You know, I tend to agree with Pat Buchanan and other commentators that the West is in general decline and the United States represents its last hope. Those words written in the Constitution are something to cling on to as we move forward. It was the last great piece of paper advancing human kind where politics and government is concerned anyway, I reckon. I haven't seen anything like it since. Hence, possibly, why we keep referring to it.
The list of achievements from the West and its ubiquitous influence dwarfs anything we've seen in human history. What has evolved from The Enlightenment - the single and most important intellectual movement?
I don't think we'll see in our lifetime another Beethoven, Da Vinci, Babe Ruth (etc.) or...a band like The Beatles. These entities stretched beyond the athletic and art form in which they belonged.
Have we been passed by?
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