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Decline and Death of the Dissolute West
Dt: 18/10/18
Decline and Death of the Dissolute West
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
Great civilisations, Greek, Persian, Egyptian and Babylonian, flourished in their time and today they don’t exist. They are subjects of history only. Another set of civilisations, the Maya, Inca and Aztec in Central and South America were destroyed by the plundering, colonising European powers - Spanish, Portuguese and the British. There is hardly any trace of them. In a seminal essay, “Power and Morality: Who Shall Guard the Guardians?” authored by Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin, American sociologist and political activist (published by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan) examined the history of famed rulers like the Mughals, the Romans, the Czars (and of course we may and the Stalinist, Maoist and Hitlerite rulers). The immorality and criminality of the rulers was in direct proportion to the power that they exercised. Usually, power and criminality go with the degrees of prosperity too, which can be graded as well -to -do, rich, affluent and finally opulent. As the well -to -do -ness among people increases, morality and ethics become causality. The dissoluteness is aided by declining faith in religions and the values they impart. This brief introduction is given to state what is happening in the West ( Europe and America) and what is just emerging in India among its “educated” and “modern” men and women .
2. The great Chinese intellectual and prolific writer, Zhang Wie Wie in his book, “The China Wave : Rise of a Civilizational State” makes distinction between the rise of the West and that of China currently . For about 500 years, beginning in the middle of the 15th century, the Western powers , Portugal, Spain , England , France, Netherlands, Belgium and latter Germany and Italy, traded, conquered and ruled and looted the rest of the world’s wealth in Africa, Asia, Americas and Australia. The natural resources of those countries
and product of their labours were appropriated by cruel, extortionist exercise of power. This loot was justified and helped by the task given to them by the Pope and other Preachers , to spread Christianity. The conquered peoples were de-cultured and their penury was utilised by the power of the rulers to convert them. Those “educated” by the colonisers got de-nationalised; that is, they turned against their own heritage and culture and faith and their view of nature and the Universe. The prosperity of the West sometimes declined due to deadly wars among themselves ( the 30 Year War, the 7 -Year War and World Wars -I & II). The decline has been steep with the loss of their colonies and the rise of the newly independent countries. Zhang Wie Wie makes the most telling point that the rise of China (and to some extent, India) is not by conquest, colonisation and imperial rule like that exercised by the West but by indigenous effort and utilisation of the countries natural resources and international trade . China sinicized the West’s science and technology and India’s Buddhism for development with Chinese characteristics.
3. American author, Patrick J Buchanan, in his excellent book, “The Death of the West” (How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil the West and its Civilisation) raises alarm based on facts as to how the West has become dissolute and is therefore declining to its final death; that is, its civilisation and culture and power would perish. Both in European countries and in the United States, family as an institution started crumbling. 40% of the population have given up church going and belief in the church organisation and the preachings of Pastors and Bishops and such clergy is going down. Living together outside marriage, divorces, children out of wedlock; avoidance of pregnancies by taking pills; abortions becoming legal and also facilitated at home itself by taking another pill; 40% single parent families, hedonist indulgence and personal gratification have all led to the women’s fertility rate (number of children per woman) dropping to 1.4 whereas 2.1 only can ensure the stand –still; that is, no increase, no decline in population. But with 1.4 fertility rate, the population of the white Christian Europeans and Americans is precipitately declining. The percentage of the old is going up. In order to work and also render services to the old, immigration both legal and illegal has increased. For eg: today, London is a non-white, non-British majority city; Germany is getting flooded with Muslims not only from Turkey but from Iraq and Syria; France and Italy are getting flooded with Africans who are mostly Muslims. Towns and cities are becoming non-white immigrant majorities . By the year 2100, the European nations including Russia would experience a decline of about 40% of the white Christians. With the decline of populations, the so called Christian or Western civilisation and culture would be on the wane. This is what Buchanan calls the Death of the West and the rise of non- Christian, mostly Muslim population, culture and faith. Marriage is no longer necessary. Many white Christian women in Europe and America like to have children without marriage ; consider that marriage and husbands are not necessary to have children. Artificial insemination (just as for cows and buffalos) can produce progeny. It is this destruction of marriage and family, that leads to loss of faith in religion. Affluence brings about amorality .
4. What is happening in the West as described by Buchanan is now in its incipient stage in India. The recent judgements of the Supreme Court like the progeny of couples living together outside marriage can inherit properties; adultery is not a crime, same sex marriages are not an offence or a crime and that ages -old tradition of not allowing women during certain period of life into Sabarimalai temple, the growth of surrogate motherhood, increased divorces, all tend to facilitate the same phenomenon of the decline of the West, in India also, especially among the so called forward, educated , affluent castes. We can already see that mong the forward castes, especially in the two Telugu States, the fertility rate is less than two. And all over India the proportion of the forward castes population has declined from about 30% to less than between 15 & 20%. There is clandestine conversion of Hindus not only among SCs & STs but even among the BCs and FCs because of de-Indianised, dharma-ignorant education.
5. When once the limits imposed by religion or dharma are breached with impunity and the judiciary tends to promote the breaches in the name of fundamental rights, equality of sexes, social justice, concepts instilled into the young de-Indianised leading to the rise of “left, liberal, secular, progressive” persons, many of them inducted into the judiciary from Indira Gandhi time onwards in the name of “committed judges”. Increasing surrogacy and populism of politicians are leading to the denigration of Hindu Dharma and devaluation of work ethic and glorification of the welfare ethic. Unless we de-colonise the mind of the so called “educated” and stop the sale in India of the Christian religions being discarded in the west, we can be sure that the Hindu society which has been able to withstand centuries-long murderous assaults by intolerant, invading hordes and colonising and proselytising West, we may go the way of the declining and dying West. Just as the West is flooded by immigrants of alien cultures and faith, Indi a is getting flooded by millions of Bangladeshis and now, lakhs of Rohingyas who are being accommodated by certain sections of our people in certain areas. The historic Bharatiya resistance to conversions as well as to foreign over -lordship may crumble unless patriotic sections of our people and their parties prevail to decolonise the Indian mind and de-toxify it from Western culture and strive to preserve Hindu Dharma, family and culture. As philosopher George Santayana had said, “those who don’t learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them”. (1,307 words)
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