The Battle for Civilization: Dismantling the Wests Lies
“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!” ― Robert E. Howard
The West is not the Best
The West has long spun the fairy story of “a battle for civilization” casting itself as the honourable knight on his silver steed, battling the dark, medieval barbaric forces of the “other”, those countries of the East, and in particular, the Muslim ones.
This fairy story has been further cynically utilised by “Israeli” spokespeople in their propaganda campaigns where they present “Israel” as the heroic, noble and enlightened counterpart to the West, that embodies the latter’s values and valiantly fights off the sea of terror surrounding it.
Public figures like the contemptuously lip-curling, lisping and simpering Douglas Murray, whose polemics range from overt racism through anti-immigration via Islamophobia to his hatred for the left, are part of the growing trend of right-wing claimants to being some kind of gatekeepers and protectors of West civilization and values.
Just as “Israel” has made a genocidal career of playing the democracy under attack and divinely ordained victim, people like Murray present the West as being under attack, even while it unleashes full scale carnage on others. Therefore “Israel” does indeed embody the values of the West - both deploying their “holier than thou” moral hypocrisy as a weapon.
All the racists, angry, right-wing ideologues, new fascist “Judaeo-Christian” strain of mainstream political thugs and big boy wannabes like Murray, are now aligning together to collectively flex against what they paint as leftie socialists, “Islamists” and those who they claim want to destroy the West.
Murrays books, which are populated with lurid and ludicrous claims of immigrants overrunning Western countries on rampages of heinous crime, are run through with racist disdain about the cultural practices of these lowly people with their menial jobs. His lazy tropes of brown, bearded immigrants in traditional garb, are as sophisticated as the 1950s boot polish “disguise” used to “ethnify” white Hollywood actors.
It seems, the likes of Murray have not encountered the hard-working immigrants who study industriously to be doctors so they can prop up the failing healthcare system in the UK; versus the native far right drunken slobs, who may not have attended public school like he has, but to whom his simplistic ideologies would strongly appeal, because they would justify their own useless existence and attribution of their failures to immigrants.
This “battle for civilization” - reclaiming the elevated Western culture from its would be Muslim and Eastern destroyers - is just a racist fairy story; countries such as Iran and Yemen are the cradle of civilization, with rich, aeons old traditions; and the Golden Age of Islam has yielded countless innovations within areas from algebra and trigonometry, to optics and surgery, that have been subsequently utilized by the West, if not extensively accredited.
When people like Murray claim that the West is “too weak” for Islam, instead of projecting the blame outwards onto the racialized other in a classic enactment of the kind of insular paranoia and oversimplification used to legitimize exclusionary politics and defensive nationalism; instead of using mendacious rhetoric that revels in creating a sense of diffuse, existential threat from a globalized enemy - perhaps he should examine that core weakness and address it honestly.
It is not another religion or race’s fault that the West has lost its compass, and that it lacks a rudder, after losing the glue traditionally provided by religion, for the cohesion of society’s moral and social fabric; the answer is not to revive some thuggish Judaeo-Christian movement of white supremacist crusaders to “defend” Western “civilization” through military flexing. But then, this is not really about reclaiming cultural values - it is about conquest.
In fact, the plundering, looting and pillaging of not only the crusades, but of Western imperialism, that significantly marks the heritage and identity of the West, seems to be what people like Murray want to retrieve and re-enact in their so-called revival of Western civilization. Murray is actually an atheist - his “admiration” of Judaeo-Christian values is in fact, part of a desire to assert and violently reinforce global Western dominance.
“Israel” equals Western Civilization? Savage, Sleazy and Morally Bankrupt
“Israel” has long been touted as the nub of Western civilization and enlightenment values, the only democracy in the Middle East (that tired and hackneyed slogan) and the proof of Western democracy in action; the privileged home to the once persecuted of Europe, that constitutes evidence of Europe’s gentility and advancement.
This is about right; as a home, haven and refuge to countless paedophiles and sex offenders (including Jewish American luminaries like celebrity directors Brett Ratner and Bryan Singer), as well as being the most heavily militarized state in the Middle East courtesy of Western money, one that uses its unique privilege to lash out at all its neighbours and then accuse them of being savages - it truly does represent Western colonial values to a tee.
