Face It, The West Is Clueless, Exhausted and In Its Death Throes

That's my cheery take-away from Thomas Sowell's latest:

The recent wave of refugees flooding into Europe include Muslim men who have been haranguing European women on the streets for not dressing modestly enough, not to mention their sexual molestation of those women. 

Smug elites in Europe, like their counterparts in America, are not nearly as concerned about such things as they are about preventing "Islamophobia." 

Legal restrictions on free speech in some European countries make it a crime to sound the alarm about the dangers to the culture and to the people. 

In the lofty circles of those who see themselves as citizens of the world, it is considered unworthy, if not hateful, to insist on living according to your own Western values or to resist importing people who increase your chances of being killed. 

But if you don't have the instinct for self-preservation, it will not matter much in the long run whatever else you may have.

I think our self-preservation instinct is a casualty of the "diversity"/"multiculturalism" machine.