Western civilisation is not worth saving

September 2, 2025

I agree with Caitlin Johnstone that Western civilisation has come to a very bad pass, especially in terms of politics and colonial thinking.

However, I’d like to defend another aspect of “Western civilisation”, namely the music, art and literature it has produced. I would regard it as a crime to throw away the music of Mozart or Bach. I even think some of the “Enlightenment values” that originated in Western civilisation, even though they are not necessarily part of it, are worth preserving.

It’s right to attack values of people like Trump and others we associate today with Western civilisation, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.