Western civilization is falling. Like Roman civilization before it. And Greek civilization before that. There are many reasons. It may still take decades or even centuries, but as with Babylon, the handwriting is on the wall. (And since events seem to be faster, overall, today due to technology and population, we may not have all that long.)
What does that mean? Even if the nukes are launched and dropped, the world and the human race will not disappear. There will be something replacing western civilization. Sooner or later – but unlikely to be a centuries-long period of darkness and horror, as the science fiction writers commonly portray. Not to say it won’t be nasty for a good while, but finally, something else will develop.
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The Price of Liberty 
Home front: War?
Building on a recent commentary, the news, and talk shows are filled today (27 JAN 2023) with stories about violence in these Fifty States. Particularly, the news is filled with the attack on Paul Pelosi in San Francisco, while his wife was still US Speaker of the House. And the beating to death of a younger black motorist in Memphis, Tennessee, a couple of weeks ago. Of course, as always, the news is filled with reports of mayhem across the States: two mass killings by elderly Asian murderers in California, and many others. And of course, wars all over the planet, “official” or not.
Indeed, the “Gun Violence Archive” claims 45 “mass shootings” so far this month, although only 7 of those actually included a monster killing three or more people. And one of those was cops killing people during a gun battle – including (as I understand it) innocent bystanders. Several of those 7 were domestic murder-suicides, which is very sad.
When people look at the publicized numbers of “mass shootings” and then add all the one or two killed at a time (with guns, knives, etc.), it is easy to say that the States – or at least many of them – are involved in an internal war.
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