By Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ for the Saker Blog
Maybe it is time the Collective West does something about its educational system.
Watching the performances of Russians and Western officials, one immediately notices that the much-touted and ultra-expensive “education “ provided in the West today is actually not up to par.
The Russian actions in Ukraine revealed a West where leaders remain emotional juveniles who continue to REACT jerkily to Russia’s deft moves. That’s when they are not busy projecting their own values and behavior onto the Russians.
Not only have the Russians vastly outplayed the West militarily, economically, and geopolitically, the actions/reactions of the West have boomeranged mightily to Russia’s advantage. The hyperinflation ravaging the West is just one example.
The exposure of the impotence of the much-touted NATO is also glaring for all to see; the Russians have made a mincemeat of what was touted as the best army in Europe, trained and equipped to NATO’s standards.
It is like every move by the Americans and their vassals in the EU was calculated to benefit the Russians.
This happened because they were ill-taught, and irrational resulting in pure emotional lash outs.
There’s simply no logic behind them.
A good example is how Western sanctions resulted in Russia earning jumbo income from selling less of its oil and gas.
Thank you very much!.
In addition to always being on top of their game, Russian officials always come across as well-educated, well-informed, well-mannered, sophisticated, cultured, and respectful. Western officials, on the other hand, attack the world as haughty, naughty, ill-mannered, ill-educated, uncultured, provincial, and narcissistic imbeciles.
They lack the elementary decorum necessary to engage peers in respectful manners. Ok, superciliousness, fueled by racist arrogance, might partly explain why they behave so, but we cannot discount the possibilities that they simply lack the education, the culture, and the home training required for civilized behavior, especially in encounters with other cultures.
The question needs to be asked how the Collective West ended up with the current gaggle of clowns holding positions of responsibility?
Examples abound aplenty: Just take a look at Sergey Lavrov and compare him with that dwarfish oaf, Anthony Blinken. Please, how did the once great US get to appoint that trashy lightweight idiot supposed to engage with a towering Diplomat of Mr Lavrov’s caliber? Can’t a kindhearted one whisper in his ears how utterly ridiculous he appears and sounds when he issues stupid threats?
And how do we compare the seriously martial Sergei Shoigu with that Raytheon’s Uncle Tom arms merchant, Lloyd Austin?
And we then have the magnificent, confident, articulate, urbane and sophisticated woman Mr Lavrov appointed to speak for his Foreign Ministry. Please, do not take my word for it, just point out a Western official, male or female (forget the other stupid pronouns concocted by Western woke narcissists pumped up with hedonism), who can match Maria Zakharova in confident eloquence?
It didn’t use to be like this. The West was once great. I should know; I studied there.
Even as a student I noticed that there’s something terribly wrong with the type of education western institutions dish out to students starting in the late 1980s. It is quite noticeable, even to an undergraduate like myself, that there is a TOTAL disconnection between what is being taught at the universities and what transpires in REAL LIFE.
Take what is called Economics as an example. A degree, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), is awarded to students who successfully complete the four-year program.
Any honest person will know that there’s absolutely nothing scientific in the potpourri of jargon western economists continue to string together to dazzle the gullible.
Meaningless figures and data are churned out to bamboozle people into believing that producing “services” is somehow superior to having mineral resources and a strong manufacturing base. The magicians, who masquerade as economists in the West, successfully cast spells that made people accept fancifully-printed papers, that are backed by nothing, in lieu of gold, diamond, cocoa, coal, titanium, and other real products.
These types of deliberate falsehoods and concoctions explain why Western economies are based on illusions and delusions as the Great V Putin exposed in recent encounters with the Collective West.
Arrogant and totally ignorant Westerners had no idea what the Russians had in stock for them when they started their stupid sanctions which they believed would destroy the Russian economy.
A little knowledge of history, geography, geopolitics, and geoeconomics should have informed the West that a country (the largest in the world) that is not only self-sufficient in food production, but produces almost all the metals required by all of the major industries and, in addition, is the world’s leading energy (oil and gas) producer, is not one to trifle or pick a fight with.
Most especially, not by a bunch of self-worshipping, resource-less, parasitical inconsequential nonentities like the EU states, who suffer from excessive self-regard.
There is little doubt the arrogance of the Collective West is fueled by ignorance which is a result of the poor quality of the education produced by the ideological institutions the West call universities, which have been transformed from places of rigorous learning into ones that produce only selfish, self-centered, narcissistic, hedonistic ideologues who are incapable of any thought beyond the ME!
Education reflects the mental attitude of the people. A society that recognizes neither wrong nor right, truth or falsehood cannot produce upright people who are capable of subjecting their thoughts and actions to deep reflections and applying the necessary breaks to curb their animalistic impulses.
Right from infancy, Westerners are brought up to regard everything as relative and to mix up rhetoric with actions.
Children in nurseries are told tales about the cow jumping over the moon. They are later introduced to the fable of a Santa Claus who deliver gifts through the chimney (let’s not mention the gross racism inherent in the Dutch version of that silly ‘tradition’). From here the westerner is told only tales about how his superior race brought the light of civilization to the rest of the world. Never mind the fact that half of the human drama passed before a European appeared on the scene. And never mind the documented fact that Europeans extinguished the light of civilization wherever they went. Let’s not even consider the absurdity of vandals and rapacious conquerors claiming to be civilizers! What civilization did Europe bring to the Americas? What superior knowledge, apart from that of guns, did the British bring to the Benin Kingdom?
A system of education that teaches everything about personal freedom but remains silent on responsibilities, basic values, and respect for elders and institutions cannot but produce self-seeking, self-affirming narcissistic individuals who will regard any suggestion or notion of rights of others as personal assaults.
A system of education that mistakes cheating and lying for cleverness can not but produce the type of Ambassador Michael McFaul who laughs, when confronted with the lies the West told over Ukraine’s NATO membership and exclaimed: “That is the real world. Welcome to the real world.” https://nationalfile.com/thats-the-real-world-michael-mcfaul-laughs-off-lies-over-ukraine-nato-membership/
Basically, McFaul told us that the west exists in a real world where the telling of lies is the normal thing! Per his profile, McFaul is a professor in one of the top universities in the US. What type of minds will a man like McFaul produce?
Societies reflect the people that live in them. Western societies produced rugged individualistic-minded people who, in turn, find it difficult to cope with an international arena where the game is to give and take. Despite the fact that they proclaim their superiority over the rest of us, Western societies are incapable of operating on a level playing field. They cannot compete unless the cards are stacked in their favor. If they deny it, they simply should abandon their sense of entitlement and join the rest of humanity in playing by the rules agreed upon by the comity of nations.
Just take a good look at the current crop of Western leaders. The senile mannequin Biden has been a professional politician like for forever and a half. Macron is an investment banker, essentially one who conjures money from thin air, or what are derivatives, futures, etc?
The one in Germany, Scholz, is a lawyer. We all know that lawyers are born liars who make money by manipulating facts and telling barefaced lies. A great pity that we did not listen to Shakespeare and kill all the lawyers!
That lying, cheating, racist, boorish, unscrupulous, drunken addict like Boris Johnson became the leader of a former Great Britain shall forever remain one of the greatest mysteries of our time. It shall also go down as one of the worst things the British did to themselves.
Please, don’t get me wrong, I shed no tears for the inhabitants of that Island of iniquities.
Sadly, for them, the Collective West used to have very solid leaders. No matter how much one disagrees with them or hated their ideology, one cannot but respect Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand, and George Bush sr.
These men and women were true statesmen, prepared to defend their national interests while recognizing the need not to negate the interests of their peer actors in the global geopolitical arena.
Both Reagan and Thatcher were extreme ideologues, but they still both recognized that they cannot wish the USSR (Russia) away without destabilizing the global security architecture. They acted accordingly.
Alas, today, there’s not a single leader in the West with either the intellectual depth or the cultural sophistication to handle complex geopolitical issues.
Examples:
- At his first meeting with Chinese officials, the arrogant but amateurish US Secretary of State was promptly shot down by a Chinese official who told him point-blank: “The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.”
- In their encounter, Russia’s FM Lavrov publicly humiliated the queen that poses as the UK’s FM, Truss, by exposing her shallowness and ignorance of basic geography.
With leaders such as these, it is little wonder that the west continues to self-destruct with the speed that few people thought possible.
First, western officials’ lack of simple courtesy, manners, and etiquette is quite stunning.
In many cultures, bullies are considered uncultured philistines and are promptly dispensed with. Even at the height of their war with Iraq we witnessed how US Secretary James Addison Baker continued to extend diplomatic and personal courtesies to his Iraqi counterpart, Tarik Aziz.
Puffed up with insane arrogance, the West rushed to impose thousands of sanctions on Russia. The belief was that the sanctions would cripple Russia and make it forgo the pursuits of its national interests.
So many things are terribly wrong with this assumption and it can only be the product of utterly stupid brains. Just a few: How could anyone in their right mind think that the Russians would have failed to consider ALL possibilities before they decided to confront the west in an existential struggle?
Forget about the Ukraine, Russian officials told whoever would listen that the Ukraine is just a sideshow; upending western domination is the ultimate goal. The Russians simply had enough of bullying and they planned to put an end to it.
Russians are world champions in both mathematics and chess playing, one must be utterly daft to even think that a Judoka like V Putin will go into battle without adequate preparations and preparedness.
Three months later, not only did Russia shrug off all the touted “sanctions from hell,’ but its economy is back on track, steady income are streaming into its treasury, and its currency, the Ruble, has emerged as the best currency in the world!
Instead of the Ruble turning into rubble as the dimwit Biden promised, Russians today worry more about the strength of their currency.
So, how did the West get it so spectacularly wrong?
It’s education, stupid.
While other societies stepped up on the teachings of mathematics and science, the West focused its attention on WOKISM.
The teaching of new pronouns became more important to a people that have become over-obsessed with their genitalias. Not even children were spared in the degenerate obsession to sexualize everything.
