Going back to the The Story Of The Occident , Abridged – I will now elaborate on the psychology behind the predicament the Western world is in today, explained in terms of the evolution of its class structure, and the main political controverses within those structures from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Spring                    Pope vs. Emperor

Summer                   Catholic vs. Protestant

Autumn                    Monarchy vs. Republic

Winter                     Capitalism vs. Socialist

Twilight of the West               Western vs. anti-Western

Owing to the traditional balance of power in the Western world between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, the main political controversy of the Middle Ages the political power of the church against that of the secular rulers. The spiritual supremacy of Rome was uncontested – the controversy was in the temporal realm. It manifest itself in power struggles, which became all out wars, between the pope and the emperor.

In the early modern era, with the Protestant Reformation, the controversy spilled over into the spiritual realm as well. The focal point became what form of Christianity would prevail, among ecclesiastical and civil authorities alike. Religious and secular rulers of their respective faiths became allies as they collaborated in different spheres of authority toward a common end.

From the eighteenth century, particularly after the American and French Revolutions, the main political divide was between monarchists and republicans. This conflict was roughly aligned across class lines, between the old feudal (landed) and newer bourgeoise (moneyed) interests.

By the twentieth century, with the Industial revolution complete in much of the Western world, the question of capitalism vs. socialism became the burning question of the day. Initially, this likewise represented a class conflict, between the bourgeoise, and the newly emerging managerial class, purporting to be acting on behalf of the working class. However, during the interwar period and especially with the great depression on the 1930’s, the managerial class wrested control over the Western economic and political systems from the bourgeoise, and with the emergence of the Cold War after World War II, the conflict between “capitalism” and “socialism” became one between managerial systems, with the relatively free market ones called “capitalist”, and socialist referring to the ones with a large degree of central planning. Notice that at this point the difference between the two sides is a relative one, a mere difference of degree, and one which gradually diminished as the century wore on, until by the fall of the Iron Curtain, they became indistinguishable.

Starting in the 1960s the new ideology that knows as the New Left, a new political dynamic arose which dominates the political discourse today; not what, but whether the West should be. The basis of the new anti-Western ideology was not class, but identity politics. An animus against both Western heritage and current existence manifest itself in constant, destructive criticism, or “critical theory” as the Frankfurt School called it. Rather than traditionally championing “the common man”, the managerial elites openly held the masses in contempt in favor of allegedly oppressed “others”. This began with non-Western racial groups against whites, a mark of its origin in the US, as opposed to more homogeneous Europe. It also began with a feminism that at first divided men and women against each other, but later became “intersectional”. At this point women’s concerns are frank subordinated to those of favored racial and ethnic groups, and those of various sexual deviants, whom elite opinion particularly fawns over.

In short, what the people who are heirs to the Western world in its last days are face with is elites who fanatically hold to values on which a functional society, even a primitive society, simply cannot operate. This set of social mores could therefore be called subprimitive. The struggle between these beliefs and those who still value Western traditions at the time of the West’s end will shape what comes afterward.