Posted on 02/23/2006 11:40:15 AM PST by Wombat101
The Closing of Civilization in Europe
From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-02-22 22:51
Europes current problems are entirely self-inflicted. This does not mean, however, that the result will be less catastrophic. By subverting the roots of its own Judeo-Christian culture a process that started with the French Enlightenment a religious and cultural vacuum was created at the heart of European civilization. The collapse of faith in its own values has, not surprisingly, led to a demographic collapse because a civilization that no longer believes in its own future also rejects procreation. Today, a new religion and culture is supplanting the old one. There is little one can do about it, but hope for a miracle.
Americas immigration problems pale in comparison with what confronts Europe. Americas major ethnic minorities Blacks as well as Hispanics are Christian, while the meanstream culture is also rooted in Christianity. In Europe a secularized post-Christian culture is facing a Muslim one. The secularized culture is hedonist and values only its present life, because it does not believe in an afterlife. This is why it will surrender when threatened with death because life is the only thing it has to lose. This is why it will accept submission without fighting for its freedom. Nobody fights for the flag of hedonism, not even the hedonists themselves.
One could also put it in a slightly different way: Europe lacks what America still has, namely the so-called conservative reserves, or as the German sociologist Arnold Gehlen explained over 30 years ago, the reserves in national energy and self-confidence, primitiveness and generosity, wealth and potential of every kind. Every so often I travel to the U.S. to recharge my batteries, and I am not the only European Conservative to do so. From time to time one needs to breathe the air of freedom before submerging again in the stifling atmosphere of Europe.
Americas conservative reserves are far stronger than Europes, because America, unlike secular Europe, has remained rooted to a larger extent in traditional Christian values. I do not doubt that if these values continue to decline in the U.S., American culture will collapse as European culture and civilisation have collapsed. However, America can learn from the impending European catastrophe, and avoid a similar fate.
The old European civilization the pre-secular or the pre-post-Christian one will live on in the U.S. If it perishes there too, mankind will relapse into the dark ages that are now taking hold of Europe, the cradle of Western civilization.
I suppose one could feel sad about all this, but sadness is not what I feel. One can feel compassion for those who die in accidents, fall in battle or get murdered (like the countless unborn children that perish every day) but can one pity those who have killed their own future for the pleasures of the present? Europes predicament, I repeat, is entirely self-inflicted. Not Islam is to blame. Secularism is.
The coming decade will witness the war between the values of Islam and the secular values of the decadent, hedonistic post-Marxist Left. We have seen the assassinations of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, last Novembers prelude to the French civil war, the Danish cartoon case. This is just the beginning of the beginning. I do not consider myself a pessimist, merely a realist. It is quite clear who is going to lose and whose fault that will be.
It is still increasing, but at a much lower rate.
China is, by the way, seeing its RATE of population increase falling dramatically. The majority of males in the coming generation (since females are often aborted) as is the case more dramatically in India, is also a very bad sign....look for war.
At least the parts that we like. That probably has a lot to do with how things change.
important read -- "When Nations Die: Ten Warning Signs of a Culture in Crisis"
Read the newspaper: Communists who engage in rampant Capitalism are no longer Communists.
Guess again. Jews were being killed in great numbers since the Middle Ages. Poroms occured as a matter of course before almost every Crusade. The Reconquest of Spain had it's "convert of die" period. Every European country records pogroms in their history every other decade or so. The only difference is that Nazi Germany applied the process of industrialization to the task. Nor were Jews the only ethinc minority killed in the Holocaust. The list also included political dissidents of all stripes and ethnicities, Serbs, gypsies, homosexuals, and anyone considerd "intelligencia" (i.e. anyone politically or philosophically opposed to the Nazi State).
The Soviet Union killed as many (if not more) of it's own citizens than Hitler did. The Soviets also killed more Poles, Ukrainians, Hanseatic Germans, Armenians, Hungarians, Moldavans and Finns, for example,than the Germans ever did.
Mass murder in Europe was not something ushered in during the 1940's.
When you talk about the Neo-Nazi, Blackshirts and SKinhead movements in Europe, ask yourself this question: Would you entrust the future of your civilization to what, for all intents and purposes, are street gangs? And street gangs motivated, mostly, by their own disillusionment and disaffection?
That's how Mussolini and Hitler got started, you know.
For what it's worth, I'd still trust the Bobby on the Street, the Guardia Civil in the airport and the Carabinieri in front of the Colluseum waaayyy before I'd trust a guy who lives to throw bottles and riot at a football game.
You are arguing with yourself. It's not whom we oughta trust, it's who we think is going to respond forcefully to the clear and present danger of Islamism -- the sensitivity trained Bobbys, or the hooligans and the lower class natives. We shall wait and see.
Arguing with myself? Hardly. You missed the point -- The Bobbies may be "sensitive" but they are the leaglly-established, taxpayer-supported first line of defense. They are creations of the Western Democratic state, and as such, an expression of the majority of the democratic people of the UK.
So are the amries, intelligence agencies and governments of the European Continet. They are "the will of the people".
What you envision is a mass-movement of disorganized, undeputized, extra-legal mobs motivated not by the desire to create a more-civilized environment; they are sociopaths.
If you want your country righted, I fairly doubt you'd enlist or sanction the services of such folks. That would be like turning all law enforcement and military operations in this country over to the Klan. They might fix the immediate problem through violence and counter-terror, but what do they leave in it's place?
I have been saying for a long time that Europe is probably doomed, and the reasons are not hard to see.
Europe can be saved, but it will take an effort that most Europeans feel uncomfortable making because it means sacrifice.
Either Europe gives up it's four-week-vacation-reire-at-45-with-gov't-subsidized-maid-service mentality or it will go the way of Constantinople. What's at stake is the very survival of Western Culture.
Europeans need to be reminded of what they have and what they will lose if they don't do the following things;
1. Demand and defend civil society
2. Reject the "philosophies" of a legion of very bad French and German thinkers which preach cultural suicide and nihilism
3. Remember that rights are granted by God, and preserved by people willing to die for them
4. Stop the economic rot in their societies caused by excessive government intrusion into every aspect of operations and hiring practices
5. Demand that Muslims either agree to be part of a civil society based upon laws and common custom or they leave. If need be, forcibly.
6. Dismantle the gigantic welfare state which is a leftover defense mechanism against communism
7. Disband the EU; anything that has both France and Germany in bed together does not bode well for anyone.
8. Find some way to make the institutions of Western Civilization (the church, the army, the 'core' academy (i.e. non-liberal arts subjects)) more attractive options for their young people
9. Stop importing "taxpayers" for the sake of propping up welfare systems, and simultaneously believing that those imports don't need to, or can be, assimilated.
10. Stop the petty bickering with the US over issues that basically devolve into matters over "prestige" and public relations ,and recall the historical common cause between the continents..
Until recently, I was a big believer that NATO should be abolished since there was no longer a Soviet threat. But now I'm not quite so sure: someone is going to have to fight for Europe, and once again, it just might have to be Americans.
Excellent Wombat.
I also believe that if the stuff hits the fan in Europe, and if there is not mass, instant surrender, the US will again have to try to save them. Truthfully, I do not think that any more American blood should be shed for Europe. I know that there are those that would say that it would be in our own interests, but look at what has happened to Europe. Perhaps they should try to save themselves, then perhaps freedom would mean more to them than it does now.
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