the time, during the 18th and 19th century revolutions.
>> 
>> I would be eager to engage with you. Convince me that August Comte did not start an intellectual cancer, whose lethal status still goes unnoticed. However, I imagine that you will choose to stay straddled on your pro-academic ivory tower, and remain silent. I am not going to intimate that academic confluence is to me like watching neighbors shove people of the wrong social class, gender or skin-color in the ovens, and doing nothing, but I am tempted. So intense is my experience of academic toxicity and its suicidal effects on the spirit of the West - our cultural mother.
>> 
>> Both Art and Science, liberated from academia, are my passions. Challenge me. Make it personal. I stick out like a sore thumb, don’t I. You may want to put me in my place and teach me lessons. Do that now!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Paul Suni
>> 
>> 
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