“The old order will inevitably give way to a new one. The only way to deal with time is to adapt and embrace the future,” writes Christian Secor at Counter-currents.
Bingo! We may not like it, but that’s the way it is. But it’s not about embracing the future, it’s about creating the future. It is pointless and foolish to pit the past against the future. It’s reasonable to set another future against the future. Between you and me, if we look carefully, what progressives are pushing today is no future. Just a rehash of decades-old platitudes.
What kind of future to oppose? I propose the following methodological principle. Let’s try to imagine that the Western European states had been led in the 1970s and 1980s by courageous, energetic statesmen who had defended them against reforms (that is, there had been other reforms with other goals), and those regimes would still be operating today.
How would they have contrasted with what we in the Soviet bloc knew from looking across the border? I’m just guessing, readers can oppose or add.
- More technologically advanced, even compared to contemporary Europe. In medicine, transport, energy and housing
- Schools would be more demanding and study would take longer
- Overall, people would have more leisure time and spend less time at work
- Fewer babies would be born than in the 1980s, more lifestyles would exist side by side and it would not be the subject of furious arguments. More pornography compared to the 80s.
- People would be more educated overall.
- Societies would still be as ethnically homogeneous as they were then.
- There wouldn’t be a flood of esoterica, but the influence of oriental cults would be growing.
And much more.