- R. Piccolo, “Western Suicide,” discusses the thoughts of the late great British conservative political philosopher, Roger Scruton, who like many conservatives and Dissent Righters, saw Western civilisation under threat, precisely because it is “Western.” The primarily Leftist elites seek to destroy this for reasons Scruton does not pin down precisely enough for my taste. But he does make the point that Western civilisation has a universal, transcendental aspect to it: “"an inheritance, constantly expanding, constantly including new things. It is something which has given us the knowledge of the human heart, which has enabled us to produce not just wonderful economies and the wonderful ways of living in the world that are ours, but also the great works of art, the religions, the systems of law and government, all the other things which make it actually possible for us to recognize that we live in this world, insofar as possible, successfully." That's why "we shouldn't despair of Western civilization." We're talking about, he concluded, "an open, generous, and creative thing called civilization."
That is all well and good, and no doubt warms the cockles of the hearts of conservatives while drinking sweet tea next to a roaring fire, in some cosy university, or club. But the bitter reality now is that the West, even as Scruton defines it, is in a state of collapse, and the forces of Leftist destruction seem determined to push on the bitter endgame. One needs only consider the mass riots and burning of cities by the New Class savages in the US of 2020, the child grooming rapes of Europe, and soaring crime, and the immigration invasions leading to a rapid Great Replacement of the race of people who built all of the things Scruton romances about, to see that there are deeper problems facing us than faced the ancient Romans during their period of collapse. Yet conservatives have more difficulty facing what historians have depicted as the inevitable collapse of civilisations, than the average person nowadays has of facing the reality of personal death.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/western_suicide_.html
