It is incredibly intellectually dishonest to claim that Western civilization hasn't vastly improved in its general "civilization" over the last century - respec

It is incredibly intellectually dishonest to claim that Western civilization hasn't vastly improved in its general "civilization" over the last century - respect of human rights, medical knowledge, technological capability and respect for human life and welfare. You can certainly point to many areas where things are still very sub-optimal (we don't even agree on what "optimal" means). But just the fact that we have stopped waging all-out industrialized war on each other, a tradition which ended in 1945, is enough of an improvement to make it better even if there was no progress in other areas. And there has been massive progress in most other areas as well. I don't think this is a claim which needs citations.