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O Brave New World

June 29, 2008 - 4:44 am - by Richard Fernandez
Lifeofthemind
2008-06-29 06:55:50

Remember that this has happened before. The ancient Khmer adopted a highly pacifist version of Theravedra Buddhism and were defenseless before the predations of the Viet and the Thai. The demographic implosion of Rome between the third and the sixth centuries was also in part a willful flight into the abyss.