Guest post by Ted Malloch author of The Plot to Destroy Trump
Europe is full of ‘Last men’ (and perhaps women, I suppose we are now forced to say, given the incessant demand for political correctness).
Why is this so and who will come to dwell in these territories Europeans have hitherto called — home?
We are not talking about some imaginary seven kingdoms, as in the legendary but fictional television series, Game of Thrones, either.
The point of contention is about a real place, with real peoples, and real nations that have existed for centuries on end, perhaps thousands of years—called Europa.
Trends on immigration suggest what can only be termed, a self-imposed European death wish.
Look at any demographic map, preferably an interactive color one.
Of the 7.5 billion people presently on this earth, the vast majority, mostly in the southern hemisphere, and who are generally poor and backward, are trying to get to the northern hemisphere, where there are greater opportunities and very generous welfare states.
In recent polls 7 out 10 people from these lands say, given the chance, they want to flee their plight.
The last decade has seen more refugees, migrants and economic immigrants than at any point in human history: hundreds of millions. And it continues unabated.
They are dying in transit, drowning on the Mediterranean Sea, crossing arid desserts, on the back of trucks, and in cargo holds.
Human trafficking is big business.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that more than 1,000,000 migrants arrived in Europe by sea in each of the last three years, and tens if not hundreds of thousands more by land.
The numbers are astounding and only increasing.
Some 5000 new migrants arrive on the shores of Italy alone every day. Well they did, until recently, when Matteo Salvini won an election and became deputy prime minister and minister of the interior.
The US estimates it is now also populated by millions of illegal and undocumented immigrants.
In fact, about one-fourth of the 42.4 million foreign-born people living in the United States today are illegal immigrants – this amounts to roughly 10.5 million, according to an objective by the study by Center for Immigration Studies. A Yale study recently put the number at more than twice that amount.
Geostrategists cannot comprehend billions (yes, potentially billions) of people moving from South to North.
They can’t comprehend the risk or the total effects of this — world without borders.
Yet it is something that globalist political leaders actually seek and actively endorse.
Europe will change; is changing, in front of our very eyes.
This will happen…is happening, in our lifetimes, with globalist elites endorsing it as benign or even laudatory.
The ‘anywhere’ crowd with no attachment to place, custom or religion, favor such open borders.
The ‘somewhere’ folks who still have some degree of loyalty to national identity, tradition and religion do not share the same attitude.
As the global elites get their way we will witness the end of Europe and the emergence of the Last man.
And who is this Last man?
The Last man (in German, der letzte Mensch) is a description used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to describe men tired of life, who take no risks, and seek only comfort and idle security.
They exist without purpose or direction.
Their lives are pacifist and comfortable. There is no longer any distinction between strength and weakness, excellence and mediocrity.
Social conflict and challenges are defined out of existence. Everyone lives equally and in a “superficial” harmony of no consequence.
There is no originality or flourishing social trends or ideas, merely fashions. There is no innovation or creativity.
Individuality and thinking are suppressed.
According to Nietzsche, the Last man is the goal that modern society and western European civilization have set for themselves. Those writers who have sought to warn about this have failed to date.
Nietzsche warned that the society of the Last man could be too barren and decadent to support the growth of healthy human life or great individuals.
The Last man is only possible by mankind having bred an apathetic person who is unable to dream, who are unwilling to take risks, and simply earn their meager living and try to keep warm.
Even having children or concern for future generations is too much of a challenge and inconvenience.
Leadership is nothing more than a greater degree of ease and creature comfort. They are willing to make any temporary compromise so as to maintain their bodily comfort and exercise of physical pleasure.
The Last man, Nietzsche predicted, would be our response to the problem of nihilism.
Is Europe today ever closer to what Nietzsche described?
Has European decadence and anomie, adrift from its original moorings and spirituality, and more and more awash in a sea of unassimilated and perhaps unassimilable immigrants, with yet more on the way, brought us to this state?
Others have described the onslaught of Islamist immigrants who come to the west to exploit its wealth and flee the scourge of poverty and war of the places they have vacated.
They bring with them cultures of hate and the practice of terror as they find no way to immanatize their escahton and instead end up hating the very new places they inhabit and the way of life that has sustained it for centuries.
Picture The Jungle, the notorious migrant camp outside of Calais in France that typifies this result.
In their stead, they create what author Raheem Kassam, calls separatist “no go zones” of sharia law and so-called ‘honor killings’ and murder.
They are discontented, unattached, and strike out in terror — rebelling against life itself.
Such horrific events we are told are now “normal” in places like Nice, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Cologne, Manchester and London.
Our political elites, the very globalists who have opened the borders, say accept this new reality as the way of life, the ‘new normal.’ It is less challenging to analogize this problem to the older problem of assimilating “European” immigrants.
This is what the conservative philosopher, Roger Scruton lamented when he said, “Put simply, the citizens of Western states have lost their appetite for foreign wars; they have lost the hope of scoring any but temporary victories; and they have lost confidence in their way of life. Indeed, they are no longer sure what that way of life requires of them.”
If present trends continue, and every evidence — from Merkel to Macron, from Sweden to Canada suggests it will (Trump excluded) — the migrants will not abate.
They will come over the land and through the sea. Borders will become meaningless.
They will continue to come to open and willing arms (mostly unvetted single males of young adult status).
Make no mistake; this is nothing less than the utter and complete transformation of Europe into Eurabia, a cultural and political appendage of the Arab and Afro/Muslim world.
This Eurabia is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Semitic.
This is self-imposed suicide.
And with every passing day we see the further demise of the West, the onslaught of Eurabia (which could not be won at the gates of Vienna in 1683) and the nihilism — of the Last man.
