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Home Front: Culture Wars
Fjordman : Marxism or Decadence? The Cause of Western Weakness (excellent)
2007-02-12
Posted by:anonymous5089

#11  You know you are in a Western country when one of the major networks (ABC) runs a travelogue on your enemies during its morning feel good program.

ABC's Good Morning America ran the travelogue on Syria last week and is covering Iran starting today. The coverage could not be more fawning, uncritical or amateurish. They are working feverishly to better humanize our enemies so that popular opinion goes against any possible attack. Hey, the Iranians seem like nice people, we should be able to do business with them.

Of course the average Iranian is great on a personal level. What in the hell does that have to do with ANYTHING when their government is killing our soldiers and Marines and actively thwarting our efforts in Iraq?
Posted by: remoteman   2007-02-12 18:46  

#10  "Why is it SO impossible for Westerners to understand..."

Because then they'd have to abandon their bland, feel-good Sesame Street sensibilities and acknowledge that there is real evil in the world. And then they'd have to confront it. And if they confronted it, head-on with the full force it would take to vanquish that evil, they would no longer be able to think of themselves as "nice".

That's my theory, anyway...

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-02-12 18:41  

#9  Why is it SO impossible for Westerners to understand that the Muzzie immigrants have NO RESPECT for Western culture, values, lifestyles, religion, and are tantamount to an invading FORCE OF DESTRUCTION? It just seems so elementary.

I'd like some feedback.

If suddenly:

women were forced to be genitally mutilated (practical equivalent of castration),

were forced to wear billowing, hard to get around in, hot, ugly clothes at all times in public,

couldn't go anywhere without a male escort, or be raped if alone,

were not allowed to vote,

were not allowed to see movies, operas, plays, concerts,

were not allowed to associate freely with peers of the opposite sex,

were not allowed to eat or drink what they chose to,

would these Western morons get it THEN? What is it going to take?

Someone has to make the rules. If those "someones" are outnumbered, then the other guys, the supplanters, will be the someones calling the shots.

It's just math, right?



Posted by: ex-lib   2007-02-12 17:47  

#8  Â“Multiculturalism and mass immigration ItÂ’s a beauty contest for bored, Western intellectuals who use immigrants as a mirror to reflect their own inflated egos, a sport where they can nurse their vanity in the mistaken belief that denigrating your own cultural heritage is a sign of goodness and lack of prejudice.
It’s all about making them feel good about themselves right now, without regard for future consequences of their actions.”
This guy really says it like it isÂ…
Posted by: bk   2007-02-12 17:29  

#7  Marxism or Decadence? The Cause of Western Weakness

C) All of the above.
Posted by: xbalanke   2007-02-12 16:27  

#6  And these people are not allowed to bear arms.
YET.
I guess Fjordman figures they'll grow old and die off rather than take back their country. That would mean yet another continent for us to clean up....again.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-02-12 12:16  

#5  Rome did the same thing before its fall. Outsource defense, imported thousands of more illegal immigrants slaves to do the work Romans wouldn't do. Cost of socialist programsgames and bread were breaking the Roman bank. Roman politicians were more worried about making themselves rich than doing any real lawmaking. The population was more interested in entertaining themselves rather than problems of empire. Rome paid off enemies rather than crush them.
Things came to a head when the goths were at the gates.
"But, but we were NICE to them! Why do they hate us?"

Sad to see history repeating itself again.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-02-12 09:49  

#4  For all the talk about liberty, the folks around at the end of the American War of Independence sent tens of thousands of Tories [crown loyalist] packing. There was an understanding that if you didn't buy into the program, you were a threat whose presence was not welcome. The war made starkly clear who could be part of the program. You think it hurt the new nation in the long run? After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Marxists should have been treated like former Nazi SS prison guards.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-02-12 07:37  

#3  Fjordman is THE commentator/analyst of the West's cultural decline. No one else comes close.

For the Firefly fans, I imagine a future where they put up statues to him.
Posted by: phil_b   2007-02-12 07:18  

#2  Great post.

I wonder if we will heed its warning or not. Do we really need to wait until the boomer left dies to get on with being Westerners?

Will we survive until that happens?
Posted by: no mo uro   2007-02-12 07:17  

#1  A very brief summary:
Western Europe is crazier than any civilization before it in history, even paying its own enemies to colonize it and thinking about thoughts about cultural diversity as it is being wiped out. France has loved revolts and mayhem since 1789.
Many Western intellectuals and academics were delusional about the reality of the communist threat. Reagan, who dared to challenge blackmail from one of the most brutal regimes in human history, was reviled and ridiculed by the leftist intelligentsia, and is still hated even a generation after the Cold War ended. There is a massive fifth column of left-wingers during the Cold War who sapped our strength and appeased our enemies. These very same groups continue their work uninterrupted, and switched from promoting Soviet Communism to promoting Jihad.
You know you live in a Western country when the media is cheering for your enemies, when your schools and universities teach your children that your civilization is evil and when your politicians think it’s a sign of “extremism” if you want to protect your nation’s borders.
Perhaps we will win this struggle for liberty only when Western left-wingers decide that love their children more than they hate Western civilization.
I think victory will be possible when the influence of these burnt-out Marxists finally dies out with their generation, which is barely interested in having children.
A related development today demonstrates the spinelessness and death-wish of Europe. One of the Baader-Meinhof terrorists serving 9 life sentences for murder has been set for early release after serving only 24 years.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-02-12 06:25  

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