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It's a facinating culture.
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I wonder if our culture will last as long as theirs did.
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our = US? Anglo-Saxon? European/North American?
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Any one of the above. A recent historian had a theory that the center of power would keep moving to the west. It indeed move across the Pacific. I wonder cultural changes that may bring.
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Back in the height of the Cold War, in the '60s, a magazine published a point by point comparison of the Age of Exploration with the Space Race, mostly in terms of government sponsorship vs. private business sponsorship. What they neglected to point out was that going in to the Age of Exploration the Super Powers were Spain and Portugal and coming out they were England and France.
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I wonder if our culture will last as long as theirs did.
I don’t think so. As history moves on the circles of the helix of development are becoming smaller. Egyptian civilisation kept repeating itself, copying ancestors for thousands of years.
no civilisation in XXI century can afford this, it will be swept away. We are already witnessing the process of globalisation in which Classical Anglo-Saxon Culture is being transformed into something else, as parts of Roman Culture were moulded into European Christian Culture.
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The question in my mind is, have we matured enough to be able to recognise and stop dangerous trends.
It used to be that wars were fought over real estate, trade advantages, and the like. At least WWII did not end in punitivness that bred hatred after WWI. Will China, India, and U.S. and Europe be content to compete in trade and avoid future use of warfare?
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U.S. ... be content to compete in trade and avoid future use of warfare?
apparently not.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Let us hope the current fiasco militates against mofe of same.
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