Medved today published a column about why the world hates us.

Who Cares?

The adolescents of the West, which include American liberals, the UN, nearly all of

Western Europe and certainly Canada, live under standard adolescent mythology:

everything has always been as it is, and everything always will remain as it is. (This is

why we all have a cow over the price of gas, for example - it's more expensive than when

we first became aware of it (as adolescents) even though the cost of everything else has

increased tenfold and gas merely is catching up.)

Western Civ as it exists today has existed only since 1945. It is in this timeframe that

diseases have been cured, peoples fed by Western advances in farming (Green

Revolution of the 40s and 50s), computers invented, communications taken huge leaps

forward, etc.

And it was during only a part of this period that Europe, caught in a vise between the

Warsaw Pact and NATO, for the first time in its history stopped fighting with one another

for not quite 50 years. (And went back to fighting as soon as the Cold War rivalry ended,

btw.)

Adolescents think this all is normal and has always been around. And will never change.

Like Liberals who think the world always has been peaceful and the rights and liberties

of Western Civ always have been prevalent everywhere.

Like Liberals who find it "good" to "protect" recently-discovered Paleolithic peoples in the

Amazon or New Guinea, regardless of the fact we haven't discovered them before

because they are wracked by diseases, starvation and infant mortality – but, hey, we can't

help them, we'd be intruding on their prehistoric lifestyles and bringing them food,

medicine, etc.

As though our million-year-march to leisure time, books, communications,

stored food, transportation, etc., ought to be denied these peoples so they can be a living,

breathing, starving, dying-young museum for the leftists on their eco-tours.

But of course thinking people know better.

We also understand that there is nothing inevitable about the West. It can go in a

historical heartbeat if not protected and defended.

If there are those who benefit greatly from Western Civ, but who seem to mind not-at-all

that it's in trouble which may be mortal, who in fact want to destroy the only guarantor of

Western liberties and liberal traditions, who cares about them and their opinions? They

are too silly and adolescent to take seriously.

Medved ought to spend time on pointing out the value of Western Civ, particularly the

value placed on it by those attacking it the most, and stop being lazy by noting that some

idiots feel badly about us. He ought to spend time on the fact that Rod Paige was right

and that the West won’t get fixed unless that problem is acted on.

But the “feelings” of idiots and adolescents? Who cares?