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It is difficult to overstate the degree to which the West has changed in the wake of the world wars. It was once a land of both law and order and brilliant adventurers. In other words, William Blackstone’s common law and Justice Marshall’s rulings were as much a part of the West as the at-seas exploits of Sir Francis Drake or the frontier adventures of Davy Crockett and Kit Carson.
What that created was a world where the cities were safe and the wide world open for exploration. A Victorian hero could walk the streets of London or Lima in the night and not fear robbery, then, like Courtney Selous or Cecil Rhodes, ship off to the Heart of Darkness to bring order out of chaos and explore the frontier.
Once those great adventurers arrived at the areas once labeled “here be monsters” by medieval mapmakers, they didn’t suffer under the delusion that their cultures should be subsumed by those of the lands they found. Rather, when they came across nightmarish horrors, such as mass sacrifice in Mexico and Dahomey, they destroyed them: rather than accept such horrors as normal and “cultural uniqueness,” great men like Cortes and Napier put a stop to it.
For example, Charles Napier, when ruling the British Raj, was told that sati, the native practice of burning widows to death, was a local tradition. Instead of bowing to tht, he said, “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
But then came the bloodbath of World War I, which drained the West of its vitality, and the massive destruction of World War II demolished the residual structures that had supported that civilization…
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