What has been striking, for me, for about the past 30 years, is to have seen that the liberal globalist West, with only a few notable exceptions, failed to see the clash of civilizations and its own relative decline coming at all, and has steadfastly refused to believe it even now.
The decline of the West and the clash of civilizations have been on the West's blind side. The whitewashing of the outcome of WWII remains a locus classicus of the 20th Century. The 'fall' of the Soviet Union, ditto.
Re psychologists and psychoanalists, 'what interested him was their inability to face the evidence of their own folly'. p 148
One can generalize this, as I am sure Lewis will to continue to do, to, for example, economists (a biggie), political leaders and scientists, pundits, pollsters, sociologists, exact scientists, and many other fields, in fact all.
Re psychologists and psychoanalists, 'what interested him was their inability to face the evidence of their own folly'. p 148
One can generalize this, as I am sure Lewis will to continue to do, to, for example, economists (a biggie), political leaders and scientists, pundits, pollsters, sociologists, exact scientists, and many other fields, in fact all.
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