A Historian Is Battling All The Time

American Empire- It Is An Empire That Lacks The Drive To Export Its Capital, Its People And Its Culture To Those Backward Regions Which Need Them Most Urgently And Which, If They Are Neglected, Will Breed The Greatest Threats To Its Security. It Is An Empire, In Short, That Dare Not Speak Its Name. It Is An Empire In Denial.

I Think That It Is Important To Be Gregarious, And That Friendships Are Not Just A Leisure Pursuit, That They Are An Integral Part Of What It Is To Be Human, And One Does Better Work If One Has A Circle Of Friends That Is Active.

For 500 Years The West Patented Six Killer Applications That Set It Apart. The First To Download Them Was Japan. Over The Last Century, One Asian Country After Another Has Downloaded These Killer Apps- Competition, Modern Science, The Rule Of Law And Private Property Rights, Modern Medicine, The Consumer Society And The Work Ethic. Those Six Things Are The Secret Sauce Of Western Civilization.

The West May Collapse Very Suddenly. Complex Civilizations Do That, Because They Operate, Most Of The Time, On The Edge Of Chaos.

Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence, You Don't End Up With Lots Of Happy, Little Nation-states Full Of People Sitting Around Campfires Singing John Lennon's "imagine." What You End Up With Is Civil War, Anarchy.