Up until the middle of the 20th century, conquest was how much of the world ordered itself, and violence was how it was decided who would be the ruling power. In much of Africa, it has remained so. Violence, or the threat of it is how problems were solved in most interactions for most of human history around the world. The guy with the physical power to make others obey usually makes the rules.
While violence remains and sometimes breaks out in conflicts between or within nations, the truth is that the last 75 years have seen—admittedly largely midwifed by the United States’s power—a historic collapse in the number of deaths from war. Violence, at least in the West, has, for the most part, been abandoned in favor of other forms of decision-making. Whether it’s economic trade, international bodies like the UN, or diplomatic negotiations, when mortal conflict does break out, it’s typically the last of a long series of resolution attempts.
Why is this relevant in 2025? Because the civilization the West has developed has metastasized into idiocy on the part of much of the population, particularly among elites. Prosperity has, apparently, dulled their senses. They have zero understanding of actual history. They recline in their comfortable chairs, watch movies and TV shows, and read social media posts that tell them that the world is oppressed because of Western imperialism and that it was the violence of white Europeans that shattered humanity’s peaceful harmony.
The consequence of this historical ignorance and self-hatred is suicidal empathy. Across the West, leftist elites have indoctrinated much of the population to think that, somehow, the institutions and civilization that Europeans built will exist forever. That somehow—while simultaneously being evil—the essential building blocks of our relatively peaceful and prosperous civilization can and will survive regardless of who actually inhabits the West. They take Francis Fukuyama literally when he suggested history basically stopped because liberal democracies had won.
The logical result of this delusion is that, rather than strengthening the foundations of liberal democrat civilizations, elites instead import millions of mostly military-aged men who harken from a completely different worldview, Islam. Moreover, they do so with the expectation that these immigrants will assimilate and internalize those Western values.
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