-Caveat Lector-
In a sense, the problem lies in what Spengler identified as the distinction
between a *culture* and a *civilization*--the culture is living, growing,
constantly changing, while the civilization has grown stagnant, rigid,
resistant to change, and increasingly stratified. There are clear signs that
a new world culture is being born, but the Imperial Civilization that rules
our planet is doing its best to abort that birth process. I don't want to
carry this argument too far; as anyone who has studied Spengler knows, it
does have serious flaws. But SOMETHING is starting to emerge from the chaos
and confusion--a true *Novus Ordo Seclorum*, not "the New World Order" but a
new order of the ages, whose basic assumptions and structures are radically
different from those of the *Ancien Regime*...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 11:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] SWAT Nation (Rant)
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
<snip>
> Hell, let's be thorough and go all the way back to the first High
> Civilization in SUMER -- which is also where Buckminster Fuller's analysis
> of
> our ULTIMATE problem led him.
>
> Otherwise, thanks, Linda, for keeping readers up to speed on the
> principles
> of genuine power, which today are no different than as earlier given in
> Machiavelli and Sun Tzu, only more sophisticated as applied also through
> our
> new technological, industrial, and scientific (not to mention sociological
> and psychological) tools used as weaponry..
>
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