[Skybird]

What goes up, must come down.

All the West is in free fall. Many of us are just too proud or too afraid to admit it. Western values are not half as attractive to the rest of the world, as we believe they are. And where we once assumed that other try to learn from us due to our cultural attractiveness, we now must realise that they only learned from us in order to learn how to beat us. China, India and increasingly Brazil show us their contempt - and by that demonstration show us the limits of our power, and how little influence left we really have. Demographic trends have formed a self-dynamic that we cannot escape although being at our disadvantage.

In the end, much of our failure comes from our own arrogance and reality-rejecting self-glorification. we believed we were so convincing for the others, and the ultimate answer to an asking world. But in fact our culture leaves the autumn of it's life-year, and has entered winter.

So it goes in life and in the world: what goes up, must come down. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later. Often I feel to set up a fight in defence of what once was noble and valuable in our culture. My hostility towards Islam is expression of that, but i am quiet aware that it is a form of desperation of mine, for somewhere in my heart I know that we are fighting on a lost outpost. So on other days I just feel hopeless trying to save what once there was in noble and valubale qualities, and think that now it probably all is in vain anyway.