The foundations for the West are slowly (but at an accelerating pace) collapsing from within, and if our current trajectory continues, nobody will be around to turn the lights off when the culture disappears.
I am in Strasbourg, France this week, where I’ll be speaking at the European Parliament on the menace that is the ESG movement. I’m super excited to update all of you on that later this week, but putting that aside for a moment…
Being here has given me the chance to reflect on the problematic state of the West, specifically, coming to the realization that two overarching issues threaten to topple the foundations for our ideological and cultural institutions.
Strasbourg is a beautiful city. Its architecture serves as a striking reminder of the incredible accomplishments of the thousand-plus year old French civilization, and Alsatian culture. The masterpiece for the city is the Strasbourg Cathedral, a wonder of the world for its time. The towering church was once the tallest building in the world. And it took some 400 years to build, a timeframe that is simply unfathomable to the high time preference of our 2024 brains.
Today, Strasbourg serves as the seat of the European Parliament and a few additional European institutions.
And Strasbourg, like the other major metro areas in France, is home to a significant, rapidly growing minority of citizens and non-citizens who do not respect the cultural values that France (and the greater West) once stood for.