John Wilder has a new post: "The Defeat Of The West?" John offers some thoughts on Emmanuel Todd’s latest book, La Défaite de l’Occident (“The Defeat of the West”), stating:
In Todd’s view, the collective West is collapsing, compared to “stable” powers like Russia and China. The West’s decline isn’t from bad luck or Russian super-spies, nope. It comes from the rotting foundations of the West itself.
John's discussion covers the de-industrialization of the West, the fiat economy, and a deep moral rot resulting in a deep nihilism and rejection of Christianity, with one of the primary examples being the legalization of gay marriage.
Todd’s book substantiates the politically incorrect that I’ve been championing forever: nationalism trumps globalism. The West is exhausted, defeated not by conquest but by its own nihilism leading to that most Evil philosophy of all: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
Read the whole thing.
Been a while since I've heard Russia or China being called stable (an appropriate use of quotation marks, right there), but true on all other points.
ReplyDeleteProbably stable in the sense that they don't have large, disruptive populations within their borders.
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