Western Civilization is Inevitable
It is as natural as a thunderstorm, it doesn't need a reason, it just is.
I've always been intrigued with Jefferson and his contemporaries.
Had Jefferson not heeded the call of Nature and Nature's God to create a new nation, something never before seen on the face of this earth, he would be remembered as one of the greatest philosophers of his time - or any other, for that matter.
Jefferson was a brilliant and complex man, the degree of which is exemplified by this quote of President John F. Kennedy, offered at a 1962 White House Dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the western hemisphere:
"I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
I've often wondered why Jefferson chose to use the phrase "Nature and Nature's God" in the Declaration of Independence.
I've come to believe Jefferson and the other Founders saw the birth of a new nation, one based in Western civilization and designed with degrees of individual liberty never before seen, as a natural event that might be postponed but never arrested.
History proves that Western civilization is a juggernaut that continues to get stronger every time it is challenged. It feeds and grows, not on or by the destruction of inferior cultures, rather it harvests from them, incorporating the good and necessary aspects of subsumed cultures while discarding the bad and useless aspects - like separating wheat from chaff.
It is undeniably a natural process, a combination of creationism and evolution, springing from divine inspiration while adapting to every change in environment and habitat.
Being a natural process means it is inevitable - in a "circle of life" sort of way.
But there are always those who resent the success of natural things.
These are people who subscribe to the idea they are greater than Nature and Nature's God and seek to replace nature with humanism. Nature, being one with God, doesn't make mistakes, it just is - a storm doesn't need a reason to be a storm, it is its own reason - such is not the case with humans, so what they seek to improve must first be destroyed.
So much is written about the destruction of Western civilization and culture, but rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated.
Nature always survives any handiwork of mankind, good or bad.