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Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Civilisational "age"

This big state/small state dichotomy has been with us since time immemorial. The Romans had a welfare state.

Maybe it is just a sign of one's civilisational age, in that if you progress as a civilisation you grow from barbarism to conquest, conquest to affluence, affluence to taking up silly soft-headed newfangled ideas such as the welfare state and thence to decline, dementia and extinction.

We are now suffering from Alzheimer's, having forgotten what we were or where we came from, ignorant of our present location, and have now forgotten where the hell we are supposed to be going or why we are going there.

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