We won\u2019t be around to see this turn of events, which makes our lack of concern all the more appealing. \u00a0It\u2019s always nice to know that if you\u2019re wrong, it will be future generations that pay the price.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, the West is fading. \u00a0Trump\u2019s Poland speech, if nothing else, demonstrated that. \u00a0Not only was his speech critiqued, but so was the very idea of the existence of Western Civilization, and whether\u00a0\u00a0or not defending it should be\u00a0implicitly (or explicitly) linked to racism and grave evil.<\/p>\n
Ross Douthat commented on this<\/a>. \u00a0I was actually looking for this when I stumbled upon the last Douthat piece on Charlie Gard<\/a>. \u00a0 I usually try to stretch out my sources. \u00a0Nonetheless it\u2019s an interesting piece on post-Western thinking then compared to now.<\/p>\n It also made me reflect on one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century, if not all time. \u00a0Alexander Solzhenitsyn\u2019s legendary 1978 Harvard commencement address. \u00a0Rather than embarrass myself by trying to add a jot or tittle to his prophetic utterances, I\u2019ll leave you to listen to the man, the speech, the legend (which has proven to be more accurate today as it ever was in those hazy, crazy disco days of the late 70s):<\/p>\n