Saturday, May 25, 2013

A very different smell entirely

Hilaire Belloc said long ago ago that Europe was living on "the whiff from an empty bottle". And soon, even the whiff will be gone, replaced by the stench of permanent, pusillanimous serfdom, the people trapped between the soul-destroying pettiness and intrusiveness of the socialist state, and the aggressive, bloody-minded hatred of an alien culture against which that socialist state can no longer even muster an argument, let alone an effective defense.

5 comments:

rinardman said...

So, the hearty men of the Stockholm Police Department are, in effect, well-paid bystanders.

Nice work, if you can get it!

RebeccaH said...

Europeans have a history of acceding to authority without protest. That's what makes them so vulnerable to the rise of fascism, which is what wouldn't surprise me in coming years.

Anonymous said...

Deborah said... None of these drones should claim Viking heritage. Can you imagine the response of Ivar the Boneless to such a act of extortion over a burned out longboat? This would be after dealing with the Muslim invaders

Raise the black flag over the former Sweden. What's Swedish for dhimmi?

JeffS said...

Fascism is already alive and well in Europe, Rebecca. They just haven't trotted out the pretty uniforms yet.

Bob Belvedere said...

I am reminded of a passage in Jean Raspail’s 1985 Introduction to a new edition of The Camp Of The Saints:

For the West is empty, even if it has not yet become really aware of it. An extraordinarily inventive civilization, surely the only one capable of meeting the challenges of the third millennium, the West has no soul left. At every level – nations, races, cultures, as well as individuals – it is always the soul that wins the decisive battles. It is only the soul that forms the weave of gold and brass from which the shields that save the strong are fashioned. I can hardly discern any soul in us.…

Could This Be One Explanation?