The west abandoned the teaching of history. So, people grew up not knowing anything about their past. Years of obscenely grotesque overconsumption produced inert citizens who became too decadent for their own good.
The consequences of these long years of easy living (off the back of foreign resources) are people who deluded themselves that their easy living was made possible by some immutable law of nature.
Westerners forgot that the institutions and the unfair international economic setups which guarantee them to live like exceptionalists were created by crafty, highly-educated, and far-seeing men and women who managed to collar the best advantages for the West.
Example: We saw how spectacularly the Euro has nosedived since V Putin asked Europeans to pay for his gas in his currency.
Not only have the ill-thought sanctions boomeranged badly on the sanctioneers, but the west has also ended up financing Russia’s military campaign in the Ukraine.
More sanctions from hell, please!
Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ is a writer and a published author. He is a member of the Ghana Association of Writers.
His latest book, “Africa: a Continent on Bended Knees” is available on:
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It is refreshing to hear some voice from Africa. Western Europe have finally an opportunity to learn something.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”To quote a foundation from the Bible is the answer to to the western world learning something. All wisdom, knowledge, & understanding comes from the most high God. Unfortunately the Western World and mainly the USA have taking God from their classroom & government. Christ has risen.
I always enjoy when someone relates everyday life to an understanding of what the Bible says, thank you for a word from the Lord.
1. Lord, is a man of war!
2. Lord= Yehova, Yahveh!
So who are you talking about???
Religion is the main cause of nearly all conflicts & praying for peace etc has never ever worked. Sorry but it really isn’t of any interest to me – nor a lot of others unless I’m mistaken.
Not only are America and western Europe uneducated in the ways of the workd but they are
also are beyond learning. I think that’s the author’s point. There’s no place in the future for America and western Europe.
the decadent west shows itself to be without salvation. A path of no return has been taken, and Westerners will wake up only in great pain, with nuclear war and the extinction of cities. The difference between the West and Russia/Asia? The difference is that the West has become feminine, and the woman has been allowed to step out of her role and castrate the masculinity of men. But this is too much for some to hear. Truth that can no longer be swallowed by the West. Asia still respects the role of each energy and so Asian society will not collapse. The Asian way of social life should be copied by the West, including the educational way.
the west knows that it will not be able to take a step back on the issue of gender ideology, feminism, and they see that the only way out for the west is to dismember russia and china, so that they are not competitive, and after dismembering, fragment the Russia and China, the first thing they will do is introduce feminism and unbalance society with patriarchal values. They killed the male figure in the West. This is one of the main reasons for the war in Ukraine and Taiwan. Weakening Asian society will be the only way to stop the competitive power of Russia and China. That’s why the US and Europe are now insanely determined against Russia!
we see the result of this castration in American and European society. The unhealthy pursuit of pleasure, consumerism, hedonism. We see mutilated, dysfunctional people. It is for this reason that the Universe is allowing us to be going through this huge risk of extinction. Everything has a reason to be, a reason to be. The West wanted to change the natural order of things because of hedonism. That’s why American men and women have become obese, and Europeans are in a deep Nihilism and the birth rate has dropped a lot. Dysfunctional society. Feminist Merkel turned a blind eye to neo-Nazis, she ignores neo-Nazis now in this last interview shamefully. Merkel has had no children and is shaking with Alzheimer’s. But now that can’t be changed, Westerners’ ears are closed, pearls are not thrown to swine! We can only watch with great fear as the Western leadership plays with fire, playing with the possibility of nuclear world war 3. They really are problems beyond learning, beyond a school educational problem. There is no place in the future for America and Western Europe and we may have nuclear war because of this unforgivable civilizational deviation! The universe does not negotiate!
There are elements of this article with which I take umbrage; however, the gist is “down range and on target”! The collective West lacks manners, character and meaningful tradition because it has utterly failed to properly habituate, catechize and educate the denizens. The question is the following: What moral lattice work is lacking which has led to this failure?
Sir, What offended you or prompted annoyance in the article?
The truth.
“one cannot but respect Ronald Reagan Helmut Kohl, Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand, and George Bush sr”
One cannot help but wonder how much research into the bios of these characters the author actually did especially Reagan, Bush and Thatcher
Its Education … here we see the difficulty in reading comprehension. Can’t you guys read?
“Both Reagan and Thatcher were extreme ideologues, but they still both recognized that they cannot wish the USSR (Russia) away without destabilizing the global security architecture. They acted accordingly.”
That is the issue – we’re talking about behaviour here, not how bad they were .. and they were pretty bad. At this moment, Russian diplomats cannot even talk to US American diplo’s because the US Americans are too uneducated to even understand them.
How can one talk with people that confuse Austria with Australia LOL
I think the author wanted to say, those people were at least capable leaders and at a certain level of education and intelligence, they were in part evil of course. In crass contrast to the leaders of today like Johnson, Blinken, Truss, Baerbock, Scholz, Habeck, Sullivan, Biden, von der Leyen, Macron, Nuland, Trudeau, who are simply not.
Neither are they intelligent, at least outside of parotting BS and lies of the West, being corrupt and getting ahead of their also incompetent peers. Nor do they have knowledge of military history, simple math (outside of looking at poll data), simple physics, simple economics. They know jacksh.t about almost anything. But they think highly of themselves, of course, because ending after 10-30 years in the political swamp at the top is of course a hard fight, but of course its not. Its just a additional nail in the coffin of the degenerate west.
I also don’t agree a 100% to the authors gist of the education system is the problem in the West. I think its more the standard cycle of Empires. Every Empire exceeds its own limits and its Elites getting more and more degenerate and decadent. And thats just whats happening imho. It happened to the Aztecs, the Inkas, the Huns, the Mongols, the Roman Empire, the Osmanic Empire, the British Empire, its happening again and again.
The US education system produced Kamala Harris. How that person managed to graduate from any university is a mystery. But she makes a great point for this article, because she represents that system, what that system has become…
You might find this rather short essay interesting, in regards to ‘life of an Empire’.
The Fate of Empires (by Sir John Glubb).pdf
https://www.docdroid.net/5CdrehR/the-fate-of-empires-by-sir-john-glubb-pdf#page=2
To be fair, most of those you named in your first paragraph were not chosen for their leadership qualities. They (mostly) were chosen for their “pretty faces” and “voter appeal”, as calculated by inbred party gnomes. Also their malleability and obedience to said gnomes.
They were chosen to be actors … the greek word is hypocrits.
The claim the Western World and Europe in particular had no knowledge to offer in the past.
It mixes the current sorry state of education with the past.
I believe the end of slavery (in its many forms) first in Europe and then in Africa, was something worth exporting even with guns.
And the superiority felt by Europeans over Australian Aboriginals was understandable as the Europeans were able and willing to build farms and grow foods to nourish their children where the Aboriginals mocked them for their hard work and productivity but resorted to kill their own children when food was scarce in order to survive.
The current state of the Western World is so reminiscent of the state of Numenor (Westerness – see Tolkien) before its destruction. Destroyed not by the Power of Sauron but by his lies. Not from without but from within.
I don’t think the West (the European spirit) is at its end. It needs just a bit of fire to consume the dead wood and the wirms inside.
The dominant Khazar need to control society requires a dumbed down people. With Washington now Khazarian hands, the American education, among just all else American has been thrashed, corrupted
”What moral lattice work is lacking which has led to this failure?”
It was when the collective West succumbed to the spawn of the hypocritical Pharisees and Scribes and put them in charge of their lives, money and surrendered their education in their hands.
The ones who ”bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi”. The ones who ”shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in”. The ones who ”devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation”. The ones who ”compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves”.
It started with the introduction of calculators in school the first crutch .
All societies peak then decline, education is a symptom not a cause. Likewise the decline of morality, another symptom. The Western Titanic has already hit the iceberg, we know what comes next.
The driver behind all the problems is the notion of higher education for all. Higher education for all does little to nothing for the average IQ of the populace, but it has a tremendous effect on the average IQ of the population of college graduates. The higher that graduation rates go, the stupider scientists become, on average, and the stupider management–corporate, governmental and military–becomes, on average.
This article observes how every action by the United States seems to benefit Russia. One can equally observe that every recent action by the Democratic Party seems to benefit the Republican Party. Why? Democrats represent the states with the most education, Republicans the least. Republican college graduates are smarter than Democrat college graduates, on average, because they are a smaller slice of the pie. This trend toward higher education for all will pull everybody down, in the long run. When the day dawns in which everybody graduates from college, Republican college graduates will be as stupid as Democrat college graduates. They won’t be woke. But they will embrace some sort of ideology equally as stupid. Graduating everybody means teaching everybody something everybody can understand. Wokism–or the rightwing equivalent–everybody can understand. Mathematics everybody cannot.
Russia is not immune. Russia’s college graduation rate is as high as America’s. Russia’s leaders may be smart now, but there is no guaranty that they will stay that way. As long as Russia, America and every other country–even Ghana–raise their college graduation rates high enough, the day will dawn when their researchers and leaders are as stupid as their janitors and garbage collectors.
