VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The 4 Horsemen Of The Western Apocalypse
Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted — and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides.
These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth.
The global warming hysterics could not just entertain gradual transformations away from dependencies on traditional fuels and
power generation.
Instead, elites have demanded catastrophic and near-instant “net zero” mandates. That radicalism entailed transitioning to unreliable and costly solar and wind energy. Fuel and electricity prices then soared.
Germany, the once economic powerhouse of Europe, became a shell of its former self. The same efforts accelerated under the Obama and Biden administrations in the U.S.
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Second, for the last half-century, affluent Westerners embraced the idea that there were no normative lifestyles. Often, they claimed nuclear families with 2-3 children were parochial and passe.
Children supposedly inhibited the lifestyles and aspirations of women. Larger families, we were told, unfairly burdened upscale professionals with unneeded costs and offered biased and injurious models to gays, transgender people, and single, childless men and women.
The result is that the fertility rate
plummeted in the West, particularly in Europe (1.4) and the United States (1.6), to unsustainable levels.
The third horseman of the Western apocalypse was unrestricted and illegal immigration.
Again, the elites discarded a century of research and common sense that immigration into modern Western societies is only beneficial if it is legal, measured, diverse, meritocratic, and met with robust efforts of the host to integrate, acculturate, and assimilate foreigners.
The last horseman was a
new tribalism, euphemistically dubbed diversity/equity/inclusion.
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An elite Western class envisioned an entire set of reparatory actions for growing nonwhite populations to atone for purported prior, and sometimes ancient, sins of slavery, racism, colonialism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. They are all self-inflicted by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides.
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