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| The meaning of Huntington |
| 2009-02-06 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 He sounds annoyingly Hegelian, using the assumption that if you take any two things and blend them together, you will always get something better than the original. This is not true, as it ignores the value of competition in culling bad and antiquated ideas. Take for example, civilization and barbarism. Unless civilization is so weak that barbarism can annihilate it, it will eventually destroy barbarism, because barbarism cannot compete. Barbarism has *no* elements that are preferable to civilization, so the struggle is one of natural selection. This can be seen right now in Iraq and Afghanistan, where foolish efforts to preserve parts of their failed governmental systems along with new and efficient modern systems is an obvious lesson. Everything new has succeeded, and every preserved system has failed. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-02-06 10:10 |