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Personally I feel the entire anti-colonial case is entirely overblown. Independent Palestine likely equates to Lebanon 2.0, or another oil-poor Arabic mediocrity. Whilst I think it'd be better for all involved if Israel were located in Madagascar or the Northern Territory of Australia, that is not the case. They're certainly acting in a way inconsistent with modern Western ethics, but the vast majority of pro-Palestine Westerners would find living in independent Palestine to be a lot harder than living in 2024 Israel.
I also feel that if a return to a sufficient level of realpolitik and putting Western interests first is ever going to be pulled into the Overton window at this point, it's going to be through supporting Israel and hoping that the media eventually pivots away from the anti-colonialist meme. I fail to see the personal good of supporting Palestine, I fail to see how independent Palestine is a better lifestyle for practically anybody involved and I feel that this is potentially the lynchpin issue that will help to restore sanity to the world as a whole.
What we have seen up to this point in the spread of wokeness (including anti-West, victim-class politics) is unfathomable craziness and stupidity, but not material threats to the safety and comfort of the upper middle class and the wealthy. I would guess that those threats are coming soon (within a generation, or two at the most), and I think that could change the Overton window dramatically. If you've read the Old Testament, it is a familiar pattern (substituting "wokeness" in current events for "idolatry" in the Hebrew Bible).
I am not particularly optimistic (as, say, Vivek Ramaswamy is) about what will come next after that; it might be right wing tyranny. (If you had visited Germany in the early 1920's you might have thought, "What a zoo! Look at all these Marxists rioting in the streets, and all this open sexual deviance!). But I do agree with Ramaswamy that wokeness is likely to eat itself as its material consequences begin to be felt by the new oligarchs.
I suspect the fragility of modern technology will accelerate this timeline dramatically. We're already getting "we can't keep the traffic lights working because fentanyl zombies steal all the copper wire."
This society wasn't built to handle a completely dysfunctional population.
No, it was not. Now feed that insight back into the conversation around this post.
Our society is fragile. The current structures are pretty clearly not going to survive long-term.
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A big chunk of Lebanon’s problems are due to the different ethnic groups being at each other’s throats, though I suppose that’s partially made up for by the HBD advantage of 1/3 of the population having an average IQ of 100 instead of 80.
I just don't think Islam is particularly viable to run a successful modern economy/society unless you happen to be sitting on a large oil deposit.
Sharia law is not a great way to run a society, if produces broken people who can’t take initiative.
On the other hand, Turkey is a very nice place by middle income standards, and Islamism may well prove a fad.
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