Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg Summary
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In "Suicide of the West," Jonah Goldberg warns how tribalism and identity politics threaten democracy's fragile "Miracle" of prosperity. Praised by David Wolpe as "acute and important," this controversial manifesto asks: Can we save Western civilization from our own primitive instincts?
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The Miracle That Changed History
For 250,000 years, humans lived in grinding poverty and violence. Then suddenly-in just the last 300 years-everything changed. This transformation, which Jonah Goldberg calls "the Miracle," represents the most profound shift in human history. Imagine an alien checking on humans every 10,000 years. For 23 consecutive visits, they'd see virtually no change in how we lived. Then suddenly, on the 24th visit, they'd find us with smartphones, skyscrapers, and space stations. How did this happen? And more importantly, why are we in danger of throwing it all away? The Miracle began just 300 years ago-merely six human lifetimes-yet our evolutionary programming remains essentially identical to our ancestors who wandered African savannas. We're running Stone Age software on space-age hardware. From our genes' perspective, we weren't designed to live with today's wealth, rights, and freedoms. Our natural condition isn't merely poor-it's tribal. For most of human history, we lived in small wandering groups where all meaning was tribal. Human nature hasn't changed, despite our radically transformed world. Money was one of history's greatest liberating inventions, reducing violence by offering commerce as an alternative to conflict. A bigoted grocer's self-interest encourages him to overlook differences when selling to customers he might otherwise despise. Trade builds trust, encourages equality, and creates objective metrics to judge people by their work rather than identity. Yet capitalism has a fatal flaw: it doesn't feel like cooperation, despite being the most cooperative system ever created. When civil society fails to provide belonging, human nature rushes in as tribalism. The secret of the Miracle lies in holding this tribal tendency in check.
From Chaos to Order: The Evolution of Civilization
England's Glorious Accident and Capitalism's Foundations
The Battle for the Western Soul: Locke vs. Rousseau
America's Revolutionary Idea and Constitutional Design
The Tribal Threat to Liberty and Civil Society
The Choice Before Us: Sustaining the Miracle
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