The Path to Enlightenment

“Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused, if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.” —Immanuel Kant, Königsberg, 1784

This motto is displayed prominently on the home page of our website HolocaustHandbooks.com. On August 27 of 2018, Ronald Unz posted a lengthy article on his website unz.com explaining in detail why he came to doubt the orthodox Holocaust narrative. It is a personal chronicle of him leaving his self-caused immaturity by mustering the determination and courage to use his own, considerable intelligence without being guided by others. He granted us the right to republish his article. It is included in this issue of Inconvenient History. I apologize for not publishing it earlier.

In this context of his maturing, Unz also approached me to acquire the right to post the entirety of our series Holocaust Handbooks on his website. We quickly came to an agreement in this regard. Hence, his quickly growing archive now includes our valuable material.

Unz is described by Wikipedia as a child of “a Ukrainian family of Jewish descent.”[1] I leave it up to the reader to come to grips with what exactly that means for Ron himself. His various writings do not indicate any allegiance to Judaism or Zionism as ideologies or to the self-chosen tribe as an ethnic entity. Quite to the contrary. His detractors would probably categorize him as a self-hating Jew, if they mention his family’s Jewish background at all. The ADL, for instance, in their hysterical attack on Ron for having written the very article you are about to read, does not mention his Jewish background at all.[2] That would only confuse their readers, and horribile dictu, could put them on a path of using their own intelligence without the ADL’s guidance. Who at the ADL would want to encourage that?

In the end, it doesn’t matter what we think about Ron’s background. What matters is that Ron gives his growing audience of skeptical minds a road map on how to overcome their self-caused immaturity by mustering the determination and courage to use their own intelligence without being guided by others, such as the ADL. This is the sine qua non for understanding the world, in which Holocaust propaganda plays a still increasingly large role. I am grateful to Ron for shining a light onto that path for his readers, so that they might follow.

We hope to feature more articles from Ron and other contributors to his website in the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Unz

[2] https://www.adl.org/resources/news/ron-unz-controversial-writer-and-funder-anti-israel-activists; https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/california-entrepreneur-ron-unz-launches-series-rhetorical-attacks-jews.