The West won the world not by the prevalence of its ideas or values or religion … but instead by its prevalence in using arranged physical violence.
Westerners commonly neglect this truth yet non-Westerners never do.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
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Time seemed to disappear. Seriousness disappeared. Any type of important difference in between myself and all various other things disappeared. I recognized that I came from the world, and felt pleasantly my own containment in the completeness. I did not feel that I comprehended any type of mystery, never; instead that I can be satisfied and feel blessed within the perplexity– the summertime morning, its gentleness, the sense of the magnum opus being done though the grass where I stood rarely trembled.
As I state, it was one of the most laid-back of moments, not mystical as the word is generally indicated, for there was no vision, or anything amazing in all, however only a sudden understanding of the population of all points within one world: leaves, dirt, thrushes and finches, males and females. And yet it was a minute I have actually never forgotten, and whereupon I have based many choices in the years given that.”
~ Mary Oliver
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The major problems are systemic troubles, they’re all interconnected and synergistic. And underlying most, otherwise all of these problems, is …