[Noumenon]

Wow. Just - wow. Here’s the money quote from the very end of the essay:

Our electronification, our material flagrancy, and our sense of rightful endowment likely render us more, not less, vulnerable than ancient peoples to sudden unforeseen catastrophes whose occasion might simply lie in a power failure but whose form (or rather formlessness) will be greed and rapacity at their rawest and whose story will be one of the precipitous collapse of those institutions that, despite our delinquency or our contempt, formerly protected us from “evil things.”

There is no debate that there are those among us who relish the work of destruction. This author renews my contention that what's at stake here is nothing less than our own civilization. We either rise up and rid ourselves of the monsters who mean to destroy our Republic and rule what's left of us in a flame-shot hell of slaughter and atrocity or face a thousand years of darkness and cruelty.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

... There is no debate that there are those among us who relish the work of destruction. This author renews my contention that what's at stake here is nothing less than our own civilization. We either rise up and rid ourselves of the monsters who mean to destroy our Republic and rule what's left of us in a flame-shot hell of slaughter and atrocity or face a thousand years of darkness and cruelty.
22 posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 1:23:48 PM by Noumenon
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That's precisely what the Bolshevik barbarians did to Russia, at that time the largest Christian empire in the world. Their hatred for everything that had molded Russian history for a thousand years led them to try to destroy the entire civilization.