There is no such thing as higher education for all in the United States, the price of a 4 year degree in an accredited school can cost upward of $100,000 or more when it’s all said and done. Better to buy a $10,000 fixer upper, and live in it for low rent for four years and sell it for a profit, then start again, that’s where America is right now. No industry, no manufacturing, shrinking well paid blue collar job pool, and universities that churn out thousands of poorly educated, drunken suburban spoilt brats. Have you taken note of where your local hospital staff hails from ?To add to that, without a focus in science, math, and technology from an early age and for all students. The United States is recreating slavery, but this time they are including the white middle class Christian folks in the mix. Ironically, the same civil liberties that were violated en-masse against African Americans without a peep from quite a few of these same folks, are the ones that mainstream America is bitching and moaning about loosing today….Guns….check, Voting….check…..Drugs…..check, P.T.S.D…..from military service because jobs are scarce….check. This entire situation arises from the fact that Americans are convinced that they earned what they have rather than stole it. It probably doesn’t help that the rulers and their voters decided to disinvest in America, and all of it’s citizens by calling it socialism. I’m sure most of us just love crumbling schools and unsafe streets. Oh, you don’t have crumbling schools and unsafe streets near your house. That’s ok, because you can’t afford the gates and the guns and ammo that it will take to keep you safe when those that do become hungry enough to pay you a visit. The problem is that white people are just being introduced to what it is like to be on the wrong side of the government in this country, and they have aided and abetted the construction of the police state not understanding that they were building it for themselves. There is only one fix….do unto others as you would have them do unto you…..White America, this is your wake up call, the white technologically advanced and well financed Russians have called your bullshit, and America is a house built on shifting sands with glass walls, convince your friends and family to convince their friends and family that America needs to have a come to Jesus moment and fix up their home before messing around in other peoples yards. The first thing that America must deal with is it’s racism. Even otherwise rational people on this blog are willing to shoot themselves in the face rather than deal with reality…….case in point…..people who think that EU race discrimination in the case of Ukraine is just white people taking care of their own…..you’ve got to be the dumbest…the leadership doesn’t love white people either, they only tolerate them a bit more. But during the wars a lot more of them die than in most other theatres of battle….don’t ever forget thay
Thank you Fẹmi. this is one of the liveliest articles I have read. Thanks for posting it on the Saker blog. The arrogant Americans are also very fond of Spiderman, 6 Million Dollar Man… stuff. No wonder when someone in the Empire loses his mind he would go after the most vulnerable members of the society as we saw a teenager shooting small children in school or going after sick people in hospital.
The shooter in Tulas killed his back surgeon and those that were between him and the surgeon.Removed. Mod.
Blinkered Blinken Blindly Blunders On:
“The Ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets on Russian territory…. There is a strong trust bond between Ukraine and the US, as well as with our allies and partners….”
And pigs fly…. wolves don’t kill sheep…. crocodiles don’t eat…. and Ukrainians don’t attack undefended Russian villages.
But, as Zhao Lijian — the magnificent Chinese Maria Zakharova — says, “You can’t wake a man who is pretending to be asleep.”
Stupid people are easier to control.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The list of people that we should respect, which included Reagan, Bush and the rest, have done more to destroy the West than even the devil could have even dreamed of. For there is/was not even one like JFK a peacemaker who said he was going to put the Cold War to bed and without a doubt is one of the reasons they murdered him in Dallas. Texas and the country has never been the same since that day.
Excellent article. I don’t think you can appreciate how correct you are. In some of the areas you discussed it is even worst than you described. I have lived in the USA most of my life and I witness to everything you wrote here but it is even worst as most Americans have really bought the lie of Americans and the West preeminence. Americans are poorly traveled so they have no idea how the world even works. We hardly are taught anything about our two connecting neighbors, Canada and Mexico. American history is filled with more lies, omissions, falsehoods and worst, then truths. In a country built on the theft and destruction of the native peoples almost nothing is taught about them. Few even know how much native language permeates spoken USA English. As to the lack of teaching math and science the issue is too huge for this vehicle but can traced to USA lives off well educating 1% of the population and no more. It has no interest in broad based highly educating the whole populace. One the worst taught areas of education in the USA is geography. Literally most Americans do not get have geography classes but get geography lessons between first and third grades largely about the USA. forget about world geography. This is why Americans cannot find many countries around the world on a map and worst. Most countries make and effort and try educate as many people in their country as possible not the USA. This is in large part from USA’s racist origins and strict caste system that is ignored here. I could say so much more but again great article.
Why worship a people that could not even invent the Wheel?
Calling the US racist is ignorant in the extreme. As for language, the greatest influence on English comes from Gaelic, Celtic, and Welsh, the rest of it is Greco-Roman.
That’s the element in the article that killed it.
It was so good, up until that content, almost none of which reflected historical truth. Which is a shame. The author shared a really unique perspective, yet unfortunately handed us the same silly beliefs as the darker half of a YouTube comment section.
I want to read more by this author, despite this. The other portions of the work are interesting.
The U.S.A. is not going to be able to ship the typical, gargantuan amounts of grain to various African countries, this year. How can we, when the wicked government cut us off from our major source of fertilizer? Food costs will be ridiculous for us.
The scale of the collapse is going to be massive. I’m tired of arguing, though. None of these SJWs in my local area have the ability to reason. They actually think Fauci saved their lives, and that the Ukrainian army is marching through Russia as we speak, and that “it is over.”
SJWs, BLM, Antifa, Greens all useful idiots for the WEF psychopaths and their minions. If the WEF ever gets its way these idiots will very quickly and violently discover that they’re no longer of value and will be in the same suppressed situation as the rest of us.
How is calling the USA a racist country ignorant? Unless one is in denial of history or is a neoliberal revisionist, the fact correctly stands that the US was founded on the foundations of genocide and slavery.
The United States by it’s own admission, has had racism rooted in it’s original settlement and agricultural program….Did it disappear ? Did it die with Dr. King ? Did it mysteriously get swept under the rug and all the racists stopped teaching it to their children on that very day ?????? And if it did disappear, why is the empire doing it’s very best to kill the Moscal Mongul Hordes trying to rape beautiful blonde Ukrainian girls by supporting the Azov boys. You can’t sit the fence as a racist and the United States has shown in it’s involvements far and wide across this beautiful world of ours that they have no picks…..If you aren’t white, speak English, or live in one of the extensions of the Empire and have received a temporary exemption…….you are dead, your s*#t confiscated, your kids, reducated to either become just like them and their LGBTQ ways, or they will begin to hate themselves, or they will lash out and go straight to one of the many cages built for the purpose, but mostly just dead. Western history is to bloody to be denied, and to deep to be erased by a civil rights movement where all the real leaders were assassinated.
Years ago, I heard it from some US Mormon missionaries in South Africa, they said that back home there are still some people who believed that in Africa, there were people who lived on trees. Just think, even in our time, there are Americans who are so badly uninformed..
There are people who live in trees. They just got the location wrong.
“Deep within the inaccessible jungle of the southeast Indonesian province of Papua, about 150 kilometres inland from the Arafura Sea, lives the Korowai tribe – a clan totally isolated from the rest of the world……”
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10/the-tree-houses-of-korowai-tribe-of-new.html?m=1
It is well known that foreign wars is the way Americans learn about geography. From Panama to Eye-rak and now to U-craign!
Well, we’ve all heard the phrase, “college idiots”. They’ve succeeded in convincing average IQ individuals that they’re actually smart. No amount of education or indoctrination can make stupid people otherwise.
Quite true, much to my regret.
And probably a requirement for the NWO elite, as uneducated people and those that pose as their leaders, are easier to control.
Certainly, today’s crop of top gov’t officials constituted endless material for comedy, satire… and tears.
The unbelievable arrogance of the western elite is ironic and the fact that it’s due to past greatness and yet they are trained, in our great universities, to hate their past.
A lively, hard-hitting article based on solid common sense and keen observation. While calling out the emperor for being naked with great wit, the article also explains the HOWs and WHYs behind the degeneration of Western elites. Good voices from Africa are always needed and Mr. Femi’s voice is so clear and interesting.
Si Deum non colis, Cesarem Occidentem colit Biden
My wife, coming to get her PhD at a super elite East Coast University in the late 1980s, brought her ‚Klassenbuch‘ to her first meeting with the imposing Dean in his office worthy of a Emporer.
Dean “what’s this little book” (flipping through the pages)
Foreign Student “it’s my Klassenbuch”
Dean “what’s that ?”
Foreign Student “it’s a record of all my classes, grades, and comments by my Professors”
Dean “oh you mean this is your transcript, we’ll you need to translate this”
Foreign Student “it’s in Latin”
The Mighty all powerful Dean still didn’t get it.
This is a well written explanatory article. I would like to add that all articles related to the US (I could add Canada & UK as well) education are simply missing the driver. There has been NO REASON to produce educated, qualified scholars, ambassadors, leaders & political heavyweights. Let alone an educated populas. Ever since the collapse of the USSR, the US has run around, unchecked, unaccountable globally as well as domestically. Before, even domestically, the governances needed the citizens, needed support, needed consensus as a super power could wedge in and take control. After the USSR collapse, US/UK unchecked anymore no longer needed to be clever, no longer needed to be polished, educated or rational even. They had the power to run around globally & domestically and be self interested greedy buffoons, outright morons, offending, demanding, bribing, threatening, and as irrational as they wanted & who was gonna do a thing about it? So again, bottom line: No Need… they could care a less how they “look” to their own citizens let alone other nations. When a “need” arises, to he diplomatic, or be educated, well educated (particularly in history & geography), well that’s only going to come when the West is once again held in check, & accountable. The article is spot on, I was just trying to shine a light on the “why?”.
Not to mention their centuries efforts to prove that they have by large higher IQ than the rest!
I was brought up hearing that a Government needed a strong opposition to keep it on its toes. Nowadays dissenting voices are called Putin apologists. There’s next to zero difference among the major parties in the UK, all sing from the same hymn sheet, terrified of rocking the boat, that the satanic might of the MSM will come crashing down on them, crushing their chances at the polls.
Indeed we live in a Self-Preservation Society.
Whee; you do not pull your punches!
I am a refugee from Hungary, came to Canada in 1956 (Hungarian revolution) and already found that Western education was not up to Hungarian standards… after spending a year in Grade 1 (to learn English) I was bumped to grade 5… and found I already knew more as a grad of Hungarian grade 4 than I was now being thought in grade 5.
Soviet education standards were highest, and although Russian education got hit when the USSR collapsed, it is clearly still much better than current Western education.
Western education is going woke, declining to ever lower standards… while Russian education is taking a step to a higher standard;
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/this-shouldnt-be-ignored.html
The Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb has been described as a Budapest High School science project due to the high preponderance of scientists and engineers on that project that were emigres from Hungary.
