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With a Whimper
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News/Comment; Posted on: 2012-01-11 20:54:10 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Not if WE can help it.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
— T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Just as the more harsh totalitarianism of yesteryear has been replaced by the soft totalitarianism practiced by our hostile elites, the harsh collapses of yesteryear will be replaced by a series of insidious soft collapses. A levy will break over here. A riot will break out over there. Like a man who’s been castrated, we’ll steadily weaken by degrees both inwardly and outwardly. Where we were once muscular, we’ll find ourselves weak. Where we were once up to the challenges we faced, we’ll find ourselves shrinking from them.
The West will likely be the last to know, as we’ll spiral even more deeply into denial and distraction while thing fall apart.
When the Mexican Army kicked off
the Mexican-American War with the Siege of Fort Texas, they did not yet
realize they were merely Mexicans up against a dramatically more capable
opponent. They saw themselves—incorrectly—as the obvious and natural
heirs of the great Spanish military tradition and were more surprised
than anybody by the disastrous outcome. Similarly, contemporary
Americans see themselves as the obvious and natural heirs of a great
nation, a nuclear power with a sprawling military empire, an
unparalleled economy, and an enviable commitment to the highest
Christian and Enlightenment virtues—incorrectly.
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News Source: The Occidental Observer
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