Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned from the birthplace of Western civilization Wednesday that the West must rediscover the qualities that made it great or resign itself to “atrophy and servitude and decline,” declaring that the choices made over the next decade could determine its course for the next century.
\n\nSpeaking beneath the Acropolis, Rubio traced the West’s inheritance from ancient Greece through Rome and Christendom to the American founding before turning to what he described as its modern retreat: nations ashamed of their achievements, nationalism made a “dirty word,” open borders, outsourced industry, weakened militaries, and sovereignty increasingly surrendered to global bureaucracies.
\n\nAt the center of Rubio’s argument was the ancient Greek concept of thumos — the spirit of ambition, courage, and pride that he said allowed civilizations not merely to survive, but to strive.
\n\n“The thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it — the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride — is the heart of great civilization,” Rubio said. “And without it? Without it, nations lose their will to fight, the will to strive, the will to survive.”
\n\nRubio argued that much of the modern West had lost precisely that quality, becoming ashamed rather than proud of the…
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