Thursday, January 5, 2012
"... are you denying that in many ways it's the most important question, if not the only question?... was the West's supremacy the result of mere luck?... or was it the result of singular historical and cultural attributes, attributes which indeed may have been occasioned by luck but regardless became forces unto themselves?... because, you see, how you answer that question changes the way one views the world around us... and ultimately determines what it will mean that certain aspects of those attributes, discrete elements of that essence, are now so effectively imitated by so many for whom, because they do not share in the history, the glory of it all is lost..."
