Losing Civilization

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200602100920.asp ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

[crazycat]

Tks for the ping, another great peice.

Maybe this time the idiots have bitten off more than they can chew.

People in the UK are up in arms over this.

[capitalist229]

As soon as computers are able to pass the Turing Test progress will accelerate at the rate of machine thought (mega thoughts/second).

Humans will be left behind to contemplate their navels, like chimpanzees, wondering what happened.

BUMP.

[Billthedrill]

The real reason we've heard so little from the PC Thought Police on the issue is that the Moslem radicals aren't demanding any more than they are. The point isn't what is proscribed, it's the power to put a proscription in place at all.

[jordan8]

So much has been lost even since 1960; then the very idea that a Dutch cartoonist whose work had offended radical Muslims would be in hiding for fear of his life would have been dismissed as fanciful.

What was the Muslim population of Holland in 1960? There is your answer. The problem isn't Islam, it's Western belief in multiculturalism and internationalism, and the main practical manifestation of those things, immigration. Does VDH support a moratorium on Muslim immigration into the West? Yes or no, straight up or straight down, can he not answer that question?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The Islamists are also sad bullies, who hunt out causes for offense in the most obscure places, but would recoil at the first sign of Western defiance.

What else is political correctness promulgated by the left but this? And it has the same purpose - to silence opposition.

The left and the Islamists have similar tactics for a reason. First is that their ideas cannot stand, or survive, critical examination. Second, since the thirties they have been schooled first by the Nazis and then by the Communists so their common strategies and tactics are not unusual.

They also have a common goal - world domination and death to their enemies. That's us!

[3pools]

Why don't you ask him he answers questions on his web site. In my book he's the best.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Jesus was into model rockets??? LOL!

[Centurion2000]

bump .... this guy nails it,.

[hinckley buzzard]

Much as I like VDH I think you just punctured a bubble of journalistic hot air! Nice work.

Closest I can think of is the cartoon character Pogo on the environment: "We have met the enemy and he is us." Distilled the essence of the spirit of the soon-to-come Earth Day better than a thousand speeches and sound bites.

[dervish]

I had the same reaction. The closest I could come in my own mind was WW1 but I am sure there are much better.

"It may also be worth noting that the assasination was one of the finest examples of Chaos Theory in action. The assasination was, it could be said, caused by Ferdinand's driver taking a wrong turning. This in turn caused the assasin a second chance to carry out assasination, which led to the outbreak of World War One, which caused 20 million deaths."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Franz_Ferdinand