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+How West Does Not Decline
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+:date: 2022-01-03T22:29:50
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: review, cultureWar, blogComment
+
+(my comments on “`Looking Forward as the West Declines`_” by author)
+
+
+.. _`Looking Forward as the West Declines`:
+    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/looking-forward-as-the-west-declines/
+
+Well, it is truly intellectual discourse when you start labelling
+your opponents as idiots (the author started with comparing his
+opponents with Hitler in first two paragraphs).
+
+Oswald Spengler’s “Decline of the West” is one of the weirdest
+books in the area of political science. It really doesn’t looks
+like a scientific book at all. Certainly its proposition is not
+verifiable/falsifiable, it is not possible to find out whether
+its conclusion is false or not. It was wrong in the time of its
+publication, because the West certainly didn’t head towards the
+decline, but 1918 was in the beginning of the absolute dominance
+of the West for the next almost century (at least), where history
+of the rest of the world was just unimportant footnotes on the
+history of West. This period is also called “The American
+Century” which very obviously signifies such decline of the
+Euro-atlantic civilization.
+
+Or perhaps it is actually religious eschatological vision of the
+doom which will come sometime in future, like century or more in
+future, and then I don’t care about it. Certainly it doesn’t
+look like the prophecy inspired by the Holy Spirit, it lacks the
+basic signs from 1Co 14 or 2Ti 3:16.
+
+Or it is just a blather, where any time you don’t like what’s
+going on around you can claim to be The Decline and hoping that
+everybody will forget what nonsense you were forecasting when the
+situation gets better.
+
+OK, I don’t like this book. Back to your article.
+
+The claims without any evidence, that there is “the collapse of
+moral norms and civilizational standards on both sides of the
+Atlantic Ocean.” I really don’t like this statement. Let me
+dispute this a little bit. Yes, claiming decay and oncoming doom
+is popular trope for all preachers of all times, and you can find
+it in any eschatological sermon as proof of the Second Coming of
+Christ (“`Death Comes Unexpectedly!`_” of course, this is a joke,
+but how many sermons, political speeches, etc. are written on the
+same pattern of making people worried so they are willing to
+accept a medicine suggested by the preacher; after all, that was
+the same pattern which made Germans to accept The Final Solution,
+because it was claimed to be the only emergency solution against
+the destruction of whole nation by Jews; we don’t hate Jews, we
+are just defending ourselves!), but where is the actual proof
+that the situation in the world actually declines.
+
+I liked the book “`The Progress Paradox`_” by Gregg Easterbrook,
+not so much for its conclusions which are rather vague, but for
+the large amount of statistical evidence that in every measurable
+aspect of life situation in US of 2000 was by far the best ever?
+And he was not measuring just a material welfare, but also every
+possible social pathologies. “Yes, we are more wealthy, but our
+morals are falling apart!” No, there is a long line of social
+pathologies (alcoholism, teenage pregnancy, drugs addictions,
+divorces, abortions … actual, even when they were illegal, etc.)
+where he shows huge improvement against the past.
+
+What if in fact we are living in the thirtiest richest nation on
+the Earth? What if the Czech nation has it never ever so good in
+any aspect of life, material, moral, or anything else? What if
+“[…] all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of
+thing will be well.”?
+
+
+> As a result, the Old Continent is increasingly populated by
+aliens physically residing in Berlin, Toulon, or Leeds, but
+spiritually in Anatolia, Punjab, or the Maghreb. 
+
+How do you know? There is plenty of evidence that the
+accommodation of even Muslim immigrants in Europe is not that
+different from the accommodation of Italian and Eastern European
+immigrants to America in early 1900s.
+
+> Today’s “United Europe” is light years away from the civilized
+and, on the whole, decent community of nations which existed
+before 1914.
+
+That civilized and decent community lead multiple wars in the
+nineteenth century all over the Europe, and resulted in
+the First World War. Decadent and barbaric Europe post-1945 had
+one local war (falling apart of Yugoslavia).
+
+.. _`Death Comes Unexpectedly!`:
+   https://youtu.be/t7kA2idaLCo
+
+.. _`The Progress Paradox`:
+   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBJDUW/