Lawlessness is the death of the west

The age of conceited triumphalism is over, and decency must prevail.

When politicians are war criminals children suffer

Preface

In the 1990 movie version of Tom Wolfe’s novel Bonfire of the Vanities there is a court room scene with Judge Leonard White presiding, played by Morgan Freeman. Judge White faces a riotous courtroom where the partisan public gallery is in an uproar his gavel won’t silence. He leaves the bench and walks down to the gallery facing them eyeball to eyeball. With a god like presence he silences the courtroom lecturing them on the need for decency as the core value we must practice in all we say and do.

His brief eloquent flourish of towering wisdom should also be addressed to western political and economic elites as they have failed the decency test by a country mile. Humanist decency in the west is comatose. They have rejected the humanist tradition of their own culture and; are so pigheaded and callous as to deny and preempt the traditions and decencies of other cultures around the world, older, in many ways much more superior, and more mature than their own.

The criminal lawless west has adopted the General Bullmoose philosophy that “what is good for General Bullmoose is good for America{and the world}” — a rather childish and self-serving assumption.

Lawlessness is one of the greatest curses of our times. We are all eye witnesses viewing the wreckage, and the story is there for all to see. Where in fact we might choose not to see,… as not to see and willful ignorance are also very much in fashion these days. The decline and fall of the west is the greatest show on earth painful and as tumultuous as it is.