THE WEST IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(From The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats)
The signs of chaos and disintegration can be seen in almost all western nations. Its citizens find growing despair within them as political rogues and fools rule them from far above while designer criminals rake in millions from countless elite schemes.
In Britain, a fool by the name of Johnson makes up his own rules to aggrandize himself at the expense of the British taxpayer.
In France over 1,200 French generals, officers, service members and police personnel sign an open letter to the French government of the growing threat of civil war.
In North America a geriatric thug takes the place of a serial lying sociopath then forlornly calls for unity as two armies prepare for battle.
The European Union devises a scheme doomed to failure to pay illegal immigrants to go home to nations devastated by the West’s wars.
In Italy, the Covid dead lie in their coffins for up to a year awaiting burial as the tents they occupy fill to capacity and beyond.
Britain stares economic collapse in the face as it recognizes the completely haphazard and inadequate responses of its leaders to the Covid crisis and its exit from the EU.
America awaits its own catastrophic descent from an already desperate and debt-laden existence to further middle and lower class penury while its elites profit enormously.
France cannot escape the protests to come as the protestors return to the streets demanding change from Macron’s disastrous presidency.
In each western nation demonstrators protest their lack of faith in those who govern them, mistrustful of all they say, wise to their endless lies and clear incompetence.
The West is in the process of coming apart at the seams.
Liberals continue to insist on woke nonsense that serves only to aggravate situations crying out for simple common sense.
Those of us who were rebellious in our youth recognize the kind of views held by those wanting total freedom without assuming any responsibility. It was a wonderful dream but totally unrealistic and ultimately destructive of the solid values that came before. In retrospect what a lazy and self-entitled dream of hedonistic license it was.
There can be compassion and understanding without upending all previous norms. It seems to me we should do all we can to help those in need when we have the means. A universal basic income to create a foundation for life for everyone should be a primary global goal in my opinion.
But the way of the West where total freedom without responsibility and casting aside of all traditional values and mores are not, in my opinion, the way forward to a planet where we can live in unity, with decent values expressed one to another.
Isn’t it clear that disorder cannot lead to orderly progress? The path ahead for the West is shrouded in a fog of confusion where thousands of different interests claim precedence and overarching this melee of idiocy and chaos are elites reaping ever-growing benefits sucked up from the dysfunction below.
Many in the West bucked against tradition and traditional ways of thinking in the Sixties. They negated what their parents had gone through in World War II thinking them less than them in mentality.
There is no decent way forward with the kind of anarchy of freedom some want in the West.
If anyone is in any doubt about this I advise a trip to the USA when it becomes possible. There you will see where total freedom without responsibility and the catastrophic decline in traditional values takes you.
In the West, across recent years we have seen a willful disintegration of values, not their preservation. When warmongering western politicians, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, talk of the merits of ‘western liberal values’ we must ask; "Where are these values?" When did mass murder and the telling of lies to initiate mass murder become western liberal values?
The anchors of decency that have previously held western societies together in the past, those that faced down the Nazis against all odds, the bedrock of a truly caring society rather than one that mouths the right humanitarian phrases at all the right moments... where are they now in the West, they are fast fading from our sight. And who is replacing them in the West?
Howling hedonists demanding their “rights”? Conspiracy theorist lunatics pointing to every fantastic idiocy their deranged mentalities bring to their paranoid attention? City types who think only in terms of cold calculation and personal reward? The selfish, the self-interested, the egotistically rabid, sharp-elbowed social climbers and pseudo-celebrities?
If these are those the West hopes to take them forward to a bright new liberal tomorrow then Heaven help them.
There is no sign that a u-turn away from this madness is possible, never mind wished for.
The West is spinning ever downward, out of control, convinced its future lies in bringing down the last few nations still maintaining values of stability.
The strong values in Russia, China and elsewhere have survived the test of time and must not be lost to western influences now. They will be vital in creating the vibrant, dynamic but solidly based framework of the future.
If the West is foolish enough to continue embracing the lunacy of social irresponsibility I see no hope for it but to continue its descent, spinning further and further out of control.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(From The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats)