Friday, August 22, 2014

World War I: The Beginning of the End for Western Civilization

World War I began 100 years ago this summer and in my opinion was a cataclysmic event for Western Civilization overall, in 1914 Europe controlled most of the world and was a vibrant, technologically advanced, and morally pure society. Fast-forward a hundred years and Western Civilization is slowly dying a slow death from a plethora of macabre ideologies and economic practices from multiculturalism, globalization, Keynesianism, debt, and many more.

This pandora's box was opened on the battlefields of World War I, a war which did not need to happen and were the first nails in the coffin of so much. As a result of this war, Communism rose in Russia (the ideology from Hell which just doesn't want to die), the British Empire began its slow death, the breeding grounds for Nazism were created in Germany (which resulted in another unnecessary world war), the Sykes-Picot Agreement was created giving birth to that demon that today is the Middle East.


Some 10 Million men were killed and many more were maimed for life, annihilating an entire generation of men across Europe, no doubt snuffing out many great things they would have achieved had they returned alive or without harm. The war set the stages for the economic boom that we now call the Roaring 20's in America which ended up resulting in Prohibition and the Great Depression. In the end World War I can be looked at as a European Civil War were the cousins from America somehow became involved. Further into history people will look back at the hundred year period from 1914 until 2014 and lament how Western Civilization destroyed itself through stupidity.

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