GOING NOWHERE
by J. R. Nyquist

Looking back to the squalor of the 10th century, to the near-universal poverty of ancient Greece and Rome, it is astounding to see the prosperity of the modern world. In this context, the poverty of Africa or Latin America is hardly shocking. By historical standards, poverty is normal. Wealth and freedom are abnormal – the unique achievement of certain European peoples. But West European culture is under assault. The culture of freedom is giving way to a despotic multiculturalism. The desire for universal equality promises to put an end to freedom. With our own hands we destroy our civilization’s root identity. To preserve a delicate and impossible peace between the tribes and sects of mankind, we embrace a series of fabrications. All tribes, we say, can live together in peace. All sects can live together in harmony. What has happened to previous generations won’t happen to us. Economic decline and destructive war cannot happen here. And so, realistic policies are shelved. Wishful thinking takes the helm, and sails off the edge of Thomas Friedman’s flat earth.


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