03/14/2013
That’s the theme of my column today in Taki’s Magazine.
Nelson Mandela is home from the hospital. The guy is 94 years old and not in bad shape — perhaps illustrating the black-white mortality crossover.
Mandela and I go back a long way …
Read the whole thing over there.
There is a wee bit of overlap between my theme and the new posting by Mencius Moldbug.
MM is writing about?what else??the decline of our civilization:
Continuing the comparison to the fall of Rome, one of the interesting features we see is that while technological competence is certainly an indicator of a successful civilization, it is also a lagging indicator. Civilization produces technology, not the other way around. When civilization falls, technology is not the first but the last thing to fall.
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