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Meic Pearse is the author of one of the most talked-about
books of 2004/5,
Why the Rest Hates the West. In January, 2005, he was
invited to address the Republican Party leadership in the U.S.
Senate and the House of Representatives, meeting in retreat at
The Greenbrier, West Virginia under the auspices of the
Congressional Institute — a weekend at which he was introduced
to President Bush.
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His meeting with senior Republicans, including
Senators Rick Santorum and Bill Frist, was recognition of the fact
that
Why the Rest Hates the West is fingering the key issues of our
generation: the nature of Western culture and its radical departure
from the norms of traditional human societies, generating a series
of culture clashes which are becoming increasingly fearsome. Pearse
argues that Westerners are perceived as “rich, technologically
sophisticated, economically and politically dominant, morally
contemptible barbarians” by those whose lives they obliviously
dominate. They must de-barbarise themselves — and quickly — if they
are to defuse the tensions that the aggressive export of their
tradition-despising, secularist, amoral anti-culture is creating.
Indeed, they must do this simply in order to save themselves from
demographic collapse; western birthrates are way, way below
replacement rate, as a result of the disincentives to marry, remain
faithful and have children which that anti-culture has created over
the past two generations. Failure to change will simply mean that
they will die out and be replaced by immigrants of the kind that
adhere to traditional morality and long-run-of-history human
cultures. This is not a prediction: it’s already happening, as the
demographics of every single European country — and Japan, and
Australia and New Zealand, and the secular half of the U.S. —
demonstrate amply.
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