Reversing America's Decline
By Jared E. Peterson
11/27/12
The ongoing and not-so-gradual loss of American Civilization is the result of two related phenomena: the invasion of our country from the southern border, and our elites' culture of self-loathing that oozed out of the noxious slime of the 60's.
Western Europe is rapidly losing its own civilization for identical reasons (with invaders more poisonous than America's, and its own reproductive decadence, thrown in to expedite the process).
The first phenomenon -- the invasions -- wouldn't be happening in either place had they not been preceded by the second -- our elites' descent into cultural self-hatred.
All self-respecting civilizations defend themselves vigorously from hostile invaders.
Examples from the West's own past are legion:
Europe, circa AD 732 (Battle of Tours -- the Franks, in the heart of Europe, halt the onrush of imperialistic Arab Islam); the Spanish Reconquista, circa 800-1492 (the Spanish, aided by other Western Europeans, take back the entirety of Iberia after its 8th century conquest and occupation by Arab Islam); the Crusades (a strengthened Europe emerges from the dark ages to strike back against a four hundred year siege of Europe from east and west -- and theft of the European Levant -- by imperialist Arab and Turkish Islam); Vienna, 1683 (heroic and successful defense of Vienna by Austrians, Poles and Germans, against invading Turks).
The list could go on.
Other civilizations that thrive today were no less tenacious in self-defense through their history: Hindu India fought valiantly and successfully against Islamic invaders to retain its cultural identity; China -- whose elites today have absolutely no problem with cultural self-respect -- successfully resisted the forces of cultural dissolution during a hundred year occupation by the Mongols; and Japan -- still secure today in its own self-regard -- kept its culture and civilizational identity for a thousand years and shows no sign today of giving it up.
Only the West -- and, really, only the West's elites -- has become infected with the fatal virus of civilizational self-loathing.
At some point during the 60's -- that wrongly celebrated but actually destructive time -- shallow and over privileged members of my own post-war generation got the idea that our civilization's errors (slavery, the industrial scale brutality of WWI, WWII, the excesses of industrial pollution, our own 19th century colonialist arrogance towards others) meant that we are not merely imperfect (a useful insight), but that we are perfectly bad (the reduction of a useful insight to self-destructive absurdity).
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We must teach the young, and many others who've forgotten, the remedial truth that they are the luckiest generation in human history -- because they are the inheritors and beneficiaries of 2500 years of accumulated human material and moral improvement, about 95% of which has been the gift to them and to the world of the Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian civilization of the West.
Once this indisputable truth is again widely appreciated in the West, the other critical insight can emerge: that the West has at least as much right as any other culture to preserve itself from the collapse that mass invasion by will cause.
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By Jared E. Peterson
11/27/12
The ongoing and not-so-gradual loss of American Civilization is the result of two related phenomena: the invasion of our country from the southern border, and our elites' culture of self-loathing that oozed out of the noxious slime of the 60's.
Western Europe is rapidly losing its own civilization for identical reasons (with invaders more poisonous than America's, and its own reproductive decadence, thrown in to expedite the process).
The first phenomenon -- the invasions -- wouldn't be happening in either place had they not been preceded by the second -- our elites' descent into cultural self-hatred.
All self-respecting civilizations defend themselves vigorously from hostile invaders.
Examples from the West's own past are legion:
Europe, circa AD 732 (Battle of Tours -- the Franks, in the heart of Europe, halt the onrush of imperialistic Arab Islam); the Spanish Reconquista, circa 800-1492 (the Spanish, aided by other Western Europeans, take back the entirety of Iberia after its 8th century conquest and occupation by Arab Islam); the Crusades (a strengthened Europe emerges from the dark ages to strike back against a four hundred year siege of Europe from east and west -- and theft of the European Levant -- by imperialist Arab and Turkish Islam); Vienna, 1683 (heroic and successful defense of Vienna by Austrians, Poles and Germans, against invading Turks).
The list could go on.
Other civilizations that thrive today were no less tenacious in self-defense through their history: Hindu India fought valiantly and successfully against Islamic invaders to retain its cultural identity; China -- whose elites today have absolutely no problem with cultural self-respect -- successfully resisted the forces of cultural dissolution during a hundred year occupation by the Mongols; and Japan -- still secure today in its own self-regard -- kept its culture and civilizational identity for a thousand years and shows no sign today of giving it up.
Only the West -- and, really, only the West's elites -- has become infected with the fatal virus of civilizational self-loathing.
At some point during the 60's -- that wrongly celebrated but actually destructive time -- shallow and over privileged members of my own post-war generation got the idea that our civilization's errors (slavery, the industrial scale brutality of WWI, WWII, the excesses of industrial pollution, our own 19th century colonialist arrogance towards others) meant that we are not merely imperfect (a useful insight), but that we are perfectly bad (the reduction of a useful insight to self-destructive absurdity).
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We must teach the young, and many others who've forgotten, the remedial truth that they are the luckiest generation in human history -- because they are the inheritors and beneficiaries of 2500 years of accumulated human material and moral improvement, about 95% of which has been the gift to them and to the world of the Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian civilization of the West.
Once this indisputable truth is again widely appreciated in the West, the other critical insight can emerge: that the West has at least as much right as any other culture to preserve itself from the collapse that mass invasion by will cause.
Read more: Articles: Reversing America's Decline
