Re:plus ça change (was: Re: The times they are-a changin'

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Dan says: >>It will take, however, but one really bad thing to happen - another terrorist attack, a war (a proper war), any nuclear explosion, an economic depression - to put paid to your"creative, spectral, egalitarian, global" revolution.<< --Actually, any global crisis is likely to lead to greater information transfer and cooperation between nations. It would remind us that we're all connected and in the same boat. It might also inflame intolerance, but that too may lead to greater unity. The key is unity within an ethic of freedom, as opposed to unity under authoritarianism, which is not possible on a global scale. America's rightful place in the world is to promote that ethic, and we've been failing. We keep wanting control, when we should be proving that freedom and unity are compatible, which was the original premise of the United States and the Constitution. >>One

thing you can say about creative, spectral, egalitarian globalists - they areweak and decadent (but that is, of course, redundant).<< --Or, you could say that many conservatives are aging cowards who get young men to do their fighting for them. But that would be rude.

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> Dan says:

> >>It will take, however, but one really bad thing to happen -

another terrorist attack, a war (a proper war), any nuclear explosion,

an economic depression - to put paid to your

> " creative, spectral, egalitarian, global " revolution.<<

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> --Actually, any global crisis is likely to lead to greater

information transfer and cooperation between nations. It would remind

us that we're all connected and in the same boat. It might also

inflame intolerance, but that too may lead to greater unity. The key

is unity within an ethic of freedom, as opposed to unity under

authoritarianism, which is not possible on a global scale. America's

rightful place in the world is to promote that ethic, and we've been

failing. We keep wanting control, when we should be proving that

freedom and unity are compatible, which was the original premise of

the United States and the Constitution.

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> >>One thing you can say about creative, spectral, egalitarian

globalists - they are

> weak and decadent (but that is, of course, redundant).<<

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> --Or, you could say that many conservatives are aging cowards who

>get young men to do their fighting for them. But that would be rude.

Ah, but many young men are conservatives who are willing to fight.

regards,

Dan

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