HOW ON EARTH DID WE GET HERE? (PART2)

THE WEST:Enter the Dragon! The great west is losing her mojo. This civilization borne out of the Greco-Roman culture and fostered by Judeo- Christo- Islamic doctrine, is asking the same question all over: from New York to Johannesburg, from London to Buenos Aires, from Cairo to Lagos, “How on earth did we get here?’. Due to our preference of the seen over the unseen, of matter over the spirit , of the tangible at the detriment of the intangible, the consequence of the culture of excessive positivism and aggressive secularism is catching up on us and the West is losing her steam to an officially atheistic nation: China, which spearheads the new era and the rise of the East. Enter the dragon! Our great monotheist Western culture has sold her birthright to the East for a bowl of porridge: consumerism .Consumerism fostered more our interest for ephemeral satisfaction and of greed over savings, the thought of the future and the care for posterity, and the future has dawned upon us as if like a dream. Spending of course is a virtue; it is the nature of what we spend on that makes it vicious. And the West, over the years, has cultivated a culture of spending on things that are both unnecessary and erotically gratifying. Rather than investing in the future, we focus on ephemerality. The day is truly shining from the East. We, who could hardly bear the baptism of hedonism, sodomism and consumerism, now have the full force of atheism making an aggressive comeback. That which was potentially destroyed from its onslaught on the West through the defeat of Russia’s communism and the fall of Berlin wall is now brazing up solidly to deal a final blow to the West. The path it shall follow is that of Marxist atheism which is her John the Baptist in the West. Yes, we shall win, you say; but a great many will surely be swept beneath, and that could have been avoided simply by curbing our passion and avoiding our desires for satiating the flesh. Just as consumerism and hedonism has consumed our faith, lets brace up for the final defense against the idea of God, they are set to make it final and total. I know what you think: that the West is already atheistic. But I say: what we see now is simply a shadow; atheism and freedom are no friends. Go ask the Daila Lama, and wait until you enter the dragon!