Comments on: Gratitude and the retribalization of the world http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: rabbit hutch http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-50379 rabbit hutch Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:06:54 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-50379 Here is the link to C. Krauthammer's article "Decline is a Choice". http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/056lfnpr.asp From his excellent article: "The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no. Both answers are wrong, because the assumption that somehow there exists some predetermined inevitable trajectory, the result of uncontrollable external forces, is wrong. Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice. Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance. Decline--or continued ascendancy--is in our hands." I hope you will take the time to read anything that this man writes. Here is the link to C. Krauthammer’s article “Decline is a Choice”. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/056lfnpr.asp

From his excellent article:
“The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no. Both answers are wrong, because the assumption
that somehow there exists some predetermined inevitable trajectory, the result of uncontrollable external forces, is wrong. Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice. Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance. Decline–or continued ascendancy–is in our hands.”

I hope you will take the time to read anything that this man writes.

]]> By: Will http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-50343 Will Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:07:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-50343 Yes,but we don't want to be a third world country under Communism or Islam ! Yes,but we don’t want to be a third world country under Communism or Islam !

]]> By: Bruce Schaeffer http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-50337 Bruce Schaeffer Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:40:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-50337 To keep things in perspective, when I left the Army (in 1971) I promised myself two things. They were: I would not take a cold shower unless I wanted to and that I would not go hungry. We sometimes take for granted how much we really do have; and how well off we really are. To keep things in perspective, when I left the Army (in 1971) I promised myself two things. They were: I would not take a cold shower unless I wanted to and that I would not go hungry.
We sometimes take for granted how much we really do have; and how well off we really are.

]]> By: Calvin Ball http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-50104 Calvin Ball Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:47:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-50104 blockquoteIt seems to be a human quirk — maybe it is part of the human instinct for survival — to suppose that the world tomorrow will, in most essentials, resemble the world today./blockquote Actually, no. You just said yourself in the beginning that Fido is like that. This isnt a human quirk, this is the animal default. This is one of hundreds of fingerprints of evolutionary psychology left all over our species. What it really means is that we havent adapted to our own nature, and to what we do. blockquoteIt seems to be a human quirk — maybe it is part of the human instinct for survival — to suppose that the world tomorrow will, in most essentials, resemble the world today./blockquote

Actually, no. You just said yourself in the beginning that Fido is like that. This isnt a human quirk, this is the animal default.

This is one of hundreds of fingerprints of evolutionary psychology left all over our species. What it really means is that we havent adapted to our own nature, and to what we do.

]]> By: Javelin http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-50079 Javelin Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:33:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-50079 Where is all the cheery optimistic upbeat Conservativism I was raised on? Most of this blog seems to be chicken little paranoia, little better than the worst of the 50s Where is all the cheery optimistic upbeat Conservativism I was raised on? Most of this blog seems to be chicken little paranoia, little better than the worst of the 50s

]]> By: Mike2 http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-50039 Mike2 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:02:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-50039 em20. Leatherneck:/em Absolutely! em23. Horace Wells:/em It would be nice if you could answer twolaneflashs points without a bunch of insulting language. In fact, it would be nice if you could answer any of the points made at all. Bastian by the way, is a last name; bastion is a common noun. em20. Leatherneck:/em

Absolutely!

em23. Horace Wells:/em

It would be nice if you could answer twolaneflashs points without a bunch of insulting language. In fact, it would be nice if you could answer any of the points made at all. Bastian by the way, is a last name; bastion is a common noun.

]]> By: Horace Wells http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-49990 Horace Wells Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:25:33 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-49990 twolaneflash You make no sense with your paranoid, self righteous, self congratulatory rubbish of a rant. I realize that, like most of the people here, you view the in a childishly good evil dualism you learned from B movies. Maybe you should check current crime stats which shows that crime is dropping from highs in the 80s but is spreading out to your little hick hollow. There is evil outside you as well as inside. It's because of trash like this I can't take this bastian of conservative anti-intellectualism seriously twolaneflash
You make no sense with your paranoid, self righteous, self congratulatory rubbish of a rant. I realize that, like most of the people here, you view the in a childishly good evil dualism you learned from B movies. Maybe you should check current crime stats which shows that crime is dropping from highs in the 80s but is spreading out to your little hick hollow. There is evil outside you as well as inside. It’s because of trash like this I can’t take this bastian of conservative anti-intellectualism seriously

]]> By: Javelin http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-49985 Javelin Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:19:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-49985 Isn't this the same tripe Kimball runs about every year or two to rile the fondrons here? The world is retribalizing in the midst of unparalleled communication from satellites, phone, internet etc, international groups abou t all sorts of problems and the EU, world trade as the norm, finally reasonably cheap air travel but we are all going back to the post fall of Rome dark ages where we never even travel to the next valley. Isn’t this the same tripe Kimball runs about every year or two to rile the fondrons here? The world is retribalizing in the midst of unparalleled communication from satellites, phone, internet etc, international groups abou t all sorts of problems and the EU, world trade as the norm, finally reasonably cheap air travel but we are all going back to the post fall of Rome dark ages where we never even travel to the next valley.

]]> By: PAthena http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-49984 PAthena Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:12:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-49984 Among other achievements, the United States is the only country which has ever helped both friend and defeated enemy to recover - the Marshall Plan. President Obama is anti-American, showing his tyrannical nature by his appeasing dictatorships and rejecting allies of the U.S. His affinities with communism are shown by his associates the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. Many thanks for Thanksgiving to the pilgrims who established the principle of self-government - liberty - which guided the colonies and then the United States! Among other achievements, the United States is the only country which has ever helped both friend and defeated enemy to recover – the Marshall Plan. President Obama is anti-American, showing his tyrannical nature by his appeasing dictatorships and rejecting allies of the U.S. His affinities with communism are shown by his associates the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.
Many thanks for Thanksgiving to the pilgrims who established the principle of self-government – liberty – which guided the colonies and then the United States!

]]> By: Leatherneck http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/11/26/gratitude-and-the-retribalization-of-the-world/#comment-49959 Leatherneck Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:08:28 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1776#comment-49959 As long as America continues to turn it's back on G-d, we will continue to be cursed just like the rest of the world. We earned it. As long as America continues to turn it’s back on G-d, we will continue to be cursed just like the rest of the world.

We earned it.

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