[lit-ideas] Re: U.S. superlatives (was Victor Hanson in Iraq)

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:16:48 -0800 (PST)

--- 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.

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