If they're dying now, it's at least in part because of the orgy of violence back then unleashed by people Venner admired. Nobody there wants to go back to those days.
Which brings me back to my original point: how to include the things he claimed he believed in -- duty, honor, service -- without tearing the world apart in wasteful conflicts that give those values a bad name.
From the article:
Indeed, on the eve of 1914, the European system was in crisis. But it is not the order that caused the war, but rather the oblivion and denial of the order. Since the end of the first Thirty Years War in 1648, the so-called European concert between states was based on the awareness of belonging to the same family of nations between the wars which were to remain limited and subject to "the rights of nations". The Concert of Europe was based on the civilizational values common to all the ruling elites.
When you have a civilization: a culmination of national cultures, you have both peace and strength. Undermine the civilization by devaluing nations, mocking religion, tearing down culture, and you get the animal farms of today, -- and indeed, nobody want to go back to civilization anymore.
You need some enemy to set such a "national revolution" into motion.
We don't need an enemy, we have one. Who do you think invents the 50% taxation levels, state as a surrogate parent, homosexuality as model behavior, IRS/NSA in every Internet router, third world labor force here feeding government employees so that they can retire at 50, and third world thug armies at their homes, under our no-fly-zone umbrella?
Is it Venner's fault that a government that works in the national interest has become a revolutionary idea?