Europe is a continent with underlying economic, strategic, diplomatic and demographic problems with common roots. In this century, all these problems have aspects which will be aggravated. Europe’s problem is not only moral but intellectual as well.

 

Europe is becoming more and more relativist. Europeans are starting to believe with growing intensity that nothing is the truth; if this is the case, we cannot know, and if we cannot know, we cannot communicate. This lack of communication will only result in intolerance. Less and less people are discussing politics, morals, emotions, and poetic figures.  A look at the Zapatero’s speeches will demonstrate the situation in Spain where the vanguard of this intellectual and moral relativism is located.

 

The first consequence of this is that Europe is growing more and more subjectivist, meaning the truth is subjective. The role of morals and politics depends on everyone individually. The argument in the name of tolerance and respect do nothing but feed this nihilist culture. To be tolerant, one can not think or believe in universal truths, but rather must think and believe in his own truths.

 

This school of thought is contrary to the European spirit and is a last resort to the denial of political pluralism. This requires clear consciences with strong principles and values, which bring public life into the discussion. It is not necessary that every person leave their morals at home, but rather they must become more open to liberty and respect. This combination of respect for the truth and liberty to search for it is the fundamental foundation of European democracy and culture.

 

The first consequence of this relativism in which we are living, is that since Europeans do not believe their culture deserves defending, they tend to yield before any extremist with sufficient force. Islamism is gaining more and more ideological force in Europe while Parliamentarianism, Political Pluralism, and Democracy are becoming weaker and weaker. This collision between a solid belief system and one lacking beliefs will only result in one way: with a belief in nothing. We must begin to seriously consider the future of our children. Europeans are losing more and more of their continent to the Shariah future. If we continue in this manner, Europe will soon be Europistan.

 

Secondly, if truth and good are limited to what every one of us already thinks them to be, then political reason and intellectual discussion will be reduced to nothing more than an instrumental tool for the short-sighted, manipulative, propagandists. Today the deterioration of the democratic quality in Europe is already a fact resulting from this relativism. In the name of tolerance, democracy and peace, this relativism will suffocate all moral and political dissidence in human conscience.  We can already see the beginnings of this process. In Zapatero’s Spain, anyone having opinions which differ from the social majority or parliament is accused of being intolerant, Fascist, or reactionary, even though these opinions are extremely respectful of the great parliamentary and democratic European tradition. Europe is going to become a dominant “Big Brother” figure, through divinization from its public-state.

 

Europeans seem to believe that draining their children of beliefs will make them free. They are horribly mistaken and will only facilitate the rise of one of two ideologies to fill the ideological void: State-totalitarianism or Islamic-totalitarianism. Europeans will continue to be plagued by this problem until they begin to defend the inheritance of Greek philosophy, Roman judicial thought, and Moral Judaeo-Christianity.  What is currently in play is freedom and servitude.