International Man: TV, movies, popular culture, government schools, and many factors mold the minds of today’s kids.
Unfortunately, these institutions are rotten to the core.
What are parents and children up against today?
Doug Casey: It’s very serious. Once upon a time,
going to school and watching a movie or a TV program wouldn’t endanger
your kid’s moral character, but now they do. And I ask myself: Where did
the rot start, when did it begin?
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There’s an old saying: Tough times breed strong men; strong men
result in good times; good times result in weak men, and so forth. I’m
afraid that pretty much describes what’s happened with the US.
We’re following the path of all great empires in the past. After
Athens became rich and prosperous, they fomented the Peloponnesian War,
which resulted in their collapse. It happened to the Roman Republic,
which fell away from its founding virtues, transformed into an empire,
and became dissipated and soft. It’s happened to Europe after it became
rich and prosperous. Its conquest of scores of colonies has come back to
bite it.
When civilizations become rich and arrogant, they lose their moral
foundations. They become hypocritical and corrupt. They don’t want to
admit it; the elites may not even recognize it. But a spiritual cancer
becomes pervasive, and they seem to suffer a loss of self-confidence.
Perversely, as the foundations of society collapse, its superstructure,
the government, grows and becomes more important. The society becomes
bureaucratized. That transfers risk and responsibility away from
individuals and traditional institutions, placing them onto the State.