"Progressive" "Progress" runs backward too

Mark Steyn on the lack of inevitability of western humanistic civilization:

The other night at dinner, I found myself sitting next to a Middle Eastern Muslim lady of a certain age. And the conversation went as it often does when you’re with Muslim women who were at college in the sixties, seventies or eighties. In this case, my dining companion had just been at a conference on “women’s issues,” of which there are many in the Muslim world, and she was struck by the phrase used by the “moderate Muslim” chair of the meeting: “authentic women” — by which she meant women wearing hijabs. And my friend pointed out that when she and her unveiled pals had been in their 20s they were the “authentic women”: the covering routine was for old village biddies, the Islamic equivalent of gnarled Russian babushkas. It would never have occurred to her that the assumptions of her generation would prove to be off by 180 degrees — that in middle age she would see young Muslim women wearing a garb largely alien to their tradition not just in the Middle East but in Brussels and London and Montreal.

The reality is that social entropy exists all around us.  We see it most clearly in the middle east but it also in
'chock full 'o progress' America.  The "Progressives" have been feeding on the culture created by Christianity for at least two generations with the result that every western country is to one degree or another bankrupt.  They've lied to their publics (and of course the publics have lied to themselves about the lies that they heard) for decades and now the bills are coming due.  This utter repudiation of the Judeo Christian obligation to not bear false witness, done by the entire oh so 'progressive' establishment is the single most destructive act of the modern age, destroying not just economies but the notion of government as a benign institution for good.  And the wages of this sin will be high.  Just  how high we wait, tremblilng to find out.