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SUICIDE OF THE WEST - JONAH GOLDBERG KARTONIERT...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril
because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and
prosperity. Now updated with a new preface! Epic and debate-shifting. David Brooks  New York
Times Only once in the last 250 000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out
of the endless cycle of poverty  hunger  and war that defines most of history. If democracy 
individualism  and the free market were humankind s destiny  they should have appeared and
taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity
was nothing short of a miracle. As Americans we are doubly blessed  because the radical ideas
that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts 
laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are: Our rights come
from God  notfrom the government. The government belongs to us  we do not belong to it. The
individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls  not bound by the circumstances
of our birth. The fruits of our labors belong to us. In the last few decades  these political
virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a
system of oppression  exploitation  and privilege  the principles of liberty and the rule of
law are under attack from left and right. For the West to survive  we must renew our sense of
gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the
heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past or back to the muck we will go.

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