The West’s rush to extinction

Anthony D. writes:

I often ask myself whether endless Western concessions to the Other will someday reach a breaking point. Would such an event awake us in time to undo the massive damage done to EVERY Western society? Is in fact the modern West undergoing a transitional event representing the final and inevitable result of its very nature and substance? This would mean that the West is fated to evolve as a function of its overwhelming freedom ethos into total liberation from itself and its ideals. A self-extinction resulting from an inherent defect. Yet this defect was dormant for much of the history of the Republic, only manifesting itself in full fury in the liberalism of the 1960s.

As evidence of a yet unconfirmed terminal prognosis of the West persists, symptoms like racial preference laws, self-imposed sanctions for celebrating traditional Christian holiday traditions, (e.g., the banning of hot cross buns in England, the rejection of a centuries-old burning of effigies of Mohammed in Spain, etc.), the foreign becomes domestic, and we become more like them. In America, the demographic transformation is staggering, and the civilizational shift it is fostering is anti-Western in character.

If our tolerance of the intolerant religion of Islam and our starry-eyed admiration and indeed shameless promotion of gigantic numbers of totally un-Americanized immigrants continue for a few generations, there will be a brand new America, totally unlike the old America and so much a cross section of the entire world it worships that it will indeed become a melting pot, not of people, but of every human calamity the rest of the world can import here.

I ask if the new America is legitimate since it is clear that its birth was a result of political fiat by cultural elites. In a sense it is born of the rejection of everything America is, down to the very notion of America even remaining a sovereign nation at all.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 15, 2006 04:07 PM | Send