If you look at “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond, and then you look at “The Vision of the Anointed” and realize that things aren’t likely to get better with regards to what Sowell brings up, then you can see that the West has chosen to fail.
The West will fail. The only question is when. I’m making sure me & my own are self-sufficient when everything goes wooly.