End of an Era - LewRockwell

End of an Era - LewRockwell

Civilizations are impermanent, according to optimists. Simple accumulations of wealth and power are bound to fail, according to pessimists. I am somewhere in between, a firm believer that nothing can be sustained over the long term, with human fallibility precipitating the final collapse. The greatest of all early civilization was that of Athens. No society since 450 B.C. has even come close to matching it. What country or state could match phil…

"I'm not quite satisfied," said his self-critical conclusion. "If I have learned a lesson, then it's that: some things just last longer than we entrepreneurs are used to." He would have wanted more courage and speed from politics and administration. Although he had moved a little bit in some areas, the large "construction sites" remained largely the same. He, who – as UVS director Josef Negri stressed – always looked beyond the horizon of indust…