The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
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The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
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But there isn’t one: one is a man saying standardised testing is racist, and the other is a man saying standardised testing is inadequate. At times Murray is aware of the counterargument that this 'war' is overblown and asserts this not just standard culture war fare but an existential problem yet regularly he cites just a few or even a singular example as evidence or worse just rants about what 'they' think without any attribution. Britain, for example, is still run by the same sort of people who’ve governed it for several hundred years—the prime minister being the latest example of that unbroken trend.
His answer is an astonishing several pages long monologue that encapsulates the source of Murray's angst.Fully 52 percent of Democrats, and some 36 percent of Republicans, said they would leave the country instead.
In that moment, and for the only time in this book, Murray accurately describes his war on the west. Murray sees “a strange pattern,” which he describes as “a willingness to celebrate and sanctify anything so long as it is not part of the western tradition, and to venerate anything else in the world, so long as it is not part of your own heritage. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University asked respondents whether they would “stay and fight” if America was invaded like Ukraine.Yes, to act as though these institutions are irredeemable is ridiculous, but only fringe lunatics want to dismantle science as a whole, and Murray’s silly act of pretending the views of these people are significant is tiresome. He says that 'few people wished to defend the maintenance of confederate statues' after the George Floyd protests erupted, yet many did defend the statues including the President of the USA.
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