Thread by @Doc_0

In the two decades since 9/11, we spent trillions of dollars and lost countless lives, without doing much to liberalize the Islamic world. On the other hand, we now have massive rallies in support of terrorist gangs in our cities.

It's similar to the way globalist "engagement" with China did nothing to liberalize Communism. If anything, it's become more autocratic and hostile to Enlightenment values. Instead, WE became more like THEM. We imported authoritarian ideas like their social credit system.

Part of the reason for these failures to win the clash of civilizations is that population movement only occurs in one direction. For all the bleating about "colonizers" from the radical Left, it's the Western world that has been colonized, as is painfully evident in Europe.

Culture spreads through believers. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Western thinkers got this idea that culture was spreading through commerce. They thought the Berlin Wall was pulverized by blue jeans and rock & roll.

There is some cultural transmission through commerce and communications, to be sure. Books, films, and music definitely spread ideas. The problem is that authoritarian regimes can contain that type of ideological contamination with censorship and violence.

If anything, authoritarianism has gotten BETTER at inoculating its captive people against invasive liberal ideas in the Information Age. The futurists of the 80s and 90s were so very, very wrong about that. The Internet is all about dams, not floods of information.

A far more durable method of spreading cultural ideas, tried and true across the span of centuries, is to simply move warm bodies across borders. This is especially true when vulnerable Western societies do not require, or even encourage, assimilation.

Our culture has essentially been rigged to self-destruct at the slightest contact with aggressive alien ideas. Academia has taught generations that our society is fundamentally corrupt, systemically racist, sick with evil since its very inception.

Oppression theology, carefully cultivated across decades by the hard Left and the old Soviet Union, posits that advanced capitalist Western societies are the ultimate racist oppressors. Everyone else is a victim, and therefore morally superior.

This is reflected in climate change hysteria, which is really just oppression theology converted into cold cash, lithium batteries, and solar panels. Climate change theology explicitly states the West is uniquely sinful, and everyone else gets a free pass.

No culture wracked by that much manufactured guilt and cultivated self-doubt is going to propagate itself, especially not within authoritarian societies with heavy strains of nationalism, theology, and religious extremism.

This is especially true because there has been no significant movement of Westerners into Islamic nations since 9/11. No warm bodies crossing borders and bearing ideas. The Western presence in places like Iraq and Afghanistan is treated like a disease to be quarantined.

The big population movements were all in the other direction, and they happened with astounding speed, driven by open-borders ideologues and well-financed organizations devoted to increasing Westward migration.

Could you imagine what migration in the other direction would even LOOK like? Millions of Americans or Europeans settling in other countries, demonstrating in their streets, exerting a gravitational pull on their politics? They'd be excoriated as "colonizers" if they tried it.

And they can't really try it, because they have neither the fertility rates nor the cultural confidence. There will be no migratory waves bringing Western liberal values across land and sea borders to the lands of violence, squalor, and tyranny.

Could you imagine any autocratic or theocratic nation simply ceding portions of its cities to American or European immigrants, shrugging and writing them off as "no-go zones" for the locals, allowing mosques to be converted into churches, tolerating huge pro-America protests?

Every sober student of history knows that ideas and culture WERE transmitted in eastern and southern directions that way, in the bad old days of colonialism. Recognizing the positive legacy of that transmission does not require forgiving or ignoring imperial sins.

But today, students are taught to ignore everything positive and focus ONLY on the sins. The result is a Western world obsessed with beating itself into submission, exporting neither faith nor believers, unable even to stand up for reason and freedom on the university campus.

Two decades ago, our media wouldn't allow us to see Palestinians dancing in the streets and passing out candy to celebrate 9/11 because we supposedly couldn't handle it. Our elite lacked confidence in the people it rules, and it's only gotten worse since then.

Today we have marches on campus and through the streets of our cities to support rape gangs and death squads. Their slogans are beamed on the sides of our schools. Decent people are told to hide, lest they offend the terrorist sympathizers and cause their own beatings.

We were deliberately made wide-open for conquest, and invaders have marched in - both physically and with toxic ideology. Our elites utterly failed to liberalize the world, so now they just offer terms of surrender to tyrannical aggression, and they don't negotiate hard. /end