Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America - was he correct or misguided?
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"We are perhaps too much inclined to think that [external invasion] is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord...We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves."
What do you think? See anything like this happening today? Any of it sound familiar to you?
What do you think? See anything like this happening today? Any of it sound familiar to you?
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