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<blockquote data-quote="Eleutherarch" data-source="post: 1093021" data-attributes="member: 85519"><p>The decline of preeminent super powers and/or regions is inexorable and cyclical. It happened to Egypt, Greece and Italy. The Islamic Golden Age tarnished in time. So it goes with the West. One only needs to observe the lack of meaningful discourse nowadays, stemming from an inability to think critically, to know that the West is terminal. Any improvements to be made are merely palliative.</p><p></p><p>Education and personal study is ridiculed and demonised (outside of the lucrative spinner of herding kids into universities to complete worthless degrees, emerging with little else but the yoke of debt and peculiar desire to see the immolation of any public speaker with an opinion contrary to their own).</p><p></p><p>The Far-East has long been on the ascendancy. Regardless of whether their economies are performing or sluggish, the gulf in the mentalities of the East and West are massive. And I don't think the mentality of the East has been ameliorated by American influencers either.</p><p></p><p>This breed of Republican is emblematic of a country in the death throes, gasping for breath as a particularly aggressive hyper-capitalist cancer ravages its body. They know how to drive a wedge - they learnt well from Rove.</p><p></p><p>Things are only going to get worse in the West with the paucity of resources. We're all feeling the pinch. But this transition of regional dominance is going to be far more bloody. Neo-colonialist tendencies and entitlement dies hard.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, I'm going to take my daughter to her Sports Day tomorrow. I'm going to try not to think about what a **** inheritance she faces.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eleutherarch, post: 1093021, member: 85519"] The decline of preeminent super powers and/or regions is inexorable and cyclical. It happened to Egypt, Greece and Italy. The Islamic Golden Age tarnished in time. So it goes with the West. One only needs to observe the lack of meaningful discourse nowadays, stemming from an inability to think critically, to know that the West is terminal. Any improvements to be made are merely palliative. Education and personal study is ridiculed and demonised (outside of the lucrative spinner of herding kids into universities to complete worthless degrees, emerging with little else but the yoke of debt and peculiar desire to see the immolation of any public speaker with an opinion contrary to their own). The Far-East has long been on the ascendancy. Regardless of whether their economies are performing or sluggish, the gulf in the mentalities of the East and West are massive. And I don't think the mentality of the East has been ameliorated by American influencers either. This breed of Republican is emblematic of a country in the death throes, gasping for breath as a particularly aggressive hyper-capitalist cancer ravages its body. They know how to drive a wedge - they learnt well from Rove. Things are only going to get worse in the West with the paucity of resources. We're all feeling the pinch. But this transition of regional dominance is going to be far more bloody. Neo-colonialist tendencies and entitlement dies hard. Meanwhile, I'm going to take my daughter to her Sports Day tomorrow. I'm going to try not to think about what a **** inheritance she faces. [/QUOTE]
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