Hypocrisy, Racism, War & Lies. Part Three. The Declining West.
For so long civilisation’s leading light, the U.S. led West is now imploding under the weight of its’ own contradictions. Racism, war, immorality, extremism, lies, & the growing fear of lost status is driving the West to ever more desperate & violent ends. The wisdom & tolerance that gave us the enlightenment is no more. Is the West beyond all hope, or can it yet be saved?
19 min readNov 5, 2024
‘I am writing this introduction in English and Arabic, and it is in these moments that the profound chasm between these two languages reveals itself. In English, there is a need to riddle the page with facts and figures detailing the essential cruelties of an atrocity that should be — and should have long been — internationally recognized. I’m tempted to squeeze into these lines a history lesson, to list the names of the various terrorist paramilitaries that formed the Israeli military that’s terrorizing us today; the number of massacres, exiles, refugees; the endless hectares of stolen land; the pregnant bellies split open in Deir Yassin. There is no need for such contextualization in Arabic: The Nakba breathes down our…
