re: The current state of the west was inevitable.

Do you realize that you could make that reduction for numerous historical events? Agriculture is the foundation of civilization. It's the reason for writing, the development of towns, markets, contracts, everything we consider a part of a civilization. A student of history would know that, given that the discipline of history describes the time before writing as "pre-historic."

It's a really shitty argument when I could point out specific policies that are at play.