@ Rudy
You remind me of something similar when I was in grade 8 over on Vancouver Island. We had a student who was bumped up to grade 9 from grade 7 after having moved from Ontario to BC. He was all the talk and the bullying he got for it was terrible. I remember it well because grade 8 was junior high not elementary so I was transferred to another school. For this guy however, to go from elementary to above me was strange, almost embarrassing really. No wonder he got bullied.
“No wonder he got bullied.”
And that right there, that attitude that permeates throughout western educational institutions is the entire problem in a nutshell. It carries over into real life and look and behold! Our current crop of ‘leaders’ are almost all acting like bullies themselves. What a surprise.
@ Harry
I worked with an expat Russian and he said that he and his wife {Lithuanian} would never return to Russia. Why? Thr’ye all bullies Gerry he said to me. You may want to read whats here by rolo slavisky:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/05/17/the-generational-divide-in-eastern-europe-the-bariga-generation/
Further to this as I said to Vladimir what else is new. I also remember back in my thirties I came across in our old schoolyard a man I went to school with. He was looking up all our old school buddies and why? He was out for revenge having become a golden glove in boxing after moving away to another province. It was payback time now. Woe,
Wow! Thank you Mr. Akọmọlafẹ! Your refreshingly candid and brilliant analysis is much needed in these times of idiot leaders and woke morons.
Say what you will about the many transgressions of former French, British and other European imperial powers, the cultural impingements were at least somewhat more tolerable in terms of their educational underpinnings. The global spread of what passes for US “culture”, even if one could somehow ignore its utter hypocrisy, seems to me a much greater threat to any future hopes for maintaining a civilized society that the much vaunted US military and nuclear supremacy. In fact, faced with the ultimate consequences of those two options, it would be a difficult choice. Only reading articles such as this (thank you) and listening to Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov and their fellows in literate statesmanship brings occasional relief.
Except for the supposedly “elite school”, for majority of students, undergrad is meant for hedonistic pursuits. Elite schools are gamed in such a way that the same bunch of elites get to study there. No meritocracy. They lead cushy lives and are assured of a prosperous future because of their connections. Their children will go to the same schools and will populate the same political stratosphere. Mostly endogamous society. You know what happens to endogamous societies. People get stupider and stupider.
“Watching the performances of Russians and Western officials, one immediately notices that the much-touted and ultra-expensive “education “ provided in the West today is actually not up to par.”
Evaluation is a function of purpose and you apparently believe that the same purpose of “education” is shared by The Russian Federation and “The West” as a function of not rigorously testing the question – “What are the United States of America, and how are they facilitated ?”
The United States of America are networks for mutual benefit.
They are facilitated by networks facilitating mutual benefit by bonding.
Consequently within “The United States of America” education is often focused on bonding to create networks to facilitate mutual benefit for those who can already afford the fees.
That was emulated to lesser degrees within “The Soviet Union” where education was often focused on bonding to create networks of widely complimentary education to facilitate mutual benefit for those with enough blat (connections) and/or potentials, which was in some measure emulated in “The United States of America” prior to 1945, and acceleratingly undermined from 1970 onwards, and increasingly in The Russian Federation from circa 1993 onwards.
As with much else (football being merely one of many prime examples), education in the West is nothing more than a money laundering scam for parasitical rentiers.
From the creative destroying pre-school nurseries and playgroups all the way through to what is, without irony, referred to as ‘higher education’ the whole structure is based on a philistine tick in a box process transplanted directly from factory production line culture as though children are merely tins of peas.
Quality is non-existent. If it can’t be quantified so that someone or something – individual, school, collage or University – can be constantly measured in quantitative terms and bonuses allocated it does not get a look in. Taylorism on steroids since the introduction and dissemination of computer technology.
This mirrors the very same process and culture as the workplace – particularly since Thatcher. Where the same Borg like structures and processes are indistinguishable and interchangeable wherever you go. Be it the private, public, third or whatever sector or institution you care to name. From politics to health; education to charity; local government to voluntary work the same simplistic grad-grind structures and processes have been implemented.
Experience, expertise, knowledge, gumption and any other qualitative features, along with those who possess them, have long been jettisoned and managed out of every single system, sub-system, organisation and institution in the delusional belief that the only valid and legitimate skill is that of a ‘manager’ and everything else, to use Jorge Vilches’s phrase, is just ‘plug and play’ and can be recruited straight from the bus queue with a half hour CBT (Computer based Training) package ready to go at hundred miles an hour.
Producing outcomes, unique to the West and anyone/anywhere run by the West, in which the whole produces results which are less than the sum of the parts rather than, as in every other organisational system, more. As a direct result of producing decision makers at every single level who are ‘copers’ rather than leaders.
To ‘cope’ means to manage. And that’s all ‘manager’s and the ‘managerialist’ culture can do, cope. Running everything as though it were their own individual fiefdom with the left hand not giving a FF what the right hand is doing because its all about individual budgets and tick in a box targets. Even down to artificially manufacturing low scores on individual staff performance reviews to fit the Gaussian distribution model.
Much like the charlatan ‘science’ of what passes for economics which never fails to pre-assume what they aim to deduce. Missing out objective based evidence and going straight from supposition and hypothesis to convenient conclusion.
A cultural model of dis-organisation partially analysed in this piece:
https://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/
Little wonder that the quality of leadership is so lacking across the entire spectrum in the West. Politicians simply being another form of ‘manager’ going through interchangeable revolving doors. They don’t know any better, and never will.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with the inevitable consequences. This is why everything from the performance of the proxies in Ukraine through to the economy, the sanctions blowback, and even the “Great Reset” is going tits up.
I was once told in my youth, by someone I respected, that the function of an economist was to distract the marks whilst their pockets were picked by the bankers. Extrapolating from this, when you haven’t heard from our “owners” (oligarchs, billionaires) in awhile, it might be time to camp in your bunker.
An excellent diagnosis of the illness, as you also state unfortunately incurable. How long has the patient left to suffer?
Where does education come from? Culture. Consciousness can grow when there is an open and free culture for differences. In fact evolution needs this western idiots to learn the lesson. We just live in cycles until we can spiral out. Thousand years are not enough. It’s so much bigger.
Dear Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ,
You ask “What civilization did Europe bring to the Americas?”
Spain brought Faith and Civilization.
America is more than USA & Canada only.
My history lessons taught me that before the Spanish entered South America, there were tribes of indigenous peoples like the Incas and Aztecs who had already achieved a very high level of culture and industry…and that the ‘faith’ that Spaniards introduced involved slavery of the indigenous peoples…so i’m not too sure that the Spaniards contributed to a better ‘civilisation’…
i’m not too sure that the Spaniards contributed to a better ‘civilisation’…
I am very sure. You can see a film by Mel Gibson named Apocalypto. The arrival of spaniards was a salvation for indians who were offered as victims to Aztecs “gods”.
And the modern ‘civilised’ USA has it’s own form of sacrifice; state sanctioned murders/executions wuth spectators too.
And then there is death by cop; three a day at least.
Best to look inward before pointing your finger.
Are you sayint the Aztecs scrificing human beings on the alters of their pyramids was very high level of culture?
Are you saying that Aztecs sacrificing human beings on the alters of their pyramids were the only civilization in central and south America? Did all of them deserve to be destroyed because of what the Aztecs did?
Christians sacrificed people to their god too, didn’t you know? Except that they burnt them alive, tortured them to death, or, if the were lucky, beheaded them. Or would you say that that doesn’t count because it didn’t happen on top of a pyramid?
So let’s rephrase your question to bring some balance to it:
Are you saying that Christians sacrificing human beings by burning them on the stake was very high level of culture?
No, it wasn’t. And just as burning people alive wasn’t the sum of Christianity, the occasional sacrifices by the Aztecs are not representative of the many cultures, nations and civilizations of central and south America who perished at the hands of (mainly) the Spanish.
Spain brought death, destruction and slavery to America. Were you sick when this was taught in class? Spare me stories about what colonial countries like Spain, Portugal and UK brought to the world. Absolutely nothing good!
Dear Mr. Roberto, you appear to operate from the same book as the ‘Murcans. Let’s not forget the lies, greed, genocide, etc. Of the Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish are too, Europeans, and are victims of a culture of deceit and wanton greed. Look at the history. Let’s not forget the practice of “mejorar la raza.” Please consider dismounting that noble steed you, in you mind, think you ride. The Spanish and Portuguese had their turn. It’s now the time of naked anglo emperors and their euro-poodle pets.
bravo, excellent comment
Russian education is indeed of a very high standard. Saker Vineyard has written on this subject: the Gymnasium system from 18th century-19th century Germany; “the highest set of competitive mental hurdles ever set up” according to Albert Einstein. Although Einstein himself was “a Lazy Dog” and hated those studies, that mental Gymnasium turned Germany into a highly educated country; a cultural and technological powerhouse — until Hitler destroyed German culture with his dumb insistence on “unquestioning obedience in the national interest”. Which brings us to something which I think is more important than education: namely, Leadership. To have the right people in the right place — people who are not only educated but can apply their education to solve political problems — this is vitally important for the health of the Body Politic (see Plato, the Republic).
Leadership in the EU$A suffers from Nepotism; too many people are in leadership positions not because they have risen up through ability but because they have been “parachuted” down from high through “konneksia”. Elizabeth von der Leiden is a very good example of what I mean by “a niece”, and Emmanuel Micron is an obvious “nephew” of Rothschild, but there are so many others that it is hard to find any person of ability in any position of power in the EU$A today.
PS another personal requirement is Courage. As a South African who thinks the ANC has cease-fired in mid-struggle, I hope one day to see a book titled, “Africa: A Continent which Does not Bend the Knee”.
