US conservative journalist Victor Davis Hanson, puts the grim story that the West is facing existential crises similar to that faced by the Roman Empire in its fall. He does not mention economic aspects, such as inflation and crippling taxes, but add those to the modern list. His core concern is cultural decadence and decay, seen in crumbling infrastructure (train wrecks et.), but also riots, homeless tent cities and spiralling crime. Cities like Baltimore because no-go zones, but this is also well advanced in Europe, especially France and Sweden. Open borders not only are leading to Camp of the Saints displacements of locals, but with the open borders come vast quantities of drugs such a fentanyl, which with the help of communist China, kills over 100,000 Americans a year. Australia has its own local drug problem with an “ice’ epidemic. That is not even mentioning the cultural wars waged by the Left.
Hanson does not mention any fast and easy solution, because there are none to such “wicked” problems, which are interrelated and compounding. Clearly, we need to be articulating fearlessly what we face, even if at best for the time, we can only hold back the flood waters. Hopefully at some point the great mass of inert humanity will awake in fright. It may be happening now with the Covid issue, a bit late, but better than never at all.