... cannot go on. It will ultimately end in bankruptcy, demographic implosion, or Road Warrior-style chaos." Whether LaTulippe's grim prognosis is right, and the die is cast, and the women of Sex and the City will be our civilizational epitaph, only time will tell. There is always, especially for Catholics, the possibility of rebirth -- given that Beauty "ever ancient, ever new."

.... This cannot go on. It will ultimately end in bankruptcy, demographic implosion, or Road Warrior-style chaos." Whether LaTulippe's grim prognosis is right, and the die is cast, and the women of Sex and the City will be our civilizational epitaph, only time will tell. There is always, especially for Catholics, the possibility of rebirth -- given that Beauty "ever ancient, ever new."

... mass murderers—was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies — especially military hierarchies. Military institutions are tailor-made for psychopathic killers. The 5%% or so of human males who feel no remorse about killing their ...

... that's required is men and women fuc*ing. but, cultures and values have developed painstakingly thru trial and error over 1000s of years. if a people lose half their population but maintain their civilizational core, their population will be replenished one day and their culture will go on as usual. but, if a people don't lose any people but lose their culture and values, they will soon ...

...it with up to date, robust and economically efficient technical know-how. More generally, it relies on calculative thinking and on the scientific tradition as the most viable civilizational horizon of a budding region, whose tortuous and uncertain transition to modernity may necessitate an imaginative strand of thinking and a complementary strategy. Triumphant techno- scientific dogmas need...

...it with up to date, robust and economically efficient technical know-how. More generally, it relies on calculative thinking and on the scientific tradition as the most viable civilizational horizon of a budding region, whose tortuous and uncertain transition to modernity may necessitate an imaginative strand of thinking and a complementary strategy. Triumphant techno- scientific dogmas need...

...or at least marginalized – critical opinion. Against this bleak – geopolitical as well as civilizational – background we can basically identify two desiderata of international politics in the framework of ...At the same time, they have to correct and eventually reverse the process of “civilizational alienation” vis à- vis Islam for which they are responsible in important respects. There is...

..." so as to put me on a moral plane with Holocaust deniers, I have children for whom I would not wish an environmental apocalypse. Yet neither do I wish the civilizational bounties built up over two centuries by an industrial, inventive, adaptive, globalized and energy- hungry society to be squandered chasing comparatively small environmental benefits at gigantic economic costs. One ...

...that Muslim societies have become radicalized in recent years and if still further radicalization is to be expected, then public diplomacy will not be able to accomplish much and a civilizational clash looms. Just a dozen years ago, virtually no one debated this question. Despite the radicalizing influence of the Iranian Revolution and the Wahhabi proselytizing of an inexhaustibly wealthy ...

..." Muslim Regime by Adrian Morgan http://www.islam-watch.org/AdrianMorgan/Totalitarian-Aspects-Moderate-Muslim-Malaysia.htm 20 April, 2007 Malaysia prides itself on its policy of "Islam Hadhari", or "civilizational Islam" which claims to use Islam to develop culture in the nation, and which should be exported elsewhere. This policy of "moderate" Islam is nothing of the sort. Malaysia ...