Victor Davis Hanson relates his dream of the reaction of the Western world to al-Qaida, Iran, and radical Islam. Like so many others, he awakens to the reality that the decadence of our current society will be its undoing. Read his dream passage; here is his waking conclusion:
"And then I woke up, remembering that the West of old lives only in dreams. Yes, the new religion of the post-Westerner is neither the Enlightenment nor Christianity, but the gospel of the Path of Least Resistance — one that must lead inevitably to gratification rather than sacrifice."
"Once one understands this new creed, then all the surreal present at last makes sense: life in the contemporary West is so good, so free, so undemanding, that we will pay, say, and suffer almost anything to enjoy its uninterrupted continuance — and accordingly avoid almost any principled act that might endanger it."
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