While I agree with the view on how well mannered and eloquent Russian top officials appear to be compared to the idiots who pose as the western elites (and who decide things impacting me that I never got consulted for nor agreed with in any way or form), I think that the now obvious degeneracy of western culture and values is not incomprehensible if one starts to think that it was premeditated and means to achieve it rolled out progressively over a period spanning decades. And it is not too far fetched to think that the end goal is the destruction of the secular West for an abomination of global scale: a one world order of technocratic nature. Everyone in this blog knows about it to a certain degree. The vassalisation of the world is the goal. And one cannot help wondering if Russia in its actions is not contributing to the process, albeit unintentionally, by kicking the west in its teeth. For what will take place if the west collapses ? Will that bring down the monstrosities known as BIS, IMF, WHO, etc ? Even the UN seems irredeemable. Please make no mistake, I am just musing about the meaning of all that has been happening for the last few decades, I do not have any definitive or rigid opinion.
Aegis, nobody is “kicking the West in its teeth”. The West (which includes Australia in the Far East, and Israel in the Middle East) is breaking its teeth by chewing on stones. Nobody is forcing us to elect foolish Leaders who do foolish things. If the East (which includes Venezuela and Cuba, Iran and Syria as well as Hungary, Russia, China) can find competent Leaders with sensible policies, then so can we.
What could prevent us to choose better Leaders? Certainly not lack of education: it doesn’t take much schooling to see that Ursula is an airhead, Scholz is a blockhead and Biden suffers from senile cognitive impairment. Out of a population of 700 Million to choose from, surely “the West” can do better than routinely select persons of small competence to fill positions of great power?
Some can dive deep and some can paddle-wheel.
Those that have a desire for ultimate truth, know it must be sought and found in the spiritual realm.
And only those that seek it there understand that significance.
You see, this temporary physical world exists only because the invisible Prime Mover brought it into existence; or rather the invisible spiritual creative being who exists eternally, Almighty God, the source of all.
“In Him, we live and move and have our very being.” Acts 17:24-28
Alright, if you’re still with me, you must understand that our creator God is in control of His creation.
Now, if pride hasn’t made you scoff this off, then you must admit the Creator Almighty who brought forth the universe and the heavens, and everything in them into existence from nothing,is the ultimate “Truth,” then you must surely be capable of understanding He determines all outcomes by the counsel of His own will.
But He has not left us helpless and in the dark, with no hope or ability to discern and grasp the times of the seasons.
I am not going to preach a sermon here.
If you see things happening which are unprecedented in world history, but which could be plugged into ancient prophesies where none could have ever been plugged in before, it might be time to start taking the Word of God seriously.
Can the clay vessel say to the potter, why have you made me so?
I would take issue with calling the Ukrainian military the best military in Europe. It was/is certainly the largest. And did/does have a lot of military equipment. But most of the troops were/are not trained well. Certainly there are certain units that might be, but not most. Even their vaunted combat experience was fighting either against armed irregular gangs in Iraq or Afghanistan. Or in the Donbass against the peoples militia,who while tough,were not well armed. And even they were beating the Ukrainians. The Ukrainian troops and their nazi/natsik cohorts were/are mostly good at mistreating the local civilians,and fighting drunkenly among themselves.
Over the last 8 years we’ve seen countless reports (many of them here on the Saker) highlighting how bad that military was. So to now think they were the best,doesn’t make much sense to me. And the equipment, while large in numbers,is/was not up to the best modern standards. We hear how the NATO states are scrounging around digging out their old Soviet military hardware to ship to Ukraine because that is what the majority of the equipment loss by the Ukrainians was like. Some of the Ukrainian individual soldiers are brave fighters (they are Russians after all). But taken all together the military isn’t well trained. The officer corps is disgraceful,deserting their soldiers more times than not. The soldiers committing war crimes,and hiding behind the civilian population. In my opinion if it wasn’t for the constant arrival of more equipment. And most importantly the Russian government trying as best they can to avoid casualties among both the Ukrainian civilians and the Ukrainian military. They would have totally fallen apart and been crushed long ago.
“It is like every move by the Americans and their vassals in the EU was calculated to benefit the Russians.”
This could be explained by the Puppets of Satan controlling both sides. An number of important illusions are easier to maintain with an outwardly multipolar geopolitical situation.
If this education that produces morons is delivering Westerners from their active role as global tyrants, that’s a good thing. Let some other peoples have a turn at bullying nations and earning deep places in Hell.
Good article. My only complaint is that the article complains about Western education focusing on Wilkinson as opposed to hard facts and truths, but then you also play the race card a few times in the article. Just like hypocritic westerners. Other than that, good job.
I don’t think the author has played the race card at all. If I missed it, perhaps you can cite an example. The author is all praises for Western intellectual accomplishments of the past. What he calls out is the deplorable fall in educational and ethical standards since the past 50 years. And if he records the crimes of colonialism and imperialism, is he not factually correct? Pointing out the crimes against humanity committed by the European powers in Africa is not exactly playing the race card. The Europeans have been singing the song of “We are good, we are noble, we are the best, we are a gift to mankind” since far too long. About time somebody put them in their place. Thus is exactly what the author has done – easily and in a lively prose.
good read,
good piece of writing,
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, – the balance-wheel of the social machinery. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. Horace Mann (1796-1859) Mussolini realized that being a stone mason required work, so he decided to go into politics where he developed the art of lying, and manipulation. He learned that when you bamboozle people long enough, they tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. They are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured them. It is simply too painful to acknowledge, even to themselves, that they’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Similarly in education, poor teachers who can’t survive in the classroom become administrators who then pull like-minded people into administration, and they embark on destroying natural-born curiosity in children. In my part of the world, “Children in nurseries are told tales about the cow jumping over the moon. They are later introduced to the fable of a Santa Claus who deliver gifts through the chimney (let’s not mention the gross racism inherent in the Dutch version of that silly ‘tradition’). From here, the westerner is told only tales about how his superior race brought the light of civilization to the rest of the world.” We were told that killing people was for a good cause to civilize them, when in reality we embarked on bamboozling them to believe that they deserved being our slaves.
Thank you Mr. Akọmọlafẹ, this article was both accurate and entertaining. I have watched the decline you describe in the US since the end of the Vietnam war and if anything your condemnations were too charitable..
The Russian actions in Ukraine revealed a West where leaders remain emotional juveniles who continue to REACT jerkily to Russia’s deft moves. That’s when they are not busy projecting their own values and behavior onto the Russians.
Key observation here. The West like you said appears to be reacting, not responding. People respond with intent and react with learned patterns of behavior, hence the constant projection. King baby syndrome…
Can only react and juggle balls for so long until you drop them all.
p.s. there are people in the US who are starting to understand how f’d we are here and how much our .gov has f’d up stuff around the world, but it’s few and far between to run into them in daily life. Try and tell other people this info here and they recommend you start taking antidepressants. Wish I was joking, but I’m not at all.
Fine article. One thing I might dispute: in my experience the dumbing-down and boorishness began with Reagan and Thatcher era. Ideologues always have this effect.
I’m reminded of a Monty Python sketch wherein a man prepares to interview another man who professes to be able to put bricks to sleep. (This is recounted from memory.)
The interviewer accepts this assertion somewhat skeptically and hands him a brick. “Can you put this one to sleep?”
He examines the brick. “No.”
Interviewer draws back. “Why not?”
“Um, this one is already asleep.”
It’s all perfectly logical if you buy into the premise.
In my experience, the dumbing down of the US educational system began with the Nixon Administration which put down the student anti-war movement. The focus was to reduce critical thinking with rote “learning”.
Finland actually has the world’s best educational system but even it cannot prevent the installation of poor leaders trained in the WEF young leaders program and parachuted into office as was Macron in France.
https://geopolitics.co/2022/02/22/world-economic-forums-young-global-leaders-revealed/
Fine angle which raises the question: If world’s best educational system can not make it, what can make it?
The answer is off course the spiritual side! But if Western people reject the spiritual side again again again?
Bobby Marley, Running Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLf7s6VlKc (you must have done something wrong) :-)
Well said, good brother Fẹmi! As a white European profoundly at odds with the current idiot-led culture of my native part of the world, I can only agree with what you say – except the part about how canny Margaret Thatcher was, perhaps. :)
In my old age, it gives me great satisfaction to observe the confident, educated and intelligent rising generation of Africans finally managing to inch your continent into its proper standing in the world. Long may your rise continue, bro! (With some egalitarian-minded help from Russia and China, I imagine.)
And what a laugh to me to see the haughty Euro-Americans finally outed as the incompetent fools they have become, over their utter debacle in dealing with resurgent Russia, and anciently-civilised China. Still as civilised as ever, and showing ‘the West’, along with their close Russian allies, how to do things properly, so that the whole world can respect you.
It’s to be hoped that the self-proclaimed carriers of ‘the white man’s burden’ – hah! – get chastened into learning the lessons which we in Euro-America so need to learn. Essentially, the educated, respect-based, adult good sense which you outline in this piece, Fẹmi. Respect!
Spot on. The education is the key to understand the gigantic Western collapse that are underway.
They made their bet on propaganda and mind controle by buying up all Western media and collected them into 6 mega corporations with global news for the masses coordinated by Reuter and AP.
To make the population suck up all the fake news, propaganda and lies, Western education system were deliberately dumbed down and language was manipulated with newspeak, to meet the final endgoal of Central Global Governance. In these circles its called “Perception Management”.
To my dear co-commenters, I think you miss the point in the authors article. Like you I dont especially like Reagan nor Thatcher, but both were far more intelligent than these childish personalities we see today, and that is the point.
Please allow me a reference:
“Above all it is essential to refer to things by their correct names. If things are not referred to by their correct names, then our language will not reflect reality.
If our language does not reflect reality, then our actions will not reflect reality, and will be exercises in futility.” (Confucius, 551-479 BC)
TJ, intelligence isn’t the issue, unless you want to argue that people today are less intelligent than they were 40 or 50 years ago. Intellects today have been carefully shaped and curated to be unable to evaluate matters objectively, i.e. incapable of logical analysis. Feelings might get hurt. Somebody might be offended or feel threatened. Once a brain has been formatted in this manner it’s impossible to recover true intelligence.
