Letters to the Editor
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it is sad that "Anonymous" (pg 13)
can write such common sense and still be fearful of using his name. it is emblematic of the Decline of the West (Spengler, 1920). in that same year was Yeats' Second Coming, "The best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity". but at least Spengler was anti-nazi, Yeats was anti-anti-English, so pro-german. his "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" was only unconsciously prophetic.
what i see here is, Fear and Confusion and Guilt. i see none of that from the islamist side. there is a question here, To Act or not to Act. do we have something the world needs or is even thinking that, "triumphalist", "neo-colonialist", "corporate hegemonic"? there is another model, switzerland. or rather, denmark (switzerland does not admit refugees). we are all powerless pontificators but it would be more honest, intellectually, if we would at least imagine having real effect. so, you are in a lifeboat in the vast vast sea. do you paddle? somewhere? or just hope for the best?