ABSTRACT
Traditional conservatism, an imperative balance to liberalism promoting continuity, began its rapid decline in the 1980s. Unconstrained market forces have since decimated the institutions and traditions that traditional conservatives sought to preserve. This chapter explores the West's descent into free-market ideology as a source of creative destruction. It surveys the subsequent decline of the community. New technologies also tend to weaken the community by rendering entire professions and industries obsolete and reducing inter-personal social interactions. Communities are especially disrupted without a slow generational shift to transition from one technology to another, as people's skills are made redundant and re-education is required. Geoeconomic competition among Western allies is increasing. The development of a commonly advanced Western society requires the harmonisation of geoeconomic activities. Digitally created personas replace authentic and reliable social interactions, causing society to become more alienated. The creative destruction from an economic deterministic society was temporarily mitigated by aspirations of perpetual global leadership, as globalisation meant 'Americanisation' or 'Westernisation'.
