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Western Civilization Is The Greatest Fraud The World Has Ever Seen
The Afghan misadventure is yet another proof of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the west, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
Every generation has its coming of age event. For those who grew up in the 1980s, the smashing of the Berlin wall, will have been one of those moments when a critical mass of people seized the initiative and found the courage to tear down the wall that symbolized the great ideological divide between communist east and the capitalist west.
In the digital, post colonial and Covid era, the seminal event for millions of young people in the English speaking world, will have been the chaotic scenes surrounding the evacuation of allied troops from Afghanistan.
Just like their forebears, who were raised on Rambo, crocodile Dundee and James Bond in the during the cold war era, the scenes of defeated and vanquished white troops withdrawing from Vietnam stood in stark contrast to the bullshit they were used to seeing in Chuck Norris and Oliver Stone films.
For today’s generation, the chasm between rhetoric and reality couldn’t be more striking; notions of American exceptionalism ringing hollow in the face of Afghan battle worn ruggedness and vast years of experience of warfare.