The Third Fall of Rome

Article author: 
Lars Møller
Article publisher: 
American Thinker
Article date: 
28 March 2024
Article category: 
Our American Future
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The world is changing. In the West, we are no longer the same as we once were and doubt our right to be here. Sensing our weakness, "barbarians" from afar multiply at our borders (i.e. along the Rio Grande and in the Balkans). Harbingers of chaos, they crowd together and push to get inside. Of course, they are not deterred by a few dithering sentries. Dispossessed and coveting, they know very well where they are going; on the other side of the fence, they see a fat, docile cow waiting to be milked - and slaughtered. The pressure increases year by year. Rome is about to fall for the third time...

What we take for granted today - freedom, safety, and prosperity - we might have to fight to keep tomorrow...

...we think that we have built "goodwill" with the third-world countries receiving foreign aid, we have seriously miscalculated. As far as they are concerned, our wealth is up for grabs...

Our place in history is threatened. In the shadowland of moral relativism, ideological confusion, and fatalistic cowardice, we have lost our bearings. It is as if we, children of the West, have been spoiled to such a degree that we completely neglect the origin of our success in history. This bodes ill for the future. The West is left open to invasion by those who know the struggle for life (i.e. immigrants by the millions from Latin America or Africa and the Middle East)...

The abolition of the cardinal virtues (i.e. prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) in the de-Christianized, transitional societies of the West is approaching as a matter of fact. The body of thought that they represent form the sort of philosophical basis on which you may build an orderly society. Pillars of civilization, they have served us well in the past...

If the Westerners of today had any historical awareness of the past, they would know that, since the dawn of time, we have fought against invasions from the East...

The origin of the treacherous attack on our society is the worldview of a nihilistic subculture at our universities, shared by ignorant, undisciplined, and self-aggrandizing students...

After the mayhem caused by broken borders and uncontrolled immigration, a civilization based on reason, courage, and accountability (merit) rather than orthodoxy, savagery, and submission saw the light of day and thrived...