Shibumi

[jzthesupmonkey]

"The are not a race. They are not even a culture, They are a cultural stew of the orts and leavings of the European feast. As best, they are a mannered technology, In the place of ethics, they have rules. Size functions for them as quality functions for us. What for us is honor and dishonor, for them is winning and losing. indeed, you must not thing in terms of race; race is nothing, culture is everything.... Each culture has its strengths and weaknesses; they cannot be evaluated against one another. The only sure criticism that can be made is that a mixture of culture results in a blend of the worst of both."

"But if we forsake beauty in our desperate struggle to live, then the barbarian has already won"