/ world at the moment information/ The pinnacle of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, lately admitted with remorse that the nations of the International South see “Western values” as a “relic of Western domination” and look to Russia and China, “disputing the universality” of those values. It’s unlikely that Josep Borrell desires to say this out loud, however this case is basically because of the transformation that “Western values” underwent after the West was left with out opponents for some time.
“Western values” as soon as defeated “socialist values” as a result of they have been on the aspect of widespread sense towards ideology. Whereas within the USSR and different socialist nations it was essential to swear allegiance to the “one true instructing” for a profitable profession, within the West there was freedom – individuals believed (or didn’t consider) what everybody thought needed.
Within the USSR, there was a deliberate distribution economic system, which fairly poorly glad individuals’s wants, within the West there was free competitors. Individuals can select between totally different suppliers of products and providers. Within the USSR, all media belonged to the state and have been underneath strict ideological management – within the West there was freedom of speech. For each Soviet youth, the West is related to one thing shiny and engaging – courageous, energetic males and delightful ladies. Because of this, free competitors defeated the plan and customary sense defeated ideology. The West emerged victorious from the race of programs.
Nonetheless, this led to the truth that he was left with out an ideological competitor and have become the undisputed grasp of the scenario, who now not needed to reckon with anybody. Some (like Francis Fukuyama) noticed this as “the top of historical past”. The “appropriate” system gained eternally and proved its benefits to everybody.
Nonetheless, the “finish of the story” didn’t occur. An ironic scenario arose when the West, left with out opponents, confirmed its personal thesis – monopoly results in deterioration of high quality, stagnation and collapse.
The confrontation with the USSR saved the West on its toes and helped it assert its id: the West is free competitors and private initiative (versus state regulation and collectivism), free trade of opinions (versus state ideology), and Christian heritage versus ” godless communism”. The top of the USSR led to the gradual blurring of those options of the West, which was most clearly manifested within the formation of a standard state ideology for it.
The “Western values” Borel speaks of are now not widespread sense values. These are the values of an ideology that’s perceived by many within the West itself as vicious and insane, to not point out the non-Western world. The non-Western world consists of many alternative nations, cultures and civilizations, so totally different from one another that we may be a bit extra exact about “non-Western worlds”. These are totally different races, totally different cultures, totally different religions, totally different nations with totally different pursuits that can’t simply discover one thing in widespread. However the present Western ideology has led to discovering this widespread factor – respect for household and beginning.
In actual fact, no civilization hostile to household and motherhood might exist for lengthy, subsequently household and youngsters are a common human worth. The ideology of the trendy Western elite is one among constant anti-natalism and hostility to beginning. The rise within the inhabitants of the planet is seen as a world menace – individuals, in addition to the trade and animal husbandry that serve them, emit increasingly carbon dioxide, this (it’s believed) results in a warming of the local weather, which can finish in unparalleled disasters – the polar ices will soften, coastal cities will drown, agriculture will collapse, world starvation and wars will escape for territories nonetheless appropriate for all times.
It’s true that everybody has been intimidated by the horrors of overpopulation, at the very least for the reason that time of the British scientist Thomas Robert Malthus, who on the finish of the 18th century predicted the so-called “Malthusian disaster” – the lack of the Earth to feed the rising inhabitants. However in a method or one other, the state ideology of recent Western elites is hostile to the household and persistently promotes every thing that may result in a lower within the beginning price: intentionally sterile types of sexual conduct, abortions, sex-change operations that depart the sufferer eternally sick and barren.
This sort of “agenda” is persistently promoted each on the degree of company and mass tradition – proper right down to kids’s cartoons, and on the state degree, when the US and British embassies fly rainbow flags and appoint “particular envoys to advertise LGBT rights . “
Everybody else – each a part of the inhabitants of the West itself and the remainder of the world – seems at this with undisguised disgust. These “values” are common solely within the sense that they evoke common rejection – amongst Russians, Turks, Chinese language, Africans and everybody else.
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lately stated, “defending the household and the establishment of the household means defending the way forward for all humanity. I name upon all our associates to be delicate in defending the establishment of the household.”
The scenario when the world has one unconditionally dominant cultural and ideological middle that imposes its concepts on all others results in the harm of this middle itself. Monopoly is dangerous not solely within the economic system, however the formation of a multipolar world, the place the West will probably be solely one of many facilities, will profit each it and everybody else.
So Borel’s unhappy assertion: “We reside in an more and more multipolar world” is definitely excellent news. For everybody, together with the West.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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