NOVAE MILITIAE

A former neocon writes to ask Lawrence Auster what is to be done to combat the seemingly “inexorable slide into liberalism, multiculturalism and domination by our Islamic masters.”

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/008339.html

Auster relplies:

As long as we think that the present liberal order is the only way things can be, then, yes, there is nothing but despair. But at the core of my view of things is the conviction that liberalism is not as strong as it seems. Liberalism is like the Wizard of Oz, seemingly mighty, intimidating, and invincible, but behind the curtains there's just a little man pulling switches. As long as we think of liberalism as mighty and invincible, it remains so, and we remain helpless before it. But if we cease, deep down, to believe in liberalism, if we cease to accept its premises as our own, and challenge it face-on from the point of view of truth, then the shallowness and vulnerability and falseness and utter destructiveness of liberalism will become manifest. Liberalism, at its core, is inconsistent with existence. Liberals do not realize this, because of the unprincipled exceptions they keep constantly making to their liberalism to keep it functioning in the real world, like liberal anti-gun columnist Carl Rowen owning a gun and fending off an intruder with it. As the falsity and destructiveness of liberalism is exposed, both by our arguments and by the actual destruction going on all around us, then there will a chance that the reign of liberalism can be broken and our civilization can be saved.

I do not know that we can win. I do not know that we can turn it around. But I do know that liberalism is false and evil and that we can fight it. At present we are not even trying to fight it in a serious way. So from my point of view the future offers not despair but tremendous hope: the hope of changing from our present state of passive helplessness and surrender to liberalism, to a real fight against liberalism.

If I may adapt, for a good purpose, a phrase from one of the great monsters of history:

Traditional Westerners have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Men of the West, Unite!

Or, as Aragorn implores in the cinematic version of The Return of the King: “ By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!”

What is to be done? American and European liberalism is a house of cards. As I imply in the blog entry linked below, all we really need to do is to say “no” them. “No more.” They may rattle their sabers, but if we stand fast and resolve to fight, they will quickly fade away, paving the way for their rightful masters to do what must be done with respect to things like illegal immigration and the Jihad in the West.

http://novaemilitiae.squarespace.com/st-george-brigade/2007/2/18/secession-time.html