--- Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This exchange between Lawrence and Ursula reminds me > of the arguments > in Mark Steyn's book America Alone: The End Of The > World As We Know It. > > In it he describes his three-fold thesis that 1) the > West is in rapid > demographic decline that is especially affecting > Europe, 2) the > advanced Western social-democratic state (i.e. the > entitlement state) > is unwieldy and top heavy and cannot be sustained, > and 3) we are > ashamed of our greatness and too tired to do > anything about the > previous two (what he terms "civilizational > exhaustion"). *I see that Brian has quite a lot of energy, and is not ashamed to speak about his own greatness. What a pity that someone tied his shoelaces together. O.K. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html