The Western World’s Self-demise Continues

The Western World’s Self-demise Continues

Paul Craig Roberts

Americans and the Western World face many threats that receive little, if any, attention because they are long term and slow acting.  They are not immediate in our face like Trump increasing tensions with Russia with his ultimatums and placement of nuclear armed submarines, or like the Democrats’ weaponization of law and media, or the West’s moral insouciance to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.  There are even worst things underway that are slowly destroying the West’s ability to continue its existence even if nuclear war can be avoided.

The West is being undermined by the destruction of its belief system.  The destruction of belief cuts across vast areas of life.  At this time I will mention two of our losses that are sufficient in themselves to destroy us without Russia unleashing its arsenal of hypersonic nuclear weapons. One is the replacement of an educated population by the emergence of an indoctrinated and uneducated generation that has not been imbued with an appreciation of their culture, which leaves the United States, Canada, and Europe without a population supportive of the “racist, exploitative countries” in which they have been taught they live.  The journalist Rachel Marsden explains that merit-based personal achievement is non-inclusive and its abandonment has resulted in the destruction  of education  in the Western World.  https://www.rt.com/news/622319-safe-spaces-killed-education/ 

As bad as it is, an education system that creates a population that cannot think and solve problems is not as serious as the feminist attack on women and on marriage and its commitments such as “for better or worse.”

Kay Hymowitz, writing in the City Journal, Summer 2025, reports on how divorce has become the thing to do for middle aged women to achieve self-realization in loving themselves rather than their husbands. https://www.city-journal.org/the-magazine#summer-2025 

In the new books, magazine articles, and movies divorce is the way middle-aged women achieve self-realization in self-love.   

Women have joined men in philandering.  Women want liberation from husbands and children.  They want sex.  Lots of it.  Being a middle aged harlot is liberating.  It is called “self-exploration” and “radical self-love.”  The women love themselves more than they love their husbands and children.  

The feminist  destruction of marriage is pushed by those who control Hollywood and TV movies, publishing houses, magazines and media, and is part of the ongoing attack on dispossessing Western gentiles of  family, the basis of social cohesion.  

Hymowitz describes our time as one of female joy produced by proud female self-sovereignty.  Men no longer have the option of a loving mutually supportive life-long relationship with a wife.  Instead of liberating women, feminism has destroyed them.  The concept of female has radically changed. Here are examples of Hollywood’s ideal woman today:   Beth Dutton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeD0y0FB3VI 

And Kathy Long,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Ymyp23K4E  , or if you want more female violence:             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miq-9wO2Llo ,

We have women kick boxers beating up one another  for spectators.  They are gladiators in the Roman Colosseum.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9bneqFzUYc

Attacks on the foundations of Western Civilization have been institutionalized, guaranteeing our descent into barbarism.