Let's just reiterate here a few topics I have harped on in the past, decline of the West, etc.
How about over population, resource depletion, environmental degredation, negative sum game, etc.
Now let's turn to Tocqueville's theme of equality in the Introduction I quoted. He sees a gradual and inexorable trend, ancient in origin, toward universal economic equality.
That has been the Democratic mantra in the West since 1760. He cites Aristotle, and obviously one can take it back say to Jesus, for example, and the earlier Hebrew prophets, too, railing against rich men.
Let's take a quick look at what that universal equality might mean, in the world of the near future, a world nearer than Westerners think.
What do you think it might mean?
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