The West’s Self-Inflicted Wounds

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National Review:

Never has Western culture seemed so all-powerful.

 

Look at the 30 top-ranked universities in the world; they are all American, British, or European — albeit these rankings are based largely on the excellence of their science, engineering, medicine, and computer departments rather than their English and sociology departments.

 

The American West Coast changed the world’s daily lifestyle with Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Yahoo.

The worldwide reach of schlock American pop culture is frightening. Hollywood psychodramas, rap vulgarity, reality TV, crude body tattooing and piercing, and the sorry, unhinged Miley Cyrus find their way up the Nile and around Cape Horn.

The United States, even with recent defense cuts, has more conventional military power than nearly the rest of the globe combined. American oil entrepreneurs have changed the global energy calculus.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

 

The worldwide reach of schlock American pop culture is frightening. Hollywood psychodramas, rap vulgarity, reality TV, crude body tattooing and piercing, and the sorry, unhinged Miley Cyrus find their way up the Nile and around Cape Horn.

 

This is the sort of thing that feeds support for Radical Islam. Put yourself in the shoes of someone living in...(say) Morocco, and you come home one day to discover your son is watching Miley Cyrus, or the latest Rap video. Then some (Saudi trained) Imam tells you the west is at war with your faith, and they want to destroy it. What do you do?

 

 

 

Elites who are exempt by virtue of their money and influence from the consequences of living among millions of displaced Africans, Arabs, or Latin Americans berate ad nauseam their less-well-connected, supposedly illiberal fellow citizens. But note that no elite Westerner wants to face the cause of the malady: namely, that the failure in the Third World to adopt Western ideas of consensual government, equality between the sexes, free-market capitalism, individual liberty, and transparent meritocracy logically leads to mayhem and poverty.

 

To many of these people are embarrassed by our riches....note they are not willing to give up their easy life style, but neither are they willing to defend it. Except against those that won't kill them and steal their money....can we say Tea Party....NRA....Etc...Etc...Etc.?