The Collapse of Western Civilization - Why It's Accelerating

Article author: 
Doug Casey
Article publisher: 
International Man
Article date: 
13 November 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

... Let me list a few things that are basically - indeed almost entirely - unique to Western Civ... If the West falls as a culture, as a civilization, most other parts of the world will likely degenerate radically.

  • Free thought. Free thinkers are unique to the West. They’re being overwhelmed by political correctness...
  • Free speech... There are notions and even words that you dare not utter for fear of being prosecuted and jailed.
  • Free markets...
  • Limited government. Everywhere, the hoi polloi are clamoring for more government, bigger government, socialism, and even communism.
  • Individualism... It's being replaced by identity politics wherein you are no more than a member of a group.
  • Rationality...
  • Liberty. This concept wouldn’t even exist without the West...
  • Concept of progress... Progress is dangerous because it leads to inequality where some are left behind.
  • Privacy...
  • Property rights...
  • Rule of Law... Justice is being washed away in the West, delegitimized by millions of Kafkaesque laws and regulations.
  • Industry and enterprise. People have been taught to hate these Western virtues..

... But Europeans, which is to say white people, have been taught that they’re evil and destructive. As a result, the West is collapsing from within, from self-hatred and a terminal lack of self-confidence...

Governments are directly responsible for the wholesale import of alien races, cultures... as permanent residents. Worse, they are actively subsidized with free food, free apartments, free cash, and DEI-style hiring preferences.

It’s not just Europe, but every Western country...

... Generations of students have been indoctrinated to believe that capitalism, free thought, free markets, and the other things I just mentioned, are the reason for economic and social problems...

I recently read "The Camp of the Saints" by Jean Respail. It’s a novel written in 1972 and pretty well describes why the West is collapsing. It quite entertainingly describes a credible scenario - the mostly peaceful invasion of France by a million degraded and starving Indian boat people who... conquer a spineless civilization. It seems to be happening, although the invaders turned out to be mostly Muslim... Let me also recommend two non-fiction books, "While Europe Slept" (2006) by Bruce Bawer, which chronicles the ongoing conquest of the continent by Islam. And "The Strange Death of Europe" (2018) by Douglas Murray...

We’ve had civilization for roughly 5,000 years... But the lives of only 100 men could easily have overlapped by about 25 years each with someone who came before and someone else who came after. Civilization is still just a pup...

If Western civilization and the ideas it's built on fall - and they're in process of falling as we speak - things could get very bad very quickly...

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