Polarized critics from within perceive the downfall of the West, preaching inequality, "down with imperialism," "tax the rich," environmental apocalypse, racial injustice and systematic oppression, fascism, and a hundred other pessimistic railings of the self-proclaimed champions of the proletariat.
From without, hostile foreign nations and countless proponents of anti-Western ideologies burn flags, call for "death to America," the West, the rich, and the free, and denounce everything the West represents. The loudest and most extreme calls for an end to the West and Western values have come from people and cultures outside the West; however, in this most recent decade, many of the most vehement and obnoxious cries come from within.
They would ask you to ignore, reject, and dismantle the values, cultural norms, and institutions that have made the West a place where people flee to rather than flee from.
People with the ability to move freely elect, with almost no exception, to move from autocratic rule to freedom. From poverty and dearth to wealth and abundance. From hunger and want to satiation and plenty. From danger and violence to safety and peace, and from bleak prospects toward the opportunity for a better future. Those who already have these conditions may well elect to visit the world of those living without, but they almost never elect to move there permanently. Many moonlight in rejecting the West, but, if pressed, they’re not much keen on giving up what the collective Western cultural system provides. The unique synthesis of ideas, cultural adaptations, innovations, and institutions that have emerged from the West have become humankind’s blueprint for prosperity and progress. No other collection of values and ideas than those of the Enlightenment has resulted in freer, longer, healthier, and richer lives.