So there was little time for blogging. A quick scan revealed that almost everyone was linking to the interview with Oriana Fallaci and I will leave you with my favorite excerpt:
We know why all the other civilizations have collapsed--from an excess of welfare, of richness, and from lack of morality, of spirituality." (She uses "welfare" here in the sense of well-being, so she is talking, really, of decadence.) "The moment you give up your principles, and your values . . . the moment you laugh at those principles, and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
There's enough of an optimist in me to know that it will be a while before we reach the abyss, but the outlook for the future these days is a bit bleak I have to say.
