Thursday, January 19, 2012


And a more serious take on the same issue, from the always worthwhile Victor Davis Hanson, on civilization, and it's fragility:

"Its continuance requires respect for the law, tough-minded education, collective thrift, private investment, individual self-reliance, and common codes of behavior and civility — and exempts no one from those rules. Such knowledge and patterns of civilized behavior, slowly accrued over centuries, can be lost in a single generation." --- Victor Davis Hanson


Click through and read the article. 

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