![]() ![]() ![]() It is the result of the binding together of people and peoples across a continent, over centuries of time, by a particular religious story. It is at the same time a simpler, more ancient and immensely more complex concoction than any of these could offer. The West is a lot older than liberalism, leftism, conservatism or empire. And for the kind of post-modern leftist who currently dominates the culture, the West - assuming they concede it even exists - is largely a front for colonialism, empire, racism and all the other horrors we hear about daily through the official channels.Īll of these things could be true at the same time, but each is also a fairly recent development. ![]() For a conservative, it might signal a set of cultural values: traditional attitudes to family life and national identity, and probably broad support for free-market capitalism. For a liberal, the West is the “Enlightenment” and everything that followed - democracy, human rights, individualism, and that dynamic duo, “science and reason”. But what is “the West”? It depends which tribe you ask. ![]()
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