A Message to the Spartans of the Spirit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Besides the resources and arms, the West had, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a big enough population, a large enough extent of land, an abundance of strategic positions – in fact, every strategic post on earth outside the inner Asiatic heartland.  There was no possibility that a purely external challenger could post a serious direct threat.  There was no external challenger to be taken seriously, if his assault against Western civilization were mounted solely from the outside.

 

We must therefore conclude that the primary causes of the contraction of the West – not the sole causes, but the sufficient and determining causes – have been internal and non-quantitative:  involving either structural changes or intellectual, moral, and spiritual factors.  In one way or another the process involves what we rather loosely call by a kind of metaphor, “the will to survive.” (…)  The will to make use of the means at hand has evidently been lacking.

 

(SOURCE:  Suicide of the West by James Burnham, page 24)

 

 

 

 

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