Bel,
I think some of your observations probe in the right direction; however, some of them are misguided and so I'll concentrate on those
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Induce ideologies that are in fact at the core Communism. Modern Western State welfare, public healthcare etc are very much Communistic in there very nature.
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This conflicts with your changing economic structure bullet below.
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Changing economic structure. Our Grandfathers families existed on one wage, today's require two resulting in declines in working marriages and birth rates. Workers children today are being raised by Government employees or strangers. Capitalism = evil, Socialism/liberalism = good.
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Women entering the workforce has provided a larger labor pool to draw from, has meant a greater probability of breakthrough discoveries happening, and allowed for greater wealth accumulation. The tradeoff is that you don't have the stay at home all the time mom; however, from my experience, many moms stay at home until the kids go to school and then return to work, and so this effect is not that great. Furthermore, having kids in daycare, I have been more than pleased with the quality of care being given - i.e., the kids are given just as good of care as they would have recieved at home, except now when mom comes home, she's able to give better care for the late afternoon through bedtime than if she had been worn down all day by the kids.
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Free trade, force western companies to compete with companies operating under lower morals/laws. (virtual use of slave labour etc) resulting in loss of jobs.
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The statistics tell a different story - more jobs, more productivity, more wealth due to freer trade. Western economies' paths to growth were through both slave labor and the virtual use of slave labor. Working conditions improve once folks get wealthier and then the choice is no longer between work at a factory and survive or work your own land and hopefully you can survive; instead, the choice becomes work less hours in less than optimal conditions or demand better work conditions and the resulting slight pay cut.
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Originally Posted by Bel
The age of man-shame. Child molestation, family violence etc. Corrosponds with the rise of feminism.
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Not sure about the linkage to feminism, but I'd argue that this has always existed. The difference is that it is now reported, it is now prosecuted, and it gets press and so public awareness of it being a widespread problem is greater (as opposed to it being just the black sheep family that lives on the edge of town that does it).
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Am I paranoid? Is the decline of the West natural progression or is something more sinister involved?
Heck do you even believe that the west is declining?
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I think it's a valid question; however, I think that there is a temporal quality to the question. For example, immigration and its impact on American culture is a huge issue right now. However, American culture has always been a melting pot, and thus, it is a shifting cultural landscape. Thus, how does one truly argue that a shifting cultural landscape in America is a bad thing since that is the American experience? I think it can be done, but I see many folks argue that change is bad prima faccia without really digging beneath the surface and demonstrating fundamental changes in core American values that have remained true throughout our history despite the shifting cultural landscape at the surface.