Has the West Triumphed… Or Not?

“Like it or not (and much of the world often has not), for the moment, the West has triumphed.” What exactly does this quote mean? What does ‘for the moment” mean? What is ‘triumphed’? Who exactly is ‘the West’? To begin with the West begins in Europe, specifically Western Europe. When colonization begins, in the late 1400’s to 1500’s the West becomes America too. Before this there was not really a modern civilization. As Europe spread, so did the West. Now what does ‘for the moment mean’? It means that the West will not triumph forever. There was a time, believe it or not, when the Chinese were the ‘triumphing’ country or civilization. In a few hundred years there is a good chance that the West will no longer be the triumphing civilization. What is ‘triumph’? Triumphing can be anything from winning wars, inventing machines that make the world better, having a good economy, or even just having your people happy. All of this the West has don...