Posted on 10/30/2023 5:59:01 AM PDT by george76
If you want an indicator of how lost Western civilization has become, go to your kids’ school and check their rules on fighting. Most likely, you’ll find out if two kids get into a fight, both get suspended, regardless of whether one was a punk bully who started it and the other was simply defending himself or some little kid. This is a moral disaster, of course – violence in the defense of what is right is a moral obligation and a symbol of a greater rot within society. This is the kind of rule created by middle-aged, divorced cat women who can neither find nor satisfy a man and live in a tranquil bubble of affluent, frivolous safety and security created by their harder, worthier forbearers who understood the world's true nature.
The true nature of the world is savagery.
The world's true nature is that good is forever pitted against evil.
That has never changed. What happened over the last 70 years or so was an interregnum of peace in the West, created by violence against barbarians and facilitated by people willfully looking away from the butchery still continuing at the fringes of the map. The West managed to build a civilization that was – for the first time in history since perhaps the Pax Romana – generally internally peaceful. And the West convinced itself that this was normal.
But it was not normal. It was an anomaly, a glorious one, but an anomaly nonetheless. The world is not a peaceful place, and it never was, and it never will be. Despite the best efforts of the arrogant left, human nature has not changed. Human nature is vicious and cruel. Rousseau’s noble savage nonsense, which we are still dealing with today in the form of eager sophomores in Che t-shirts slobbering over Hamas psychopaths – is a giant fraud. Savages are not distinguished by their nobility. Their savagery distinguishes them. And we need to find the moral strength to do what is necessary to defeat them.
We must learn again to kill. We must learn again to destroy. We must learn again to be ruthless in defeating our enemies. The big lie that Western civilization tells itself is that there are no real enemies, that there are no bad people – except the people of the West themselves, who bear some sort of original sin for not being corrupt and inept Third World barbarians.
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We do have enemies, as we have seen. We do have enemies, as they tell us. When they talk about decolonization, they are talking about de-you-ization. When they talk about killing settlers, you need to understand that you are a settler, and they mean killing you. They mean raping your daughter in front of you. They mean chopping your baby’s head off. They mean slaughtering your wife or husband, sons and daughters, and even your dog. And they mean enjoying it, reveling in the ecstatic glee of mass murder, and being so proud of it that they call home to their daddies and brag about it, or put up their body cam videos on TikTok.
The world was always a savage place. What happened on October 7 was not an anomaly. It was normality. What do you think happened to sacked cities in the past, which is what these Gaza-adjacent towns in Southern Israel essentially were? The attackers captured their objective, burned and razed the buildings, stole everything they could carry, raped anyone without a penis and some with, and piled corpses in the streets. We’re stunned simply because we forgot what a sack is, but for most of human history, people lived in terror of it happening to them, hoping for the chance to inflict one upon their neighbors.
We in the West, of which Israel is a part and thereby is hated, forgot about this. Worse, we have forgotten our strength and our courage. We have forgotten that we survive not through gentle hugging but through sword-swinging. For example, we have forgotten how to conduct a siege. The idea that Israel should somehow give these Hamas barbarians food, water, and electrical power even if it surrounds Gaza and prepares to attack is mind-boggling insanity. The moral illiteracy of expecting Israel to care more about the Palestinian people than other Palestinians do is simply bizarre.
Remember the Pax Romana? Do you think that peace just sort of occurred because everybody shared their feelings openly and without restraint? Do you know how the Romans did sieges? Let’s talk about Caesar at Alesia. The Gauls had gotten uppity and killed a lot of Romans, so Caesar decided to pacify them. The barbarian leader Vercingetorix took refuge in the hilltop town, and Caesar immediately surrounded it. He had his legionnaires build a giant wall around it to lock the Gauls inside. The Gauls called their friends for help, so Caesar built another wall around his besieging forces to keep the relief column at bay. He starved out Alesia, eventually forcing the Gauls to attack and defeating them handily. Then he took Vercingetorix back to Rome, made him march in chains in triumph, and then had his defeated enemy strangled. This was an important learning point for the barbarians. Don’t screw with civilized people, or everybody dies.
This is how you get a Pax Romana. There’s no other way.
The hard truth is that the world contains bad people who must be crushed through ruthless violence, which shocks and horrifies modern sensibilities. But it is reality nonetheless. When people want to kill you, you are at a decision point. You can either let them kill you or stop them. But stopping them often involves aesthetically displeasing actions, such as blowing them into little bits with bombs or shoving a bayonet into their guts and watching them die in agony. And it necessarily means inflicting death and damage on the noncombatant camp followers around them. That’s why they say war is hell. And that’s why starting one is probably not a good idea. But when someone else starts one, you have to choose them or you. Someone’s going to die badly, and you know, I propose it is those other guys.
The West didn’t start this fight, but it damn well better finish it, or they will finish us. Time to stop being soft. It's time to stop lying to ourselves. It's time to stop pretending that human nature took a 180° change a few decades ago and that we are not the same animals we used to be because now we have cars, airplanes, and Instagram.
We are the same brutal, cruel, and warlike creatures we have always been. Every headline, every act of hideous violence, and every pro-genocide cheer by the grad school sociopaths who fetishize Third-World savages, proves it. What we have to do is lift the scales from our eyes, understand the situation we are in, and accept it.
For the last couple of generations, we in the West have told ourselves that we have changed. We told ourselves that we are beyond violence. And we told ourselves that everyone else was too. But that was a lie.
We need to stop lying to ourselves. A society that suspends both kids when one of them slugs a bully is signing its own suicide note.
Even if our leaders refuse to be clear-eyed, you can be. Buy guns and ammunition.
