Decline & Fall: Europe's Slow Motion Suicide

by Bruce S. Thornton

Book Overview

Once a colossus dominating the globe, Europe today is a doddering convalescent. Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, an addiction to expensive social welfare entitlements, a dwindling birth-rate among native Europeans, and most important, an increasing Islamic immigrant population chronically underemployed yet demographically prolific--all point to a future in which Europe will be transformed beyond recognition, a shrinking museum culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594032068
• ISBN13: 9781594032066
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Fabulous, Concise read of how the world is changing

This book is possibly the best concise book on the subject of the major coming changes in the 21st Century. Much of what we imagined in the future is already in serious question, and this book concisely explains how the West is in serious trouble. Bruce Thorton explains that the future of Europe is likely to be something like H.G. Well's The Time Machine, albeit in a much more imminent and realistic way. Many books on terrorism and Islam deal with the idea that radical Islam is the problem and that if radical Islam is defeated, things will be great and get back to "normal". What the book shows is that we have created a "normal" that is out of touch with long-term reality. This Book explains that when traditional religion waned (in terms of its cultural influence) in Europe, many religion substitutes arose to attempt to fill the vacumn. Two of the current ones are Post-Marxist multiculturalism and romantic enviornmentalism (Western Culture is the scourge of the earth and non-western cultures are oppressed by it). These two ideas are progressively and greatly enfeebling the West. At the same time, Islam is being fueled by these Western trends to become increasingly conquest-focused, because it looks increasingly good compared to the West, and its atonishing cowardice and self-betrayal. This book is a superb summation of -- While Europe Slept-- ,-- Londonistan--, and America Alone. Get it and check it out.

A brilliant and timely work

This is an excellent antidote for those delusional Americans that somehow maintain the illusion that the solutions for our country's woes (real or imagined) is for America to become "more like Europe." As Dr. Thornton points out, with fact after fact, is that it is of course exactly the opposite. This book is an excellent companion to Mark Steyn's "America Alone" and Bruce Bawer's "While Europe Slept."

Detailed, packed with info and quotes. Highly recommended!

This awesome book is very informative, packed with quotes, details and info you can't find any where else. But the grim future of EUtopia (It's also where Liberals in Canada and US would like us to follow) is making me scared. According to stats, by 2025 France will be a majority Islamic country. Russian army will be a majority Muslim army by 2020. These are scary, not because radical Muslims are scary, but because this change is being forced upon the rotten continent of Europe so fast that it can not keep pace. And as it is clear, the Eurabians have two option: 1- Submit to the will of Allah and become Muslims at once, 2- Start a civil war again and run concentration camps (That's where Eurabians are best at). These two options scare the hell out of me and makes me very sad. At any rate, this book is an eye opener for the naive Westerners in Canada, UK, US and western EU countries. Europe is a mess and hopefully it won't need America to save it again. As for this book I highly recommend this book.

Is Europe in decline and fall?

Thornton argues that it is, and in this short book he explains how Europe found itself in this mess, and then talks about the consequences in the last half of the book. Europe began the last century with "overwhelming global dominance" (p 27). So how, as Weigel asks, "'did a century that began with confident predictions about a maturing humanity...within four decades have two world wars, three totalitarian systems, a cold war threatening global catastrophe, oceans of blood, mountains of corpses, Auschwitz and the Gulag?'" (p 29). The rot started even earlier with a growing self-hatred of the Christian civilization that had created the countries of Europe. Nuns and priests were guillotined en masse for loyalty to their religion, while the French army slaughtered some two hundred and fifty thousand of the Vendee, a pro Catholic peasant army. Instead of worshiping God, man himself was to be the object of worship cried the French revolutionists. So did the Marxists later. "The loss of Christian faith has exacerbated other tendencies within Western culture that further weaken its response to the challenge of Islamic jihad" (p 74). In the last fifty years, Europe has grown into a soggy welfare state, heavy on taxes and resolute in its determination only to make everyone worship the gods of multiculturalism, homosexuality, feminism, and Mother Earth. Christians trying to school their children at home in Germany have been fleeing to the UK to avoid having the German state remove their children. The archbishop of the quickly-shrinking-to-the-size-of-a-pea Anglican religion recently suggested the UK should give Sharia law a try. But leaving God behind has some nasty consequences. The free sexuality, not to mention the contraception and abortions, have resulted in a plunging birth rate. So plunging that there seems no hope at all. By 2050 the Muslims will be 30% of the population. And in yet another glaring example of insanity, European nations with their huge welfare benefits allow Muslim women to stay home and earn, simply by virtue of having four or five children, a very nice sum. In Berlin alone there are twenty-eight Islamic schools with ties to "extremist Islamic groups" (p 102). Bye-bye Europe.