The Decay Of Civilization

[thundley4]

annm4peace   (1000+ posts)           Sun Feb-07-10 08:16 PM
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The decay of our civilization
   
"I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care--when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that nineteen of twenty one civilizations have died from within and not conquest from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware."
Lawrence Gould President, Carleton College

  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7664443

Did he mention that most of them died of slothful envy and the over taxation of the workers to provide bread and circuses for the sloths?

Odin2005   (1000+ posts)             Sun Feb-07-10 08:21 PM
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4. What Toynbee wrote about dominant minorities, internal proltariates, and societal disintergration...
   
are very relevant today.
 

You got that right, the minority left is trying to drive this country into the crapper.

Not much there. Maybe a few of them subconsciously realize they are the driving force of decay.  Nah, their too stupid.

[The Village Idiot]

2decay or not 1decay.... that is the question

[AllosaursRus]

Until the Gubmint realizes they are the problem, not the solution, we're doomed. We all know how fast DemonRats are goin' to do that, don't we???????

[jukin]

Did he mention that most of them died of slothful envy and the over taxation of the workers to provide bread and circuses for the sloths?

B-I-N-G-O!!!!!