Civilizations undefended lead to barbarism unintended.
Weakness is worse than wickedness. Good men who are not good at being men are no better than wicked men. Wickedness, for all its faults, never skips leg day. It is always raring to go and it keeps its eye on the prize. Goodness, for all it virtues, sometimes gets soft. It prefers peace to war and so it sometimes forgets that it is in war. Wickedness never forgets.
“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.” — G.K. Chesterton
Society's are smashed from without because they have gone soft from within. They end up with rosters rounded out by round men who cannot rise up to defend their people. Civilization, if it is not in shape, will be overcome by barbarism.
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” — Thomas Sowell
If civilization cannot or will not use force, it will be conquered by that which will. Barbarism is brutalitarian. It believes that might makes right and if the right have no might to debate with, the battle will soon be over. The good, the true, and the beautiful can make a better case for their way of life being better, but if they cannot meet the force of the bad, the false, and the ugly, their force will overrun civiilization.
In short, a civilization can only be defeated by the inferiority of chaos by forfeiting its strengths. If it adopts a "diversity is our strength" mentality, they deserve the whooping they're about to get.
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