by Philip Giraldi, The Unz Review:
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John Attarian was an economist and writer who died in 2004. He wrote that men need heroes “to stretch our souls upward, to inspire and influence us to live as we ought.” He also wrote: “Modernity gives people neither models for noble life nor examples of gallant death, nor compelling reasons for either.”
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A noble life, a gallant death. What, in America today, would we even call a noble life? Do those words have any meaning to the people who rule us? And for what would even a professional soldier be glad to give his life in what we would call a gallant death?
Attarian was writing around the time Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History? in which he argued that by 1989 we had arrived at “the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution, and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”
“The end of history as such.” All the big questions, all the way back to Plato’s Republic, have finally been answered.
Western liberal democracy is the ultimate end product, and Kamala Harris, by way of Angela Merkel, is no doubt civilization’s supreme achievement.
Four thousand years of struggle have at last given birth to the “final form of human government,” which, in time, will be universalized and shower its blessings everywhere, from Kalamazoo to Timbuktu.
John Attarian despised liberal democracy. As he wrote: “[D]emocracy and equality are . . . mortal enemies of the heroic. In their leveling of distinctions, their war against standards, and their hatred of hierarchies . . . they deny the reality and worthiness of the exceptional individual, and work to make the world safe for mediocrity.”
He wrote that today’s heroes “seldom merit the name: athletes, rock stars, movie and television actors; mere entertainers all.”
And, of course, he was right.
Liberal, multi-racial democracy does not just make the world safe for mediocrity. It explicitly denies the unique beauty or achievement of any group and dismisses the majesty of Europe as an accident that could have been within the grasp of Aztecs or Eskimos or anyone else.
If liberal democracy continues on its way, our people, our heritage, our hopes will be tossed into the common pit and everything we love will be denatured, perverted, lost.
Well, there are at least a few Europeans who will not let history end this way. We decline our designated role as the villains of history and perpetual milk cows for those we have already benefitted far beyond what they deserve.
