@Schwyndfst Democracy is not the perfect system,there have been great dictators as well,many democracies have also destroyed their own countries as well because it has lots of disadvantages,your political class usually is a bunch of untalented corrupted bunch of oportunists,sometimes because there is no better alternative,others because people don't vote well,others because they have lots of knowledge on the field of human psychology,etc.Anyway,it has advantages.rome didn't give birth to Islam.
You are right about great dictatorships, many times delivering better than democracies (I think of China which has never met Democracy). But our preference for Republics should be rooted in our hearts rather than in reason.
Mark Steyn is smart. America is definitely dyeing. This is accepted by many thinkers now. Before America's rot is complete, he will have sold millions of copies of his book!
Nobody will be interested in his book after the armageddon.
As far as the EMP pulse goes, its not the loss of banks you worry about, its the loss of everything esle. Forget about getting to the bank to see your debt wiped "clean". No car as the PCM and other electrical systems will be dead, planes will fall out of the air, and even the lightbulb above your head will be DOA. EMP attack kills virtually every piece of technology we have. When they mean back to a primitive society, they mean like back to the 1800's, not back to the 1950's.
Old Democracies of Classical Greece degenerated into despotic hellenistic states
Old Republic of Rome degenerated into an Empire which collapsed gving birth to:
a) totalitarianism called Islam
b) despotic bizantium
c) European Dark Ages
What degenerated "civilization" will replace Western Civ?
Schwyndfst 4 months ago
@Schwyndfst Democracy is not the perfect system,there have been great dictators as well,many democracies have also destroyed their own countries as well because it has lots of disadvantages,your political class usually is a bunch of untalented corrupted bunch of oportunists,sometimes because there is no better alternative,others because people don't vote well,others because they have lots of knowledge on the field of human psychology,etc.Anyway,it has advantages.rome didn't give birth to Islam.
hilletehnoob 3 months ago
@hilletehnoob
You are right about great dictatorships, many times delivering better than democracies (I think of China which has never met Democracy). But our preference for Republics should be rooted in our hearts rather than in reason.
Schwyndfst 1 month ago
Mark Steyn is smart. America is definitely dyeing. This is accepted by many thinkers now. Before America's rot is complete, he will have sold millions of copies of his book!
Nobody will be interested in his book after the armageddon.
alphakilosingh 4 months ago
God speed, Mark.
hegemonymony 5 months ago
As far as the EMP pulse goes, its not the loss of banks you worry about, its the loss of everything esle. Forget about getting to the bank to see your debt wiped "clean". No car as the PCM and other electrical systems will be dead, planes will fall out of the air, and even the lightbulb above your head will be DOA. EMP attack kills virtually every piece of technology we have. When they mean back to a primitive society, they mean like back to the 1800's, not back to the 1950's.
mysock351W 5 months ago
It is a priviledge to be in the company of two such thinkers.
Life really should be joyful.
Isn't what-matters that which goes out from a man...not what comes at him?
guyontheblackchair 5 months ago
Mark Steyn was on The Rush Limbaugh show on Friday 9/23/11
generationll 5 months ago