The West is falling
by Campbell Campbell-Jack,
First of a four part series looking at ‘The State of the West’.
We may not like it but our culture is changing dramatically. The evidence is clear. Over the past few days thousands of people throughout the West have marched in support of Palestinians with the cry of ‘Palestine free, from the river to the sea’, a call for another Holocaust, the extermination of the Jewish people.
They are mostly young, idealistic, passionate and sincere, and few are Palestinian. Yet they want the extermination of the state of Israel: according to them Palestine must be Judenfrei. How did we get to the situation where our young people take to the streets with cries last heard on the lips of Nazi genocidal mass murderers?
Good and Evil are Myths They have been taught to think in this way, and how we think and what we think determines how we act and what we do. A typical example of teaching prevalent in Western universities comes from Tommy Curry. This radical black philosopher holds a Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at Edinburgh University. I studied there, as did both my sons. Today I find it difficult to admit any connection with an institution which, like so many Western universities, has abandoned its intellectual heritage to pursue a destructive racist neo-Marxist ideology.
For Professor Curry, notions of objective morality such as the Ten Commandments are ways of controlling the weak and should be rejected. Instead his students are taught that good and evil are Western myths, and that moral right and wrong comes down to the group’s relationship to power: ‘The mythology of good and evil allows powerful groups and nations to construct weaker groups, nations, or races as inferior or evil.’ This teaches students to think that good and evil are determined not by individual acts, but by group identity such as race, gender or sexual orientation and who holds the power.
Thus we have students earnestly expressing solidarity with terrorists who killed defenceless families, decapitated babies, raped women next to the bodies of their murdered friends, tortured and burned others alive. According to their view, the Palestinians are oppressed and therefore good, the Israelis are powerful and therefore wicked. Consequently anything the Palestinians do is justified as an expression of the desire for their liberation from oppression. This way of thinking is prevalent throughout the mainstream of Western thought. The West has lost its moral compass.
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