It is actually a savage, sleazy and morally bankrupt colony festering with sociopathic racist violence and teeming with the criminally insane. From “mothers” who advocate Palestinian children being killed, to teenagers who block aid from reaching starving Palestinians, “Israeli” society, as witnessed through frequent online clips, news interviews and the verbal accounts of visitors, is mad; their social media forums are testimonies to the kind of psychopathy that is usually found in secure prisons.
If the West insists on telling us time and again, that “Israel” is their special ally and represents a concentrated microcosm of their longstanding liberal secular democratic values, perhaps we should believe them.
The colonial exploitation of those in other parts of the world, by any barbaric means, whilst holding a hypocritical stance of untouchably arrogant superiority is indeed the essence of Western colonialism.
Witness the empty procedurals that are enacted time and again by toothless bodies like the UNSC who go through their staid drama of majority voting for “urgent” action for a Gaza ceasefire, which is then routinely blocked by the US veto power vote; this is not just disingenuous “musical chairs” style performance that professes to adhere to “civilized” policies and rules while mocking them; but in fact also a ruse for other Western countries to hide their own stance behind.
The US is the thug that doesn’t mind standing up and declaring that it supports genocide and butchering of a civilian population; poodles like the UK and France can then look good, as if they would have acted had not their hands been tied.
In reality, this is a convenient dynamic and process for other countries to conceal their inaction behind, when if they so desired they could all have come together like they did to declare their allegiance to Ukraine, in what is a far, far more critical, indeed catastrophic situation that calls for urgent military intervention - but the fact is, it is their weapons and their policies that helped create and fuel the genocide.
Although the US is the obvious villain here, European powers are far from honourable. Make no mistake, this genocide has, from the start, been a Western colonial project shaped by imperial ambition and sustained with Western weapons.
As such, it represents the pinnacle and apotheosis of Western foreign policy, colonial domination and savagery, all wrapped up in a hypocritical shroud of accusatory finger pointing at the very people that it colludes in erasing.
Free Palestine; Dismantle “Israeli” Apartheid
There is relatively little compassion in the world when compared to the very plentiful anger or rage. I, too, have been angrier over the last few years — perhaps in large part in relation to the Internet 'angry algorithm' sending me the stories, etcetera, it has (unfortunately correctly) calculated will successfully agitate me into keeping the (I believe, overall societally-/socially-damaging) process going thus maximizing the number of clicks/scrolls I’ll provide it to sell to product advertisers.
Nonetheless, we, at least as individuals, can resist flawed yet normalized human/societal nature thus behavior. If enough people instead perform truly humane acts, positive change on a large(r) scale may result.
Perhaps somewhat relevant to this are the words of American sociologist Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), of Obedience Experiments fame/infamy: “It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception [and] awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.”
Still, the human race may so desperately need a unifying existential/fate-determining common cause, that an Earth-impacting asteroid threat or, better yet, a vicious extraterrestrial attack likely is what we have to collectively brutally endure together in order to survive the longer term from ourselves.
We all would unite for the first time ever and defend against, attack and eventually defeat the humanicidal multi-tentacled ETs, the latter needing to be an even greater nemesis than our own formidably divisive politics and perceptions of differences, both real and perceived — especially those involving race, religion and nationality.
During this much-needed human alliance, we’d be forced to work closely side-by-side together and experience thus witness just how humanly similar we are in the ways that really count. [Albeit, I've been told, one or more human parties might actually attempt to forge an alliance with the ETs to better their own chances for survival, thus indicating that our deficient human condition may be even worse than I had originally thought.]
Yet, maybe a half-century later when all traces of the nightmarish ET invasion are gone, we’ll inevitably revert to those same politics to which we humans seem so collectively hopelessly prone — including the politics of scale. And, yet once again, we slide downwards.
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PostScript: Before non-Caucasian people became the primary source of newcomers to North America, thick-accented Eastern Europeans were the main targets of meanspirited Anglo-Saxon bigotry. As a thick-accented/broken-English 1950s Eastern-European immigrant to Canada, my (now-late) father experienced such mistreatment. ... If Canada and the U.S. were to revert back to a primarily Caucasian populace, if not some hypothetical VDARE whites-only ‘utopia’, I wouldn’t be surprised if Eastern Europeans with a thick Slavic accent would inevitably again become the main target of bigotry within the dominant Euro-Canadian/American ethnicity/populace.