Civilizational crisis.

The world is living through a crisis of civilization, which differs from ordinary disruption in that it involves not a breakdown of physical systems, as might be caused by a natural disaster or technological failure, but is a malaise afflicting the intellectual functioning of society itself.

By its nature, a civilizational crisis affects elite institutions, the dominant ideology, the core operating system of a ruling system. It is not a breakdown of the backward periphery but a madness in the heart of an empire, a rot in its ivory towers.^[1]

Not the world. The Western world.

And it is civilizational. The number of people of any prominence, understanding, and authority who are attempting to arrest this mad Thelma and Louise moment in Western history is no greater than 500. And that's just a wild guess. Off the top of my head there are maybe 20 Paladins, so to speak, whom I could name and then I'd have to wrack my brain. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tulsi Gabbard, Rand Paul, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Jim Jordan, Michelle Bachman, LTC West, Ron Desantis, Clarence Thomas, Heather McDonald, and Ann Coulter come to mind, each trying to push back the cross-dressing, feminist, kiddy-diddling, anti-white, street-fighting, lying, foreign (maybe), crony capitalist, Israeli, Chinese, Saudi, anti-Putin, vote-stealing, neocomical, plutocratic tide.

The fact that there's another "crisis" on the border (ongoing since 1965 or thereabouts), that the U.S. military is arrogantly policing the world, that the currency is being debased, that there's lunatic government spending, and, among other things, that there are toads like Liz Cheney, Mitt Romeny, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, William Barr, John Brennan, James Clapper, Paul Ryan, Jerome Powell, Janet Yellin, Gretchen Whitmer, Barak O'Bama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, John Roberts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and the incomparable Maxine Waters who are or have been in the ranks of government officials is an utter disgrace. Just right there you can see complete lack of vision, total disregard for the Constitution, criminal manipulation, dedication to selfish interests, lack of foresight, rabble rousing, and what my father used to refer to as "stupidity." Never mind he was referring to me. You get my drift.

The Western world worships what is rottten, foreign, perverse, and libertine. It chases swamp gas, despises free speech, swoons over angry children and street thugs, trembles at the mention of the words "climate change," and goes quite giddy over anything with the word "alternative" or "electric" in its name. Our commitment to civilizational suicide is firm, resolute, and non-negotiable.

Notes
^[1] "Western Civilization's Growing Intellectual Dead Zones." By Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club, 4/19/21.