Posted on 09/21/2007 7:11:48 PM PDT by Michael Lyubomirskiy
Total defeatism seems to be the normative attitude towards Chinese dominion and American and Western collapse in the English language press. People eat up countless breathless reports about China's growing might without a murmur even as American leaders are openly selling out the last vestiges of the nation's defense capacity and economic independence to the enemy. All of this is "justified" by endless appeals to free trade, anti-imperialism, fairness, ancient history, third-worldism, moralism, anti-Americanism, thinly veiled Asian supremacism and every other ideology imaginable. Serious analysis about what these developments mean for us and what to do about them is rare and generally ignored.
Did you realize that in the year 17xx China had yy% of world population and zz% of global economy? Yes, and they also invented paper in A.D. 105! Now that these factoids have dispelled our ignorance, it surely gets much easier to acquiesce to the economy falling apart around us, American technology being technology transferred to arm the enemy, and the nation being left defenseless at the mercy of the evil empire that openly boasts of its readiness for nuclear war. It is all historically inevitable, you see. And now let us all celebrate the just demise of the oppressive American hegemony and bow our heads in reverence before the miracle of globalization. Consecrate some useful idiots ambassadors for peace while you are at it.
Defense of Western freedom takes more intelligence and moral courage than the naked worship of Chinese power, much more than what the opinion makers have got to spare. All of the pontifications about fairness of X, cultural aspect of Y, and historical inevitability of Z really are just smoke screen for the underlying conclusion: "America is going to hell, we know this, and we would rather sit around and celebrate it a la Stockholm syndrome than abandon our cherished ideologies in favor of such a discredited, outdated notion as defending the nation."
Now, the first step towards surviving the battle is to stop going along with those who have already capitulated and are now zealously evangelizing others to do the same. We should regain the outdated and discredited will to defend the nation and then apply the overrated and xyz-centric rational thinking to find and implement the road to victory.
You might enjoy reading a couple of my own vanities...
(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part III, or, The Year of Lipstick on a Pig
(Vanity) The Era of Cheap Crap, or, You Don't Get What You (Don't) Pay For
Cheers!
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