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To: Age of Reason
#415

LOL!

Art? Western civilization?

The sad thing is that there are conservative and religious artists who do good work but never get attention or NEA funding. Interesting?

426 posted on 01/02/2002 10:25:24 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
I also know that Pat is right because every civilization in history goes through the same stages from rise to fall.

The changes we have experienced show that Western civilization is on the decline.

To be sure, Western civilization may now and then seem to be returning to the values that made it great--but such moments will be brief and soon replaced by a return to decline.

Civilizations don't always fall straight-down, splat; civilizations sometimes take their time about falling, fluttering downward like a falling leaf, sometimes appearing to rise--only to again reverse course and continue downward.

Rome rose and fell--though its fall spanned several centuries.

For a generation, the Rome of Cato again rose to greatness--but only for a generation, after which Romes decline continued.

446 posted on 01/02/2002 10:38:12 AM PST by Age of Reason
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