In the late 1970’s the former journalist Malcolm Muggeridge penned an essay titled “The Great Liberal Death Wish.” In it he described liberalism’s responsibility for the West’s descent into decadence; “a solvent rather than a precipitate, a sedative rather than a stimulant, a slough rather than a precipice; blurring the edges of truth, the definition of virtue, the shape of beauty.” In power, liberalism discards a civilization’s traditional values, offering in return only “a death wish.”
Liberalism’s essence is not a positive ideology; it is an oxymoron, the toleration of irreconcilable ideas bound by one common thread; acrimony for Western values. For all its intellectual pomp and humanitarian claims, it is the negation of thinking and the embrace of nihilism. Liberalism sees allies in Islam, which relegates women to third class citizenry, with feminism, that denial of biological reality. Happily trading in robust philosophical debate and concrete ideas for catchy slogans and one-dimensional policies, liberalism endorses a lifestyle lacking of substance and discipline, a nihilistic and self-defeating sex that takes from both participants more than it could ever give.
…liberalism doesn’t care about civilization’s welfare as conservatism does. It is not the alternative to conservatism; it is its repudiation. It is our civilization’s self-hatred, its death wish. It offers no viable policy alternatives and promises only demise. And so, “systematically, stage by stage, dismantling our Western way of life, depreciating and deprecating all its values so that the whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties” liberalism rushes on towards the cliff, knowingly, willingly, destroying what is best in the human condition, taking down with it all mankind’s triumphs and achievements.
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