Thursday, September 28, 2023
The Enemy Within
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994), Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implicito (Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2005), p. 11 (my translation):
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El enemigo de una civilización es menos el adversario externo que el interno desgaste.Hat tip: my dear departed friend Ian Jackson, who gave me a copy of Gómez Dávila's works.
The enemy of a civilization isn't so much the external adversary as the internal corrosion.