Agree, but dont you contradict yourself saying intelligence is not the issue but is the issue?
People certainly were more intelligent and capable 40-50 years ago, and yes today they have been formatted.
One thing I still do analyses on: Are these people of today excused because they have been formatted, or do they have a free will to either reject this formatting or to overcome this formatting.
In my opinion we become responsible when we repeatedly are confronted and advised, but repeatedly reject and seek the blind gate and darkness.
But this one is complicated why I leave the case of guilt to the Judge above us, honoured be his name. :-).
To the main point I must reluctantly agree. Almost all Western education now follows the line from Alice in Wonderland: “First the verdict, then the trial!” In most fields the narrative or ideology is taught first, and all further effort must remain within those bounds, if any advancement is sought. Critical though is discouraged generally, except in those fields where it is absolutely necessary, and then confined to that field and the matter at hand. Evidence from other fields that conflicts with your field is simply ignored. For one example: Egyptology still maintains the Sphinx was built during the fourth dynasty, while geology has suggested (or perhaps proven) for decades that it is at least twice that age and likely prehistoric. Likewise Western politicians and diplomats now succeed based on their loyalty and adherence to ideology. Inherent intelligence and critical thought, unless hidden, is a drawback.
The Ukrainian military was trained up to NATO standards and it is getting chewed up by Russia. True, and I believe this was the plan. The more soldiers Russia kills, the more their families will hate Russia. NATO doctrine relies on air superiority and fails without it. This crucial component was NOT provided to Ukraine. Sending heavy weapons to Ukraine without providing air cover and missile defense is simply a fundraiser for the arms makers. If they wanted Ukraine to win they would have provided at a minimum A10s, F15/16s , and robust air defenses.
On another matter I might point out that the Western billionaires are also making huge profits on energy sales and have little desire to increase production enough to decrease these profits. The taxpayers and currency holders bear the costs of the incipient WWIII while the owners of the arms companies pocket the profits. The incentive is not to “win” so much as to enrich these billionaires. When this crashes the economy, (and perhaps reduces infrastructure to rubble) they apparently believe they can set up a new system even more extractive and reduce the remaining general population to serfdom.
This is interesting. It comes to me at a good moment. I just finished writing something myself about the diseducation in western culture, and the resulting inability of people to apply logic. Some people can apply some logic to what they know something about, but are all emotional impulses when they encounter something new. They cannot withhold judgement about things until they have enough information. They cant see and reject misinformation. Thus the crazy reactions to things like covid crisis and Ukraine war. Go check this out at https://yaxls.wordpress.com/2022/06/02/about-the-blue-and-yellow/
I hope to see more stuff from Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ. Need more African perspectives.
I also hope to see more from Fẹmi.
“It is like every move by the Americans and their vassals in the EU was calculated to benefit the Russians.”
Lots of good points in this article. The notion that we in North America have been extremely over endowed with undeserved riches is lost on most yanks. That our gain has been at the expense of others not at all appreciated.
We see poor people suffering and respond with classism, to quote my wealthy sister, ‘I worked hard for everything I have.’ Like watching your kids starve is an easy job.
An excellent case could be made that our government’s actions have led to Russia’s surge in wealth and the West plummeting. Pleading ignorance is not working for us when you charge huge sums and squander it all to benefit the masters, but not those who they are contractually obligated to serve.
It’s like how we paid a huge sum of money to defend our country and they gifted themselves with the 9/11 excuse to rampage across the middle east.
All your points on education ring true. It is a system that programs people to obey, then saddles them with debt and deeply entrenched false beliefs.
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i’m not a huge fan of current matt taibbi, but his book “griftopia” is a great primer on the smoke and mirrors “finance” sector. as he says in the book, the west – especially the US – has already collapsed. the point of these financial fables is to grab what’s left and then scram.
wall street is a physical place but the parasites in that sector are stateless and ethereal. they have no country. that’s why dumb shit like crypto appeals to them.
Exactly.” Arrogant and totally ignorant …”
Maybe those that are behind wanted exactly that “product” to be available for the positions they are occupying. The worst the better.
https://philosophyofgoodnews.com/2022/06/02/the-worst-is-better/
Leaders/politicians know politics, how to con people and remain in power. But they know little about policies and issues–it takes time and reflection to learn and stay abreast of issues. They’re lazy–they go with ideology. That’s true of the American people as well. Of course, our MSM is not at all informative. I assume that a similar situation exists in Europe. Imagine that! The west has turned into a bunch of dummies, top to bottom. A nation that once had a vast network of libraries (now largely empty) and newsstands (mostly gone) has turned into a nation of idiots staring at cat videos on their cell phones at thriving vape shops and tattoo parlors.
The more educated you are the more likely you on average will swallow state propaganda. Especially if not operating in real sciency, but fake pseudo science. Higher educated people follow more “quality media” than others, and are easiest targets of big scam.
It’s quite commonly accepted reality that western education after 1970’s has gone downhill. Students read, write and do maths more poorly than 50 years ago. This only leads to degenerated society.
Femi and Saker,
If you chaps haven’t seen this video by BPS, it’s worth a look. The education system in the US is rubbish, but
there are other factors, of course, which Mr Pigeon looks into. Odysee link below:
https://odysee.com/@BlackPigeonSpeaks:c/it's-official-living-in-america-makes:5
The decline of culture is immense process and the most shocking thing here is that once that process has started no one can stop it. Make no mistakes, there is no way to stop decline of western culture. We only can study it and learn how decline of culture to just civilization and final end of even it happens. In core of every culture is religion. When religion is marginalized and finally decimated the process of decline will speed up.
Thank’s for your words. As a western woman from the sixties, I grind my teeth every day. But we deserve it. We allow it and everyone who screams and fights back is marginalized by what is currently a perfect regime of opinion management. So the realization has to come through: it’s the economy stupid. 😜
Love
Hats off, the writer has expressed it far more succinctly. How could the world be led by such morons who are oblivious to the danger that Russian diplomacy tried so hard to avoid? It can’t just be sheer stupidity. It is also the result of warped minds, criminal and evil secret society members that have taken over in Western capitals. Western rulers have long been corrupting all of us ,for instance by imposing perversion like homosexuality on all of us and weaving this into a fake international value system. All of a sudden Western leaders are senseless beyond imagination. You don’t have to be too educated to see through their folly. And yet, these same mindless rulers have the capacity to start a war that would wipe us all off the face of the earth. They have ill treated weaker nations for centuries to the point where they now are blind to the danger of starting a war against an equally stronger opponent like Russia.
The author mistakes the primacy of role education plays in the selection of “Western Officials”. Of far greater importance is the role played by party politics.
Western Democraciessuffer from a political system where ongoing wars for control are fought by opposing groups called “political parties”. To an ever increasing degree over the last 100 or so years those parties have relied on donors to get their propaganda into the eyes and ears and minds of the voters. Those donations come with a price, which is that the donors get to call the tune the parties dance to, they set the policy. That is why the Western agenda is unchanging over time for the most part. It is a game rigged to favour those with the deepest pockets. That is, however, only the start.
What this modality engenders is an inexorable decline, over time, of the quality of those who play in the party political game. Doing so requires that the participants compromise the interests of their participants with the interests of their donors. Nowhere can this be more obvious than in the matter of Europe’s sanctioning of Russian energy sources. The lock step nature displayed screams “singular control”. Orban of Hungary is the exception [proving the rule.
Intelligent, truly clever, individuals do not play in a game where they must compromise the interests of those they represent, and with that, their intellectual integrity. Those people are unavailable to the Western politcal system. With every itteration of that system since its begining the corrosive influence via this mechanical fact has made the system less attractive to intelligent, ethical, clever individuals and increased the percentage of participants who are immoral, stupid and not very clever. Good people still enter in their naievity, but they accomplish little and fail to rise, often sinking without trace. The mechanics of party politics determines the eventual outcome, and sadly, it’s presence is being announced, by every cluster fuck action taken or agreed to, and by the gloating, truly evil behaviour of those same Davos elites gleefully announcing their end game, the graet reset.
Incidentally, it is this process that has destroyed the bulk of the Western education system.
Ask ten US college-graduates to state the argument modus ponens.
About uncultured and boorish behaviour, think back to the G20 summit held in St Petersburg, Russia. There was the expected formal dinner with the leaders of all 20 participating nations gathering around a table glittering with good food, good wine and, hopefully, good manners and good expectations.
U.S. President Obama decided to take a leisurely walk thru the surrounding gardens on his way to the dinner, arrived late and showed himself to be a grand-standing, oafish, ill-mannered bore.
President Putin was too well-mannered to say anything, but I imagine he thought, this boy was not well brought up.
@Tim Rourke
Thank you! I’ll be following your wordpress Blog. We seem to be on the same page!
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It would help to present for examination schooling and curricula architectures that might lift us out of this morass of society-wide profession-less and arrogant stupidity. Here is one such, named University Of The Professional Guilds:
http://www.adwaitha-hermitage.net/upg/phenom.html
Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ has certainly “delivered the goods” as we say, with this excellent piece. I’ve got to agree that what now passes for an education in most Western centres of higher learning seems far removed from the standards of the 1980’s. Whilst there are still some Centres of Excellence, the impetus on real, innovative thinking has moved firmly eastwards ( as an example – China is now certainly the Global Leader in Supercomputing, having more capacity than the rest of the World combined).
As for gross miscalculation – not only has the Rouble become “THE” Currency, but the SMO has nicely showcased Russian military technology – which has resulted in a huge overseas orders backlog for the Russian Tech. arms manufacturers! All that “extra profit” will go into R&D, and we all know how much extra value Russian R&D provides in comparison to the Western / US “War Machine” where the cash finds “other uses”.
