“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” ― G. Michael Hopf
The decline of the West is evident. In some sense, this is an inescapable result of its own successes in science and technology. The scientific method — and the resulting technologies that that produced — resulted in the incredible increase in material wealth. That immense material wealth, unmoored from an appropriate philosophy that would have provided meaning and purpose to life, has produced a generation that is actively engaged in destroying the foundations of wealth and prosperity it enjoys but has not produced.
But there is hope. The foundation that the West was built on was strong and served to create prosperity. However that philosophical foundation was only adequate for a civilization that was engaged in escaping poverty and managed to do so remarkably well. But that philosophical foundation is no longer suited to a prosperous world. Continue reading “The West is in Decline”
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