The Western World in Transition
The corpse of neo-liberalism rots heavily now, the pungent smell travels for miles and its remnants, skeleton governments, that cling to those putrid haunches cannot win against the rightward turn that is dominating the Western world today, the solution of which—in that leftward horizon—goes against the doctrine so resolutely, that the lethargic bourgeois leadership would rather plug cotton in their ears and uselessly sacrifice so many men and women for a broken status quo; of which Greenland has become one of many unasked symbols of.
Unaware agents of the new order, manipulated by particularly savvy bourgeoisie, or wealthy, primarily in the United States—those among them that can see the writing on the wall—are already embedded in every European country. They are in Parisian cafes, they are in the local footie clubs in Manchester, they are among parents at a school meeting in Milan, they are the clerk at the airport in Oslo. These agents are anti-liberals united by hatred for the mire they’ve been told to be happy to be trapped in; their respective parties will be a powerful force as flaccid liberalism and its descendants cannot truly resolve the contradictions inherent in our broken societies. The technical aspects of which are courtesy of self-conscious intelligentsia whose false sense of independence is enjoyed with their eyes shut. Their party names are many and are draped in the cloth of what the bourgeoisie has, as of a few years back, named the far-right (the fascism word breaks the illusion of liberalism's finality). Communism has been so thoroughly subverted by capital forces that this 'far-right' is the strongest alternative to the current order.
NATO, an artifact of American’s dedication to the old ways, is over. Europe cannot hold, the centre cannot hold. The real rot began long ago but became acute in the middle of those dreadfully myopic 2010s with Brexit and the election of Trump. Greenland has shattered the illusions left in the poor minds of those unassuming Europeans who have been cowed into complacency while the American empire runs roughshod the world over, burrowing into every corner of neo-liberalism's global reach. The entire technological existence of Europe at its most basic level is overtly controlled by American conglomerates and compromised by the USA and its vassal Israel.
Day after day establishment liberals and their many aspirants—a large chunk of Western society—ask the same question, after all, every new morning is the start of history for them: why are things falling apart, and why are the proles angry? The shadow of a correct answer dawns on them in the form of mirage in a desert as hallucinated by parched camelback traders, the corporations my thirsty compatriot! another aspirant opines in a long post littering the wastes of one of four interchangeable internet sites that masquerade as discourse. Gears rattle in their confused minds as they solemnly shake their heads in agreement, they wade through that warm quagmire they’ve sunk comfortably into. They greedily inhale that muck, or propaganda disguised as information. In between work, in between meals and into the end of the day they sink into another hopeless reprieve with their equally self-serving partner. They say they guess the world is "real messed up" and wind themselves down at end of night for history to reset tomorrow, to then be flashed with the world’s horrors anew, at dawn their infant eye fluttering open for their five minute’s shock before they’ve even brushed their teeth.
The miserable prole starts their day too, their boiling fury rising at another twenty-four hours at the mercy of malignant forces even further out of their control. In a somehow competitive dead end job, in a somehow expensive dead end place, their world spins inexorably as they devolve into the living dead. An uncaring world that asks for more hastens the demise. Their intuition belies the aspirants because of forced experience by their low position by birth or misfortune. They know if it was profitable for their slave-driving employer to press them into mulch it would be done without mercy. Adding insult to injury that battered worker would be commanded by a manager—paid only fraction higher than themselves—to smile and say thank you while the cold machine pops their little sad head. Many of these victims are the new foot-soldiers, the agents of this new order.
Proletarian intuition tells them something is very wrong, but unlike the aspirant and establishment liberals there is no relief at end of day. Their political life can't end at closing time, nor are they assuaged by those many flashing internet salves for the neo-liberal mind. Desperate people seek desperate solutions, they search for a way out of the maze that is their current hopeless material conditions, whose liberating path looks like simple race-hate, immigrant bashing, and outlandish conspiracy theories because of those falsities’ occasional proximity to more salient truths teasing at the edge of awareness. These distractions are peddled by hate merchants hired en masse by those conniving bourgeois taskmasters. The liberal bourgeoisie who generally take no part in this charade tacitly support its happening as it distracts the proles from finding the real target of their ire, but do their good samaritan due diligence and pay lip service to disavowing it. Those conscionable bourgeoisie give scraps to aspirant-bourgeois minorities who blindly launder their reputation—helping bolster further racist conspiracies.
Hiring committees of the hate merchants, the fascist bourgeoisie, take their massive treasuries and fund ‘organic’ parties that ‘spontaneously’ appear with wild support. The existence of these new parties present a facade to resolve the seemingly ever present tension. Far-right parties are now in every European country, often but not as a rule headed by a capitalist with inscrutable motivations—incorruptable as they’ve completed being a capitalist, they're usually the richest in their respective countries(!). American computer pseudo-intelligentsia provide the digital infrastructure for these fascist projects to soothe bruised egos derived from perpetual loserdom. As reward the pseudo-intelligentsia obtain minority women seeking an 'in' to upper-class white society. This simultaneously soothes their ego and resolves the tension they developed from highschool and college with white girls who've justifiably felt disgusted by them. After a patting on the head these stunted manchildren are given taxpayer handouts for reinventing the wheel. Extra kudos is the media machine, owned by the bourgeoisie, trotting them out and spinning tall tales of genius, of which those difficult to coerce rigid and traditional intelligentsia wish they had. Move fast and break things!
