Reading a local copy of a terrific speech given in Australia by Mark Steyn over at the New Sisyphus and in the comments came across this quote by Victor Davis Hanson. This struck me as being one of most perceptive quotes regarding the West’s war with Islam that I have come across.
“The anti-Americans often invoke Rome as a warning and as a model, both of our imperialism and of our foreordained collapse. But the threats to Rome’s predominance were more dreadful in 220 B.C.E. than in 400 C.E. The difference over six centuries, the dissimilarity that led to the end, was a result not of imperial overstretch on the outside but of something happening within that was not unlike what we ourselves are now witnessing. Earlier Romans knew what it was to be Roman, why it was at least better than the alternative, and why their culture had to be defended. Later in ignorance they forgot what they knew, in pride mocked who they were, and in consequence disappeared.”
Both Victor Davis Hanson and Mark Steyn make a point that the multicultural morass we have waded into will be the death of us not the attacks of Islamic fanatics. We can survive a lot of punishing attacks if we know who we are. But if we are left defenseless by our inability to defend our way of life then just like the Romans we are destined for the trashpile.
Here is a terrific quote from Mark Steyn speech for the entire speech please see the New Sisyphus.
At the heart of multiculturalism is a lie: that all cultures are equally valid. And to accept that proposition means denying reality; the reality of any objective measure of human freedom, societal health, global population movement. And multiculturalism isn’t the first ideology founded on the denial of truth. You recall Herman Goering’s memorable assertion that ‘two plus two makes five, if the Fuhrer wills it’. Likewise we’re asked to accept that the United States’ constitution was modelled on the principles of the Iroquois Confederation. If a generation of multi-culti theorists in American universities, if the ethnic grievance lobby, and even if a ludicrous resolution of the United States congress so wills it, that’s what happened. The United States Congress passed a resolution hailing the Iroquois Confederation as the inspiration for the US Constitution, which would have been news to the dead white euro-centric males who wrote it. Harmless, harmless isn’t it!
Our battle is primarily ideological and since the left controls so much of the primary methods of fighting ideological battles (movies, radio, internet, universities) we are at a disadvantage. The task facing those of us who would defend Western Civilization is how to regain our ability to defend our culture when we do not have access to the primary means of dissemination. We need to find ways of reaching the public.
Here is another link to the Mark Steyn speech with a question and answer period.
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