Savagery

 

Kurt Schlicter writes editorials for Townhall and is a lawyer. This is his today’s editorial from Townhall, which I will quote in places and then comment on. The title of the editorial is: Accept That Savagery Is The True Nature of the World—and Deal With it.

 

My response Kurt is part right that savagery is part of—the evil part where endless warring and unceasing power struggles never end—the true nature of the world, but that goodness, civil society without endless internal war and internal power struggles or external power struggles and wars between countries, is achievable, if not permanent, but that, or goodness, is also part of the true nature of the world. He is correct, we must deal with the world as it is, not how we fantasize that it is.

 

Kurt: “If you want an indicator for how lost Western civilization has become, go to your kid’s school and check out their rules on fighting. Most likely, you’ll find out if two kids get into a fight, both get suspended, regardless of whether one is a punk bully who started it and the other was simply defending himself or some little kid. This is a moral disaster—violence in defense of what is right is a moral obligation and a symbol of the greater rot within society. This is the kind of rule created by middle-aged, divorced cat women who can neither find or satisfy a man and live in a tranquil bubble of affluent, frivolous safety and security created by their harder, worthier forebears who understood the world’s true nature.”

 

My response: his criticism is stinging, caustic, morally correct and wise. Violence in defense of what is right is a moral obligation. The cat women and Leftists punishing kids to repel bullies physically live in their sheltered, bubble world, but a society that seeks contemporary, lived Utopia where no violence exists and peace and love are universal, will be a society smashed and overthrown by criminals and revolutionaries in a few years.

 

Kurt: “The true nature of the world is savagery.

 

The true nature of the world is that good is forever pitted against evil (Ed Notes: Amen).

 

That has never changed. What has 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.”

 

My response: Kurt is right; remember that collectivists and totalitarian killers took 100 million lives in the 20^th century, all while the insular Americans glibly concluded that the world was filled with peaceful, loving people, born basically good, and that the current peaceful state of society was permanent and would last forever.

 

Kurt: “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.”

 

My response: Kurt is wise, but I have a couple of corrections to make. People are born vicious, and the world is not a peaceful place, but it could be if God’s Good Spirits and good values (the Ten Commandments plus Mavellonialist ethics) became common among citizens of America It would not be heaven on earth, but peace, civility and lawful settling of disputes would be commonplace.

 

The butcherers and Nazis, the young men of Hamas, that did the October 7^th killing of 1400 Jews in Israel are not psychopaths, but sinful, sane, ordinary young men, brainwashed and indoctrinated into true-believing foot soldiers of a genocidal ideology, radicalized Islam, and this psychopathic, insane holy cause released and gave moral cover for the murdering, raping and looting perpetrated by these rather regular young men. Irish youths, with the same sick training, would do the same. If Hamas young men were raised as Jewish youth in Israel, practicing the Jewish faith, they likely would be peaceful, lawful, civilized young men.

 

Yes, we must find the moral strength to defeat violent evildoers in the world by taking up arms against them in self-defense.

 

Kurt: “We must learn to kill again. We must again learn 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 Tik Tok.”

 

My response: Kurt is hard hitting but accurate. The Leftists and Islamists see all Jews, all Americans, all white people as illicit colonizers and occupiers, all to be wiped out.

 

Kurt: “The world was always a savage place. What happened on October 7 was not an anomaly. It was normality. What do you think happened in 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 everyone 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 a chance to inflict one upon their neighbors.

 

We in the West, of which Israel is a part and thereby is hated, forget 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 the 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.”

 

My response: Well said.

 

Kurt: “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 everyone 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.”

 

My response: he is right we must keep a strong military, and use it when necessary to quell aggressors, to keep Pax Americana alive.

 

Kurt: “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 in 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 starts one, you have to choose them or you. Someone is going to die badly, and you know, I propose it is those other guys.”

 

My response: There are good times when good people have to go to war to keep evil at bay.

 

Kurt: “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 degree 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.”

 

My response: I like what he warns about, but the grad school ideologues are not sociopaths: there are regular young adults, radicalized, true-believers that would do anything to promote their holy cause, and that ideology is twisted, dark and sociopathic.

 

Kurt: “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.’

 

My response: It was a big lie. We have not changed for human nature has not changed, for we are still basically violent and evil.

 

Kurt: “We need to stop lying to ourselves. A society that suspends both kids when one of them slugs a bully is signing its ow suicide note.

 

Even if our leaders refuse to be clear-eyed, you can be. Buy guns and ammunition.”