{"id":68148,"date":"2015-12-28T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=68148"},"modified":"2018-04-08T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T11:02:30","slug":"anglo-america-eu-the-west-a-prognosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/anglo-america-eu-the-west-a-prognosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-America, EU, the West: A Prognosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks dear Oxford students for the Xmas gift, challenging the cult of Cecil Rhodes<\/a>–colonialist, classist, racist. He was also an Aryan supremacist, like Hitler but for the Anglo-Saxon variety, against the German (and often criticized<\/a> in this column<\/a>). The commemorative plaque has been removed. The statue may follow.<\/p>\n

Maybe also the “Rhodes Scholarship”, as ‘certificate of excellence?’<\/p>\n

\"Cecil<\/a>

Cecil Rhodes<\/p><\/div>\n

Much will join Cecil Rhodes and another racist, Woodrow Wilson, down the drain. Like Western economic supremacy. In 1980 G7–USA-Canada-UK-Germany-France-Italy-Japan–had 62% of Gross World Product, BRICS had 15%. In 2015, only 35 years later, G7 is halved and BRICS doubled; at 31% in 2020, a comfortable lead for BRICS is predicted; 34% against 29% (International Spectator). West “Out-competed”.<\/p>\n

But what happens is deeper than share of GWP. Or USA losing wars. Or decreasing US political clout. With only US cultural power left.<\/p>\n

The whole West suffering from fatigue, partly as victim of its own success, partly for lack of Ibn Khaldun’s asabiyyah<\/em>, solidarity? The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?<\/em>, Part III, is the Fall of the Roman Empire, written in 1976, making comparisons on these points.<\/p>\n

So, what is our prognosis today, 40 years later, on that basis?<\/p>\n

The Roman Empire split along religious lines, Catholic\/Orthodox, in 395. The Western part fell in 476, the Eastern lasted till 1453. Today’s Western Empire also has two parts split along religious lines, US (National) Evangelism\/EU (Christian-) Secularism. Orthodoxy was buoyed by “Christ has arisen!” optimism; West Rome bogged down by sado-masochism, original sin, and Satan. Like today in USA. But EU secularism hitches on to the idea of progress, almost irreversible.<\/p>\n

US theology–God and Market–at the expense of rationality. And EU rationality–techno- bureau-cracy–at the expense of demo-cracy.<\/p>\n

Mentalities, deep cultures, matter. More so the deeper they are.<\/p>\n

A prognosis if nothing basic is done across more than 1600 years:<\/p>\n