Less than a hundred years ago, one fraction of the world set itself to defend against an entirely different culture that wished to impose itself, and wipe the other out.  This wasn’t the first time.  Almost the entire globe participated in either attempting to change the world order, the dominant view, or keeping the older one.  The world rejoiced when the emerging order was defeated.  They continue to rejoice over this victory.  Many hundreds of thousands died to keep the status quo.

Today you reader, myself, and the rest of the world are in another cultural battle, a clash of civilizations, which represent again two separate views of the world.  One would like to do away with the other as much as the one in the middle of the twentieth century.  This is not a military battle, more of a civil cold war, between two factions characterized by two generations.  The consequences could be, however, as or even more serious.

The older generation itself is not pure in its representation of the source of the way of life, which it represents, but still stands in sharp contrast to the youthful one that pursues to replace it.  This brings me to the comparison of Meghan and Harry to Queen Elizabeth II as a helpful illustration.

I don’t care about Oprah’s interview with Meghan and Harry.  I didn’t watch it.  I read chunks of the script though in various articles.  I read that these two victims of great note were paid seven million dollars to help them in their new state of welfare minus their government support.  I think you can be sure that, ala President Obama, they didn’t build this though.  Everything they’re getting is based on a celebrity proceeding from their connection to what they’re attempting to crush.

Victimization sells to this generation.  It’s even a marketing strategy.  You know the power of victimhood when the privileged see it as a step up for them.  Yet, as the world falls apart under its type of influence, people will be looking to complain to someone about why they’ve got obvious problems, but there won’t be enough non-victims to listen.  Everyone will have to rush as far to the bottom as they can, but will anybody be left to care?  It will just be a victim competition.  The worst victims are those who must proceed from this ooze, the children of the victims.  Maybe we can find out that evolution is true and an advanced new species will climb out.  You all know that won’t be true.

What’s happening does remind me of the trajectory of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel.  I’ve just been reading them at high speed as part of getting through the Bible twice this year.  It’s a very sad story as the generations erode into near oblivion.  The only way the Southern kingdom, Judah, survives in a mutated form is by the grace of God, and it only survives.  It doesn’t come close to thriving.  The enemies of the nation don’t care that it’s inhabitants are victims.  They welcome it.  Their final note of victimhood is captivity.  They are captives to a foreign power.

It seems pathetic and embarrassing, a shame, to admit instability and frailty to the world.  The practice of past generations is to keep those revelations of personal doubt and mental anguish to one’s self.  It is not appropriate to attempt to engender sympathy by complaining in public about undesirable treatment.

The British traditionally speak of a “stiff upper lip” and “keep calm and carry on and all that.”  Their island has survived through many trials, yet Meghan and Harry present a combination of victimhood and identity politics set in contrast to and a threat to the self-sacrifice, duty, and a serious fortitude of Her Royal Highness.  Someone called it a clash between old Britain and post-Diana new Britain.  The loss of old Britain is obviously also self-inflicted as it has divorced itself from the basis of its former toughness and endurance.  At one time, Britain was a Christian nation.

In the last century at least, Winston Churchill to me stands for old Britain and consider some of his statements:

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. If you’re looking for a secret ingredient for success, then stop looking. The only thing you need is perseverance, i.e. the ability to keep going no matter what.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked with the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only the right to go on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

It was a generation in a sense that didn’t have time for whining.  They would never take such feelings public.  They would “carry on” in silence with a “stiff upper lip.”  This is the generation from which the queen comes.  Meghan and Harry call this being “trapped.”

Victimhood for the new generation is apparently a narrative that expresses authenticity.  No one can question the pain that someone feels any more, so as long one has been sufficiently abused, he can say almost anything without question.  It is his or her truth.  It is a very cheap replacement for true accomplishment.  Any challenge to that narrative is just further abuse.  Others identify with the story, not to their betterment or to their strengthening, but unto their further self-pity.  From this springs even more victims, who think they see in the embrace an opportunity.

Before coming back on the scene again as a leader, Winston Churchill experienced his so-called “Wilderness Years.”  During that time, Churchill wrote his four volume history, Marlborough: His Life and Times.  This wasn’t a ghost write.  Churchill among other things wrote a monumental history and became then the best selling author in all of Britain.  It was an intellectual and industrious task far beyond any modern politician.  The thinking within that massive work prepared Churchill for what was to come.  The danger for Britain from which John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, delivered the nation was akin to what it later faced from Germany.

What is left of Western Civilization no longer can swat away something so patently deceitful as seen in the testimonies of Meghan and Harry.  In previous times, anyone would recognize these were not two victims, signing mega-million dollar deals with tech titans while ensconced behind the walls of a California mansion and wearing a $4,500 dress.  They cry for privacy while they selectively reveal intimate secrets.  The former generation would now recognize the shots fired by Meghan and Harry at the bow of old Britain, most likely preceded by hours of coaching and rehearsing to deliver the greatest possible harm, sinking it and sending it to complete oblivion.

Aspiring victims should pause to consider what winning this war will bring. It will leave a landscape so devastated that it will never return to its former self.  It will only hope to pick at the flesh from the carcass it defeated to see if it might gain the sustenance necessary to escape from a world inhabited by a majority of victims.