Men of the West, On the Cusp

[Kamaji]

Men of the West, On the Cusp

This is the West. If we become the victims
there is nowhere else to turn.

By Vincent McCaffrey
May 2, 2023

So here we be, again. On the cusp, I would say. Four thousand years of Western Civilization at risk. On the verge. The eve of destruction, as the song says. The best that mankind has to offer is in the balance. I say “the best” because the West has set more men free than any other iteration of civilization, and freedom is the only standard by which we have to judge ourselves for what we are, or what we are capable of becoming. Being able to comply with the dictates of others is only the standard of a slave.

This culture is our best, not for its faults, but for its virtues. It may ultimately be judged by its failures but, like ancient Greece, it is best appreciated by understanding its accomplishments. Other cultures have their merits. Some more than others. But none have reached for the lofty goals of our founding, nor grasped so much of the human ideal.

There is no alternative. We must persist. Now! The enemy of the future is here. We are again on the plain at Marathon; we stand again at Tours; the Gates of Vienna yet remain. Fall back, they say! Give up! Accept your faults as all that you can be, and follow orders. Follow the rules of others who (magically) know better. 

In 490 B.C. the Greek peninsula was a place divided. The Achaemenid Empire of Persia was the great power of the time and advancing west. Fierce Sparta, thought to be the military powerhouse, remained neutral, bargaining their souls for the role of policemen for the mighty Persian ruler, Darius. Most of the city-states, by not resisting, assumed or hoped that some sort of tribute might be enough. Persia had already made vassals of many more, including Macedonia. But it was for that very reason—that the army threatening Athens was more slave than not and mainly made up of those who had been conquered before—that the Persians faltered. Slaves do not fight as fiercely as free men.

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Source:  https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/02/men-of-the-west-on-the-cusp/

[Fishrrman]

The author claims:
"Four thousand years of Western Civilization at risk. On the verge. The eve of destruction, as the song says. The best that mankind has to offer is in the balance. I say “the best” because the West has set more men free than any other iteration of civilization, and freedom is the only standard by which we have to judge ourselves for what we are, or what we are capable of becoming."

He has titled his piece as:
"Men of the West, On the Cusp".

But... he left something out.
Something very important, that is totally relevant to everything else he has written.

To be fully accurate, the title should read:
"WHITE Men of the CHRISTIAN West..."