Friday, November 12, 2004

Barbarians at the gate

Melanie Phillips on the Moral sickness of the world.
The reaction of the free world to Arafat's death, along with the opprobium heaped daily upon his victims in Israel, illustrates the decadence that now rewards evil and punishes those whom it terrorises. It is a horrifying indication of a world that has simply lost its fundamental understanding of right and wrong.

She is such a good writer.

Perhaps because we have forgotten past battles and sacrifices for our civilizations we are so suprised that these are battles we must fight again and again, not every generation, but every few generations. Barbarians always wait at the gates. They amass to pillage and destroy for no reason other than their strength in numbers and their love of battle, their embrace of destruction. Whether in the newsroom or the Disney factory, Hollywood or the Elite salons of pseudo-intellectuals, the decayed academia of the Universities or the anti-cultural elites ghettoed in the Northeast and Pacific states, they assault us daily. Anti-western, anti-rational, anti-American, anti-everything: our families, our church, our homes, our children, our values, our hopes, our dreams. They hold everything we believe in contempt. You might ask for what reason, but they have no answers, no grand plans, no ideals they cherish, no substitute culture to propose. They are Visigoths. They bring destruction. That's what Barbarians do.

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