I think it's hard to avoid the sort of smell of civilizational death at times and very easy to get pessimistic. As glorious as Western civilization has been, it doesn't have an automatic right to ascend and see it has to be fought for. We've forgotten how to fight for it. And we've got nervous about fighting for it. The other side, the side that thinks that really anything to do Western, Western civilization just is, he is to be repudiated completely. He's well-organized. He knows all its things. It may be statistically numerically in a minority. But that, you know, doesn't really matter. That tends to be minority elites that can achieve

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