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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.
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.
An excellent article, and obviously, you are correct in what you’re saying. Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince” that a leader needed to be able to do what is “not good” whenever it was necessary. If he was to “maintain his state.” This is known in philosophy as the “dirty hands problem.”
I hope you will not mind if I recommend my book – it provides a Machiavellian analysis of some of the decisions that Winston Churchill (and FDR) had to make during the second world war. In order to prevail against Germany, Churchill: Ordered the Royal Navy to attack the French fleet, declared war on Finland, looked the other way when the Katyn forest massacre came to light, told Stalin that he was willing to use chemical weapons on Germany, knowing that the British public would almost certainly be subjected to retaliatory attacks by the Germans, and he explicitly told Stalin that he intended to use Bomber Command to attack German towns and cities (Stalin said, “That is the only way!”) On and on it goes . . .
American readers might be interested to know that Harry Hopkins visited Moscow in July 1941, months before America entered the war as a belligerent party, and offered Stalin anything he needed – and I mean anything – to keep fighting on the Eastern Front.
The book culminates with the bombing attack on Hamburg in July and August 1943 – one of these attacks created a “firestorm” which caused massive devastation at ground level. No one thought anything about any of this – after all, it was war. And bad things happen in war all the time.
The book is called “The Road to Gomorrah”. You can find it on Amazon.
Best wishes and keep up the good work,
KD
What war really boils down to is “kill or be killed.” There is no other option when someone starts a war.
You only miss one thing in this article-and that’s the enemies of the West are running the governments of the West-we’ve already been conquered from within. The only person that wants the death of Western Civilization and Christianity more than a Mohammedan is a white leftist, and, at the moment, those people are running almost every institution in America. Western Europe will tip the demographic scales in a few generations, and it will be game over for western civ.
Right on the money. Frustratingly few see this and it’s the key. Attributing the debt, the border, gender war, middle east to error, ignorance, senility (as if Biden is in charge) is to miss the communist counter-revolution that occurred here in the late ’60s, when they fully took over leadership of an entire political party. They had to be careful at first because so many of the WWII generation were still with us. But since Clintons…fuggetaboutit.
There is one Western leader who is all in with Western civilization and its preservation, and that is Benjamin Netanyahu. A writer in the Clairmont Review of Books, reviewing Netanyahu’s autobiography, called him the Churchill of the Middle East. He certainly is, though he has not made some of the shockingly bad military decisions that Churchill did earlier in his career.
But Netanyahu stands almost alone in Israel, where a hostile and self-destructive left shows a psychosis akin to Trump Derangement Syndrome, and Israel stands almost alone in the world. Almost alone, but not entirely; they have one very strong Ally, and that is the G0d who promised our father Abraham that his descendants through Isaac and Jacob would never cease to be His own nation, and that the Land would never cease to be theirs. Now if only the idiots on the left would move over and let Him run the show, if they would worship Him rather than the more fashionable new pagan gods of the West, He will allow them to remain in the Land of Israel. If not, another long, bitter exile ensues, with Jews landless and having only the rights that their often unfriendly kings or caliphs grant them.
This is why when the 2nd civil war starts all the democrats will get deported along with their 40 million criminal invaders.
If savagery is the true nature of man and mankind, then there would be no alternative to savagery and no need, and no awareness, of an alternative to savagery. Animals can’t think twice about their animal savagery.
If savagery is the true nature of man and mankind, then man would have no capacity or awareness to be bothered about it. Man’s true savage nature would run its course and mankind would become extinct.
Your premise that savagery is the true nature of mankind is self-refuting since you can and do argue for the alternative and you can and do argue for the antidote to savagery.
