tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477131299817733843.post2231220254020232772..comments2023-05-26T10:44:37.150-04:00Comments on The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake: Why They Hate HimBi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486453438350039642noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477131299817733843.post-83642373557021611652010-10-20T11:56:12.598-04:002010-10-20T11:56:12.598-04:00Good questions, and I certainly don't have any...Good questions, and I certainly don't have any answers, just some broad suppositions. The classicist in me is tempted to consider our civilizational suicide an inevitable arc-of-history phenomenon. It certainly does seem that civilizations do just run out of steam, and the West has had a decent run by global standards. <br /><br />On the other hand, that view is a product of being blinded by hindsight; everything looks determined in a historical view, when it certainly wasn't at the time. There are certainly points in early Roman history when Romans must have wondered whether their best days were past. So there's always hope.<br /><br />As to reversal, I think the most important thing we can do is to continue to stress, publicly and in private conversation, the surpassing value of our Western freedoms. Remind your friends that our Western cultural values are the foundation of our political freedoms, and remind them that "multiculturalism" requires giving equal respect to cultures that do not value them. Raise your children in the same awareness. <br /><br />Western cultural confidence has certainly been undermined by political action over the last generation or two, particularly in Europe, but I don't really see a plausible political path to strengthening it. I don't really know how to turn a culture around; I don't really think anyone does know. All we can do is try.Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10486453438350039642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477131299817733843.post-85548216098349535332010-10-15T15:55:18.164-04:002010-10-15T15:55:18.164-04:00What you say is so obviously true, yet how did thi...What you say is so obviously true, yet how did this happen? Why did Western Civilization decide to take a suicidal course like this? Who or what is responsible for this? Can this be reversed?Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16331997127438428514noreply@blogger.com