The West against itself: "The West against itself: self-criticism or self-destruction"

By Tirso Diaz Diaz

Never before has a civilization shown such a degree of awareness of its own mistakes. Paradoxically, one of the West's great strengths lies in this capacity for self-reflection. However, this virtue has been perverted. What began as an exercise in responsibility has transformed, in many contemporary discourses, into a true pathology: a self-hatred, a constant and biased judgment that makes Western societies the sole culprits of all historical evils, real or imagined.
This essay stems from a concern: can a civilization survive that teaches its children to despise it? To what extent has self-criticism ceased to be regenerative and become an act of cultural suicide? Why are moral standards demanded of Europe, Spain, and the United States that don't apply to other cultures, regimes, or religions?
The following pages do not intend to deny the mistakes made by the West. On the contrary, they vindicate the value of fair and rational criticism. But they also denounce the ideological instrumentalization of such criticism, its conversion into a political weapon to delegitimize achievements, institutions, and principles that-with all their imperfections-have sustained the freest and most prosperous systems humanity has ever known.
The question that runs through this book is simple but urgent: will the West still be capable of criticizing itself in order to improve, or has it fallen into a spiral of self-destruction that is undermining its very foundations?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FLK5S574
• ISBN13: 9798296720238
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"