Frankly, I sometimes fear that our society is too “civilized”. We’re too far removed from some of the primal instincts of man: from that killer instinct which drove our ascent over the other species of the Earth and which built the civilizations whose comforts we now enjoy. Man, I often worry, has been domesticated.

If there’s one group of people that sickens me as much as liberals it’s people who understand the things that are necessary for victory in war or justice at home, but who recoil from those things. Prime among those people are the ‘conservatives’ who vigorously supported the Iraq War right up until the revelation of the Abu Ghraib prisoner “abuse” scandal and those whose ‘principled’ objection to the death penalty ultimately comes down to the fact that they lack the nerve to kill even when it is right and just to do so.

It’s these people who worry me the most: people who understand, on an intellectual level, what needs to be done, but who simply have had the capability of doing that bred out of them.

Strangely, the moment where I came to regard this as a serious problem was in one of the oddest of all possible places: the end of a Tom Clancy novel. It was The Bear and the Dragon, I think. China has fired a nuclear-tipped ICBM at Washington, DC. President Jack Ryan refused to move out from under where the blast will fall because he knows he lacks the will to order a retaliatory nuclear strike. Luckily, in the book, a US ABM system takes down the Chinese missile. But it won’t always happen that way.

What scared me about that was this: Jack Ryan was deliberately designed to be the macho (however much I loathe the word, it applies) hero of action novels. I never saw a word of objection to this section from fans: they all seemingly took it as perfectly normal that a President would lack the courage to do what is just and right. Worse still, it was presented as praiseworthy: a sort of badge of honor on Ryan’s character. That’s what scared me: not only did no one find it objectionable that President Ryan would fail to do his duty, but some would find his dereliction of duty to be praiseworthy.

Later, I discussed it with other people. Few, if any, saw what I was on about. “What’s the point of retaliating in a nuclear war?” more than one asked, “why kill all those people.” Those people lacked the will to do what is necessary. Harry Truman understood that it was necessary to drop atomic bombs on Japan to end the war, save American lives, and send a message to the world.
Earlier in the war, FDR and Churchill saw that it was necessary to fire-bomb German and Japanese cities in order to win the war. Millennia earlier, the Romans saw that it was necessary to destroy Cartage in order to ensure that it never threatened Rome again.

But, today, most would recoil from such action. If, tomorrow, China were to destroy Los Angeles and kill ten million Americans with nuclear weapons, I have little doubt that about half the country could quickly be convinced to oppose nuclear retaliation. More and more, there are real men out there like the fictional Jack Ryan: men who understand what must be done, but are incapable of doing it. I call these people “Domesticated Men.”

Domesticated animals are nice amusements and companions: but they’re not suited to survive without outside protection. If my kind-hearted cat were to find himself alone in the dark against some vicious wild animal he’d have exactly two choices: run or die and, in any case, there’s no certainty that the former would work. In the wild, ultimately, you have two choices: kill, or be killed. The only animals who survive in the wild without the capacity for combat are those which are adept at running and hiding.

The same, I think, is true among the peoples of the Earth. There’s a tidal wave coming: a demographic tidal wave in which the stronger people, those without as much “culture”, “refinement” and “sophistication” as we of the West have threaten to swamp and drown us. A few far-sighted people can see it come. A brave few have tried to warn of it, despite the near certainty that such courageous individuals will be libellously derided as racists and bigots.

In this world the strong people, the people with the will to win, always do win and the weak peoples, the people without the stomachs to do what is necessary, always lose. That is the way of things. More importantly, in a philosophical sense it’s the way things ought to be.

Most in the West are taken in by the delusion that we can simply sit back and that the wider world will freeze. They’re captivated by the mad fantasy that, if only we learn to turn our back on some of the baser instincts of man, so will the rest of the world. And so they may: but not before they’re done with us.

The final blow to the Roman Empire in the West was delivered by savage hordes. The Greeks were destroyed by unwashed Romans and barbarians from Macedonia who then went on to finally destroy the glorious Persian Empire. It’s a consistent pattern of history: cultures grow decadent, convinced of the permanence of their superiority, and are eventually destroyed.

It is the natural order of things. But we cannot allow it to come to pass this time. Their must be a revival, a new renaissance, in the West.

It is plain as day who the rising peoples and who the fading peoples are. It is the Chinese, the Indians, and Moslems who are on the rise in this world and it is the European that is in decline. The fate of the American is yet to be determined. That is where the demographics point and that is the pattern to which the politics will eventually adjust.

Fantasies about a “United States of Europe” which may someday challenge the United States are the fanciful ravings of delusional men. Europe is dying. I doubt if it will be possible to resuscitate it without a resort to extreme measures of the sort from which even strong men would recoil.

As I see, that’s an almost unchangeable fact: here and there, bits of Europe might adjust and survive to see the new world but Europe as we know it is dead. The Europe of 2050 will be a place nearly-run (or actually run) by semi-Europeanized Moslems who will preside over an empire of elderly European pensioners, a handful of angry white people, and a rising Islamic tide. The best possible future I see for Europe is one in which the residents eye eachother warily from well-fenced and well-guarded residential compounds in which they remain perpetually locked as a result of endemic racial and religious violence. And that, I’ll add again, is the best-case scenario. I think that it’s far more likely that the Europe of my old age will look something like Yugoslavia writ large.

Here in the Americas, there’s still a chance for Western Civilization: but it will not be easy. We need to harden people for the hard years ahead. I think that the coming century will be one in which we will never know a moment’s peace.

Our present fight with the terrorists obscures the larger problem: the demographic rise of Islam, relative to the decline of Christianity. The deadliest threat to the long-term future of Western civilization isn’t the suicide bomber: it’s the dedicated Wahhabi mother of eight. The present battle is just a skirmish, a prologue to the greater challenge to come.

What do we do when Moslems make up a third of the world’s people, as they may well by mid-century? They will demand a third of the world’s wealth and, quite naturally, they will soon seek more than that.

The same is true of the Chinese and the Indians. We haven’t adequately thought through the implications of nations with a billion and a half people each and rising economic strength. They’re going to want their place in the Sun as well.

Looking ahead, I don’t see a way out for anyone that doesn’t end in mass-death, cities burning, and all the rest of that jazz. There’s no way out, save the hard one.

I have developed a program for ensuring long-term American dominance which I will be laying out in the days ahead.

I don’t pretend to have all the answers, nor that my ideas are perfect: but we need to start talking.

We need to talk about what kind of world we want to have in five decades time.
We need to talk about what we’re prepared to do and what we’re prepared to sacrifice for the survival of Western Civilization.