The West Confronts the Inevitable

It was close to lunchtime when my wife came up to me and said an influencer had been shot during a conference in Utah. It was Charlie Kirk, a familiar face I knew from social networks. The footage was shocking and disturbing; I could hardly believe my eyes. As I watched the scene, I was overwhelmed by unease and sadness.

Here was a 31-year-old, courageous, intelligent, and articulate young man, someone who could very well have become a future president of the United States. Why on earth would anyone kill another human being simply for his ideas and beliefs? You may disagree with someone’s views; you may reject their arguments or simply dislike the character altogether. But to silence them by killing them? When one cannot win a debate, is the answer really to erase the opponent entirely?

Yesterday a line was crossed, but that didn't begin yesterday, it was just simply the inevitable outcome. Objective truth and common sense have been under attack for far too long. I can personally trace the early signs of the "woke" movement back at least twenty-five years. It was perfectly tolerable when the debates remained at a higher level of abstraction, like questioning the forced use of pronouns (mind the use of "forced" here) or debating the boundaries of free speech. But yesterday, a line was just crossed... We’ve now reached the foundation, the core pillars of Western values, the minimum common ground that allows people to form a society at all.

You might call that foundation the Constitution. But at its deepest level, even the Constitution is nothing more than a framework meant to formalize and safeguard those underlying values. Strip away every abstraction, and what remains are the irreducible, atomic principles of human life, bit-like in nature, capable of only two values: "good" and "evil".

The brutal murder of Charlie Kirk has shown the world that, for some, it is acceptable to implode the West and replace it entirely with a new set of sinister rules.