“I have said that faith and force are corollaries, and that mysticism will always lead to the rule of brutality. The cause of it is contained in the very nature of mysticism. Reason is the only objective means of communication and of understanding among men; when men deal with one another by means of reason, reality is their objective standard and frame of reference. But when men claim to possess supernatural means of knowledge, no persuasion, communication or understanding are possible. Why do we kill wild animals in the jungle? Because no other way of dealing with them is open to us. And that is the state to which mysticism reduces mankind—a state where, in case of disagreement, men have no recourse except to physical violence. And more: no man or mystical elite can hold a whole society subjugated to their arbitrary assertions, edicts and whims, without the use of force. Anyone who resorts to the formula: “It’s so, because I say so,” will have to reach for a gun, sooner or later. Communists, like all materialists, are neo-mystics: it does not matter whether one rejects the mind in favor of revelations or in favor of conditioned reflexes. The basic premise and the results are the same.” – Ayn Rand
“If men uphold reason, they will be led, ultimately, to conclude that men should deal with one another as free agents, settling their disputes by an appeal to the mind, i.e., by a process of voluntary, rational persuasion. If men reject reason, they will be led, ultimately, to conclude the opposite: that men have no way to deal with one another at all—no way except physical force, wielded by an elite endowed with an allegedly superior, mystic means of cognition.” ― Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels
Wow a three-fer for the day…..Lenny Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels and a little fubber-de-boo from the Queen of Space Lectures.
And this is why Schlichter is successful and you aren’t. You can’t even refute him with out cribbing from your two familiars.
You will definitely win the downvote derby today.
Your cultish loyalty to unreason is obvious. You make four assertions:
THX assertion 1: Savagery is not man’s true nature because there are alternatives to it of which man is aware.
Many aspects of human nature have behavioral alternatives. The existence of these alternatives do not change human nature, but channel it towards a goal.
THX assertion 2: Savagery is not man’s true nature because man is both aware of it and bothered by it.
Awareness does not change human nature. Savagery can be very gratifying and not bothersome at all.
3. If savagery were man’s true nature, mankind would become extinct.
Many peoples HAVE been annihilated by the savagery of other peoples. But the conquerors thrive until another group comes for them. This is the ugly truth and it is human nature. It is by no means planet-wide extinction.
4. The premise that savagery is the true nature of mankind is self-refuting when an alternative can be postulated as an antidote.
The existence of an alternative way of living does not destroy natural savagery. It is not an “antidote” but it is a curb – like the bit in a horse’s mouth. That is why we have Lex Rex, which we are rapidly losing.
Very good refutation, K.H. You go neatly point by point and explain why every one of THX’s ideas is wrong.
Excellent article.
One point, at sieges such as that at Alesia, it was normal to build both an inner wall and outer wall. I often see that when reading about sieges (lines of circumvallation and contravallation, as I’m sure you know already 🙂
Did Caesar willfully create chaos on own people? Did Caesar weaken his own military?
I have LONG advocated for a SIMPLE WAR PLAN against these 7th Century savages – RETURN THEM TO THE 7th Century! Yes, simply DESTROY anything invented after their “glorious heydays”!! DESTROY their infrastructure! All communications, power plants, airports, marinas – EVERYTHING that could allow them to leave the h3llholes they desire! BUT, I’d then send BOMBERS to drop messages about HOW they can END their misery – simply take out those who do not want a peaceful, prosperous existence! We’ve TRIED to show them how to live decently and respect human life but as soon as we (and our MONEY) leave – it’s BACK to the 7th Century but with tiktok!!
This is the best summarization of the issues and the solutions – Thanks for a GREAT beginning of my day!
I’d agree with your solution, Except: The idea of leaflet dropping is useless. Islam is Islam, there are no innocent Moslems, unless you could catch them before they can talk. 12+ years as an Army peacekeeper ( British Army-No Vietnam ) at an early age, tells me that the author of this article is on the money!
I would not offer them a way out of the 7th century. They do not deserve it and have proven that they will always abuse our good will.
Don’t disagree w/ anything Schlichter wrote.
But add to it, the philosophy extends beyond international conflicts, down to the local street level, down to our everyday lives.. The enlightened think if we’re nice to criminals, they’ll be nice back. They’ll see the error of their ways, and stop being criminals.
They never do.
Evil is unfortunately in the perception of the perpetrator.
“Kill the infidels!”
“Overthrow the bourgeoisie!”
