Posted on 04/16/2022 7:30:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The rest of the world is noticing the West’s pronoun madness, trans madness, grooming madness, and other evils, and is drawing the obvious conclusions. The deputy commander-in-chief for coordination of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, said in a recent interview on Iranian TV that Europeans were losing the sense of their own national identity, and that the Western lifestyle had placed European societies on the path to extinction. He could have said exactly the same thing about the United States of America.
The March 31 exchange on Iran’s Ofogh TV began when an interviewer asked Naghdi: “If I am not mistaken, you expressed an opinion about the French national soccer team. You said that out of the 23 team members, 15 were Africans, and that of the 12 members of their national basketball team, ten were Africans. You inferred that France has no national identity.” It was an interesting question, because if an interviewer had asked it in France or any other country in Europe, or in the U.S., he or she would have been excoriated as a “racist” and likely fired, simply for asking the question. When a topic, any topic, can be more freely discussed on Iranian TV than on American TV, you know there is something wrong.
Naghdi didn’t berate the interviewer for “bigotry.” Instead, he answered: “The West delineates a certain lifestyle for societies, and how we should live. What has this done to the West itself? It has caused negative population growth, which forces them to import population from abroad. European societies will reach a point, within several decades, where you will have to search for a single person of the European race in France or in England, for example.”
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In this situation, there is no more meaning to national identity.
According to statistics, if you hold free elections in England in 2060, a Pakistani or an Indian will be the prime minister, and [British] Parliament will be filled with [immigrants] from Iraq, India, and so on. What will be the meaning of national identity there? There will be no such thing as the English people anymore. This will be a different nation and different society.
Western society is heading towards extinction. Nobody is willing to get married anymore. They live with dogs, crocodiles, and cats. Nobody is willing to give birth to children, raise them, and build a life. This lifestyle they created… In England, they presented a new cabinet member for loneliness affairs.
Any society that adopts hedonism and the pleasure of the individual as the highest good, even at the expense of future generations, will suffer the same fate.
No, it’s Democrats who do that.
Just look at the obesity epidemic. Mexico has that problem too. It started there. People got lazy.
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Its not the western lifestyle at all. Its the western uber-class and swamp. They are trying to kill off the current civilization. They will destabilize it. But doing so they will end up killing themselves. It will be like Trotsky and Stalin. Or the roman senate and Augustus. The elite always succomb to the powerful. Hindenburg, the very old “reasonable” choice of the elites succumbed to Hitler.
A lot of that is due to the harsh anti-father gov’t and legal institutions in western culture. In Islamic culture, men have all the rights to the children as was the case back in 19th century western culture.
Not so sure western culture has “evolved.” The Gynocracy has led to the present situation we see now (LGBTQ LMNOP, pedo rights, etc.)
The U.S. will become a lot more Mormon and Amish by 2050 as well as Hispanic. It won’t be as “woke” by then.
“the Western lifestyle had placed European societies on the path to extinction.He could have said exactly the same thing about the United States of America”
He could have said the same thing about the current regime in Iran. Of course he’d be arrested and executed if he did.
Spencer is using regime propaganda and I’m sure the regime appreciates it. This is how the regime gets their own people to buy into their beliefs and make them conform.
If Spencer wants to make a point, he should choose another method for doing so.
Exactly. The western lifestyle is fine, it’s the socialist lifestyle that destroys. They breed generations of “gimme dats” and before you know it the inmates are running the asylum.
The left are succeeding in imprisoning cops,who do,their jobs, while enabling and encouraging cri inals by making it illegal for cops to,do their jobs. Thr left are engaged in a hostile takeover of this country, and they are using cri inals and domestic terrorists blm and antifa and the feckless msm and courts and judges etc to accomplish it
Yes, that this is a culture so rotten decadent and weakened that it cannot survive. Not without reform and renaissance.
As a whole I believe Western Europe has a brith rate well below replacement. Most Europeans either can't be bothered to or are too poor to have families. We are only a little ahead in that new immigrants are still having numerous children. As Mark Steyn says, the further belongs to those who show up.
It’s a good topic for extended discussion. Won’t find it here. Think Spain 1492 kicking everybody out. Then there’s Augusto Pinochet. Will this happen? Franco in Spain was pretty nasty for 30+ years. Do we sacrifice our generation for the common good? Either way we’re all sheep and there are no sheepdogs, just wolves out there. In the meantime the ‘common good’ definition is evolving.
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But, I have to say my theory is that “liberals” actually take the Christian ethos, which they despise, to extremes. Sometimes literally, sometimes just stretching the philosophy to cover ANYthing. Often quoting “cast the first stone” but ignoring the “go and SIN NO MORE” part.
Everything has to be “nice” with liberals….to the point of celebrating, not just TOLERATING which is what Christians are called to do, perversity and clear mental illness and even laziness and meanness (rioting - if it’s the right group).
Further they don’t want to upset anyone, which would be mean, so they don’t dare criticize other cultures/races etc. Then, it gets to the point anyone behaving thus is suddenly ripped apart like nothing.
And thus the Christian culture ironically falls apart.
I am not sure if it’s the Western lifestyle as much as Information Technology. I don’t think we fully understand how having immediate access to unlimited information impacts the human brain. That, plus the general abundance provided by technology gives people a feeling that there are no consequences for your actions. It is even pervading other cultures, especially the Eastern ones.
By the way, Nietzche predicted the current state of affairs nearly two centuries ago.
You understand reality.
Bringing in feminism and removing Jesus. Cultural poison. Now, with all of the degeneracy, we have massive inflation to go along with it. Only really rich societies have time for this garbage. It’s all collapsing before our eyes. Tax cuts will not solve this. War in the Ukraine or Syria or the next place the elites want it will not solve this. Vaccines will not solve this. Voting will not solve this. Only a focus on Christ will ensure that something emerges from the rubble. We are not in an economic or political crises; our entire culture suffers from a spiritual disease. We are in for a rough patch.
According to David Goldman (ie. Spengler) Iran is eliminating itself even faster. Their Persian birth-rate is below even European levels, while their minority non-Persian population is at ever-increasing share. Also according to him, they have a huge hidden drug problem, larger than anywhere in the West.
Darn right. If only the Communists had won that civil war instead of Franco, Spain would have been a virtual paradise for those thirty plus years. Just like the Soviet Union under Stalin.
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