Thursday, April 21, 2016

Daniel Greenfield: In the City of Decadents

So smart. 

SUCH a good essay.

Read the whole thing. 

"Civilizations go through three stages; Barbaric, Vigorous and Decadent."

"We can find all the barbaric civilizations to suit an entire faculty's worth of anthropologists in the Middle East. And then back home we can see the decadent civilization that employs their kind to bemoan the West. Vigorous civilizations are a rarer breed. They change the world. But don't last."

"America used to be vigorous when it was moving west, producing at record rates and becoming a world power. It is growing decadent. And decadent civilizations fall to barbarians."