{"id":4947,"date":"2017-12-17T03:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/17\/time-is-not-on-europes-side\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T03:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T03:49:52","slug":"time-is-not-on-europes-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/17\/time-is-not-on-europes-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is Not on Europe’s Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another warning<\/a> from William Kilpatrick.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Importance of Will
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Just as conversions can accelerate after a tipping point has been reached, so can emigration. But there\u2019s also a third factor that seems to have been left out of the Pew Center\u2019s calculations. It\u2019s difficult to measure, but it may be the prime factor in determining which culture predominates in Europe. The crucial factor is will. If they want their culture to survive, people must be willing to defend it, and they must be willing to bring children into the world who will carry on the culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can call it \u201cwill,\u201d or \u201ccultural confidence,\u201d or \u201cfighting spirit,\u201d but whatever you call it, Europeans seem to be losing it. The problem begins in school. As Melanie Phillips noted eleven years ago in Londonistan:<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The British education system simply ceased transmitting either the values or the story of the nation to successive generations, delivering instead the message that truth was an illusion and that the nation and its values were whatever anyone wanted them to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It's probably too late for Europe and the UK.  But we still have a little  time, and with Trump in the saddle, a fighting chance.  Hillary, you will recall, refused even to name the threat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another warning from William Kilpatrick.  Excerpt: The Importance of Will Just as conversions can accelerate after a tipping point has been reached, so can emigration. But there\u2019s also a third factor that seems to have been left out of the Pew Center\u2019s calculations. It\u2019s difficult to measure, but it may be the prime factor in … Continue reading “Time is Not on Europe’s Side”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}