[Savage Beast]

If a new generation who can think, say, and write whatever they wish should appear, the rest would fall into place, but the upheaval would be comparable to the Protestant Revolution and the ghastly religious wars that accompanied it.

[tom paine 2]

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[deadrock]

Pick up Paul Theroux’s Pillars Of Hercules. A good travelers guide where he goes by land from one Pillar to the other.

It saves you the trip.

[bert]

-——Europe has all but disarmed-——

It is seldom noted that European psyche was traumatically and perhaps permanently damaged by the death and destruction of the war of the 1940’s. The same trauma was doubled or perhaps quadrupled in Russia. The vital energy was sapped and there was not only no stomach for more war, there was and is a residual fear.

With the new generations, that memory is fading and in perhaps 10 more years, the first hand memory will be gone.

When those terrible memories no longer exist, the current rein holders can consider that war might not be so bad considering the new trauma of Islam that has crept into their very core. The grandmotherly admonition forever forbidding war will be or can be disregarded. The actual threat can be met with force of arms and death and destruction.

[HomeAtLast]

“The Mediterranean: Saga of A Sea” by Emil Ludwig. You’ll thank me.
If I were exiled to Mars and could take only five books, this would be one of them.

[Rummyfan]

Instead it is increasingly a stagnant premodern pond of religious, political, and economic tensions.

Unrest in the West Bank, Gaza, Cyprus, Syria, Libya, and Egypt could at any moment spark violence that cuts across religious, racial, and political fault lines. Otherwise, these tired hotspots are immaterial to a world that from Shanghai, Mumbai, and Seoul to Palo Alto, Houston, London, and Frankfurt is creating vast new wealth, technologies, and consumer goods without much of a nod to Mediterranean science or innovation.

Indeed. The only science and innovation in the Mediterranean is coming from Israel. The rest of the region is a backwater, culturally and economically stagnant.

[Rummyfan]

Before we see another Mediterranean renaissance, constitutional government must sweep the Muslim world. The fossilized bureaucracy of the European Union must radically reform or disappear. A new generation of Michelangelos and da Vincis must believe that they can think, say, and write whatever they wish in a climate of economic confidence, prosperity, and security.

Three huge longshots there....

[Jumper]

If someone were to read this with no other knowledge, it would sound like a sweet fairytale. Too bad this sugar coats the root causes, misrepresents Muslim/Islamic retardation as 300 years old rather than a system born out of slavery. The civil wars in the Islamic world must renounce, as did Europe and the US, slavery.

Europe was spared renouncing slavery in a sense by losing Mexico (France/Spain) and the US in wars against the British thus leaving them only islands to gain freedom. Is it not quaint that history has overlooked European Slavery and placed the entire burden of on White Americans, and not the British first for the colony's?