Grandstand. Should we destroy the West? Set it on fire and blood to better rebuild it or to trample it better in its ruins? This geography, which participates as much in history as in imagination, shares opinions and divides the ardor of the anti-all who live there. Between those who fear the end of the world and those who want it, those who make it and those who fear it. Collapsologists, messianic ecologists, radical anti-racists, populists, nostalgic Third Worlds and victim's populists, ardent "stump" and reverse racialists: they are a crowd and the crowd is now like an army.
No matter how much we deny it and put it into perspective, there is already an instinct for death in the air of the total revolution imagined by each. The West being guilty by definition according to some, we find ourselves not in the demand for change but, little by little, in that of destruction, the restoration of a barbarity of revenge.
A space of freedom
The reasons ? They are diverse. Long anger kills, guilt among the "native" Western elites, the end of an obscure respite given to traditional democracies, raging populisms and social networks. It should never be forgotten that the Internet has awakened crowds as the printing press did centuries ago, or the papyri so long ago. We do not change the means of printing and dissemination without changing the way of making revolutions or waking up crowds. The gunsmiths come after the screens, not before, remember.
In fact, there is a convergence of struggles for the better end of a world: victims, anti-racists, but also intellectual masochists and professional skeptics, supremacists and aesthetic defeatists. The wish to change the West finds itself deeply contaminated by that of seeing it die in suffering. And, in the rush, we erase this suicidal consequence only by his death we will kill ourselves, we will kill the dream of living there or going there by rowboats or by planes, we are killing the only space where it is precisely possible to cry out our anger.
"Today's anger is grafted too many radicals for us to avoid violence if we continue in the same blindness"
Moreover, the very fact of defending the West as an area of freedom, admittedly incomplete and imperfect, is considered blasphemous in this new class and race struggle. It is forbidden to say that the West is also the place to which we flee when we want to escape the injustice of our country of origin, dictatorship, war, hunger, or simply the 'boredom. It is fashionable to say that the West is guilty of everything to better define its own absolute innocence. The West will then be crucified for our salvation to all in a way, confused, in the same white body, in a horizontal trinity, with the two other thieves to the left and to the right of this giant Christ.
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