Anyway, the good news is, that bad lives end, too.
It’s not just the USA. THere are a host of other countries suffering the same fate. Most of europe, japan, canada, australia...even westernized parts of the middle east.
western civilizations are committing slow suicide.
Wow. Thank-you for posting this. I’m actually going to have to sit and think about what this guy wrote.
If you liked VDH’s column, then you really ought to read the new book by David P. Goldman, aka Spengler, called “How Civilizations Die.”
http://www.amazon.com/How-Civilizations-Die-Islam-Dying/dp/159698273X
Uhh, the Macedonians were not Persians, nor was Phillip Xerxes.
The difference is that when the Greeks fought the Persians the Greeks had a vastly superior tactical weapons system, though at first, such as at Marathon, they weren't really aware of it. Something like WWII tanks vs. WWI or WBTS infantry.
By the time Phillip came around he had improved significantly on the Greek phalanx, while they hadn't changed much. It was now sort of like Gulf War tanks vs. WWII tanks.
While there's little doubt Athens and the other city-states, especially Sparta, had degenerated, that isn't why they lost. They lost because their part-time citizen-soldier militia couldn't stand against the far superior professional armies of Phillip and Alexander.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
Alexander Tyler, 1770
Heck, the Allies had more and better tanks and planes at the start of the Battle of France. They also had 5M men vs. 3M Germans.
It is amazing how seldom these little facts are mentioned. The common narrative is that the Allies were destroyed by overwhelmingly greater German force.
One great article. Maybe we should just elect Cain and be done with all this mealy mouth talk.
Those raised in the lap of luxury are unwilling to fight thru pain and suffering to keep it; when they do realize it is necessary to do so, it is too late.
because the Good Lord willeth :)
This is incorrect.
German culture did not end in 1946. Naziiism is not THE key feature of German culture. Germanic culture in fact stretches back nearly a thousand years and has great musicians like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handel, great writers and philosophers like Goethe, Kant etc.
To say that German culture ended in 1946 is wrong.
Athens may have lost its empire in 338 to Philip, but it's culture and indeed government remained.