Jonah Goldberg - A Nyugat öngyilkossága

During the last 250,000 years, we have only once stumbled upon an idea that lifted us out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger and wars that defined the majority of our history - in 18th century England, when we accidentally discovered the miracle of liberal democratic capitalism. Ideas that were considered very radical at the time form the basis of our society today.
The government is for us, not us for the government.
The individual is sovereign. We are all masters of our own souls.
The fruits of our labor belong to us.
The Western world experienced unprecedented prosperity thanks to these ideas, but in recent decades these political virtues have begun to be portrayed as sins. We are increasingly taught to see our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation and "white privilege", the principles of freedom and the rule of law are under fire from both the right and the left.
Using his unique combination of political history, pop culture, economics, and social science, Jonah Goldberg, one of America's most prominent conservative thinkers, exposes the West's suicidal tendencies on both sides of the ideological trenches. In order for the West to survive, we must once again feel gratitude for the values ​​of our civilization and rediscover the ideals that led us out of the bloody quagmire in the past - otherwise this will be our fate.
Suicide is easy, but you have to work for freedom