Not there yet, and that may bootstrap into Something Else, but it won't be Western Civ (my point!).
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I don't understand by what metric Western Civilization has been a continuous line but stops now.
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Replying to @wycats @Brian_Sipple and
Who said "stops"? When you run out of strawmen get back to me.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @Brian_Sipple and
We're on Twitter. I'm just trying to understand the argument. What's the definition of "Western Civilization" that's declining?
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Replying to @wycats @Brian_Sipple and
Something that reached a peak around the 1970s, w/ moon missions, mass market comfort that defused workers' revolution, bell bottoms, Disco.
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Hmmmmm what was the huge change that happened right after the 70s that changed all of that...
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It's interesting that "decline of Western Civilization" ppl (
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Really, Christopher Lasch, Camille Paglia, many others are movement cons? Can you stop trying to map people into phony US political parties?
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I didn't say movement cons and wasn't referring to those folks. Fact is: Trump voters often thought they were getting this, ...
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(You did say “movement conservatism” - thanks for excluding me btw)
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I meant to say I didn't mean that they *were* movement cons, but rather too many strangely aligned with those.
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