Wimpiness – its essence.

[In his Wimps and Barbarians, Terrence O.] Moore notes that while "barbarians suffer from a misdirected manliness, wimps suffer from a want of manly spirit altogether. They lack what the ancient Greeks called thumos, the part of the soul that contains the assertive passions: pugnacity, enterprise, ambition, anger."

Much, much more in Gagdad Bob's fine post.

"The Pathetic Last Children of Nietzsche's Pitiable Last Men." By Gagdad Bob, One Cosmos, 1/27/06.