Let's be honest with ourselves. "The western hemisphere" has never achieved any successes thanks to any virtues they supposedly had at different times in the history. Whatever virtues they may have possessed (arts, engineering, etc.), were not significant and not exceptional compared to the rest of the world at any given time.

First, it is important to stress that successes were only in material possessions, nothing else.

Second, the successes were achieved only by expansions, which happens because of being a super preditor including to its own kind. Like locusts. Being a locust is not a virtue. And normal grasshopper's life is much more worth living than locust's.

Since at least Roman times (if not Greek - gotta study those more) we have been locusts. Let's get back to being normal grasshoppers and live in harmony with the nature and the rest of the world, shall we?