It's hard to describe how I feel watching the heritage and culture of great European nations be intentionally and systematically dismantled.
Great Britain especially has given us much of the framework for building more just and dignified communities and institutions, which though they're now under attack, we've largely taken for granted in the West.
English common law, the Magna Carta (1215), habeas corpus, and the gradual development of parliamentary supremacy became models for legal systems across the English-speaking world and influenced later constitutionalism. (h/t Grok)
For all the misery it may have also caused, the Industrial Revolution in Britain did set the stage for a mass reduction in poverty, driving countless innovations that made life generally far more bearable for people across the globe.
And what about literature and language?
Imagine a world without Shakespeare’s plays which remain a central reference point in Western drama and language. Or a world without Chaucer, John Milton, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? Or without Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, and even Agatha Christie? Their intellectual and linguistic gifts are so infused in English-speaking cultures, that once again, we take for granted that the conventions we've long appreciated have always just been there.
I could write far more by also referencing the the one-time greatness of France, Spain, and Italy, (and even Germany to a degree especially as it relates to music and philosophy), but that's for an essay, not an X post.
Everyday now I watch in horror as France, Spain, the UK, and Germany disappear before our very eyes. Thankfully, Italy doesn't seem to be on quite the same downward spiral as France and Spain largely thanks to Meloni I suspect, imperfect though she may be.
What makes this catastrophe even more tragic and mind-boggling is knowing that it's been planned and is being implemented by Europeans themselves.
Mass immigration from cultures that are hostile to the West is being executed by the same misanthropic elites who've for decades been actively discouraging marriage, child bearing, religion and faith, and healthy sexuality, (not to mention the right to self-defence), thus preparing the populace for the “need” to import millions of migrants who will decimate Christendom once and for all.
It's a crisis I never imagined when I was younger. I can only keep praying that enough Europeans wake up to the existential threat that's upon them and find the courage and grace to fight back against the demons who rule them.
It might take a miracle to save Europe, but miracles happen all the time. What people need to realize is that God usually works them not to increase faith, but as a response to faith.
Every European citizen seeking to preserve what's left of his or her culture, needs to turn back to God before it's too late.