Western Civilization Is Not Worth Saving
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Western civilization is not worth saving. I think that’s been pretty well established by now.
That’s one of the silliest things about the way rightists are always babbling about how we need to protect our way of life from immigrants or Islam or “the trans agenda” or whatever. They’re beginning with the assumption that this train wreck of a society is worth saving at all.
I am not saying that westerners should die. I am not saying that all the ideals and values that westerners purport to hold are worthless. I am saying that this civilization, as it actually exists, is an indefensible disaster. Clearly.
Our way of living on this planet. The way we treat one another. The way we treat people on other continents. All the systems and social structures that give rise to the way things are. These things should not exist. We should not be the way that we are.
This civilization is genocidal. Ecocidal. Omnicidal. Imperialist. Racist. Dehumanizing. Degrading. Dystopian. Emotionally stunted. Culturally vapid. Spiritually impoverished. Intellectually enslaved. Why would any sane person want this to continue?
We don’t need to rescue western civilization from outside forces, we need to rescue ourselves from western civilization.
If we listen to our hearts we can understand that the call isn’t to save western civilization from corruption by foreign cultures or new ways of thinking, but to radically transform it from the murderous, tyrannical and oppressive nightmare that it has always been.
The western way of life doesn’t need to be preserved, it needs to end. We cannot keep doing this. We cannot go on this way. We cannot keep poisoning our planet, our minds, our hearts and our souls with the McGenocide ideology of the western empire. We are headed somewhere dark, somewhere none of us want to go, and we need to turn around.
Nothing about our old way of doing things has worked out for us. Everything we were doing before wound up bringing us to this terrible point. We don’t need to go backwards, and we don’t need to stay still. We need to evolve.
Gaza is a mirror. It’s showing us what we are. What we have always been.
It’s time to be real about what we are seeing.
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Such an important point! So many people are frustrated, hungry, homeless, feeling isolated. What kind of a civilization does that to its citizens?
Who is "we"? The workers of the West have been and are oppressed too. It is the capitalist ruling class that has despoiled the planet. To blame the oppressed as well as the oppressers, to ignore the realities of class exploitation, only furthers confusion and despair. Liberalism has failed. The goal of Socialism is the liberation of the global working class. That is worth saving indeed.