Introduction: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century
"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome..."
---George Orwell---
The future is bleak. There’s no denying it anymore. We survived two of the greatest ideological battles in history and some of the most destructive wars humanity has ever seen in the 20th century. And with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, we thought that history had ended. We thought that humanity would finally progress to enlightenment, to peace through capitalism, democracy, and liberty. And now, eighteen years later, we can see how terribly wrong we were.
Like the calm before the storm, the apparent victory of freedom was short-lived. Less than a decade after the end of history, we were attacked by a new enemy. An enemy that will not fall as easily as the corrupt Soviet state did. An enemy that has survived, practically unaltered, for the last fourteen hundred years. An enemy with the force of will that has stood the test of time, an enemy who would sacrifice all that it is to destroy us. Who can that be said of in this country? How many of us are willing to sacrifice everything that we are, how many of us are able to take our beliefs to the next level, to the level of fanaticism? We have lost the will to fight, lost the will to promulgate our beliefs. We have lived in an oasis of reason for so long that we have forgotten the law of the jungle. Kill or be killed.
And while we fight the terrorists, the fanatical muslim extremists, Europe is being overrun. With an aging population which has subconsciously lost its own feeling of self worth, which has surrendered its noble culture to the priests of multiculturalism, which is not reproducing at a rate that can maintain a stable population, Europe is ill equipped to face the coming century. In 2020, Europe will be 10 percent Muslim. Europe’s native population will fall by 200 million people in the next hundred years, while its foreign born, with their own distinct culture and ideology, will only expand. In 2005, 85 percent of Europe’s population growth was attributed to immigrants. Now, what will happen to a populous which has been bred in a land of reason, which has become apathetic, which has been coddled from generations of a socialized society, what will happen to them when they become a minority to those same people whose culture is incompatible with the democratic spirit? What will happen when these scholars of reason are met by the animals of the jungle, when people who are so used to resolving conflict through dialogue must contend with those who fight to survive, fight to live? When the lethargisism of the European population is met by the now larger, more dynamic population of the immigrant, the only logical conclusion is that the once great nations of Europe will be consumed, as the jungle reclaims its lost territory.
But it seems as if Europe, with all of its sophistication and reason and enlightenment, is unable to foresee its demise. Although there are brave journalists and writers who constantly warn the Europeans that they are heading for destruction, the birthplace of the West has deafened itself to the warnings. In fact, rather than allying itself with America in a Pan-Western coalition, many European nations seem to feel that the European Union should be a counterweight to American power, now that the Soviet Union has fallen. Europe has always seen a balance of power between nations as the only way to secure peace, and will try to keep the status quo through any means necessary, even if it means siding with tyranny over freedom. But this policy will be just as disastrous as when it was last tried. The Concert of Europe and The League of Nations blindly chose to believe that people and nations are held in stasis, that they could be the purveyors of a world where one group could not accumulate more power than another. Their ignorance of how humanity has defined itself over the last twelve thousand years became evident, and these policies helped lead us into to both world wars. But still, the modern, cultured European does not see Americans as ready allies, but as hot-blooded brutes who must be contained. Without the Soviet threat to force it into an alliance with its Atlantic neighbor, Europe has chosen to more closely align itself with the theocratic states of North Africa and the Middle East, with the rising communist superpower of China, and with the more and more tyrannical Russian giant.
Although the Islamofascists are our most immediate threat, other dangers loom over the horizon. Russia is reverting back to a dictatorial stage. It seems as if its foray into democracy will be short-lived, as Putin slowly drains the Russian people of their rights. Russia has begun reasserting itself on the world stage, and just recently tested a rocket which will be able to penetrate our Missile Defense System. China is growing in world influence, and many onlookers have begun to side with this dynamic new superpower rather than with the United States. Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, and North Korea already has a small arsenal of these weapons of mass destruction. The US has been acting like a world policeman, discouraging rogue states from acquiring nukes, even invading the ones that resist. But we cannot keep this up. Nuclear technology is 60 years old, and sooner or later it will be available to most of the world. How will we be able to deal with terrorists when WMD’s are commonplace?
We are facing many challenges in the coming years. But we will be unable to combat the rampaging Russian bear, the totalitarian Chinese superpower, or nuclear-armed terrorists should Europe fall to the immigrant culture. Although we have our differences, America and Europe are natural allies, and must face the rising dictatorships together. We are the West, and there is something about this Western culture, this odd assortment of Greek and Roman and Christian and Feudal ideologies, that has meaning. That is special. Because in the West there is Freedom. In the West there is Liberty. In the West there is the Individual. In the West, there is that something that has allowed us to face threat after threat, that spark of humanity that turns dictatorship into democracy, that forces the government to bow to the people, and not vice versa. And that is something worth fighting for, something worth living for, and something worth dying for. History has not ended. History has just begun.
