The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

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He firmly believes that “all requirements should be treated as recommendations”; that it is his destiny to make humankind a multi-planetary civilization through innovations in space travel; that government is generally an impediment and that “the thought police are gaining power”; and that “a maniacal sense of urgency” should guide his businesses. Its ethos is the burning conviction that the privileged, elitist and white West is the problem, and its dismantling is the solution. The latest are "China's Urban Revolution" (Bloomsbury) and "New Chinese Architecture: Twenty Women Building the Future" (Thames and Hudson). Murray shared: “Firstly, I think that this intellectual mob is willing to do anything and is highly motivated by revenge among other instincts; and that’s a very deep instinct, the instinct of revenge against the West.

if your goal is to totally reform morality, it's very hard thing to do how do you convince people the everything they believe is good is actually bad. no, you understand what has happened on every continent that people have been going to war since the dawn of humidity. The author also pointed out this was similar across the pond, believing there’s a religious element to this culture war.

In “The Strange Death of Europe” Murray was profoundly pessimistic about the future direction of the West. Far from being a nationalistic defence of the West, the book is actually sympathetic to a genuine cosmopolitan, liberal outlook. He has been Associate Editor at The Spectator magazine since 2012 and has written regularly there, as well as for other publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Mail on Sunday and National Review.

they hear the word slavery and associated only with the west hasn't been the norm for the 10000 year. in an american city, not wanting a million people in america no first of all that there was a slave trade going east or secondly the reason why there are no descendents is because the arabs castrated all of the men in major there would be no defendants. Here we get the almost unsayable: a full-throated hymn to its permanent and continuing contributions. Yet, as Murray points out, the Enlightenment was a massive step forward for the concept of objective truth and the value of reason. A sign commemorating the arrival of the first Africans is displayed at Chesapeake Bay, in Hampton, Virginia, U.

After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? He also skewers the inconsistencies, historical distortions and blatant hypocrisy at work among the West’s attackers. There was no need to circle the wagons around English culture in the same way that conservatives do to the Western tradition today. There’s something very sinister when the most damaging claims against a person in society are not provable and not disprovable. as you pointed out "the war on the west" there is a strand of philosophy that does not come under criticism that is a marxist strand.