The West is generally safe from any serious problem…
The West has a tremendous technological asset…
The West has extensive systems of control and domination over its societies.
The West lives in a secure and stable environment, seeking greater economic prosperity.
Their political situation is like a mechanical fan that changes the air left and right so that Western citizens feel there is a significant political life. In reality, their political life is meant to energize people and parties so they can exercise their political role in a safe and disciplined manner without causing inconvenience to their people.
So…
Is Western society forever safe?
I must point out that Western society possesses the tools of control, domination, and military hegemony, with no real competitor in the entire world except China and, to some extent, Russia.
So we are now in the twenty-first century, which indicates Western society’s dominance over the entire world technologically, industrially, commercially, militarily, and organizationally.
But does all this mean that the West is culturally, socially, and morally superior to other worlds?
The answer: No.
The truth is that the West has ingeniously exploited its inherent and usurped capabilities to create its technological, industrial, economic, and military miracles.
The West has learned that wars on its own soil are a definite loss for all parties involved, like the two world wars, and that wars outside its own territory are a very encouraging opportunity for gain, victory, and benefit.
The West distanced itself from all causes of harm to itself and began consolidating and strengthening its miracles, distancing itself from other worlds, making them servants of its current and future projects, or at the very least, distant from it, with no impact on it.
Non-Western peoples have remained in a state of defense of their personalities, self, dignity, and capabilities.
From a historical perspective, we see that material development and civilization will continue to benefit the West, while non-Western societies attempt to lag behind the West materially, militarily, technologically, and industrially in order to catch up with it. At the same time, they possess a growing stock of values, morals, and advanced concepts that can shape humanly civilized societies.
The religions prevalent in our region and the social norms comprised of morals, literature, culture, values, and concepts challenge those of Western societies from a moral perspective.
Will non-Western societies ever achieve both material and human civilization?
This is a very big question.
Dr. Saad Eddin Al-Bazra