The days of Western dominance are numbered, and the desperation is starting to show.
‘Meaningless figures and data are churned out to bamboozle people into believing that producing “services” is somehow superior to having mineral resources and a strong manufacturing base.’
I’m not sure that it is ‘superior’, it may be the case however that the capital requirements to set up a service business may be rather less.
The reality is that as economies mature, people prefer not to work underground or in unhygienic factories if they don’t have to. If they can earn the same income working in an office, many prefer to do so.
Also, if the only way to remain competitive in extractive industries or manufacturing is to employ people on wages such that their purchasing power is supremely awful, it may be a better use of capital not to try and compete in those sectors.
If, however, you provide greater blocks to global trade, allowing more nations to be self-reliant, even if the costs of doing so are greater than the costs of globalisation, then maybe the arguments will change.
Russia is what it is currently, quite significantly due to the fact that Western sanctions means that it has to develop certain things for itself.
You write “Also, if the only way to remain competitive in extractive industries or manufacturing is to employ people on wages such that their purchasing power is supremely awful”. Not factually correct, I am afraid. The so-called American Dream was built during the era when manufacturing was the driver of the economy. Workers in large factory-companies had job security, enough purchasing power to buy a house, a car, appliances, and other things that gave rise to the American Dream. Purchasing power of working Americans was far, far better than it is today. If you look up some official statistics you will discover that American real wages have been stagnating since 1970 or thereabouts; that the share of wages in GNP has been declining; and that the 1% versus 99% divide and polarization coincided with the ascent of the much vaunted “Service Economy”. The author of this great article has seen through the lies and propaganda of “Economics” as it is taught in the West today. Perhaps you need to do some rethinking on Economics. BTW, it is not for nothing that Economics used to be called “Political Economy”.
It is not merely their “education.”
For generation after generation,
there was deliberate dumbing down:
“The Reason Education Sucks”
— George Carlin 5 minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98
The underlying causes of wars for the past few Centuries have been to back up the abilities of the international bankers to dominate political processes around the world. It is silly and superficial to use Hanlon’s Razor in any such context. Rather, the principle which actually applies to current events is MALICIOUSNESS MAXIMIZATION.
Almost all of the public figures were “educated” to work for the banksters, and the big corporations that grew up around those banksters being able to create the public money supplies out of nothing as debts for everyone else. The real systems were debt slavery backed by wars based on deceit. However, those debt slavery systems have necessarily generated numbers which have become runaway debt insanities. Since the debt controls were always backed by the death controls, runaway debt insanities provoke runaway death insanities.
A lot of what is happening the world today is the result of enforced frauds necessarily becoming exponentially more fraudulent, in ways which are reaching more and more preposterous doublings. Those who captured control over the public money supplies are doing everything possible to transfer blame for that happening on to someone else.
“The West” has political puppets working for the banksters, against the interests of their own people. Those political puppets have previously learned that their careers were most successful when they agreed to work for the banksters, or within the big corporations that those banksters dominated. Those political puppets deliberately ignored and were willfully blind to those social facts.
The established systems which were based on being able to make “money” out of nothing as debts, in order to “pay” for strip-mining the natural resources as fast as possible. Everything was built on an unsustainable foundation of fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting, which was automatically getting worse, faster, because that is the necessary structure of the globalized debt slavery system.
At the same time, for generation after generation, there was a selection process to advance the careers of the banksters’ political puppets. At the present time, in “The West,” there are only a small percentage of publicly significant politicians who are not obviously the banksters’ puppets.
In my opinion, this article presents a relatively superficial view of how and why every issue regarding race or sex or whatever, is being pushed towards oblivion, as the strategy of divide and rule runs amok, as it has for generation after generation, at about an exponential rate, along with everything else. The underlying trends are due to the excessive successfulness of applications of the principles and methods of organized crime through the political processes, such that the vast majority of successful politicians necessarily have careers based on deliberately ignoring the influence of the banksters, and maintaining their willful blindness towards the consequences of building everything upon the abilities to continue to ENFORCE FRAUDS, despite those necessarily becoming more FRAUDULENT.
That system necessarily will drive itself to collapse into chaos. Therefore, everything possible is being done to be able to blame anyone but the international banksters for what is happening, such as like blaming Russia for events that were actually forced upon Russia by those banksters.
What genuine “education” would do is enlighten people in “The West” regarding who their real enemies are, namely those people who are most engaged in symbolic robberies through enforced frauds. Moreover, such an “education” should have to dig a lot deeper into those issues regarding what it means to develop sociopolitical systems which are almost totally based on public governments enforcing frauds by private banks, and the big corporations that grew up around those private banks.
It is barely possible to exaggerate the degree to which “The West” is the victim of generation after generation of the best scientific brainwashing that money could buy. Sociopolitical systems based on enforcing frauds require that most people deliberately ignore the principle of the conservation of energy, as well as misunderstand the concept of entropy in the most absurdly backward ways possible.
During the 20th Century, the international bankers deliberately destroyed Russia as much as they could, and that was a lot! A resurgent Russia has learned, through suffering, who their real enemies are, namely the “Empire of Lies,” or what may be labelled the Anglo-American (Zionist) Finance Empire. However, even recognizing that level of deeper analysis still does not penetrate very far into what Globalized Neolithic Civilization has become.
I am all in favour of more “genuine” education. However, I would give those kinds of excuses or rationalizations as I presented above for why people who are politically successful in “The West” have become the banksters’ puppets, which indeed was because they were “educated” by their schedule of reinforcements to have more “successful” careers thereby. Almost all of those kinds of public figures were necessarily the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites available, who are now presented with an about exponentially increasing fundamental fraudulence, which requires that they too attempt to double down through the hypernormalizations of their hyperhypocrisies.
More genuine “education” should come to better terms with the real facts regarding political economy and human ecology.
MONEY IS MEASUREMENT BACKED BY MURDER.
So Money As Debt drives Mutual Assured Destruction.
It is all runaway MADNESS, which no kind of superficial, old-fashioned “education” could rectify. Rather, the kinds of “education” required would be series of profound paradigm shifts in political science, which would make all previous paradigm shifts in the general history of science look easy by comparison.
Since the debt control systems were always backed up the death control systems, and since the debt control are spinning more and more wildly out of human control, due to collective human insanities, there is nothing else which could have happened than that those conditions would provoke runaway death insanities.
“The West” have been collectively “educated” to become INSANE, in ways which are far more profound than indicated in the article above. The artificial selection systems which have developed inside the surrounding natural selection systems were selected to become as dishonest as humanly possible (as well as automatically become ever more dishonest.)
Militarism is necessarily the supreme ideology, because that is the ideology of the murder systems, which back up all the other systems, while, especially, those murder systems back up the money systems. Those two are inseparable. It is not possible to have any better money system without a better murder system to back it up.
In conclusion, I repeat that the Ukraine was trapped into an insane war by people who are attempting to blame anything or anybody else for what they have caused. Better “education” regarding those social facts would require much deeper analysis than presented in the article above, since the author still presumes way too much regarding Globalized Neolithic Civilization is not the expression of excessively successful miseducation.
Theoretically, what is necessary is for political science to be better reconciled with physical science. However, doing so results in recognizing that there is only one political system: organized crime. There has never been any other system, and there never could be. Rather, the only things which exist are human beings living as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows, in ways whereby most of them have been brainwashed to neither properly understand that, nor want to understand that.
The only things that actually exist are the dynamic equilibria between systems of more or less organized lies, operating robberies. What is happening is due to those dynamic equilibria being driven way out of balance by the excessive success of a globalized empire of lies, based on being able to continue to enforce bigger frauds. While one may well wish that better “education” would enable more people to appreciate better dynamic equilibria between the different organized crime gangs (i.e., all the churches, countries and corporations in the world), any such sufficient “education” would be more radical and revolutionary than can be possibly imagined.
Prodigious progress in physical science has been applied through the established systems to result in automated electronic frauds being backed by threats of force from atomic weapons. Nothing else, and nothing less, than similarly profound paradigm shifts in political science as previously occurred in physical science could become adequate to cope with such a situation, which also requires the post-modernizing science be reconciled with ancient mysticism.
However, doing so results in working the way through Wonderland Matrix Bizarro Worlds, where everything has been publicly presented in the most absurdly backward ways possible, for generation after generation of Bad Education!
‘Please, don’t get me wrong, I shed no tears for the inhabitants of that Island of iniquities.’
And 75%+ of the inhabitants of that SERIES OF ISLANDS ( to anyone remotely educated in UK geography, the thought that the Inner- and Outer Hebrides do not exist, the Shetlands and Orkneys have declared UDI, the Isle of Anglesey had joined Eire, the Channel Islands and the Isles of Scilly had disappeared from the map would be ludicriously laughable) exist in a state of semi-occupied colonialism (with the ruling masters living somewhere in the USA), for you to postulate that our country seriously has a decisive role to play in modern global diplomacy would suggest that your education in the USA wasn’t really up to that much, to be brutal.
We are a useful lapdog to the USA and they ensure that the elected officials are true to their desires, not putting the priorities of the natives to the fore.
I also have to tell you that for some strange reason, 1 million people per year have descended upon this set of Islands of Iniquity, almost all of them residing in England.
You might like to address all those economic migrants and ask why they keep coming.
A lot of natives don’t want them coming but the Soros servants ensure that they do and that the indiginous taxpayers have to fund the lawyers who put the interests of those economic migrants far, far higher than those of those who actually have paid taxes here for a couple of decades.
I worked with an expat Britain here in Canada, and he has only one sentence to share:
The smart ones leave England.
Just recently, another expat just arrived and working for the same company what he tells me is shocking. Owning a business like he did was torture the way one has to attend to and suit all the foreigners.
Madness
Have you asked why the British and other Europeans leave they Elysian paradise and migrate to Africa?
Have you checked the figures of how many British citizens live in Nigeria and have made it their home?
