Which forces are playing dangerously with Westerners civilization and welfare ?
As always in Western civilization there are forces to enlarge and to consolidate power, political and cultural power. During the centuries following the Roman Empire the powers have been various, there has been a balance between various powers which has given economic and cultural stimulation through competition. And there has been balance between modernist and traditionalist interests. Former balance in Western civilization was broken with the materialistic revolution of 1945. During four posts-war decades the new ideological power was divided in an American-English occupation zone and a Soviet occupation zone. In this division there was also a difference between State capitalism in the East and liberal capitalism in the West. From the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, dissolved through transformation of State capitalism toward liberal capitalism, also in Eastern Europe one may say that the Western civilization in its entirety is suffering of a preponderance of materialism unde
