Third grand post: Primer on modern war methods and concentric circles
I. For the sharp eye, the decline of the West seems apparent. We are the losers of the past 120 years – Faustian man , Western man, Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Swedes, Spaniards, and so forth – for without question our place in the world has fallen back behind where it was. We lack certainty now. We lack vision now. We lack a moral center and an imperial project to call ours now. I haven’t described what it is I mean by Faustian man , rather merely sat content borrowing the term from Duchesne and Spengler. A deeper dive into that term, and into Duchesne’s theses in his book Uniqueness of Western Civilization and Spengler’s theses in his book Decline of the West will have to wait. The march of progress is one of losing what I call the Center or the Middle. ‘The Center’ is a somewhat amorphous concept, but it’s basically the common ground of morality, a shared tongue, a healthy low and high culture, shared blood, and folk traditions passed from father to