Meotti

More than dying, the West should fear that it is already dead

“More than dying, the West should fear that it is already dead". According to him, progressive Westernism is the senile disease of the West. A disease that Meotti describes with great wealth of information: his is a useful reportage on the western desert rather than an analysis of thought on the causes. A punctual catalog of nonsense. He dwells on the substitutions in progress, of nature and reality, but also of the elementary words to indicate it, such as father, mother, motherhood, normality. And about the distortions and falsifications of history.
Self-alienation becomes our ultimate identity, while society falls into aborted subcultures, until it becomes a caricature of modernity. He quotes Augusto del Noce, calling him the last Italian philosopher, but the quotation does not render del Noce's greatness because in reality it is not an original thought by Del Noce but by Eric Voegelin, whom Del Noce has repeatedly quoted: the repressive societies of the past exercised control of answers while the permissive society of the present is more radical, it forbids asking certain questions, which go beyond the atheistic, relativist, corrective horizon. It is the difference between the old authoritarian regimes and the new totalitarian regimes of the Orwellian type. Meotti attributes communitarianism to the destructive Western spirit, just like woke progressivism, because he identifies community with sect. In reality, Western ideology is individualistic and its diseases, from selfishness to egocentrism, from narcissism to isolation, they are the direct degeneration of individualism. The community is on the other side. Perhaps the preliminary distinction to make, quoting Oswald Spengler, is between Western civilization, which we actually prefer to define as European, and global civilization, which is the pure expansion of Western means and ways of living thanks to technology and economy. Their nihilistic standardization turns the Western canon, as Harold Bloom called it, into a dumping ground.
The western desert is inhabited by the Global Idiot well summed up by the declaration of the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, at the infamous Qatar World Cup: “Today I feel Qatari, Arab, African, gay and migrant. Europeans should apologize for what they have done to the world in the last three thousand years”, Ah, infantino infantino, a surname a destiny: what “they have done to the world in the last three thousand years” is called civilization. Then he says that one barricades himself in inner exile at his house…

The Truth – January 27, 2023
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