Europe's End of the Age

Europe as we now know it continues to matter less and less. The current issue of First Things magazine includes an article on how Israel can survive and one thing is clear: Israel cannot depend on Europe. Neither can America.

Here are some startling statistics mentioned in that article: 'Of the 6,000 languages now spoken, half of them will disappear over the next century'. 'We stand on the cusp of a great extinction of the nations without precedent since late antiquity'. Europe cannot survive long in light of their current demographic decline: indeed birthrates in most of Europe are so low that some are saying that it cannot be reversed now and so it is just a matter of time until the current indigenous people are gone, replaced by either immigrants or no one. Even in the most Catholic area of Europe, Poland, the birth rates are below replacement rate and the population there will drop by a third by the middle of this century.

The author, David Goldman, makes this observation: 'The four millennium miracle of Jewish survival fails to impress the nations of Europe, who themselves cannot expect to survive long if their demographic decline continues' and 'why should gentile nations go out of their way to help Jews survive when they have neither the desire nor the capacity to survive themselves?' He also comments that 'the data indicate that many of the industrialized nations do not care to survive'.

That is really the crux of it. The end result of what is called 'liberalism' is a society that does not care to and is not capable of surviving. Israel, on the other hand, with its constant day to day struggle to survive, has the highest fertility rate and lowest suicide rate among the industrialized nations.

It is very clear that Israel cannot depend on Europe for much of anything. It ought to be clear that America cannot depend on them, either.