The sad fact is that we live in the decayed ruins of a dead civilization, one that began its decline in the 1880s, if not earlier, and was butchered in the fields of Flanders from 1914-18, with only remnants of it holding out and gradually dying in the decades that followed.
That civilization was called many things. The West. The Occident. The Great Powers. While composed of many different systems, from Prussian bureaucracy to the American Wild West, it was organized around two main concepts: ordered liberty and natural hierarchy.