Suicidal

We are committing suicide. The West is committing cultural and species suicide at the same time. This is being done through a perfect storm of ignorance and arrogance. The West is allowing people into their countries who hate their countries, who hate the history of their countries, who reject their culture, who want to destroy and take over their countries. The people they are letting into their countries want to replace them. Many leaders in the West arrogantly believe they are morally superior, and that defending your country from being overrun by foreigners who hate them is somehow immoral. They are willfully ignorant of the true threat that these people pose to their countries.

We have arrived at this place because for years, the citizens of the West have been taught to hate their own countries, that their countries are inherently bad, their history is evil, and their current place in the world is oppressive. At some point, we have to say that we are good enough, that Western society and Western culture is valuable and needs to be preserved. We have to stop beating ourselves down and focusing on only the bad things in our culture and our history, and focus on all the good that we have done and are doing for humanity. We must acknowledge our value, not only to our countries, but to the rest of the world. We must acknowledge how important it is to all of humanity that Western culture and society not only survives, but thrives, because if the West is destroyed, then the world will be a much more dangerous and bleaker place.

Does anyone else find it ironic and even hypocritical that the countries in the West who believe that multiculturalism is of high moral value for their society are letting people into their countries who want to turn that multicultural country into a monocultural country consisting solely of their race and their religion? The end result of the West’s push for multiculturalism through mass immigration from the third world will not result in a multicultural paradise, but rather a theocratic repressive country similar to the ones these migrants came from. To quote the popular rap song by Kendrick Lamar, “they not like us”, meaning, they do not believe in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, tolerance and multiculturalism. They believe the exact opposite, and their purpose for being here is not to assimilate into our culture and beliefs, but to change our country, our culture and our beliefs to fit their repressive worldview. Middle Eastern people who commit honor killings – murdering their own children who become too “Westernized” – are not too eager to assimilate into American or European culture, yet they are here anyway.

Middle Eastern refugees taken in by Germany shout, “F*ck you Germany. Long live Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Palestine,” in response to the German people protesting against the explosive rise of sexual assaults committed by third world refugees against German women. I guess German women are expected to just lay back and enjoy being sexually assaulted and molested by foreigners because if they do object, they will be called intolerant and Islamophobic. In the United States, there have been protests in which refugees and asylum seekers chanted “death to America”, and we are expected to just sit there and do nothing, as people that we welcomed into our country wish death upon us. In England, Christians are thrown in jail for silently praying in public, yet in London and Birmingham, Muslims are allowed to blast the Islamic call to prayer five times a day out of loud speakers set up around the city while praying in mass in the public square. Meanwhile, in France, a judge just ruled that all Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are eligible to apply for asylum in France – a universal ruling without reviewing one individual case. This is country and cultural suicide. And once the West is gone, it will never come back.

The same thing is happening on a species level in the tech world. The “smart” people in the West are creating AI which many have warned, threatens to make humans obsolete, and these people are doing it anyway, despite the warnings. These “smart” people arrogantly believe they can create this technology which they claim will be infinitely smarter than the smartest humans, and then, they believe that they will find some way to control that far superior intellect. They are willfully ignorant of the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, or they just don’t care.

At the heart of this endeavor is a hatred for humanity. Too many people in the West believe that the human race is irredeemably evil and should go extinct. More and more people in Europe and America are choosing not to have children. Western countries are not reproducing at replacement levels. Millions of babies are being aborted every year in the West. People in the West are wondering why anyone would bring a baby into a world like this. Millions of people have joined the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement which is based on the idea that humans should band together and simply stop procreating, and the population of the Earth would slowly decrease until there were no humans left. At the same time, the West is choosing not to have babies, the third world is reproducing at historic levels.

Some people in technology believe that replacing humans with machines is the best future for the Earth. Google co-founder Larry Page believes that machines surpassing humans in intelligence is the next stage of evolution and calls anyone who fears or wants to stop that, a “specist”. None of it makes any sense. Imagine a world in which only machines exist. It would have the same lack of meaning as if nothing existed on Earth at all – no life, no machines. What would be the purpose or meaning of a world filled with machines operating simply to operate? If there is no human consciousness, there is no purpose and no meaning. If one of Elon Musk’s driverless cars just drives around to drive around without picking anyone up or delivering anything to anyone, what is the purpose of it driving? What is the purpose to a television being on without anyone watching it? Nothing. The famous Double Slit experiment of Quantum Mechanics, demonstrates that human observation is a defining factor and provides meaning to all events, even the sub-atomic events. Observation creates a different and more defined reality.

We must acknowledge that human beings and the human race are valuable, and need to be preserved. We must stop beating ourselves down by pointing out all that is bad in humanity, and focus on what is good about humanity – triumphs of the human spirit, rare human courage, extreme sacrifices by human beings, human love, human care and human compassion that are exhibited every second of every day throughout the world. When the human race goes extinct all of that greatness will cease to exist. You don’t find that behavior in the animal world, and you’ll definitely won’t see it from a machine. Humanity is so unique in that way, and that uniqueness is infinitely valuable. If you were going to create a hierarchy of all the valuable things in the universe – human love, human compassion, human courage, and human beings sacrificing their lives for another – would be on the top of that list because those are the things that provide meaning.

Jesus said there is no greater love than to lay down your life for another human being. In the floods in Texas last week, there were dozens of examples of people who risked or even laid down their lives to save a human life. That will never exist in the robotic and AI world because robots and AI are not alive so even if they do happen to save someone, they’re not risking their lives because every part of them can be replaced.

The people who are creating the technology which will bring on the ultimate demise of the human race, have no understanding of humanity. They are brilliant when designing machines and understanding how technology works, but have a complete lack of understanding on how humanity works. What they don’t realize is that feeding the mind and feeding the soul is as important as feeding the body. We are not just bio-mechanical machines that simply need to have our physical needs taken care of in order to merely sustain our existence. We are more than that. No matter how high functioning AI and robots become, they will never have human consciousness. The most important part of being a human being is experiencing humanity from the inside, something that robots and AI will never be capable of. At best, they will be cheap replicas of humans. And the people who put neurolink in their brains to become more connected to computers will only serve to strip themselves of their most valuable trait – their own humanity. What AI robots will never be able to understand is that everything that they are designed to achieve at such a high level, is all meaningless without human consciousness. 

Ironically, at the same time, the West is screaming full throttle toward the technological revolutions of the 21^st century, we are u-turning back to the medieval 14^th century – both due to hatred of the self. And that intersection poses an existential threat to all of humanity. Just imagine the horrors that the world will face when Islamicists control our nuclear arsenal and our AI technology which they will someday if we continue to allow them to overrun the Western world.

It is okay to say that humanity is valuable and needs to be protected from the threats posed by AI and robotics; it is also okay to say that Western culture and society is valuable and needs to be protected from the threats posed by mass third world migration. We should not and cannot sit there and allow the human species be rendered obsolete by AI technology or Western culture to be obliterated by those who hate us. We are not morally superior if we allow that to happen.   

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.