Food for Thought

[amwassil]

The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization

So, the great achievement of Western civilization—consensual government, individual freedom, rationalism in partnership with religious belief, free market economics, and constant self-critique and audit—was to liberate people from daily worry over state violence, random crime, famine, and an often-unforgiving nature.

But so often the resulting leisure and affluence instead deluded arrogant Western societies into thinking that modern man no longer needed to worry about the fruits of civilization he took to be his elemental birthright.

As a result, the once prosperous Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Renaissance republics, and European democracies of the 1930s imploded—as civilization went headlong in reverse.

We in the modern Western world are now facing just such a crisis.

- Victor Davis Hanson

 

[JaniceM]

The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization

The full article is interesting, and makes some good points... although the website itself is suspect.

 

[amwassil]

The full article is interesting, and makes some good points... although the website itself is suspect.

American Greatness simply republished - a common occurrence in online media - the original from VDH's own website:

https://victorhanson.com/the-thinnest-veneer-of-civilization/

Hanson cites American Greatness so it's also possible he republished his own article from AG on his website rather than vice versa.

 

[Paco Dennis]

"They who control the spice/energy/$$ controls the world" Dune