“Kill the Tutsi!”
“Kill the Hutu!”
“Kill the best of the Gentiles in war!”
“Kill the Germans!”
“Kill the children of the Jewish Communists!”
“Nuke Gaza!”
C’mon, Schlichter. “. . . . . the kind of rule created by middle-aged, divorced
cat women who can neither find nor satisfy a man . . .” More likely created
by belly-protruding, limo-riding, call girl-visiting men who care not a whit
about satisfying a woman. And who are known as Commie globalists
responsible for infiltrating academia from K through college with their
many “rules” to destroy Western society from within. But aside from
your neurotic need to blame women, I do agree with your article.
Especially “that the world’s true nature (savagery) is that good is forever
pitted against evil”. It is God’s purpose for us on Earth – to choose the
good. But we’re not going to be able to choose anything unless we can
always defend ourselves. And yes, I agree that means a willingness to
be ruthless. That seemingly obscure rule in the schools now about kids
fighting is one of the most evil I’ve ever encountered. Self defense is
everything in life – for individuals and for society. Keep that attitude
and keep praying.
If anyone thinks prayer in a spirit of self defense – defense as ruthless
as one’s enemies – is for weaklings – then watch the videos of D-Day.
Before the soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy – most of them
made the sign of the cross and prayed with the priest. Many of them
dropped like flies from the German guns. If not for the bravery of them
and those who pressed on, American would have been beaten.
If individual freedom does prevail against the dual juggernaut of global
Communism and Islam – we will have learned a new lesson: To never
ever let our guard down against the evil savagery dwelling in and amongst
the people around us.
In God We Trust. Ammo up.
“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.” I am a divorced woman who has earned a very good living and raised a son with little financial and no moral support from his father. After seeing what a fantastic father our son is to our two granchildren, my ex-husband admitted to our son that he was a crappy husband and father. I am seeing an escalation of these sorts of vile slurs against women in general coming from men who purport to be fans of Western Civilization. How is this any different from the Democrat Party’s tactic of ginning up hatred against white people, Jews, and Trump voters? Why should I not be afraid of all men, not knowing which ones might harbor this sort of irratrional hatred against me? These sorts of comments are disgusting and dangerous.
if israel listens to the west and especially the feckless imbecile that inhabits the white house on what it should or shouldn’t do then their fate will be sealed , this is the only chance they will have to rid themselves of the sewer rats that infest their country and gaza . a ” 2 state ” is a fiction as is the ” occupation ” the world hates jews and will only have lip service from the west . the book of revelation and the book of daniel tells you the final outcome . time to read up and be informed . until the jews recognise jesus as their messiah they will only have more of oct. 7 . the great 7 year tribulation is only a heartbeat away , time to prepare for a calamity never experienced in the long sorry history of this planet . if not for the appearance of their messiah they would be obliterated . the jews will be rescued by the prince of the left [ antichrist ] and he will betray them just like all political leaders as is demonstrated by the west and their band of miscreants .
An excellent article! The author spoke my mind!
Violence would seems to be man’s default position.
Attempting to appease barbarians is a poor survival tactic. History has proven this time and again yet we fail to learn the lesson. There comes a time when the only thing that matters, after the dust settles, is there are more of you left than them. Ideally, there would be none of them left. Western thinking says ‘but that would make us just like them’ and therein lies the root of our problem. As Schlichter so aptly points out, subduing the instinct to survive is the best way there is to become extinct.
This is single most important point (and article) I have read lately. I have believed our savagery to be our nature for the past 50 years, and yet I could see around me evidence that we think that everything is just fine… that we’ve evolved. We’ve bought into our own delusion. Thank you so much for putting this point front and center. It’s about time we started living by our savage nature again.
You are wrong to think that Western Civilizatipn cannot turn on a dime to a Dresden or a Nagasaki situation. It would only take the people to feel really threaten by Islam.
The “western civilization” cannot forgive the Jewish people, their Ten Commandments!
History keeps repeating itself!
What is the purpose of history then! If it is constantly ignored.
Reminding us of the evil!