Sure, as a Christian I realise that at the end of the day cultures will come and go, nations will rise and fall, and societies will only thrive temporarily. As C. S. Lewis said about the dignity of the individual as made in the image of God: “There are no ‘ordinary’ people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.” But even knowing that nations and cultures are not permanent, it still should grieve us greatly to see that which is for the most part so very good being obliterated by its enemies. We should weep over this war on our culture. 

No civilisation is perfect, but some are clearly better than others. For all its faults Western civilisation has been well worth championing, and it is now under full-scale attack by activists who seem to be utterly clueless or reckless about the alternatives they are proposing.

The idea that a political ideology – godless communism – that has resulted in the deliberate deaths of over 100 million people somehow is to be preferred to what we now have demonstrates the paucity of the left’s mental and moral abilities, and its complete ignorance of history.

These folks who are denouncing the West while singing the praises of socialism and Marxism really should just put their money where their mouth is – they should all get one-way tickets to socialist paradises and utopias like North Korea or Venezuela or Communist China. If they think these places are so far superior to what we find in the West, then they should go there and stop complaining about where they now live.

The war on the West has been going on for a long time now, whether via Marxist external revolution or Cultural Marxist internal evolution. The goal is the same: to eliminate the ‘decadent’ West and replace it with some Marxist state of sweetness and light.

For decades now radical lefties have been chanting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!” And they are in large measure succeeding. Whether it is the cancel culture, or wokedom, or the election of folks from the most radically leftist Democrat Party in American history, or the use of a health crisis to empower even more all-powerful Statism, the West certainly is in a bad way.

Indeed, for an entire year now I have been warning about how so many responses to the Rona in the West have resulted in the most unprecedented clampdowns on individual liberties and basic human rights in peacetime history. Tie all this in with things like the Great Reset, and you have the perfect storm brewing. See more on that here in this new article: billmuehlenberg.com/2021/03/27/the-not-so-great-reset/

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