On the Future of the West
Dean
I keep forgetting to link this. Our friends John van Laer and Zsallia Marieko recently had an interesting exchange on war and the future.
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We will lose this war unless we, step by step, recover the moral certainty we once upon a time had. One only has to read the speeches and writings of the people of 100 years ago to understand the vast gulf between us and them - they were confident. Today we call such men bigoted, and this shows how far we really have slouched towards Gomorrah.
I cannot die for and neither may I ask another to die for anything other than the absolute conviction that right is on our side. To fight merely not to be killed is no reason to fight at all - we must fight because we are altogether right and they are altogether wrong, or any fighting we do will be fruitless and will end in our defeat. Our deserved defeat, at that - because if you don't believe in yourself and your society, what in hell are you fighting for anyways?
To be certain that one is right, that one's side is right, requires a subscription to absolute values - ie, moral values; things which stem from religious conviction at bottom, because no moral code constructed outside of a trascendent and revealed religion can long hold the imagination of a people. We do view our enemies as silly in their sinister ways - we have to stop that; they are sinister (why else should we fight them, if they are not?), but they are not silly - they are proposing in their own way a substitution for our moral code. They are convinced that we are altogether wrong, and that they are altogether right. "God is on our side", as it were.
We recoil in horror these days when we read that the Crusaders of ancient times shouted "God wills it!" as they ran into battle, and into sack and rapine. We recoil in horror, in my view, because we are at bottom very weak-willed creatures...or, at the least, a goodly number of us are. I don't consider myself weak any longer - I know that my side is right, and the other side wrong...I could, very easily, shout "God wills it!" as we destroy the enemy. God is, in the end, on my side.
I know whose side I'm on and I'm not afraid to pick one. But I'm not so certain as to declare that I always know the exact right course of action.
Profoundly and absolutely true.
I think it was that Lincoln hoped to have God on his side, but that he must have Kentucky...
Knowing the exact right course of action is impossible - but I'm delighted whenever I hear of an enemy killed, and saddened whenever I hear of one of ours dying. I am indifferent to people who are caught in the cross-fire - they should choose a side and be done with it; I hold nothing but contempt for those who refuse to choose a side - death is what they deserve, in some ways moreso than our armed enemies.
While aware of the flaws of my side, I'll refuse to admit to them while armed enemies are in the field - for all they'll know from me, I'd rather have them all dead than conceed even the smallest point on my side.
Steven,
Thanks much for the vote of confidence.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.