Didn’t check for typos and errors, am sure there are many. Yet I managed to piece together my arguments on the prevalent stupidity in the West, satisfied with the result.
# Lament for the West — Cancel the Woke Before It’s Too Late
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Welcome mbd!
Thank you for posting your essay.
I recognize the truth of much that you say. I would quibble only with some details (eg. it was not the “Germanic nations” that achieved the most for all humankind but the AngloSaxons, i.e. the British, which includes America) but they in no way invalidate your main thesis: the West was great (especially since the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution); it is now decaying; it can yet recover.
I would like to be sure it will recover. Certainly it is self-destroying. It has no real rival in the East.
Footnote: I too admire what Ataturk achieved. Will his Turkey revive?
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Hello - or “well found” as we say in Turkish 
That “Germanic nations” part is not mine, I quoted it from Spengler and indicated with italic, but it seems I should have underlined it was a quote.
Will Turkey revive? I think so, because Atatürk’s transformation was actually accelerated by the 20 year Islamist rule. For most of us, benefits of a secular republic was a given, now people feel deeply what happens in its absence. Many people who did not pay much attention to the “vigil for secularism” are now devoted secularists ready to do sth real should need arise. Sometimes such catastrophes are more educational than years of propaganda by the intellectuals and bureaucrats.
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That’s very encouraging.
A secular Turkey friendly to a recovered West would be a great boon to the world.
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Interesting essay!
The industrial revolution may have resulted in horrible things, but overall it was the single most significant development in history in raising standards of living for the entire world.
(You allude to this in your concluding paragraphs)
I would say the “second religion” is Marxism, from which all of this “woke” nonsense arises.
Marxism is basically a sort of death cult, who’s goal is to destroy civilization, by people who - as you point out - wouldn’t even be able to indulge in such nonsense if it weren’t for the very achievements they want to destroy.
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Excellent point, Liz!
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This new wave of Marxism is unique: They are no longer expecting the proletariat to be pioneers of the revolution. Instead they now rely on the lumpenproletariat and the intellectuals, the lowest and the highest classes. This is the reason they use LGBTZSYTYSA movements as their batterin rams, they just want to scatter the “establishment” with the "marginal"s and then they would like to create a new sociological structure.
Though I do not like conspiracy theories, I believe there is some “good reason” for big companies to support anti-family, anti-gender roles campaigns, as those campaigns would result in a new society without family and nation bonds, which would mean people would turn into worker-bees. I am planning to translate another essay into Eng. to make my arguments clear on this. Will share when I finish the translation.
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Yes, they are anti-family because they want children to be raised (and indoctrinated) by the State, so that they will be, as you say, worker bees with a “hive mind” - a mind controlled by the State.
Look forward to your essay!
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