While it has become fashionable to find fault with Western civilization, a world without the West would not be a pleasant place for anyone accustomed to peace, prosperity, and personal liberty.
By Selwyn Duke
Coming out of his sociology class, Jayson was stoked. Wading into current events, his instructor, Professor Berger, had mentioned that not only did Joe Biden offer developing nations “climate reparations” at the recent COP27 climate summit, but that their university had agreed to drop its Western Civ. requirement. “Finally,” he thought, “progress!” as he got into his car to make the 50-minute trip to his girlfriend’s house to meet her parents. Jayson was still mad, though. “I hate this @#$^&*! Western society,” he said to himself, “with its structural racism, patriarchal and heteronormative oppression — and Christian fundies. We’ve gotta' end it!” Yet he was risking ending himself. Fiddling with his electronics while trying to play some music and, again, quite exercised, he didn’t notice he was taking the approaching curve a bit too fast and that, after the day’s rains, some mud was slickening the road. Fear coursed through him as he lost control of the car — and spun down into a gully.
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Western Civilization improved on the past to forge material gains of comfort through a series changes building on each other. Is it without faults ? No. However, it is built by a group of minority peoples compared to the rest of the World.
Minorities built our current World, with human nature still serving good and bad onto each other from each "corner" of the World.
Self-Government is the modern force behind Western Civilization, but is under attack from within by those holding to notions that dictatorship is the only way to control people. Self-Government is the machine which needs its people to actively monitor it, whereas dictatorship only needs subservience. And, it's this subservience which too many find comfort in.
Posted by: Eric Hodgdon | February 24, 2023 at 10:35 PM