By Zack Sorenson

April 18, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -  Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan: “It’s the end of the West.”  Blah blah blah.  I’m not even saying that the horribly racist aspects of their philosophy (and sorry to Buchanan for lumping him with Coulter) is necessarily a problem.  Of course, Coulter’s racism is horrible, but assuming that there’s this “Western Civilization” to save, I don’t know, if it’s a really great thing then maybe horrible ideas might be worth considering to save it.  However, to Pat, Ann, and the many many other commentators who worry about the West’s collapse, I have news.

Western Civilization died already, a long time ago.  It was called “The Great War”.  Britain, Germany, America, France, Russia, Italy, Austria – all the great sub-expressions which embodied “Western Civilization” all charged into that war head first.  Sure, everyone entered at different times, for different reasons, with some amount of fair rationalization for their actions.  Who said, “Hell, no!”?

As “great” as Western Civilization was, and I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, it still had warfare (and consequently colonialism, class, and statism) as part of its foundation.  I think, at this point, it’s honestly disingenuous to think about the West’s “good part” without acknowledging the bad and admitting that, going forward, we aren’t going to “save” the West, but move forward into some new civilization to come.