Toynbee on the disintegrations of civilizations -
Breakdowns are not inevitable and not irretrievable; but if the process of disintegration is allowed to continue, I find that it seems to follow a common pattern. ..... I also find a corresponding psychological schism in the souls of people who happen to have been born into this unhappy age. Discordant psychic tendencies which are perhaps always latent in human nature now find free play. People lose their bearings, and rush down blind alleys, seeking escape. Greater souls detach themselves from life; still greater souls try to transfigure life into something higher than mere life as we know it on earth, and sow the seeds of a fresh spiritual advance.
Arnold Toynbee
A Study of History,
Part V, The Disintegrations of Civilizations
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Militarist Bunkum By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.countercurrents.org
Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are non-combatant civilians? That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are a small part of the human and economic cost. Clearly, wars do not protect the lives of civilians. The notion that soldiers are dying for us is false. Non-combatants are the main victims of war.
Breakdowns are not inevitable and not irretrievable; but if the process of disintegration is allowed to continue, I find that it seems to follow a common pattern. ..... I also find a corresponding psychological schism in the souls of people who happen to have been born into this unhappy age. Discordant psychic tendencies which are perhaps always latent in human nature now find free play. People lose their bearings, and rush down blind alleys, seeking escape. Greater souls detach themselves from life; still greater souls try to transfigure life into something higher than mere life as we know it on earth, and sow the seeds of a fresh spiritual advance.
Arnold Toynbee
A Study of History,
Part V, The Disintegrations of Civilizations
ClassWarFilms.com
ClassWarFilms exists to unpack and demystify the dense and deceitful narrative sold to Americans in the form of the Exceptionalist Myth.
Our manifesto, Let Your Life Be A Friction To Stop The Machine, exposes and elucidates the creation and perpetuation of that devastatingly damaging masterwork of cynical propaganda for the many Americans who know that so much is wrong in our country but can't understand why, providing the facts they need to explain it.
Check out our website and videos here: www.classwarfilms.com -
"Imperial Decay": https://www.youtube.com/watch?
"Military Cancer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Militarist Bunkum By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.countercurrents.org
Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are non-combatant civilians? That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are a small part of the human and economic cost. Clearly, wars do not protect the lives of civilians. The notion that soldiers are dying for us is false. Non-combatants are the main victims of war.
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