I can recall a house where I once lived. Out back was a lovely apple tree. The fruit was quite tasty and I did all I could to protect that tree and keep it healthy. However, after a few years, it was dying, decaying from the core. The last crop was thin and rotted early. Eventually I had to cut it down lest it become a hazard. That’s how it is with apple trees. They have a distinct life cycle, a sort of clock in the DNA ticking down. You can speed it or slow it, but not by much. In the end, it will surely die regardless how large it grows. Even if suckers appear on the stump, they’ll never be anything like the original, because the stump is very nearly dead.
It’s a doctrinal issue that belongs on this blog. A great many Americans are complaining that the globalists are seeking to destroy Western Civilization. This is a lie. The globalism we see today is entirely Western. Just because you don’t like the fruit doesn’t mean the tree didn’t grow properly. What we see now as bad things coming is the native fruit of the tree that was planted.
You cannot save Western Civilization by taking it back to some previous stage of development. Sorry, but the life cycle of civilizations doesn’t work like that; the stump is dead. The thing develops and follows the DNA in the cells. The current nasties — communism, feminism, SJWs, etc. — are the latter stage of a civilization that is dying. They didn’t come from outside of the tree; they aren’t grafts. Those things were inherent in the seeds of the West. The aging has set in and the tree will never be young again.
This is how those who most strongly resist the globalists and their commie proxies are not our allies. They want to restore what they imagine is the more ancient Christian West. Those who seek to save Western Christianity are dreamers longing for something that was already far, far away from New Testament Christianity. Even if these reactionaries succeed politically, they cannot prevent the West from dying. It never did have God’s favor, so it’s just a tool to be used and discarded in His plans.
We rightly regard this movement to save the West as an idolatry. It’s a waste of time and energy. As things go in this world, you know that it being a waste is precisely why a great many will devote so very much time and resources into it. “All is futility and striving after the wind,” said Solomon of human dreams not based on revelation. It didn’t keep him from striving to the point that it bankrupted and exhausted all the people in his nation. Knowing the truth doesn’t prevent idolatry; it requires actually embracing divine revelation. God divided Solomon’s kingdom because it was too big and gave rise to the idolatry of human greatness.
Western Civilization stands firmly on the imagination of human greatness without God. It’s another Tower of Babel in itself. The globalist efforts to finally pull it all together is paradoxically the death knell. But this is where the West has always been headed. This is the native fruit of its DNA. Complaining that this or that influence is destroying the West is missing the point entirely. The West is devouring itself. Only the culture that God built can last until Christ returns, and that culture is far, far different from the West.
This is an important distinction to make about the cycles of western nations. It doesn’t work like a Wednesday night buffet line, it’s a sushi restaurant in Japan, where the owner serves what he thinks you should have. There are no options.
I don’t like using that analogy because I like sushi, but it fits.