The Thinnest Veneer Of Civilization

 Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life.

• Civilization alone permits humans to pursue sophisticated scientific research, the arts, and the finer aspects of culture.
• It is only that that allows cultures to be freed from the drudgery of mere survival.
• The great achievement of Western civilization-consensual government, individual freedom, rationalism in partnership with religious belief, free market economics, and constant self-critique and audit-was to liberate people from daily worry over state violence, random crime, famine, and an often-unforgiving nature.
• But so often the resulting leisure and affluence deluded arrogant Western societies into thinking that modern man no longer needed to worry about the fruits of civilization he took to be his elemental birthright.

The result of those suicidal Pentagon detours is the fiasco in Afghanistan, the aggression of Vladimir Putin's Russia, the new bellicosity of China, and the loud threats of rogue regimes like Iran

• At home, the Biden administration inexplicably destroyed the southern border, as if civilized nations of the past never needed such boundaries.
• Three million migrants have poured into the United States. While some cross over clandestinely, others clear border stations without an adequate audit.

The Great Experiment

• We are in a great experiment in which regressive progressivism discounts all the institutions, and the methodologies of the past that have guaranteed a safe, affluent, well-fed, and sheltered America
• Instead, we arrogantly are reverting to a new feudalism as the wealthy elite-terrified of what they have wrought-selfishly retreat to their private keeps.
• The rest who suffer the consequences of elite flirtations with nihilism cannot even afford food, shelter, and fuel.

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