Gender ideology, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, trans-genderism, trans-species, post-humanism, trans-humanism, animalism, abortion rights, euthanasia, singularity, identity politics, racism, sex trafficking, political despotism, harvesting of human organs, climate change, pedophilia, globalism, the normalization of drug addiction, Satanism, post-truth, homo dues ─ the belief that with the help of science and technology humans can become gods. This assortment of ideologies, beliefs, movements, and creeds has gained popularity and wide acceptance by political parties, academic institutions, the media, governments, and every other area of society. This is so much the case that many of those ideologies have become policies for political parties and have even been passed and implemented as laws by many governments in the West.
This conglomeration of ideologies and movements champion civil rights, social justice, environmental sustainability, inclusivity, and many other seemingly good causes, but this impetus has also come to promote a disregard for moral and ethical restrictions, resulting in a hedonistic, self-indulgent attitude that has permeated 21st-century Western society. Desires, emotions, opinions, and personal interests have come to be the only things that condition and determine human behavior. In fact what has happened is that this general pervasive attitude has reinstituted a culturally pagan way of life that had been eradicated from the West by Christianity in the first centuries of our era.
To put this new situation into context and trace its development, here is what some sociologists, philosophers, and historians have been saying about this situation since the beginning of the 20th century:
–Christopher Dawson in his book Inquiries into Religion and Culture, first published in 1933: “Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been previously experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions or religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously faced the prospect of fundamentally altering the beliefs and institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests… Civilization is being uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and reconstituted in a new organization that is as artificial and mechanical as a modern factory.”
–Johan Huizinga in his book On the Shadows of Tomorrow in 1935: “We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow madness gave way to a frenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone. Everywhere there are doubts as to the solidity of our social structure, vague fears of the imminent future, a feeling that our civilization is on the way to ruin. They are not merely the shapeless anxieties that beset us in the small hours of the night when the flame of life burns low. They are considered expectations founded on observation and judgment of an overwhelming multitude of facts. …all things which once seemed sacred and immutable have now become unsettled, truth and humanity, justice and reason? We see forms of government no longer capable of functioning, production systems on the verge of collapse, social forces gone wild with power. The roaring engine of this tremendous time seems to be heading for a breakdown.”
–Martin Heidegger in an interview with Der Spiegel in 1966: “If I may answer quickly and perhaps somewhat vehemently, but from long reflection: Philosophy will not be able to bring about a direct change of the present state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all human meditations and endeavors. Only a god can still save us.”
– Marshall Berman in his book All that is Solid Melts in the Air, published in 1982: “To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises adventures, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world and that, at the same time, threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his acceptance address of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1993: “The failings of the human conscience deprived of its divine dimension have been a determining fact in all the major crimes of the twentieth century that began with the First World War. …This war took place when Europe fell into an outburst of self-mutilation that did no more than undermine its vitality throughout a century and perhaps forever.”
– Gertrude Himmelfarb in her book On Looking into the Abyss, published in 1994: “In the world of deconstruction, the interpreter takes precedence over the thing interpreted. Its most obvious aim is to weaken our hold on reality since it denies there is any reality for us to grasp.”
– Malcolm Muggeridge in his book Seeing Through the Eye, published posthumously in 2005: “It is difficult not to conclude that the man of the twentieth century decided to end himself. He causes the walls of his city to collapse until, in the end, he has brutalized himself to the point of imbecility…”
–Douglas Murray in his book The Strange Death of Europe, published in 2017: “Europe is committing suicide or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide.”
Western irrationality: https://youtu.be/Qx6R6Fy1_1w
Western apostasy: https://youtu.be/DkebEY0Sf5U