One's relationship with freedom

The Anchoress has an interesting piece at Captain's Quarters on the demographic death of old Europe. In it I found a quote that really struck me.

This article also addresses the inability and disinterest of secularist cultures (not, mind you secular governments, but the culture of the secular elite) to fight to keep what they have: In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard (23 October) the Dutch (gay and self-declared “humanist”) author Oscar Van den Boogaard refers to Broder’s interview. Van den Boogaard says that to him coping with the islamization of Europe is like “a process of mourning.” He is overwhelmed by a “feeling of sadness.” “I am not a warrior,” he says, “but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”

That is, in a nut shell, the free and developed world's biggest weakness today. Too many people know how to enjoy freedom, but they couldn't fight for it if they wanted to. They simply don't know how, or they are too ambivilant to learn. It is particularly true of modern Europe.