"It is the small-town virtues of self-reliance, hard work, personal responsibility, and common-sense ingenuity — and not those of the preening cosmopolitans that gape at them in mixed contempt and bafflement — that have made us the inheritors of the most magnificent, noble, decent and free society ever to appear on this earth. This Western Civilization… this American City… has earned the right to greet each sunrise with a blast of silver trumpets that can bring down mountains.
And what, really, is a Legion of Narcissists and a Confederacy of Despair against that?"

In case you pressed for time readers of this bossy little blogette have never read the Bill Whittle, it is about time you start. Once you have read a little you will crave more, he is that good.

The Undefended City by Bill Whittle on National Review Online