Is the West in decline?

[Odin]

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this today. Modern thought has been thoroughly infected with Post-Mondernist nonsense. Eco-Luddites protest every advance in genetics. Society continues to get more and more decadent, and young people seem to be more into New Age/Oriental mysticism than science and reason (which reminds me of the mysticism that took hold during the late Roman Empire). Is the end near?

[duke o' york]

Young people have always been like that - it's part of growing up.

"Go back to sleep America - your country is safe!"

[Whaleboy]

What the West needs is the promise of the Enlightenment to be fulfilled... the elimination of organised religion and irrational, mob-centric political correctness.

[Geronimo]

progress continues regardless. Luddite nuts only make a difference when they turn into eco-terrorist arseholes. At which point they rise in importance to the level of teenage vandals.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
the elimination of organised religion and irrational, mob-centric political correctness.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Geronimo
progress continues regardless. Luddite nuts only make a difference when they turn into eco-terrorist arseholes. At which point they rise in importance to the level of teenage vandals.

I'm not so sure you can shrug them off so easily. I heard on the radio a few days ago that a guy in Britian who bred guinea pigs for lab use was constantly given death threats by "animal rights" nuts, and feared so much for his life that he shut down his business.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Odin


I'm not so sure you can shrug them off so easily. I heard on the radio a few days ago that a guy in Britian who bred guinea pigs for lab use was constantly given death threats by "animal rights" nuts, and feared so much for his life that he shut down his business.

Well here in the states we should just sic the patriot act on them and lock them up for life. They seem pretty sloppy about concealing their tracks.

[Dis]

the west isn't really in decline, but the east is in rise. The west will no longer be the dominant force on this planet for much longer.

get used to it.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Dis
the west isn't really in decline, but the east is in rise. The west will no longer be the dominant force on this planet for much longer.

get used to it.

The east as it is currently structured looks to be yet another heir to 'the west'. 'The West' as a non cold war concept hasn't had much meaning for several decades if not centuries.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Odin


I'm not so sure you can shrug them off so easily. I heard on the radio a few days ago that a guy in Britian who bred guinea pigs for lab use was constantly given death threats by "animal rights" nuts, and feared so much for his life that he shut down his business.

He discontinued the breeding of guinea pigs for scientific research, but his farm is not being closed.

I just hope that the dumb *expletive*s return the remains of his wife's mother to the grave they stole them from.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Dauphin

I just hope that the dumb *expletive*s return the remains of his wife's mother to the grave they stole them from.

[Verto]

I would say yes, the West is facing a decline in several areas, but so is the entire world.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Geronimo


The east as it is currently structured looks to be yet another heir to 'the west'. 'The West' as a non cold war concept hasn't had much meaning for several decades if not centuries.

What I worry about is that if China is still undemocratic when it becomes #1, the elite in the developing countries will see it as meaning that the Chinese-style oligarchy is better than western Democracy, erasing over 200 years of political advancement.

[Whaleboy]

I think in his position, most of us here would have continued guinea pig farming and rightly so. The ****s that have been intimidating and vandalising his farm and stealing his wife's mother's remains should be denied the use of every drug that has ever been tested on animals, and then asked whether it is worthwhile or not.

Of course, because he has a family, it makes it somewhat harder.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Verto
I would say yes, the West is facing a decline in several areas, but so is the entire world.

*cough*China*cough*