Sorry to ask: they are on civilizing mission.
Do enjoy your day, Sir!
Femi Akomolafe
“Civilizing mission.” What a shocking mess:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/05/06/thoughts-on-britains-rwanda-plan/
Excellent article. World can now see that Collective West is Arrogant (narcissistic) and totally ignorant. But very dangerous.
The author misses that the politicians of the West are just the faces.
The decision makes are just seen.This is to protect them. And these folks are as knowledgable and as ruthless as the Russians or the Chinese are.
The UKUS decide to declare war on China via a proxy. To wage such a war long term it is essential to de-couple the Western economies from the Economies of Russia and China. AND this is way more efficient/cheaper to do in the way it is done- via the means of “sanctions” that allows the West to choose the speed and priorities.
Can the West win this conflict – hard to say, probably not. But they have decided to strategically play this card. And there is a Lot of logic in this strategy. One should not understimate the backgrounds of this change in direction.
Hint: Check what is ASML … and what it means for China.
I was lucky – I learned to read by the aid of my older playmate. And I had a public library right around the corner.
It made me confident enough to learn for myself, but it also strips me of any cloak to hide behind. I’m good with that.
Well said … QED!
One of the best essays I’ve read in years. I normally have a lot to say, but it seems that you have covered the ground: the West and Western Civilization are in a terminal decline. Hope to hear more!
As a side note, I received a classical British education that was still operant in the 1960s. My professors started with Greece; then the Romans; then the Age of Faith followed by the Renaissance and the Age of Reason; followed by the Enlightenment that led to the Industrial Revolution … and the rest is history. The ground for all of this was logic and reason driven by the Law of Noncontradiction and the Law of Contraries as the tests for simple truth and the foundation of science. If claims cannot pass these standards, they have no “sense”; they are “nonsense”.
We have unfortunately entered a new era in the West in which nonsense appears to reign supreme. The most important singular question in the West today appears to be, “Am I using the right pronoun?” This is based on someone else’s fanciful feelings about themselves as they try to extricate themselves from the Natural World; that is, reality.
At the least, we can thank the Russians for protecting the remnants of traditional Western Civilization that treasured the notions of intellectual excellence and the value of personal character and virtue. At the same time, we apparently have no choice but to watch the Anglo-American empire and its satraps (which includes the EU) imploding into a cultural, economic, and moral morass … a “race to the bottom”.
At the end of the day, I’m still hoping that something positive comes from all of this.
BTW: I bought your book.
My thanks and appreciation, Sir, both for reading my article, but also for buying my book.
Deeply appreciated!
Wonderful post and very educational! Thank you.
What gets forgotten to is our media culture. I once blogged over at a Jewish guys blog and said a Jewish child isnt out of the womb an hour and a book is forced upon him or her. To that the owner of the blog replied yes, when growing up in his own home there were books everywhere, even encyclopedias and medical textbooks. We were always admonished to read and when asked about the material we did read if we didnt give an educated response to it we were disciplined. Whenever I visited my non Jewish friends homes one never saw books anywhere but TVs everywhere. In practically every room.
In early America to I read somewhere even in the remotest of places hunters trappers always had or took with them reading material. They were well versed in the goings on of the nation.
Malcolm Muggeridge and Marshall McLuhan are for me the ones who warned about the TV media culture and how it has turned the world into a global village. It is this quote that really sealed it for me though by McLuhan:
The electronic media could conceivably usher in the millennium but it also holds the potential for realizing the antichrist, Yeats rough beast its hour come round at last slouching towards Bethlehem to be born.
One plug for technology and media though is listening to books being narrated. For me this was especially the case where the bible is concerned. What a pleasure as a young man to put a cassette in and listen to the scriptures being narrated as I drove to work. We today should be the most educated people in the entire world really. Just imagine if the Church Fathers all of them had the kind of tech at their fingertips that we have today, St. Paul would be in tears looking at the state of Christianity today. Further Hollywood what it could have given us but we have instead Independence Day, and the Marvel Universe. or horshach…
https://youtu.be/WmbO5BRc83U
McLuhan’s Understand Media is a book that everyone should read who wants to know how technology has always driven the history of man. Only when Ted Turner launched CNN in 1980 did it really sink in for me what McLuhan really meant by our living in the world of Retribalized Man! And, has nly intensified as the decades have continued to pass!
I don’t know about the rest of the West, but America’s education system generally is not good. Having said that, there are a lot of great teachers and professors in America, and if you avoid the nonsense in college a good education is quite possible–particularly in technical fields–hence the abundance of foreign students. America also has some very smart, very well informed, very decent people. What it does not have is a system that elevates such people to high levels in government, media or academia. I would argue that that is the fundamental problem. Step outside the reigning narrative and you’re toast. The people who get elevated are the ones who serve the narrative, not the best or brightest–and certainly not anyone who is going to rock the boat.
Femi, this is a great article baba. Thank you!
Superb narrative. Spot-On. Succinct analysis. I savoured every word.
A factor in all this, is perception >
The USA perceived that Russia was weaker than it really is…
The Russians perceived that the USA is stronger than it really is…
Because of this level of perception>
The USA remained complacent, thinking it could hit Russia with a feather and Russia would collapse
The Russians understood the threat and prepared fully for a major confrontation. What you see now within the Ukraine, is NOT what Russia is planning for the longer term.
This too, is why there are so many Trolls on the websites (mostly US and UK soldiers being paid to engage in social media and create confusion) who are then asking others: “do you think Russia will run out of weapons soon?”
The other issue about perception is that >
The USA and UK, in having a petulant hissy-fit, have cut off their own ability to see what is really happening within Russia…. and now even less able to respond in any meaningful manner.
The Russians, in preparing quietly and resolutely for the current conflict, have built more space based assets and are very much observing the political/social/economic environment of the West…and are just happy to sit out the situation and gain more funds, whilst the West shoots itself in the foot, the groin, the head in a desperate attempt to commit suicide.
I feel like i am a participant in that Hollywood film where a malevolent hijacks a school bus and everyone is hanging onto their seats hoping to come out of it alive. We have total imbeciles in the UK government…
In my own micro-world in the UK, i am engaged in a dispute with malevolent and incompetent managers. I write and circulate memos, explaining issues, historical background, i explain the pros and cons of decisions in a neutral and factual manner…and draw conclusions and offer constructive suggestions..(the old-school journalism that used to be the norm for Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, the Observer UK)….and the readers, who are the victims of these malevolent managers, are not able to understand simple concepts, not able to draw conclusions and do not know how to act on the comprehensive information, to defend themselves…
Excellently written article my good sir. I applaud your astute and detailed descriptions concerning the debacle of the demise of the collective west and its origins to which we have all been given a front row seat to bear witness to, with extra butter on our popcorn if you will. Keep up the good work
This guy femi is right over the target, sad to say.
Thanks for the great article, much appreciated! Being ‘educated’ is too often mistaken for being ‘intelligent’. It doesn’t require being educated to clearly understand the concept of indivisible security and respect for others. Lately ‘Retarded’ is the word I’ve been using a lot in reference to the obviously downgraded thinking capability of many very educated people I deal with everyday.
“It is like every move by the Americans and their vassals in the EU was calculated to benefit the Russians.”
Exactly. The plan is really to make Russia great again :)
Thank you Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ, for you wrote how I feel.
To witness a growing degeneration among my younger family members is a cause for grief.
That is why I respect the Russians who have demonstrated integrity that is missing in the west, especially among our leaders.
To describe the West and its reliance on the immigration to enrich its societies: garbage in, garbage our!
Not everybody in the West thinks their apparently infantile and psychopat crazy leaders are waging war to win. On the contrary, western leaders are willfully wrecking the west and doing an excellent job at it.
The dutch Sinterklaas party has nothing to do with racism. Actually, in the Netherlands Ghanese are payed by the government to destroy dutch culture by attacking Sinterklaas and calling it racist. Interestingly, western slave trade centuries ago was supplied with africans sold by… Ghanese overlords.
“Sadly, for them, the Collective West used to have very solid leaders. No matter how much one disagrees with them or hated their ideology, one cannot but respect Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand, and George Bush sr.”
I disagree. The present mess the West finds itself in, is the making of exactly these leaders; Reagan and Thatcher allowed the Western capital class, which was reluctant to pay high wages to the Western workers (essentially sharing some of the profit), to invest in China, manufacture there and import it all back to the West. Western leaders of 19th Century would have immediately raised protective tariff against this, but the same lot disarmed the West through WTO, thus allowing the import deluge. Manufacturing skills disappeared in America.
As for George Bush, Sr., he never told the world just where he was and doing what, on that 22nd November 1963.
…..Just take a look at Sergey Lavrov and compare him with that dwarfish oaf, Anthony Blinken. Please, how did the once great US get to appoint that trashy lightweight idiot…..
Ethnic Nepotism plus a connection to Ghislaine Maxwell
Mr. Akomolafe makes many good strong points and I give this post a thumbs-up. But I disagree with the “racist” label he throws at his targets. I think the problem now in the 21st century is cultural narcissism not racism. These people are narcissists and they don’t represent all the “West” either, by any stretch. Let us not generalize like that. They have merely succeeded in grabbing the microphone and it makes it seem like they speak “for us”. Lack of fact-based education, eroding standards of decorum in public life, and the corruption of wealth and institutional power are causes.
Otherwise, probably the only group who can save the Western world from woke madness in the educational and social institutional realm are writers, thinkers, journalists and entrepreneurs of African ancestry. Race may be a social construct, but so are cultures and cultural norms; those are far more explanatory than the physiological ambiguity of “race”. The issue is “culture” not race. Just as people can fall into bad habits, addictions, destructive behaviors and ruin, so can cultures. That’s the human story and any failure to see the universal human experience in any social phenomenon is an analytical failure.
It would be good to hear more from African writers in these areas. Let the words flow! And be prepared for vigorous debate. LOL