[zzeeman]

Hi Ward, thanks for the ping! I haven't been on FR too much of late (for a number of reasons) and was just working my way back through pings and saw this one from you. To be frank, I don't recall the "Pakistani-Peruvian axis" at all. There was simply so MUCH material (most of it new to me!) that I could not absorb it all in one pass, this is yet another example! I'll follow your link here and see if I can locate it in the T&H text and let you know.

Wishing you & yours a belated Merry Christmas!

[Noumenon]

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and your clan as well. It's going to be a very... interesting year, eh?

You know, it took a second pass through T&H AND Evolution of Civilizations before I truly understood the import of what Quigley was getting at with respect to his analysis of The Pakistani-Peruvian Axis

There is another. Another axis of cruelty and disregard for human life made all the worse in some respects by its veneer of culture and pretensions to a "higher" civilization that it affects. This what I term the Slavic-Teutonic Axis - a combination of Asiatic despotism, Slavic nihilism and Teutonic will-to-power (part of the Teutonic outlook) that in modern times, gave rise to two of the most monstrous and murderous ideologies and outlooks the world has ever seen, and that continues unchecked to this day. It was a stunning realization, and one of the last pieces of the puzzle to fall into place. More as this develops, as the notion of the Slavic-Teutonic Axis essentially completes the chain of thought that is the foundation for my book.