This has failed spectacularly and we're now living in the first of its very elaborate death throes, death throes which may well end the planet. It failed because, at best, it did not pay heed to one of the deepest mysteries governing the human being; his/her relationship with blood ancestors. At worst, this mystery was suppressed because it interfered with singing "We Are The World".
Quite so. All sorts of traditional peoples believe they are descended from star peoples.
Interestingly enough, Nobel Prize winning author Knut Hamsun agreed re: his fellow Norwegians.
To insist on "good-will," as does your interlocutor there is like thinking proper lubrication makes for a frictionless wheel. There's the potholed ol' road that has to be traversed. Quoth Von Clausewitz, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. So too good will and the run of men as they are.
From the end of the Tudors onwards, any decisions made by the British government must be regarded with the highest suspicion. Along with France, its government, which replaced the aristocracy with the merchant classes, has worked against the tribal interests of its citizens.
BLM was never a numinous ideology to begin with.
Any country that surrenders control of its money becomes the betrayer of its people. For England this was in 1694 with its Bank of England ( private concern. Though it morphed into a hermaphrodite entity in 1946---signalling that finance now assumed the mantle of government, perhaps). In the U.S., this was the advent of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913. (Woodrow Wilson is said to have said he'd never have sought election as President had he known he would be taking orders from Jacob Schiff.)
Careful---you're edging close to the Cancellation Chasm
