[52-6F-62]

I see and agree with your distillation, but I disagree with regard to the current principle. The current reactionary stance is playing right into victimhood.

“The west has done this to us”, “the west is corrupting us with homosexuality and libertine behaviour”, and so on.

It’s a declaration that one (or ones nation/identity) has been wronged directly rather than remain dignified immovable force battered by waves of circumstance.

Hence the violent backlash.

Not to say anyone who feels battered by circumstance should just let it happen, but perhaps if the reaction is to lock down, restrict freedoms, imprison their compatriots for asking questions and bomb their neighbour’s residential villages into dust then I rather think they’ve lost the dignified plot.