The clueless in the West yell at clouds when a far-right party gains even more traction. They scream: how can this be, how is anyone so foolish? They slink back into their enclaves and ignore reality. Liberalism as it is today, neo-liberalism, is dead. It was always destined to die as its contradictions can only be solved by a new mode of production. Its demise was greatly hastened by the unyielding consumerism, the credentialism so common, and the disdain for the working class who built this modern world. Instead of recognising this terminal prognosis and aiming for a more egalitarian future, the denial of reality field that permeates throughout the wealthy makes them refuse to give up the reins. So instead of preparing to continue history through new means, they in the end choose fascism, or as is common parlance: scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
Europe’s head bourgeoisie, either by ignorance or by some misplaced self-preservation, and by virtue of their lack of complete disdain for their native populations, feel as though they can hold onto neo-liberalism forever. Every problem is a simple solution of importing labour with the very thin veneer of humanitarianism. They believe this can go on indefinitely with no consequences. Despite the free healthcare and much improved quality of life, in the end the line should only go up; a capitalist in Europe is still a capitalist. NATO is a historical relic of that older time when the dogma went unchallenged. Bolstered with a dead USSR and a as-of-yet-ascendant China in the 90s and 2000s, NATO’s existence was an American gift to Western Europe to focus its immense strength on something aside from war, and also functioned as a cheap way to suppress those scary red Eastern European peoples. The naive coalition named the European Union a temporary, fading blip in that same neo-liberal history.
As arch-liberal Obama’s turn to be president came to a conclusion the bourgeoisie reaped what they had sown: the near simultaneous election of Trump and Brexit. Brexit, an expert operation that could only be accomplished in a country with the wealthy and their bought leadership as weak, ignorant, and blind as in the United Kingdom. Cue the lightning shock Americans received when Trump beat the world’s most uninspiring warmonger whose only virtue was being a woman who deserves a turn too(!)—itself an insult to the world’s women who hold up half of society without being a cutthroat freak.
Greenland's flag
Fast forward to today. No lessons have been learned by the completely demoralised and shaken liberal establishment. Proudly stubborn, these hashtag-warriors keep playing by rules so outdated in the modern world they could pass for cuneiform tablets. They express incredulity and plead as to why Trump would decide to shred NATO and target Greenland so specifically. It’s hard to tell if European leaders too are that uninformed that they cannot tell that this is not some boneheaded calculus by a barely sentient old man or if they’re playing to a blind base. The ringleaders behind that leathered and comedic husk advance plans made ages ago by a notch, the gear’s tooth now landing at Greenland. It doesn’t matter what it’s for, it can be for resources, it can be for any nebulous reason, but the main goal appears to be the skewering of neo-liberalism in Europe—at least in the short-term.
Native Greenlanders are just fodder for the aspirant and establishment liberals 'fighting back'. Never caring about their issues and thoughts before (as the Kingdom of Denmark’s toy to play empire) the media apparatuses are now generating ‘heroic’ articles daily of Greenlandic resilience, historic quirks, etc to try in vain to stymie a fascist tide with pebbles, while posts on social media from robots and the people that act like them are raising awareness and posting jovial Greenlanders holding their red and white flag.
European leaders are so out of touch with reality like their liberal American brethren—but perhaps even further—that there is now pan-European talk, genuine legislation being discussed, of imposing things such as drafts and compulsory military service. These daydreams are partially caused by hobbling Russia and now from American encroachment. All this in a top-heavy migrant-laden Europe, under neo-liberalism the world’s most uninspiring ideology. The same ideology whose still warm European limb is presently being hacked off. I’ve been told the sky is purple and pigs are flying too, the underclasses love living a life in a perpetually declining society with no future, smile and be happy! The media clambers desperately to find the purchase in affecting government policy they’re so accustomed to, akin to mice coordinating closing a window while a storm approaches. All the while nearly every piece of technology runs on devices already compromised by American intelligence services, the NSA and the CIA likely knowing every conversation ever made in every level of European government while American Big Tech companies fill in the rest with analyses from the myriad of data points they constantly collect.
There is no fighting this new version of fascist America for Europe because neo-liberalism cannot fight anybody. Liberals cannot fight farmers in a field in Southeast Asia, they cannot fight herders in the mountains in Afghanistan, Germany can send ships, they can shoot, France can bomb, others can mortar and level and airstrike but they cannot truly 'win'. War is a continuation of policy by other means, neo-liberalism in self-preservation mode means if they don’t fight they collapse slowly, and if they do fight they collapse quickly, it ends in collapse no matter what. The weakness is terminal. And with that, European aspirant and establishment liberals are still allergic to changing modes of production, they’d rather beat their bird chest and dangle a very unwilling Sven and Pierre as sacrifice in a vain attempt to buy ten more minutes, that is the most egregious thing of all.
Danish aspirant and establishment liberals balk at the brusque nature of this new focus of American brutality, that unstoppable march, its uncaring hand that deftly sweeps the board of all pieces. The Danish bourgeoisie yell out, but we were one of the firsts to help you(!)—in regards to being such a subservient vassal when America sundered the Middle East. Like a movie goon who expresses shock when the villain turns out to be using them for some ends far beyond them the Danish liberals vow to never help again in another adventure, never stopping to ask themselves in classic fashion why they stepped into the arena in the first place. Why exactly they had to participate in the great game on the side of the evil giant and not expect to get trampled. They too, like all neo-liberals, are not aware that it is not the End of History™ and that the main imperial state of the era views everyone as sacrifice, Denmark, Europe, its own citizens, for whatever goal they’ve begun barreling towards. Welcome to a new world.
Edited July 4th 2026 for clarity