that it was more critical, for the mere survival of the West, if nothing else, to have kept other civilizations relatively undeveloped than to have developed them, or even to have allowed them to develop, especially industrially and technologically?
If, as I believe, this is true, then, of course, it is now long too late for the West to benefit from such an insight....
It is also an insight which Steingart, in unguarded moments of writing and publishing The War For Wealth, let slip....
It is an insight, or rather, more in their case, a dumb animal instinct, of mingled fear anger and terrible sickness, which Trump and some of his think tank people feel, viscerally.
Democrats think only of it, this feeling, this deep disquietude, into which they can't put coherent Democratic ideological words, as some sort of bad, ongoing, indigestion.
You may say 'this is a monstrous picture to paint' of history since say 1760. I agree.
It is an insight, or rather, more in their case, a dumb animal instinct, of mingled fear anger and terrible sickness, which Trump and some of his think tank people feel, viscerally.
Democrats think only of it, this feeling, this deep disquietude, into which they can't put coherent Democratic ideological words, as some sort of bad, ongoing, indigestion.
You may say 'this is a monstrous picture to paint' of history since say 1760. I agree.
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