Durability
Despite the best efforts of self-loathing Utopians, Western civilization is still standing.
Western civilization has undergone a long period of resentment for how it developed without those who resent it ever asking if that process of development was necessary to achieve the progress and goals it has achieved.
People speak of Western civilization as if it is static and never changes and that is wrong. Western civilization is a large sieve, sifting out the useful and discarding the rest.
Were some cultures destroyed as Western civilization marched across the globe?
They were – but that is nothing new in human history. The weak have always been subsumed by the strong, inferior cultures were destroyed – but the redeeming aspects of those cultures were absorbed.
Was the destruction of those cultures fair?
Of course not, but in the rawness of history might made right – it is only relatively recently (say, the last 400 years or so) that mankind began to fight battles politically and philosophically rather than at the point of a spear or the edge of the sword.
Was the destruction of those cultures necessary?
I began to think about this when I read that Iraq, a country on which America spent trillions of nation-building dollars and thousands of lives to relieve them from war, oppression and seventh century ideologies and theologies, is set to change its laws to allow men to marry girls as young as nine and strip women of rights around divorce, child custody and inheritance.
Looking and what the Taliban has done in Afghanistan after Biden did a Sir Robin and bravely ran away and the law changes in Iraq, I think I can make a convincing argument those cultures in Afghanistan and Iraq should have been destroyed.
There is no argument that modern life could not exist if it was based on the world of 500 years ago (not even what existed 100 years ago) and people arguing that we should get rid of modern advancements have never tried to live without them. It seems the idea is that things would just stay the same and humans could just frolic in flowered meadows with the unicorns, and we would still have food at our fingertips and our mobile devices would still have the Internet.
Yeah, that ain’t the way it works.
The supply chain disruptions experienced during the Covid pandemic were a picnic compared to the collapse that would happen if we chose to “End Oil” as the idiot eco-wankers claim to want to do.
It works that way with culture and societies, too.
People who resent where our evolution has brought us have been championing and executing ideas with random abandon and no idea what damage they might do, simply because they wanted something different. They didn’t know if what came next would be better, they were so consumed with loathing for the life of relative ease and freedom we have been bequeathed, they didn’t care.
That is what the idiocy of the so called “woke” movement was.
It was an attempt to rewrite and redefine everything in such a way that normal, daily life was a crime in hopes that the Western world would simply self-destruct under the weight of unreconcilable contradictions.
Thankfully, Western civilization possesses a high degree of resilience and durability.