El Opinador Compulsivo

Relacionado con lo que venimos hablando, Victor Davis Hanson sostiene que una civilización que ha perdido la confianza en sí misma no está en condiciones de enfrentarse a los islamistas.

No deja de ser sorprendente el espectáculo de tantos intelectuales postmodernos, que son capaces de llevar una demanda ante la Suprema Corte por un arbolito de Navidad, apoyando abiertamente a teocracias fundamentalistas islámicas. Ya lo dije varias veces por acá, no me preocupa tanto la fortaleza de nuestros enemigos sino nuestra debilidad:

Our current crisis is not yet a catastrophe, but a real loss of confidence of the spirit. The hard-won effort of the Western Enlightenment of some 2,500 years that, along with Judeo-Christian benevolence, is the foundation of our material progress, common decency, and scientific excellence, is at risk in this new millennium.

But our newest foes of Reason are not the enraged Athenian democrats who tried and executed Socrates. And they are not the Christian zealots of the medieval church who persecuted philosophers of heliocentricity. Nor are they Nazis who burned books and turned Western science against its own to murder millions en masse.

No, the culprits are now more often us. In the most affluent, and leisured age in the history of Western civilization — never more powerful in its military reach, never more prosperous in our material bounty — we have become complacent, and then scared of the most recent face of barbarism from the primordial extremists of the Middle East.