In his “West's Self-Assisted Suicide”, Michael Galak (https://quadrant.org.au/features/qed/wests-self-assisted-suicide/) regrets the lack of leaders like Churchill, Reagan, Menzies, Howard and their like. Instead of leaders like them, we now have the likes of Joe Biden, Merkel, Macron and, of course, Albanese.

What Galak regards as “the proudest achievement of the human species - Western Civilisation - is “quietly expiring” under the assault of relentless and determined enemies, who are “gathering for the kill”. And, as many of us would agree, some Westerners are aiding and abetting those out to destroy us.

Galak harks back to when the suicide probably started: the days of anti-nuclear badges, People for Nuclear Disarmament, the World Council of Churches etc, and the calls for universal disarmament - orchestrated “by Moscow”. (Mr. Galak is a refugee from the USSR).

Now the protests against the West by the West are more sophisticated, supposedly apolitical. The environment has been “weaponised”. The West is being undermined under the guise of “saving the planet”. The ‘pollution’ is transferred to non-Western countries who don't have any qualms or embarrassment about using fossil fuels to improve their wealth and, one day perhaps, finish off the foolish West forever. The more we import, the weaker we become. And, we still hand over money we don't really have (well only in red ink) to our enemies.

See what he means by “Self-Assisted Suicide”?

I think AI will hasten the demise !

Indyvidual

Possibly. But the biggest danger is within - our lack of interest, our ignorance of what is happening or, knowing it's happening and hiding our heads in the sand, afraid that we might be be laughed at and ridiculed. We need to be brave, and talk about it. We can't rely on politicians: they are part of, if not most of, the problem.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt said; “Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”, Roosevelt was talking about the Great Depression of the 1930's, but he could just have easily been talking about the problem of today. Here we are presented with buckets loads of fear from a Michael Galak, supported by the ever reliable fearful ttbn. Mr Galak seems to believe all the problems of the world would have been solved if only we had developed more atomic weapons and rained them down on our "enemies" before they had a chance to respond.

Indyvidual

As the one and only sensible responder to the thread, do you think that the lack of interest is one of the reasons the West will go under? Or do you think people know what is happening and are too scared stiff to talk about it? Or, like the only other responder, too stupid

Tbbt I think there is a serious concern about what this inbisile is talking about, i think he needs cico treatment. Definitely reading alternate news sources or ingesting things that should not happen. Plagiarising from communism propaganda or elsewhere for anti western values.