"All true believers of our time," wrote Hoffer, "declaimed volubly on the decadence of the Western democracies. The burden of their talk is that those in the democracies are too soft, too pleasure loving and too selfish to die for a nation, a God, or a holy cause. This lack of readiness to die, we are told, is indicative of an inner rot-a moral and biological decay." People in US want sex, drugs and rock n roll. they don't want to work, wait, analyze or think. they want what they want when they want it. the only reason we win is because look who we r up against. |