There was no need to open the gates to the barbarians.
During the current culture wars, the Western world is under unprecedented pressure to turn away not only from its religion, but also from all its historical achievements.
The famous Hungarian political thinker, Frank Füredi, on his website that the acceleration of the process of moral disarmament has now reached the point that Western civilization is in danger of being conquered from within.
By moral disarmament I mean a cultural trend which, in some cases unconsciously and in other cases consciously, strives to undermine and expressly reject the civilizational characteristics of the Western world, writes the author.
According to Füredi, this process is driven by a corrosive impulse which
it tries to uncivilize the forms of civilized behavior that were once considered normal, and which once and for all spoil and stigmatize the historical achievements of Western societies.
As an example, he highlights the grotesque scene unfolding in Malmö during the last Eurovision contest, which is a manifestation of uncivilized rudeness. The crowd not only misbehaved, but through the booing of the Israeli singer, they once again underlined their emotional attachment to a cause that ardently opposes the civilizational achievement of the West.
According to Frank Füredi, during the current culture wars, the Western world is under unprecedented pressure to turn away not only from its religion, but also from all its historical achievements.
In his view, this is why so-called Western science, Western rationality (including Western mathematics), Western philosophy and political ideas are all under attack. These attacks are encouraged by the dominant elites who are not prepared to defend their civilization and fight back.
Their willingness to disarm morally is unprecedented in the history of Western civilization.
In fact, they did not have to open the gates to the barbarians, because the most bitter enemies of Western civilization come from within, writes Füredi.
Cover photo: Frank Füredi
Source: Facebook/Frank Füredi
