The Death of the West
2002
- überfremdung
- forecasting
- civilization, western
- social aspects
- bevölkerungsentwicklung
- united states
- social prediction
- multikulturelle gesellschaft
- einwanderungspolitik
- social conditions
The story
From the Publisher: The national bestseller that shocked the nation-The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power. The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation. The Death of the West details how a civilization, culture, and moral order are passing away and foresees a new world order that has terrifying implications for our freedom, our faith, and the preeminence of American democracy. The Death of the West is a timely, provocative study that asks the question that quietly troubles millions: Is the America we grew up in gone forever?
What it’s like
Dense, argumentative nonfiction written in a confident, hortatory polemical voice, with the texture of a long op-ed stretched into a book: statistics on birth rates and migration laid out in tables and charts, then bold declarative warnings, sentences that build toward a sense of alarm rather than resolution. Its mood is anxious and sweeping, a vibe of late-night unease over a kitchen table with the newspaper still open, the atmosphere of a political broadcast that wants you to feel the ground moving. Pacing is brisk in the chapters on demographics and slower, more rhetorical in the sections on faith and national identity, and the book is organised around a single insistent question about whether the country of one's youth is gone. The intensity is cerebral rather than graphic: no violence or gore, no sexual content, but a steady undercurrent of fear and dread aimed at immigration, multiculturalism and cultural change. It suits readers who already share its premises and want their worries articulated at length, and it will read as provocation to anyone who does not; those looking for a neutral history or a gentle read should look elsewhere.
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