The Vacuum of the West

I'm not the first to point out that the wealth of the West has made its people fat and complacent, and left them content to work pointless jobs for base comforts and have no motivation to achieve anything beyond material accumulation. I'm no puritan myself. I enjoy material comforts, but I also have an appreciation for glory, beauty and creativity that far surpasses any desire for anything material. The contemporary Westerner has little appreciation for these things.

There are of course, Westerners who care about more than material comforts. Many devote a lot of time and energy to protests and railing against injustice on the left, and religion on the right. The left, however, does not devote itself to anything, only against what they see as being wrong. They offer nothing but guilt, repentance and flagellation. Those on the right, even the religious, focus more on the "evils" of homosexuality and obscenity than on the divinity of Christ.

The Muslim world has much the same problem as the Christian West. They are against more than they are for, and what they are for is some fantasy of an afterlife. They don't care about making the world better, they don't care about making people better, they only care about punishing and restraining people in order to achieve pipe dreams.

Both, however, make the left look pathetic. The left, largely, does not advance anything in this world or the next. They do have some sense of appreciation for glory and achievement, but what they find glorious is not the building of anything or the advancement of anything, but rather the destruction of authority. There is a lot of authority that needs to be destroyed, of course, but the left offers nothing in replacement.