Interview with Doug Casey.

Excerpt:

Let me list a few things that are basically—indeed almost entirely—unique to Western Civ. Some other cultures have adopted elements of them and have prospered as a result. But it’s often just a veneer. If the West falls as a culture, as a civilization, most other parts of the world will likely degenerate radically.

• Free thought. Free thinkers are unique to the West. They’re being overwhelmed by political correctness and fear of thought crimes.
• Free speech. Everywhere in the West, the language is being corrupted. There are notions and even words that you dare not utter for fear of being prosecuted and jailed.
• Free markets. Free markets allow free thinkers, inventors, businessmen and industrialists to put their thoughts into practice, to the benefit of all. But the public fears them and wants more regulation and protections.
• Limited government. Everywhere, the hoi polloi are clamoring for more government, bigger government, socialism, and even communism.
• Individualism. Every other culture in the world has tried to quash this essential aspect of the West. It’s being replaced by identity politics wherein you are no more than a member of a group.
• Rationality. It’s said that this is a white vice. Science and logic are thought to be destroying the world. They’re being replaced by superstition.
• Liberty. This concept wouldn’t even exist without the West. It’s now seen as a danger where we need to hide in Safe Spaces.
• Concept of progress. Many now prefer a static society where everybody is maintained by a guaranteed annual income. Progress is dangerous because it leads to inequality where some are left behind.
• Privacy. In the primitive pre-Western world, everyone knew what everyone else was doing. We’re reverting to that with omnipresent Flock cameras and the surveillance state.
• Property rights. They’re being replaced by the concept of “You’ll own nothing and be happy.”
• Rule of Law. In other societies, law was what the king, the emperor, or the sultan said it was. Justice is being washed away in the West, delegitimized by millions of Kafkaesque laws and regulations.
• Industry and enterprise. People have been taught to hate these Western virtues, thinking that they endanger Mother Earth and lead to inequality. Entrepreneurs are to be feared. Everybody should become an employee.