Si vis pacem, 9x19 mm, and lots of it.
“...Savagery Is the True Nature of the World...”
Just travel to ANY democrat hell hole ghetto. There is the proof. /spit
You forgot one group.
The Stupid People. They’re the most dangerous of all.
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It is an outgrowth of the “don’t shame” crappola.
I have been saying this for years. We have had around 200 years of civilization with intermittent wars. Due primarily to affordable energy. This is abnormal in historic context. Our glorious leader of course wants us to pay more for energy. Lord have mercy on us.
The primary reason was to avoid an escalation to a full blown nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
The problem is pulling punches became a habit and after WWII our elites have always thought they could negotiate an acceptable solution and thereby virtue signal our way out.
This was always a mistake and promoted maximal goals like installing Western democracy while reducing the means of doing so in terms of troop strength, restrictive ROEs, and generally a failure to kill enough of the enemy in the short period of time required for victory.
The inevitable result was of course failure, and now repeated failures have led large numbers of Americans to support a neo-isolationist stance. Not because Americans are inherently pacifist or buy the libertardian nincompoopery that "free trade" will prevent war, but because having repeatedly trusted their sons and husband's lives to an incompetent and vainglorious elite, they no longer have any trust in their own government.
That is absolutely correct.
Every one of us has the capacity to commit unspeakable savagery, and our best hope is (1) to acknowledge and recognize it, (2) to vow never to acquiesce to that capacity, and (3) to pray to God incessantly for the wisdom and strength to avoid such acquiescence.
Therein lies the hope of our own enlightenment and salvation.
Everything that he wrote in this article is the absolute truth about life on this planet. We did not get to be on top of the food chain because we were polite, we got there because we were the most savage animal out there, due to the fact that we were smarter than all of the rest. Our savage nature, combined with our intelligence, put us there. This is why I like to read Kurt Schlichter, because he writes the truth, complete with historical or present-day examples, and he also does so in an extremely entertaining and thought-provoking way.
I sincerely wish that he would run for senate wherever he lives, as he would undoubtedly be a huge improvement over whomever it is that represents his state.
I agree with the article but the characterization of Caesar’s campaign in Gaul is way off the mark. Caesar’s multi year war in Gaul was one of invasion and conquest to gain Caesar glory and political power in Rome. The Gauls were defending themselves from Caesar not the other way around.
It is in the middle of this period when Progressivism was formed and flourishes to this day.
One of the fundamental tenants of Progressive philosophy is that human nature is infinitely malleable, and therefore improvable. There is a strong belief in the goodness of humans, as well.
Progressives have ruled the United States from Hoover to Obama. Reagan was a progressive, but a national progressive kind of like Teddy Roosevelt was.
“Peace” is that brief and wonderful time in history when everyone is busy reloading.
LOL!
Very well said.
People stink and I am pretty sure that, the instant humans moved out of the caves and began to socialize, they knew how it was going to be. The evil and the stronger one is ALWAYS going to take the most unfair advantage of the weakest and most vulnerable.
Count on that, protect yourself and be prepared. That goes for individuals and nations.
“As usual, Schlicter nails it.”
Riiight. Because the world would be a more perfect place if not for “middle-aged, divorced cat women” (major face palm accompanied by eyes rolling).
The world has been a “savage place” since Day One (remember that guy Cain?). That one half of the planet can’t or won’t accept the reality that the other half is either evil or dominated ‘by’ evil... and then refuses to act accordingly... is the problem.
Look at Israel, for instance. Their response to evil should have been immediate and final. Instead, here we are.... 23 days out and Gaza still exists and is thriving.
Nah. Blaming little old cat ladies is... well... just stupid. And the “rules”, or most of them, were made by men. That’s just how this world rolls. And yeah, Kurt has a grip on that reality....
except for the ‘blaming little old cat ladies’ part.
Believe me, after 9/11, I would have loved to see an Ohio-class SSBN stealthily enter the middle of the Mediterranean , where it would then empty its entire missile load in a depressed-trajectory shot on the ‘holy’ muslim cities of Mecca and Medina.
And, after the savagery of October 7th, I would’ve stood and cheered if the IDF cleared the Temple Mount of people and then the Israeli Air Force sent a massive bombing run to the Dome of the Rock mosque.
However, I am conflicted. I am a Christian. Not only that, I am a Messianic Christian, meaning that I also try to live and follow the Torah as well as the New Testament. Yeshua has said in His Word for His followers to be peacemakers and to turn the other cheek. In today’s world, that’s almost...and I hate to say it. ...stupid.
As a Messianic, I was livid what I found out what those Hamas-holes did to those innocent Israelis and others. I have a friend who has family living right now in Israel. (Thankfully, they are all safe , for the time being.)
As a Christian, what do you do? Being a believer in Jesus is not a suicide pact, as has been said before. We need to be able to defend ourselves against savagery that is all around us.
You left out Qom the Shia religious center!
Too True. History is red with awful barbarism and horrors. We must realize that people—if given the chance, will do awful and terrible things to their so called enemies. See what Nazis did to Jews and Roma (really anyone they didn’t like). The human side of history is filled with terrible examples.
No.
The Americans being there, willing to whack anyone who got out of line and having the power to do it, made it peaceful.
When "The West" was on it's own they managed to start a bunch of wars. Now that the Americans have gotten weary of the job and are withdrawing they will start a bunch more.
Peace is dependent on having someone with a big stick who is willing to use it.
This essay by Kurt should receive the WIDEST distribution possible. Particularly to youngsters.
Holy crap. An actual article that explains what I know to be the truth. Refreshing!
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