Those who won’t stand up for their culture end up losing it. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
a conflict of irreconcilable visions
a society is a people arranged around values, mores, ethics, and norms.
some societies are high function, high trust, high freedom. they allow human flourishing and human safety. they build the modern world and just about all the useful things and innovations in it.
some societies are low trust, nasty, brutish, and oppressive. they organize not around the protection of the individual but the suppression of them. government is the biggest gang and imposes some order on who gets to plunder whom and force things upon them. in general, they do not innovate, produce little. and fail to flourish.
these visions are not compatible.
there is no compromise possible.
when put into the same territory, these two divergent ways of life will fight and one will win. there is no “medium trust” society. there is no “split the baby on liberty” or “right not to be offended.” that’s tyranny and there’s just no diluting this fact. as charlie munger famously quipped: “when you mix raisins and turds, you get turds.”
the tests of history are stern and unforgiving.
